https://www.respecdbits.com/about-us daily 1.0 2025-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d67dc8f2d579f00014a87f3/1567697124269-CF3GCSTZYPFRH19W0Y23/Screenshot_2019-08-29+DBITS-RESPEC.png About Us Dept. of Information Resources / RESPEC https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d67dc8f2d579f00014a87f3/1567697072431-ZX3MWNLE0XAHD1UKVT33/image-asset.jpeg About Us https://www.respecdbits.com/about daily 0.75 2019-08-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d67dc8f2d579f00014a87f3/1567091351971-YXYTZ5W0WKOMGKW292NN/RESPEC+Office_Rapid+City.jpg About https://www.respecdbits.com/home daily 0.75 2019-08-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d67dc8f2d579f00014a87f3/1567091129754-U6UC2XDMRJ8LE7RCRBMB/image-asset.jpeg RESPEC & DBITS - INSTRUCTIONS FOR OBTAINING QUOTES AND PLACING PURCHASE ORDERS To obtain a quote from RESPEC, please contact our sales representative (listed on our Contact Us page), with the authorized DBITS Statement of Work. Once our representative receives and reviews the Statement of Work, he/she will contact you to discuss the project. After RESPEC and the client agree that this is a project we can execute together, RESPEC will provide a timely quote. For purchase orders,  Generate a purchase order made payable to RESPEC and you must reference the DIR Contract Number DIR-TSO-3986 on your purchase order.  E-mail or fax your purchase order and quote form to your designated vendor sales representative. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d67dc8f2d579f00014a87f3/1567089968607-FY5NI92U8NCNXZ7F1GO8/image-asset.jpeg RESPEC & DBITS Contract # DIR-TSO-3986 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d67dc8f2d579f00014a87f3/1567090627841-M9ELO3LI1VCADGMWH1PF/Screenshot_2019-08-29+DBITS-RESPEC.png RESPEC & DBITS https://www.respecdbits.com/services daily 0.75 2019-08-29 https://www.respecdbits.com/business-process-reengineering daily 0.75 2019-08-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d67dc8f2d579f00014a87f3/1567091894468-CQHD2PCHH9P0ER0F216X/image-asset.jpeg BUSINESS PROCESS RE-ENGINEERING - BUSINESS PROCESS RE-ENGINEERING Experts in meticulously analyzing and redesigning business processes, RESPEC’s award-winning team guides businesses and organizations to improve efficiency by thoroughly understanding the way you operate. Our knowledge and experience in business process analysis and reengineering allows our clients to achieve dramatic improvements in productivity, work-cycle times, and service quality. Providing business process improvement for both public and private clients since 1969, RESPEC has worked with a wide array of agencies in a variety of industries. We go to the core of understanding client challenges. With a global reputation for service quality and collaboration, our professionals quickly transform challenges and operational difficulties into simplified solutions that empower your staff and organization. Flexible and responsive, our business process reengineering experts take your organization to the next level. https://www.respecdbits.com/business-case-development daily 0.75 2019-08-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d67dc8f2d579f00014a87f3/1567092028779-HLJWE5FU8OFGOIU5GOCV/image-asset.jpeg BUSINESS CASE DEVELOPMENT - BUSINESS CASE DEVELOPMENT RESPEC has been providing business case development services for our clients since the late 1980’s. Our approach is to work with you to capture the reasoning for initiating a project that involves resourcing or costs. Our approach to developing a business case is to work with you to ensure that what we develop is in support of a specific business need that meets your strategic goals and objectives. In our experience, the process of developing a business case is quite illuminating for our clients. The process we go through with you will often delve into areas of your business that you might not have looked that closely at before beginning this process. Our business cases capture both quantifiable and non-quantifiable characteristics of the project. A sample outline, which is customized for each project, includes:  Executive Briefing Recommendation Summary of Results  Introduction Business Drivers Scope Financial Metrics  Analysis Assumptions Costs Benefits Risk Strategic Options  Conclusion, Recommendation, and Next Steps https://www.respecdbits.com/business-requirements-development daily 0.75 2019-08-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d67dc8f2d579f00014a87f3/1567092163014-37VKZZKBLHTQEFRL9IJX/image-asset.jpeg BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS DEVELOPMENT - BUSINESS requirements DEVELOPMENT RESPEC utilizes an Agile methodology for our development projects and has a long history of successfully leading requirements and business process discovery sessions where the outcome has been process flow diagrams, data flow maps, and/or requirements traceability matrices. Planning:  A kickoff meeting is held to review the project charter, scope, plan and any other project material from the stakeholders and project leadership. The identified Product Owner will share a vision for the product. The goal is to leave this meeting with a shared vision for the product outcome.  With the Product Owner, a schedule is determined for Joint Application Discovery (JAD) sessions. The schedule takes into consideration the shared vision, product scope documents, the availability of Subject Matter Experts (SME), and any cyclical business needs which can affect having the right people at the JAD sessions.  The JAD sessions may be planned such that they are part either of the initial set of sprints or they will be precursor work completed prior to Sprint 1 start.  Working with the Product Owner and other leadership, the Business Analyst (BA) will outline the SME role which includes identifying the activities SMEs are required to attend and the need for their presence as the product is developed. The business voice is key to producing a successful product.  Communication is sent to the SMEs and to development team members who will also attend these sessions.  Preferably prior to the first session, the BA knows the experience or knowledge each SME has in regards to Agile principles, values and activities. As needed, training will be included in the initial JAD session to ensure all understand the Agile process RESPEC will follow for requirements gathering, Story documentation, roadmap planning and upcoming sprint cadence and activities. Requirements Sessions or initial sprint work:  The first session or sprint is held at a location most convenient to the business and Product Owner, to limit their travel time.  The BA facilitates the session and gathers Stories or process flows as needed. Our preferred mode, is to identify requirements as Stories. Each Story contains a title, description in the form of “As [role] I want/need [what description] so that [intended outcome]” along with Acceptance Criteria which assists knowing what done means to the business.  If we need to detail a current or future-state process flow to support the Story, the BA will typically use a whiteboard to capture a walkthrough of the business process as the conversation unfolds. After the session, these will be captured in electronic form so that they can be attached to applicable Stories.  The produced backlog of Stories generated becomes the initial requirements list for the product. It is also an ever-changing list. This is because Stories are a promise for future conversations. Each Story may be updated as the project progresses and the Product Owner, SMEs and development team learn more about the actual product desired.  Each Story should be traceable back to the project scope. A traceability matrix or other form of mapping can be provided as is needed by the Product Owner. https://www.respecdbits.com/master-data-management daily 0.75 2019-08-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d67dc8f2d579f00014a87f3/1567092304174-TFDMAV011HB0VS1DOZGI/image-asset.jpeg MASTER DATA MANAGEMENT - MASTER DATA MANAGEMENT For over 25 years, RESPEC has been helping clients streamline data sharing and manage accumulated data to better guide management decisions. With more accurate and clean data, clients gain meaningful insight and derive greater value from their enhanced data, which enables better decision making and improves business performance. RESPEC’s master data management systems (MDMs) are much more than data warehouses; MDMs help clients improve their data quality by identifying critical information and creating a single version of truth. Our MDMs store current and historical data from disparate systems and allow data exchanges across various systems. One of our most widely used MDM systems, RESPEC’s Collaborative OnlineArchival Library (COAL), is a customer-centric, consolidated master data management, reporting, and analysis system. COAL integrates with multiple systems and merges disparate data systems into a single enterprise record. COAL allows our clients to cleanse and stage data for their modernization projects while minimizing discrepancies and reducing errors. With COAL, our clients have a complete and single view of their customer data so that they can understand, visualize, and analyze the data more effectively. COAL provides an MDM framework that can be used across various industries. https://www.respecdbits.com/systems-integration daily 0.75 2019-08-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d67dc8f2d579f00014a87f3/1567092424982-WSW5LFQ360WX8RST0LV0/image-asset.jpeg SYSTEMS INTEGRATION - SYSTEMS INTEGRATION With over 25 years of experience in legacy system modernization, RESPEC has the requisite knowledge and expertise to help transform your aging mainframe systems. Our team of architects designs, develops, and deploys updated systems to help you operate more efficiently in today’s progressive global environment. At RESPEC, we understand that replacing a legacy system can be a daunting task that affects every aspect of your internal operation. For this reason, we developed the Collaborative Online Archival Library (COAL). COAL is a customer-centric, consolidated master data management, reporting, and analysis system that integrates with multiple systems and merges disparate data systems into a single enterprise record. COAL allows our clients to cleanse and stage data for their modernization projects while minimizing discrepancies and reducing errors. With COAL, our clients have a complete and single view of their customer data so that they can understand, visualize, and analyze the data more effectively. https://www.respecdbits.com/legacy-application-conversion-migration daily 0.75 2019-08-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d67dc8f2d579f00014a87f3/1567092664918-CHVAC2AYWIRF4UCH79KO/image-asset.jpeg LEGACY APPLICATION CONVERSION/MIGRATION - lEGACY APPLICATION CONVERSION/MIGRATION We understand that accurate data are the lifeblood of your organization. With our award-winning professionals in data and IT solutions, the RESPEC team ensures that your legacy application conversion is carried out in a fast, efficient manner while ensuring system performance continuity and minimal disruption during the migration process. User-friendly to subject-matter experts, business users, and IT staff, clients use our unique cleansing and migration toolset called SME Tools Analysis Toolset (STAT). STAT is used in conjunction with Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) tools to successfully manage the data migration process from conceptualization through final cutover. Recognized globally for results, the STAT tool is used across all industry sectors. https://www.respecdbits.com/data-cleansing-migration daily 0.75 2019-08-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d67dc8f2d579f00014a87f3/1567093448457-WYTKEMH12MRSGXOCRQYO/image-asset.jpeg DATA CLEANSING & MIGRATION - DATA CLEANSING & MIGRATION We understand that accurate data are the lifeblood of your organization. With our award-winning professionals in data and IT solutions, the RESPEC team ensures that your data conversion is carried out in a fast, efficient manner while ensuring system performance continuity and minimal disruption during the migration process. User-friendly to subject-matter experts, business users, and IT staff, clients use our unique cleansing and migration toolset called SME Tools Analysis Toolset (STAT). STAT is used in conjunction with Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) tools to successfully manage the data migration process from conceptualization through final cutover. Recognized globally for results, the STAT tool is used across all industry sectors. https://www.respecdbits.com/business-process-assessment daily 0.75 2019-08-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d67dc8f2d579f00014a87f3/1567092424982-WSW5LFQ360WX8RST0LV0/image-asset.jpeg BUSINESS PROCESS ASSESSMENT - BUSINESS PROCESS ASSESSMENT Providing business process improvement for both public and private clients since 1969, RESPEC has worked with a wide array of agencies in a variety of industries. We go to the core of understanding client challenges. RESPEC quickly transforms clients' challenges and operational difficulties into simplified solutions that empower their staff and organization. Flexible and responsive, our business process assessment experts take organizations to the next level. We have the requisite knowledge and experience in the area of business process analysis and assessment. RESPEC’s team helps organizations rethink the way they do their work by meticulously analyzing their business processes. In this role, RESPEC assesses the organization’s current systems and processes, and provides recommendations for process improvements. This business process assessment can be accomplished through a series of facilitated sessions with the client to characterize the current business processes and elicit requirements to improve them. Based on these requirements, RESPEC investigates what options are available to the client to meet the requirements and defines the associated approximate costs for each option. RESPEC’s clients have been able to achieve dramatic improvement in productivity, work cycle times, and service quality. https://www.respecdbits.com/systems-integration-1 daily 0.75 2019-08-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d67dc8f2d579f00014a87f3/1567093843932-LEG41NR098P1FHKBIMGG/image-asset.jpeg UX DESIGN & IMPLEMENTATION - UX DESIGN & IMPLEMENTATION Definition: User Experience Design may be required to improve existing or develop new business solutions that are usable, useful, accessible, and desirable for end users. UX Design may be accomplished by enhancing existing user Interfaces (UIs) to be responsive (work across multiple devices, such as tablets and mobiles). Also, improvements to navigation with current web-based content may be warranted to increase usability metrics. A new and improved user experience may require improved UI functionality and also process flows to achieve current or future business objectives. Examples of included services: Usability evaluation, including Section 508 (2017) of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) for accessibility conformance, User Studies, A/B Testing, User Performance benchmarking, User Analytics, UI Design specifications, Information Architecture, Conceptual Wireframes, High-fidelity mock-ups, end-user training, and documentation. https://www.respecdbits.com/contact-us daily 0.75 2022-01-06