Media and Advertising

For a major entertainment group:

• Business requirements definition and business process analysis for a new Rights Management system
• Conducted full vendor assessment and made product recommendation
• Identified and addressed system gaps
• Managed all phases of QA (Quality Assurance) testing and phased implementation

For a national broadcast and cable conglomerate:

• Developed requirements for a new sales and traffic system to handle national broadcast, cable, digital and syndication properties
• Provided high-level strategy and subject matter expertise through RFP process and vendor selection
• Selected to lead new system implementation

For a cable television network:

• Designed a process to increase average unit rates for direct response
• Yield management strategy identifying a potential $3M increase in revenue
• Recommended organizational changes to improve DR pricing and planning

For a large television station group:

• Successfully managed the rollout of a national commercial traffic system
• Supported implementation with subject matter experts
• Responsible for training, coordination of deployment schedules, business requirements definition, system testing, systems integration, change management & documentation

For a major entertainment group:

• Business requirements definition and analysis for a new Deal Planning system
• Responsible for project oversight, application strategy and vendor management
• Managed all phases of software specification and development, detail design, integration, QA testing and implementation

Financial Services and Insurance

For an Investment Products Division of a Major Life Insurance Company

• Provided project management and built management services on a number of projects within a Business Intelligence Repository program
• Created an integrated business intelligence repository (a data warehouse) that acquires data from various sources; scrubs that data by applying consistent business rules and delivers the information via a set of data marts to interested parties

The repository manages information related to several of the firm’s investment products, including: individual annuities, mutual funds and group investment retirement accounts.

For a Major Financial Services Firm’s e-Business Marketing Department

• Provided project management for the implementation of a purchased software solution for Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
• The firm had selected an off-the-shelf suite of CRM applications to enable its strategy for e-business marketing email campaigns, and to provide the analytics engine to support the business intelligence necessary to meet aggressive strategic marketing objectives that crossed three distinct lines of business
• We managed the efforts of various and diverse project resources including: the sponsoring business customer; a third party integrator to install and customize the purchased software application; an internal e-business IT development team responsible for the financial services firm’s website; the internal integrated business intelligence repository acquisition team, as well as remote/offshore development resources

For a Reinsurance Data Warehousing Client

• With a major development concentration in Data Warehousing w utilized tools such as ERwin, Visio, Informatica, and ESSbase to model processes & data, and to assist in the design and development of the new warehouses supporting our client’s domestic as well as international offices
• Our senior consultants have taken Project Leadership roles in the implementation of Reinsurance Warehouse projects that include data marts addressing Experience (revenue and losses), Potential Exposures, and Underwriting Movement
• We have been retained to lead planned Data Warehousing projects that will be directed to Corporate Earnings and Exposures

Our senior consultants are also leading this client’s Center of Excellence that addresses the Data Warehouse Development and Project Management Methodologies that will be utilized by all of their future Reinsurance Warehouse projects. They have adapted portions of industry leading Data Warehouse methodologies to the client’s unique environment to ensure the timely delivery of warehouse technologies and systems to meet the needs of their customers.

Healthcare and Pharmaceutical

For a Major Healthcare Client

• We provided a team of quality assurance professionals to manage and coordinate the testing of a new enterprise-wide claims processing and reporting system
• This long-term engagement entailed end-to-end testing of the employer services data warehouse application and all components within its advanced technology platform
• Our senior professionals planned and managed a team of our most experienced quality assurance consultants while they conducted testing on various project releases across a variety of employer services applications, thus ensuring that the implementation team delivered a quality application to the enterprise

For a Pharmaceutical Client

• We provided strategic direction to our client regarding advances in the implementation of e-Business Web Portals
• Web Portals serve a variety of constituents including: internal resources, external business partners, as well as customers
• Our consultants have extensive familiarity with the wide variety of tools sets available to implement this technology and achieve the greatest benefit and utility from it

For Lab Scientists and Technicians

• Our consultants utilized an Advanced Application Development methodology to create a Client/Server based Laboratory Information Management System that assisted lab scientists and technicians with the tracking of material testing, including the reporting and cataloguing of results
• The AAD methodology utilized an iterative approach to reduce the development life-cycle, while allowing the client to see the application develop in stages over time - much like viewing a new home as it is being constructed
• The application allowed pharmaceutical scientists to create work orders to initiate a variety of testing on a material under development or review
• The application then facilitated the assignment and tracking of these work orders throughout the testing process
• Lab technicians recorded tests conducted, typically several per work order, as well as the associated results
• When all testing was completed, the initiating scientist was notified and had online access to the testing methodologies used and the results
• A reporting capability provided metrics for use by management in developing improvements to the testing process

Utilities and Telecommunications

For Utility and Telecommunications Clients

• Our EDGE Business Intelligence practitioners have assisted our clients on initiatives to gain access to meaningful information
  • Business Intelligence (BI): information is knowledge; knowledge is an asset - IF - that knowledge is accessible, current and accurate.
• Our process taps into existing legacy applications to extract, transform and organize disparate data in such a way that the result provides meaningful intelligence upon which critical decisions can be made

For Utility and Telecommunications Clients

• Our EDGE information architects have assisted our clients on a variety of Web-based application development initiatives including: Web Infrastructure Design and Maintenance, e-Business Solutions, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)
  • Empowering enterprise resources to make critical decisions requires access to information - anywhere - anytime

Driving Service for Utility and Telecommunication Clients

• ERP Solutions
  • We have provided our clients with subject matter expertise required to implement ERP applications or to maximize our client’s investment in their existing ERP applications to their full capability
  • Have a proven track record with the top ERP software providers including PeopleSoft, SAP, Oracle and J.D. Edwards
• Decommissioning Legacy Systems
  • Additionally, as ERP and other custom-off-the-shelf applications are implemented we have provided expertise to assist organizations in assessing existing legacy systems and identifying which components can be eliminated and what functionality requires migration to the new platform
  • We ensure that the new platform is equipped to support increasing workload and take appropriate action to migrate to the new system
• Network Services
  • We have successful created environments that provide access to business applications by a mobile workforce requires a supporting infrastructure
  • We offer a suite of traditional network and application administrative services that includes Help Desk services, Server Administration, Network infrastructure administration, Server OS migrations, Back Office Migrations and capacity planning