Full Service Offerings

AppVine offers complete consulting services for planning, reporting & compliance solutions. Our service offerings are based on in-depth expertise, proven best practices, and repeatable delivery methodologies to help customers realize the full value of their financial applications.


Business Requirements Gathering & Analysis

The success of any technology deployment depends on the up-front analysis of requirements and proper deployment planning. AppVine employs a comprehensive approach to ensure your organization is prepared to build, deploy and support new technology, and that all technical and business requirements are understood prior to starting the project.


Proof of Concepts

For complex or mission-critical systems, sometimes it is necessary to conduct real-life testing within your organization's environment. AppVine can work with you to define and implement a Proof of Concept (POC), designed to ensure the key requirements of your organization are met prior to a full deployment.

POC's provide several benefits to organizations:

  • Assessment of technical fit to your environment
  • Verification of end user requirements
  • Establishing benchmarks or "proof points" for key requirements
  • Identify and mitigate risks early in the process
  • Ramp up of your team on new technology
  • Validate assumptions about effort and timelines

Deployment Reviews & Recommendations

To help our customers receive the most out of their Cognos investment, AppVine offers technical & business deployment review and recommendation services. Working with your application support and end-user teams, we then document a set of recommendations designed to address any issues or opportunities for future growth. AppVine can also assist you with the implementation of the recommendations.

During the process, AppVine consultants will review and analyze:

  • Your current and planned Cognos deployments
  • User satisfaction & adoption levels
  • Deployment policies and practices
  • Departmental and/or corporate collaboration goals
  • End user training & support policies and practices
  • Current levels of Cognos expertise across your organization

Health Checks

Ensuring the system you have implemented is operating at peak efficiency is critical to realizing ROI. Optimal solutions that improve your organization's efficiency also enjoy a higher user adoption rate.

AppVine offers periodic system "Health Checks" of your Cognos TM1 or FSR deployments, and provides recommendations to ensure the solutions are configured and maintained optimally.


XBRL

For publicly traded companies reporting to the SEC, XBRL submissions are now mandatory. By combining skills in IBM Cognos FSR with expertise in finance and regulatory reporting, AppVine provides end-to-end consulting XBRL services, including:

  • Mapping
  • Tagging
  • Instance Document Validation
  • Quarterly & Annual Filing Support
  • Full-service XBRL

AppVine combines expertise in Cognos FSR with XBRL to enable your organization to take ownership of this critical compliance requirement.


IFRS Conversion

The conversion of reporting systems from local GAAP to IFRS is a multi-level change that crosses almost all organizational functions - even though its results surface on the financial statements. The change affects the functions of tax, treasury, payroll, marketing, legal, finance, HR and operations.

A properly defined IFRS conversion plan is essential for a seamless conversion. AppVine brings a combination of business and technical competence to organizations, and can work with the various functions within your organization on an IFRS migration strategy.


System Migration

For organizations running CPM applications that are approaching end of support or applications that are no longer meeting the needs of your organization, AppVine offers migration services to customers that need to move to a product with a clear roadmap and future development path.

AppVine can work with you to define migration roadmap by providing:

  • An evaluation of your existing environment
  • Analysis of your current and future requirements
  • Technical expertise to perform the migration