ProfServProjects
This page aims to give a detailed overview of customer-projects accompanied by the Open-Xchange professional services team: The different phases and decisions as well as the documents necessary to accompany this process are listed here.
The following diagram gives a birds-eye view of the whole process:
Initialisation
What happens in this phase?
During this phase the product gets demoed and the doability of the project is checked. After this phase a detailed offer is made and the customer decides whether to start the project or not ("Go / No-Go").
- Technical Demo (webcast or on-site)
- presentation of the product including all features relevant to the customer
- determine customer´s goals (replace webmail? operating parallel to MS Exchange?)
- OX USPs: Fast even with many mails, drag-n-drop in the browser, syncing with many different clients, social, upsell
- Architecure Overview
- Integration with customer systems instead of out-of-the-box (provisioning, mailsystem [none is included!], CPanel, PBA/POA, Plesk)
- There are many ways to OX and its data. Broad range of supported devices and browsers
- Java, no proprietary formats or protocols, Apache, MySQL
- scales horizontally as well as vertically. Cluster size is entirely choseable, multiple tenants on one system -> "server density"
- show examples for 10K users, 100K users, 1M users
Resulting Documents
If there is a template available for this type of document it is linked via its title.
- Project Charter
- Formal Offer
- Basic SOW
Concept
What happens in this phase?
Resulting Documents
If there is a template available for this type of document it is linked via its title.
- Customer Implementation Concept
- several SOWs (preferrably one per topic)
Implementation
What happens in this phase?
Resulting Documents
If there is a template available for this type of document it is linked via its title.
- checked Requirements Checklist
Approval
What happens in this phase?
Resulting Documents
If there is a template available for this type of document it is linked via its title.
- signed Requirements Checklist
- Test protocol