| Systems Engineering is an interdisciplinary approach and means to enable the realization of successful systems. It focuses on defining customer needs and required functionality early in the development cycle, documenting requirements, then proceeding with design synthesis and system validation while considering the complete problem. This process is comprised of the following seven tasks.
- State the problem. Stating the problem is the most important systems engineering task. It entails identifying customers, understanding customer needs, establishing the need for change, discovering requirements and defining system functions.
- Investigate alternatives. Alternatives are investigated and evaluated based on performance, cost and risk.
- Model the system. Running models clarifies requirements, reveals bottlenecks and fragmented activities, reduces cost and exposes duplication of efforts.
- Integrate. Integration means designing interfaces and bringing system elements together so they work as a whole. This requires extensive communication and coordination.
- Launch the system. Launching the system means running the system and producing outputs -- making the system do what it was intended to do.
- Assess performance. Performance is assessed using evaluation criteria, technical performance measures and measures -- measurement is the key. If you cannot measure it, you cannot control it. If you cannot control it, you cannot improve it.
- Re-evaluation. Re-evaluation should be a continual and iterative process.
Customers seldom know what they want, need or how to get there. Systems Engineers must enter the customer's environment and find out how the customer will use the system. Premier Engineers must exceed, not merely meet, customer expectations. Flexible designs and rapid prototyping help identify aspects that might have been overlooked. The industry-certified engineers at Premier will architect optimal solutions to meet the challenges facing customers.Premier's engineering professionals have extensive expertise providing solutions which incorporate advanced data center technologies including storage management, server/storage virtualization, server consolidation, continuous data protection, high availability and clustering, and data replication.
These services are offered on a variety of IT platforms including HP-UX, AIX, Solaris, Linux, and Windows.
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