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Who is a Consultant

A consultant is a professional who provides advice in a particular area of expertise. A consultant is usually an expert or a professional in a specific field and has a wide knowledge of the subject matter. A consultant, then, is someone who helps others profit or learn from their own experience.

Role - Consultant

Responsibilities:A consultant evaluates the demands in talking with the customer's representatives, transforms the essence into an abstract and algorithmic business model. Hence, he identifies the use cases and transforms them into logical and technical views. 1. Customizing the respective business area and making sure the system reacts in the manner according to the constraints of the re uested use case. !. "he consultant documents the settings and prepares proper guidelines that allow other consultants to do further changes or repairs with due efforts. #. "he consultant takes care that proper training is given to the users and that the system is usable, performing appropriately and the business flow is complete and correct. $. %uring go live he assists the technical staff by testing the behaviour of the system. &. After go live he guarantees that the procedures remain usable and consistent in real live situation and proposes enhancements. "he main duty of a consultant is to transfer e(ternal know)how to the client. *t is not manpower that counts but intelligence, understanding of processes, a feeling for defects and general a common sense.

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Role of a Functional Consultant in an End To End Implementation 1. "o generate knowledge about the current business process, design current business flows, study current business processes and its complication, in all we can say getting through with

current business setup. +low diagrams and %+% are prepared, most of the time in vision format, all this forms the part of A, *, document.

!. -verything configured has to be documented as per their .client/ categories in the form of predefined templates, these have to be then approved by the team leads or who ever the consultant is reporting to. #. 0apping and 1A2 analysis is done for each module. $. 3efore starting configuring future business processes in ,A2, the %+%4-5% are prepared, this documentation is called "6 3-, which can be also said as the result of mapping and gap analysis. &. "o prepare test scripts for testing the configured scenarios. '. -nd user manual and user training is also e(pected from consultants.

Responsibilities of Technical Consultant 1. "he ma7or duty and responsibility of a ,A2 technical consultant is to study the technical feasibility of a ,A2 business re uirement and develop custom components that satisfy the client re uirement. !. Along with this a ,A2 technical consultant needs to develop technical specifications against custom developments and provide technical inputs to functional consultants during design and development.

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