Firestorming™ - Strategic Enterprise Consulting

The foundation of Appfire's approach is Firestorming™ - a unique method of consulting that efficiently guides our clients through the process of defining what's required to address core business needs. Appfire's architects use an agile approach to discover and document business requirements, including specific use cases. We then translate these into a tactical implementation plan and a strategic roadmap that's based on a set of Enterprise Best Practices which includes: Structured Content, Auditing, and Benchmarking.

Enterprise Atlassian Services

Appfire's Atlassian services focus on Enterprise-scale installations, systems integration, data migrations and creative feature customizations. As a certified 'Premier' Atlassian Parter, Appfire is widely regarded as experts in Atlassian's hottest tools like Confluence, JIRA, GreenHopper, Bamboo, FishEye, Crucible, Clover and Crowd. Appfire delivers the following full range of Atlassian services and solutions:

• Installation & Configuration Services
• Systems Integration
• Customizations & Enhancements
• Data Migration
• Performance Tuning
• End User & Administrative Training

Installation & Configuration Services

Skilled Appfire technicians can install, patch, optimize and professionally configure your new collaboration instance using trusted industry standards, as well as Appfire's own best practices developed from years of Enterprise-scale collaboration software deployments. Return to top

Systems Integration

From simple 'mash-ups' & 'widgets', to full-scale corporate 'portals' and other elaborate hybrid application solutions, Appfire's team of skilled consultants, architects and engineers will help you achieve your systems integration goals elegantly, effectively and for an excellent value. Please contact us for more details. Return to top

Plugins, Customizations & Feature Enhancements

With more than 8 years of Enterprise-scale application development experience and an impressive list of happy customers, Appfire is uniquely positioned in the collaboration software community to deliver precise technology, captivating creativity and extraordinary results for your custom feature enhancement goals. Please contact us for more details. Return to top

Data Migration

If you're in the market to upgrade or migrate from one collaboration platform to another, a well-documented and thoroughly-tested Method of Procedure (MOP) drafted by Appfire's highly-skilled migration specialists will be worth its weight in gold! Appfire specialists can help you to: Identify potential migration challenges Map appropriate data fields between applications Develop customized Automated Migration Utilities Perform preliminary test migrations Perform the live data migration Recreate lost functionalities as custom enhancements Return to top

Performance Tuning

Appfire employs a unique, highly effective process for tuning Enterprise-scale collaboration software deployments. This typically involves the following 4 agile phases which can quickly adjust to support individual client needs: Assessment – Appfire technicians interview select client representatives to better understand individual performance concerns, areas of bottlenecks and activities which may exacerbate those issues, as well as the known direct & indirect effects on end users. Information Gathering – Appfire monitors the target system during peak & off-peak hours to gather detailed information needed to assemble a Root Cause Analysis (RCA). Appfire also works to accurately record impact, ensuring that future changes can be both quantitatively and qualitatively measured between before & after results. This allows individual changes to be quickly accepted or reverted where appropriate. Findings & Recommendations – Appfire then documents and presents our findings for collaborative evaluation. Associated recommendations are broken out into a matrix of short, near, and long-term goals, outlining each anticipated impact & benefit. Implementation Strategy – Appfire then establishs an implementation strategy prior to execution outlining: Method Of Procedure (MOP) – steps to implement Predecessors – what needs to happen before each recommendation or phase can take place Scope – development effort Timeline – development schedule Return to top

End User & Administrative Training

Appfire offers the following instructional training courses for Atlassian's collaboration software: Confluence Fundamentals Confluence Administrators JIRA Fundamentals JIRA Administrators Appfire Enhancements (following customization efforts) All courses are hosted by one of Appfire's expert collaboration consultants, and are presented as 3-hour interactive web sessions with a teleconference facility. Onsite corporate training seminars are also available upon request. Please contact us for more details. Return to top

To learn more about what Appfire can do for you, please contact us today!