Application Development

There are many application development environments and platforms in use today. The rise of Internet technologies in the past few years has superseded many of the client/server applications in use. Still, companies need to ensure that their applications can continue to be developed, maintained, and upgraded where necessary. Companies also need to continuously build new applications to take advantage of the opportunities the web presents. As mergers and consolidations happen, there is a need to bridge applications and access data from multiple systems. Companies need application development professionals who are skilled at the latest and existing technologies. IT America, Inc Business Consultants are skilled in many application development environments and languages such as Linux, Visual Basic (VB), C/C++, Java, J2EE, Oracle, Powerbuilder, UNIX, Delphi, Visual C++, Visual Fox Pro, Visual J++, Visual Source Safe, and .Net.

Application Services

Many companies have implemented application servers in order to maximize their e-business processes. In order to effectively maximize the opportunities presented by application servers, companies need well-trained, highly skilled professionals to design, deploy, and manage these systems. IT America, Inc Business Consultants are skilled in many of the leading application server technologies including BEA Weblogic, IBM WebSphere, Microsoft .NET, Iona Technologies Orbix E2A Application Server Platform, ObjectWare IdeaBlade, Progress Software AppServer, SAP NetWeaver, Sun ONE Application Server (formerly iPlanet), Versata Logic Suite, and Lotus Notes among others.

Business Intelligence

Retailers, banks, and financial services firms, in particular, have made large investments in business intelligence product suites. The systems were purchased to help uncover customer trends, product development opportunities, and market gaps. Business intelligence solutions are complex, however, and companies have found that they need a great deal of support to manage and optimize. IT America, Inc Business Consultants are skilled at running and maximizing the major business intelligence solutions from vendors such as Cognos, BRIO, Microstrategy, Informatica, Hyperion, SAS, Information Builders, Business Objects, Applix, and Oracle.

Configuration Management

Application developers need to manage the software development process. Call it software configuration management or software change management; there are standard applications that your consultants need to know how to use. IT America, Inc Business Consultants are skilled at the leading SCM tools such as PVCS, RCS, ClearCase, CCC/Harvest, Remedy, Rational Rose and others.

Database

For most companies, managing the database of customers, vendors, and products is a huge task. With consolidation happening in many industries, such as banking, manufacturing, and financial services, large corporations often find themselves with multiple databases and systems to manage. They need skilled professionals who are versant in different systems and can quickly and securely implement solutions. IT America, Inc Business Consultants are skilled in all major databases including Oracle, Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server, Informix, and IBM DB2. They are also highly proficient in database technologies such as OLAP.

Data Warehousing

For a successful corporate data warehouse implementation, a company needs a full complement of skilled IT professionals. Positions needed on the team include a project manager, to ensure the warehouse is aligned with the business needs and to develop project plans to support the warehouse as it matures. Also needed is a data modeler, who creates the subject area diagram, the logical data model, and the data warehouse data model. Other critical positions include data warehouse architect, database administrator, programmer/analyst, and business analyst. Companies come to IT America, Inc for the professionals that make up this team. IT America, Inc Business Consultants have experience with many data warehousing and mining technologies including Angoss Software KnowledgeStudio and KnowledgeSeeker, Computer Associates Neugents, Gemplus SLP InfoWare, IBM DB2 Intelligent Miner, NCR/Teradata TeraMiner, Oracle Data Mining Suite (Darwin), SAS Enterprise Miner, SPSS Clementine, Quadstone Decisionhouse, and Unica Affinium. IT America Inc consultants and professionals are skilled at products from most vendors in the data space including Brio, Business Objects, Cognos, Information Advantage, InfoSpace, Microstrategy, Platinum (CA), SAS, Hyperion, Redbrick and Prism.

ERP

IT America, Inc Business Consultants help our clients design, deploy, and manage their ERP implementation. They have the skills and proficiency to help our clients maximize their resource utilization and offer consulting in business process analysis, business process re-engineering, information system strategies, hardware requirement analysis, applications consulting and training. ERP systems are comprehensive and need to be managed by professionals who understand the scope and breadth of the systems. IT America, Inc Business Consultants have deployed SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle and other ERP or IT systems at companies in vertical markets such as banking, financial services, retail, transportation, and manufacturing. Our consultants are skilled and proficient on all aspects of ERP systems including financials, human resource management systems (HRMS), supply chain management (SCM), manufacturing, and business intelligence. IT America, Inc Business Consultants have designed, deployed, and managed many data systems, which are critical for the ERP system to function optimally

Internet

Companies in every industry need skilled Internet and web developers to ensure that their online applications, web sites, and e-commerce systems are performing as required. The web site needs to be up and running continuously and they need to be ready to take advantage of new opportunities, such as marketing initiatives, quickly and efficiently. IT America, Inc Business Consultants are skilled in every possible Internet and web tool set there is. IT America, Inc Business Consultants can help you build new Internet systems and manage the ones you already have in place. Technologies represented include HTML, JavaScript, Java, J2EE, ActiveX, XML, JSP, and PHP.

Legacy

Many companies in the financial services and manufacturing spaces, for example, rely on the mainframe for their businesses to operate. The need for IT professionals with specialized skill sets grows as these systems age. IT America, Inc Business Consultants are skilled in many legacy applications and operating systems such as DEC/VAX, OS/390, MicroFocus, Compuware, Cobol, CICS, JCL, IMS, DB2, and AS/400.

Middleware

Companies need to ensure that disparate systems can talk to each other. As mergers, consolidations, and globalization continue to increase, companies have many different systems to integrate. The need for IT professionals who understand middleware, the glue that binds different systems together, is paramount. IT America, Inc Business Consultants are skilled in many middleware and associated networking technologies including BEA WebLogic, WebMethods, COM, DCOM, COM++, CORBA, EJB, Microsoft .Net, J2EE, Java, XML, CORBA, Novell Netware and IBM Websphere.

System Administration

Every system should have at least one person, a systems administrator, in charge of system maintenance and operation. It is the responsibility of system administrators to ensure the smooth operation of the system and to perform a wide variety of tasks that require special privileges. In most cases, it makes sense for companies to outsource this function. Among other things, a system administrator is responsible for:

IT America, Inc Business Consultants possess a strong understanding of Windows NT/2000, MS-SQL, Oracle database technologies as well as end user applications. In the Linux world, our consultants are familiar with Linux system administration tools: COAS, Linuxconf, Webmin and YaST. IT America, Inc systems administrators are skilled at the many technologies available to manage, monitor, and improve the system.

Supply Chain Tools

Companies looking for efficiencies in the value chain have implemented supply chain manufacturing applications for the past two decades. Many of these companies have also implemented B2B marketplace technologies in recent years to ensure efficiencies throughout the supply chain.

The requirements of supply chain or business-to-business (B2B) integration are ideal for Microsoft .NET-connected software. Each of the many enterprises along a supply chain needs to minimize its cost of doing business and maximize return on investment. To achieve that, an enterprise needs to look at its resources — its available inventory, its production capacity, the size and location of its warehouses — and optimize the use of those resources. For example, PeopleSoft Supply Chain Management delivers real-time, synchronized supply chains — enabling organizations to respond in real time to changes in demand and supply. BEA WebLogic also provides a unified platform for building, extending, integrating, deploying, and managing applications as end-to-end business processes.

IT America, Inc Business Consultants are skilled at all of the above application suites in addition to leading product lines from Manugistics and i2 Technologies.

Testing Tools

Applications that do not work in production can cost companies millions of dollars. Imagine how many potential customers would leave a web site if the links did not work properly. Sound quality assurance programs utilizing high-quality testing tools are required to ensure customer satisfaction.

IT America, Inc delivers a wide range of quality assurance and automated testing services featuring tools from major vendors including functional testing tools and scripting languages with tools such as QARun from Compuware, WinRunner from Mercury Interactive and Visual Test from Rational Software (IBM). Load testing tools and associated scripting languages on tools such as LoadRunner from Mercury Interactive, QALoad from Compuware, Webload from Radview Software and others.

IT America, Inc Business Consultants are also skilled at managing the testing process with test data management tools such as File-Aid from Compuware for test data generation, extraction, and comparison and TestBytes from Mercury Interactive; and whitebox testing tools such as NuMega DevPartner for checking code complexity, code coverage, and memory leaks.

UNIX Administration

UNIX systems are in place in every industry and at almost every company. The need to manage and administrate these systems is a huge concern for corporate IT. Companies need to have skilled UNIX professionals in place to ensure that these mission-critical systems are optimized and running smoothly.

IT America, Inc Business Consultants are skilled in the most popular UNIX environments, as well as some of the more obscure ones. IT America, Inc Business Consultants are skilled in HP-UX, IBM AIX and Sun Solaris, among other UNIX technologies. IT America, Inc Business Consultants are also very proficient in Linux and its variants