Paracon Solutions’ Estimation offering can help you to analyse your IT Projects in a few easy steps, get graphical feedback on predicted cost, effort, duration and even quality outcomes and then model variables that will improve your approach and planning and deliver better outcomes.
Paracon Solutions combines consultant expertise with our digital tool suite and world-class best practices. Designed to add value from Initial Business case through detailed design and into execution and benefits realisation Paracon Solutions’ Estimation solution removes the guess work from estimating.
- Struggling to accurately estimate your project delivery effort?
- Operating without a standardised estimation process?
- Battling to reconcile assumptions made with results delivered?
- Utilising a central repository of actuals to guide future estimations?
Our proven mathematical models enhance the art of project forecasting and rule of thumb guesswork into a process supported by science.
What we do
- Quickly analyse the overall costs of your project – no matter how big and complicated
- Analyse and test trade-offs between parameters
- Identify key cost drivers within your projects
- Establish a risk profile for project parameters and their impact on the project as a whole
Boost your project planning process by testing it against a world-wide database of historical, industry-specific actuals going back over two decades or against your own historical data.
- EInformed decision making
- EMore accurate estimates
- EFact-based negotiations
- EPredictable project outcomes
- EIncreased productivity
- EReduced project risk
- EImproved reliability & quality
- ERapid alternatives analysis
- EHigher utilization of staff
- EContinuous improvement
- EImproved resource and demand management
- EScenario based
Client case studies
CLIENT A
Used this service to verify Vendor quotations. The estimate derived from this tool was able to save the client approximately R40m.
CLIENT B
Applied an Estimation process to every initiative to deliver transparency into how business cases are quantified.
All approved projects were subject to re-estimation during planning and detailed planning and at pre-defined milestones during execution with the objective of allowing for re-prioritising and re-purposing of approved project funding.
CLIENT C
Has a service that is able to provide them with a total cost of ownership estimation for 95% of all the components both Software and IT related in their delivery portfolios. Executives are able to use estimates produced very early in the project lifecycle to make informed decisions around the business case, capacity and budget allocation.
Forecasting the potential pull on capacity and budget over a multi year period that can be easily updated with multiple scenarios re-run to provide insight into changes in strategy.
Partnerships
AI-powered software requirements analysis
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