Our Partners

The Customer Respect Group

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The Customer Respect Group improves the online experience of your customers. We offer a series of products including benchmark evaluations, customer surveys, custom evaluations and standalone website audits. Results are available at both summary and granular level to serve the needs of management, marketing and technical staff.

VisibleThread and The Customer Respect Group work together to provide customers with web site and document (Word & PDF) analysis. Clarity and consistency of content is dramatically improved.

Mutual customers are responding to:

  • Regulatory drivers (eg: Consumer Protection)
  • Government Regulations (eg: US Plain Writing Act 2010)
  • Customer Retention Initiatives
  • Ethical Business Models

Strata Software

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Strata Software is a leading provider of Requirements Definition and Management services and solutions.

With an average of 20 years experience in the field, our consultants specialise in requirements-driven improvement and optimisation of application lifecycle processes. We establish customer-oriented best-practice in requirements definition and management, tool usage and project lifecycle integration, providing measurable business value in aligning software solutions to business requirements.

Strata Software brings together some of the leading people in the industry in the areas of business analysis, requirements definition and management, software specification, component- and service-orientation and delivery process.

In these areas, Strata are acknowledged thought leaders and contribute actively to a number of standards and standards groups, including:

“The approach taken by VisibleThread means that best practice for business analysis can now be introduced incrementally with low overheads. Most organizations would take considerable time and money to be able to improve their internal processes without VisibleThread. VisibleThread with it’s facility to adopt and customize Best Practice works as a ‘consultant in a box’” - George Ntinolazos, Principal Consultant, Strata Software

Equinox Intersoft

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EquinoxIntersoft is based in Toronto Canada and offers consulting and Training Programs featuring an expert team of professionals covering the following areas:

  • Consulting - Enterprise Project and Program Management
  • Assessment and Alignment - PMO, Strategic Planning, Six Sigma, and IT.
  • Training - Hands-On Project Management™, Six Sigma, Business Analysis and IT Security.
  • Certifications - PMP® and Project Management Expert™.
  • Products - ePMO.net®, Training Materials, Test Modules/Software, Online Courses

“VisibleThread can be used effectively in different type of organizations (government, enterprises etc.) as it provides initially well structured libraries of Best Practice with pre-set content. This makes for smooth and quick adoption by the users.” - Theodora Tonkovska, Principal, Equinox Intersoft

Microsoft

microsoft_masthead_10x7a_ltrVisibleThread is a Microsoft empower programme member. VisibleThread explicitly supports Microsoft products MS Word and MS Excel as part of it’s core technology offering.

For a project to succeed, it is critical that the customer is involved at every stage. Accurate and quality documentation is crucial to achieving this level of involvement. VisibleThread’s MS Word add-in allows authors to create high-quality, accurate requirements documents leading to low-risk project delivery.

VisibleThread for IT

2:48 minutes
This summary overview shows the business case for using VisibleThread for IT programs. It shows why up to 42% of IT project cost can be attributed to defective documentation and demonstrates how VisibleThread addresses this large business issue.

Red-flagging Bad Language

3:47 minutes
There are some words/phrases that you should avoid in a proposal. This short video shows how VisibleThread scans and red-flags 'bad language' in your RFP Responses.

Using Discovery to spot Gaps

2:28 minutes
Identification of key concepts in issued documents (RFP etc.) helps align the language of the response volumes. Discovery in VisibleThread can uncover mismatches and lack of alignment between issuer and response docs to support reviews and underpin a winning bid.

Validating Win Theme Language

4:43 minutes
Win themes articulate business differentiation. Too often, with multiple contributors and authors, it is hard to keep theme language consistent.

Here we see how VisibleThread validates response docs against win themes by:

A starter compliance matrix in 3 minutes

4:20 minutes
Proposal Managers have to manually scan issued documents or pdfs to spot requirements prefaced with 'shall', 'must' etc. and track them in spreadsheets. This demo shows an 'obligation scan' run against a draft RFP pdf. All instances of 'will', 'must', 'shall' are identified. It concludes by generating a first pass of an Excel Compliance Matrix.

Collaborations and Team Reviews with
Discussions

5:31 minutes
Managing inputs from multiple contributors and conducting efficient team reviews is critical to successful outcomes. This demo shows how VisibleThread supports collaboration using web based discussions.

Integrating with MS SharePoint

2:36 minutes
VisibleThread integrates with MS SharePoint using an intuitive import capability. This short demo shows how you can import an MS SharePoint document for analysis.

Plain Language Analysis

4:11 minutes
Plain Language Analysis drives clear documentation. This demo outlines how VisibleThread can identify long sentences, passive langauge and facilitate plain langauge audits.