IT Services

PlanGraphics Services throughout the IT
Life-Cycle

PlanGraphics provides a full range of system and data integration services to help you plan, implement, operate, and maintain effective IT solutions, particularly those that leverage spatial information assets. PlanGraphics' services cover all stages of the project life-cycle, beginning with assessment of client needs and proceeding through the progression of steps leading to full-scale operation of systems and applications that work-not just in isolation but in concert with other enterprise technologies.

The PlanGraphics IT Service Project Life Cycle Diagram

Laying the Foundation: System Planning and Design

• Strategic planning
• Needs assessment
• Requirements analysis
• System design
• Implementation planning
• Preparation of detailed specifications and procurement documents for hardware, software, and data conversion services
• Management consulting
• Assistance with institutional structures, policy development, and multi-agency data-sharing agreements.

In the planning stages, PlanGraphics adheres to the principle that client needs and requirements must drive the process of design and implementation. In doing so, PlanGraphics ensures that the foundation is laid for a successful project.

Making IT Work: Implementation and Integration

Experience and technical capacity are the bases for successful system implementation, integration, and long-term operation. PlanGraphics' technicians provide the hands-on systems integration and data integration services required once a system is selected and on-site. These services include:

• Project/program management
• Integration/Interface design and execution
• Database design and development
• Applications development and customization
• Data conversion management and QA/QC
• Training
• On-site staffing/outsourcing.

A key to success in every project is PlanGraphics' proprietary set of documented, proven methodologies, known as MDMI. MDMI is one way that PlanGraphics ensures that each project meets our clients' high standards.