DOCUMENTATION
Mapador Inc. offers a practical solution for both components of a comprehensive documentation strategy:
· It ensures that existing documentation is properly vetted, indexed, controlled and maintained
· It automatically generates documentation from existing corporate artifacts.
Control over documentation is an overall business issue, not simply a departmental or IT requirement. Organizing and maintaining documentation is increasingly important for many non-IT organizations striving to gain control over their ever increasing number of documents. It also comes to the forefront when discussing governance requirements, implementing or improving standards, initiating an outsourcing engagement or embarking on M&A activities.
Lacking proper documentation, applications become harder and harder to maintain and overall maintenance costs increase. Without department-wide understanding and knowledge, valuable resources are tied down to carry out relatively simple activities and resource allocation bottlenecks delay project deliveries.
Unfortunately, while the need for having up-to-date and correct documentation is talked about all the time, documentation projects are typically the first to become victims of scarce budgets. When everyone knows the importance of proper documentation, why would it not be, finally, created or updated?
The underlying reasons are simple:
· Documenting an application is a tremendous manual effort, tying up the most valuable resources
· As soon as documentation is created, it almost immediately becomes outdated – so why spend the money in the first place?
· Documentation does not deliver directly visible results to the business – other priorities dictate to undertake ‘real’ projects instead
We provide a practical and effective solution to establish control over documentation. We also offer an automated system documentation solution that fundamentally changes the way IT systems are documented. Our solution overcomes all of the above objections to (and difficulties of) typical documentation projects.
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