PICS Project Tool Set Helps Companies Stay Focused

Because PICS consultants have steered hundreds of companies through implementations, they know exactly what tools and technology can ease the often-complicated process.

To use their collective knowledge to make implementations easier, the consulting team has developed the PICS Project Tool Set (PTS) to help keep customers on track, on time and within budget. "The PTS we use ensures we all work within a set framework for just about any project," says Tim Rabaut, Director of consulting for PICS.

Aimee Wells, IT Director at Interpower, is just one PICS customer who benefited from PTS. "The tools PICS offered helped us with every facet of the conversion," she says. Plus, it was comforting to know PICS consultants could provide her with a diagram mapping each step of the process. "There weren't any surprises along the way," she says.

With PICS using its PTS to help manage the project, Interpower went through several trial conversions and thoroughly tested the system before go-live. Repeatable processes and multiple test conversions are just a couple of the advantages having a proven methodology and toolset allows for. Wells says that this gave her coworkers the chance to view and test the system well before they needed to use it in a live environment.

Had Interpower attempted to complete the implementation without PICS, Wells guesses that they may have not been successful. "If we tried to do it ourselves, I'm sure it would have taken at least twice as long," Wells says.

Wells says that working through an implementation with PICS is well worth the investment. To attempt to re-invent the wheel is just not cost-effective. "The planning and project management they provided was very valuable," she contends. "They were very in-tune to our needs and business practices."