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Dec 14, 2010

What "TechnoFunctional" Consultants are (or will be)

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Recently I found on my keep update duties a not very common job offer. What makes that offer different from others? Two topics, the first is the avalaibility of select the way you want to work with them (This topic deserves its own complete post), and the second one a brand new concept “Technofunctional Consultant”.

But, what is a Technofunctional Consultant? For introducing this role we need to define Functional and Technical Consultant previously. As Technofunc says: “Functional Consultants are the experts having understanding of the business processes and data flow on one hand and has the capability to fit these business requirements in the vendor ERP product, analyzing gaps, if any.” and “Technical Consultants are the experts having knowledge of the code, coding standards and implementation life cycle. Technical Consultants need not be any domain specific like Finance,…” .

From the definitions above we may find a middle point which is poorly covered between the Functionality and the technology beneath. And for solving the problems which may appear on this middle zone Technofunc  offer us the Technofunctional Consultant professional.

Formally we will define Technofunctional consultants as “experts who have the knowledge of the technical side of the ERP like coding, database etc and who also understand some product specific configurations for some modules by virtue of self-study or experience”.

The company behind this idea is TechnoFunc.