Services

2C4 aligns people, process, and technology to provide the best solution for your mission.  Every task is evaluated for the appropriate alignment with organizational objectives.  2C4 specializes in transformation and integration of systems to support our customer’s enterprise ambitions.  The company is committed to removing common obstacles that exist between expected workflow and the technology solutions that enable them.  2C4 provides a vendor-neutral approach to all our services and solutions so that we can focus on delivering the right solution for our customer.  2C4 has developed a comprehensive offering for our clientele that supports their enterprise design and development needs.  Our high impact technology-based services address a broad range of disciplines including enterprise transformation and integration, software engineering, systems testing, and applied research.

Enterprise Transformation & Integration

Our Transformation and Integration services feature a repeatedly-proven benchmark-tested Business Process, and includes Strategy Planning, Change Management, Business Process Improvement and Engineering, and Best Business Practices Tactics and Integration:

Strategic IT Planning

Your organization’s IT infrastructure provides the foundation for future growth.  Our team can develop a customized strategic plan to address your unique needs, laying the groundwork for a flexible, expandable IT infrastructure that will improve your current and future collection, communication, collaboration, and delivery.

Enterprise Architecture Design and Integration

The 2C4 team provides a unique perspective to your enterprise architecture initiative.  We are not interested in creating an overly complicated enterprise architecture that sits on the shelf.  We are committed to creating straight-forward actionable enterprise architectures that translate to requirements and processes which are maintained by a flexible governance structure.

The purpose-driven association of structural elements provides a guiding framework for the evolution of an enterprise.  Our staff has extensive experience working with known architecture frameworks such as the Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA), DoD Architecture Framework (DoDAF), Zachman Framework, and The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF).  Not all these frameworks provide the same benefits to our clients, but our team leverages them for the foundational principles that result in actionable enterprise architectures.

Change Management

A huge part of change management is the ability to manage technological changes within your organization.  We help our customers understand how newly adopted technology affects their existing objectives, content, and processes.  Then we support our customers in developing a set of actionable objectives that is incorporated into the organizational Change Management Plan.  These objectives include the analysis of cultural and process changes and needs for training or staffing.

Business Process Improvement (BPI)

BPI supports organizations in optimizing their underlying processes to achieve more efficient results.  This is a wide-reaching initiative within any organization. 2C4 helps monitor its clients’ key performance indicators (KPIs), which supports their needs by validating whether or not business process changes are supporting organizations goals.  We have experience in integrating business intelligence solutions that source and report strategic KPI data as part of a Balanced Scorecard or similar process.

Software Engineering

Our engineers create end-to-end, cost effective software solutions.  We deliver results that are rooted in iterative software development methods and approaches.  2C4 understands the importance of process, but will always error on the side of results over process.  We offer the following competencies:

Technology Management

Many organizations mistakenly rely on the skills of program management to manage technology projects.  There are distinct differences encountered in projects delivering technology that are not seen in other management disciplines.  At 2C4, we provide seasoned engineers with effective management skills to lead large development initiatives.

Requirements Analysis

Understanding requirements and how they drive the foundation for any engineering effort is extremely important to our team.  We provide the analysis, specification, and validation of requirements for software development and integration initiatives.  2C4 is skilled in the translation of functional needs to definitive technical requirements.

System Design

2C4 provides the analysis, specification and definition of system architectures that are designed uniquely for each of our customer’s requirements.  Our disciplined approach is centered on the idea of reducing complexity through abstraction.  Each design initiative is conceived to maximize fault-tolerance, backward compatibility, extensibility, reliability, maintainability, availability, and security.  The architecture we create for our customers includes a collection of proven design patterns that translate into technical requirements for development.  In many cases, our solutions are user-centric and require interface design.  We are skilled in story boarding for small initiatives and creating human interface guidelines (HIG) for our enterprise customers.

Software Development and Integration

We provide experience in many software development models including waterfall, spiral, and iterative frameworks.  No matter which model is chosen, delivering results as quick as possible is our desire.  Our team is committed to clear communication, translating into an effective product at delivery.  We maintain a vendor-neutral stance on all our engineering efforts to ensure our customers an optimal solution for their unique requirements.  Identification and validation of proven design patterns before implementation of specific technologies is critical to the success of our development or integration efforts.

Information Management

We are a trusted provider of information management services to organizations that handle large volumes of data and have requirements for confidentiality and security.  Our Clients must have information that is accurate, actionable, complete, and timely.  2C4's services ensure that the appropriate stakeholders have responsive availability to information that is trustworthy, measurable, and meaningful.  Our data-oriented solutions include services such as data quality management, database migration, data mart and data warehouse development, and data visualization.

Quality Assurance

We provide quality assurance (QA) throughout project planning, development process, and acceptance by supporting our customers with full lifecycle testing solutions. Our focus is on maximizing test automation techniques which cut costs and support best practices. We make sure that our customer’s software meets the business and technical requirements that directed its design and development, functions as expected, and can be deployed successfully.