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Professional Services: Technology Consulting
Snap-on Business Solutions' Technology Consulting Services help automotive companies make more accurate
decisions about how their technology systems will serve their business and information
needs.
Snap-on's team of experienced, IT consultants help our clients define their current and
future needs for gathering, using, updating, maintaining and transferring information-within
and outside their company boundaries.
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Snap-on understands that companies cannot compete solely on the basis of low cost, best
quality or customer service. Rather, a sustainable competitive advantage is typically
derived from the "synergy" of a company's various capabilities-a synergy which is truly
differentiated and not easily imitated by competitors.
Specifically, Snap-on's technology consulting services help automotive companies to
differentiate and compete globally.
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IT Planning: |
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Maximizing value for IT initiatives.
Working closely with business users, Snap-on's IT Consultants help automotive companies
plan, select and continually assess their IT Investments.
From vehicle allocation programs to SOA migration projects, our experienced consultants'
help our clients monitor and optimize the value of their IT Initiatives. Specifically,
Span-on's IT planning services provide automotive companies with:
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Integrated processes that ensure projects deliver on IT plan. |
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Demonstrated skills working effectively with business users as well as technical
architects and developers. |
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Experienced IT consultants who specialize in the planning, designing and implementing
technology projects that impact business costs, revenue and service levels. |
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Enterprise Applications: |
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Where intelligent design, flexible architecture, efficient workflow and consistent messaging converge
Snap-on's enterprise application planning services help automotive companies plan to
design and build applications that transcend traditional siloes. In fact, Snap-on's
approach to application planning focuses on the one-to-many relationship between
individual applications and the multiple users and systems with which they interact.
Specifically, Snap-on's enterprise application planning services help our clients:
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Gather requirements to identify, understand and document business objectives. |
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Explore existing IT designs and specifications to take in the environment and its capabilities. |
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Conduct contextual research among user groups to map features, activities and priorities. |
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Engage in cross-functional strategy discussions and workshops. |
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Develop diagrammatic representations of the strategic vision. |
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Prioritize features and functions based on enterprise-wide applicability and impact. |
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SOA Planning: |
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Assemble, configure and reuse!
Instead of building monolithic applications in silos, Snap-on's SOA planning services
helps automotive companies evaluate key design considerations for SOA and then identifies
the logical design elements required to address these design considerations.
Our consultants have helped numerous companies build an application framework that
provides the basic components needed to build applications across their organizations.
The primary intention of Snap-on's SOA planning services is to present a systematic
approach to developing an enterprise application framework for SOA and take it from
concepts to design elements. Specifically, Snap-on provides companies with the ability to:
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Organize IT functionality into services that meet the needs of the business. |
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Identify and analyze your organization's SOA registry strategy. |
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Develop legacy application solutions and blueprints for a service transformation that will deliver real business value. |
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Implement an architectural framework that will work in both large and small scale projects. |
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IT Offshore Outsourcing: |
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Snap-on's IT offshore Outsourcing Planning services help companies:
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Align operational strategies with corporate and divisional goals. |
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Identify high-impact initiatives in specific business areas. |
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Design optimal business processes. |
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Realize near-term and sustainable ROI. |
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