Industries

Agriculture meets Venture Capitalism. The name of the game is revenue per acre and profitability and Digital Rebirth is a key enabler.

Retail

Retail often means expanding narrow margins. We can help through anlaytics and automation.

Banking

.From Regulatory Compliance to enhancing customer experience and service, we can help.

Manufacturing

Our Detroit roots are showing. We can help through modernization and automation.

Import / Export

Import / Export involves unique complexities that can be simplified through Digitization and Automation.

With over 20 years of technology consulting experience, including working for IBM directly, our Team understands the ins and outs of IBM, the platform, and general consulting experience having worked with Fortune 500 companies such as Chase, Southwest Airlines, Pepsi, Chrysler, IBM, PwC, DXC, Fidelity Investments and Allstate across a vast array of technologies, methodologies, and approaches.

We can provide Consulting as a Service (billed hourly, no long term commitments). This can be full time, part time, or fractional consultants so you may scale up or scale down most effectively and efficiently, paying for and when you need value and not paying for dead air or "bench" time.

This is essentially a subscription service and value add;

Pay as you go, not long contracts
Target high-priority quick victories with measurable results
Work iteratively, collaboratively, and holistically (people, process, and technology)
Shake off tech debt and leverage the cloud, integrations, and automation

Typical High Level Framework

PLANNING

Develop a plan of action: tasks, resources, dependencies, timeline, risks and issue management
Road mapped objectives
Define deliverables acceptance
Reporting the progress
Development and purging of unused code
Execute third-party and API integrations
End-to-end testing of IBMi applications
Data migration
Set up sync processes and backups for active data

Testing Post IBMi Modernization

Test the infrastructure and environment modernized IBMi applications
Validate the IBMi application performance
Validate bugs reported and remediate
Perform load testing
Verify security procedures are implemented correctly
Validate data migration

Scope and Prioritization

Outline IBMi modernization specifications (your inputs & our observations)
Scope of work validation
Risk assessment
Outline execution priorities
Finalize the scope of work

Support and Maintenance

Document the newly implemented features
Conduct user training for modernized IBM i applications
Monitor performance of modernized IBM i applications
Report challenges and get them fixed
Timely conduct system audits to record uncertain performance deviations

Return on Investment

Calculate holistic project costs
Calculate total benefits
Report out and scope next item

Certifications

PMP Certified

Scrum Master Certified

Lean Six Sigma - Green belt (PM Level)

Lean Certified

ITIL Certified - ITSM Support

Expert Level Support:

Jira

ServiceNow

Microsoft: PowerBI, SQL, Teams, Office Suite

QuickBase: Low Code Applications Support

JD Edwards

Oracle Fusion

SAS

Tableau

Snowflake