IT CONSULTING SERVICES

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ANNOUNCMENTS

Oracle Partnership

Aptude a leading provider of Information Technology Consulting and Solutions, today announced it has joined the Oracle Provider Partner Program for software and service providers. Working with Oracle Corp., one of the world's leading application infrastructure companies, has given Aptude the opportunity to provide our clients with the enterprise software foundation that allows them to benefit from service-oriented architectures.


 

Now more than ever, Information Technology can unlock the door to success . . . Choosing the right business partner is the key. Today Information Technology must be innovative. It must also provide a Return on Investment while increasing operation efficiencies and effectiveness. Information Technology must provide your management staff with strategic information that helps them make better decisions. Aptude, with our franchise method of system analysis/design, development and implementation, can produce a solution for you.

Development Services
Aptude’s experience with multiple technologies makes our company a great choice in creating your next custom development solutions. Our franchise method provides a framework for project management and development with proven end results. The framework is built on a documented platform that leads to clear user requirements and definable objectives that all parties agree on.

Integration Services
Aptude understands the need for separate system to communicate and integrate with each other so that data becomes information. We have developed an Enterprise Application Integration group that focuses on this area.

Wireless Technologies
Aptude is partnered with some of the lead handheld device manufacturers to develop mobile systems that have been tested across industries. We understand many companies are looking for reliable wireless solutions to provide their employees as well as their customers with timely, accurate information.

Staff Augmentation
Aptude understands that some of its customers already have a well-trained project management staff that can lead successful implementations. Aptude can assist in augmenting your staff with contract consultants or full-time hires that have technical expertise with your application environment.

IT CONSULTING SERVICES

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JAVA/J2EE TECHNOLOGIES:
J2EE standards provide a strong foundation for building complex, distributed enterprise systems. Aptude has experience developing large-scale applications using the Java environment, including J2EE, EJB, J2SE including applications using JFC/Swing and J2ME. We have extensive experience implementing on the leading application software providers.

Including the following:
BEA WebLogic Server
BEA Portal and Integration
IBM Websphere
Oracle 9iAS
iPlanet
JBoss
Tomcat

Our standards-based application development focuses on interoperability of your applications with your current software systems to create and overall manageable, quality environment for your business.

.NET FRAMEWORK:
Microsoft's .NET framework dramatically improves developer productivity, application and system security, deployment, reliability, and cross language-integration, while making it easy to implement and consume XML we services. When undertaking an application development effort a strong platform and quality tools are imperative. Our .NET practice team has actively participated in early and successful deployment of enterprise systems built on the .NET Framework.

MOBILE DEVELOPMENT:
Aptude Consulting is fast becoming a premier consultant of hand-held and data capturing applications.

Looking to make your application mobile? Looking to give your sales reps, field reps the power and decision making tools of their office in the palm of their hand? From remote data collection to animated video, Aptude can provide you a hand-held solution that will satisfy your needs.

SMART PHONES, POCKET PC'S PALMS AND HPC DEVICES:
HPC wireless applications that allow resident engineers to capture construction information in the field
Palm applications to provide consumers insight into attractions in their geographic area
Pocket PC Applications for Network Security
Pocket PC Gamming and Animation
Pocket PC/802.11 intermodal storage and repair application for field reps

DATABASES AND DATA WAREHOUSE:
Custom and packaged application designed to create and support data warehouse and data marts
Provide the ability to integrate multiple application environments with your suitable database back end
Oracle 9i
SQL Server
Sybase
Access

EET: Emerging Enterprise Technologies
BEA Weblogic Application Suite, IBM Websphere, .NET
framework, Windows CE, Palm OS, Ariba, Broadvision,
Vignette Story Server, Microsoft Biztalk, IBM MQ/SI, BEA

The Internet has and will continue to change and affect the way all of us do business. Surviving and thriving in the eMarket place is calling for enterprises to make their service and product offerings more comprehensive and more modular. Application byproducts must be built in a flexible, modular fashion so that these applications enable employees, customers and partners with ready and reliable access to key business information while insuring corporate data security.

Our consultants are capable of performing:

  • Portal Development
  • E-Application Development using J2EE, .NET technologies
  • Enterprise Content Management
  • B2B, B2C Applications
  • Mobile Access and Commerce Applications
  • Application Security

BI: Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse
Oracle, Microsoft, Sybase, Teradata, Essbase,
SAS, Business Objects, Cognos, Actuate,
Brio, Informatica

Today’s competitive environment demands that businesses capture, process, and analyze massive volumes of data. Issues such as deregulation, industry consolidation, and the proliferation of new competitors are forcing companies to quickly transform their data into actionable information. The result is a growing need to define strategies, select technologies, and build world-class data warehouse and decision support infrastructures. Data Warehousing and application development solutions help clients develop the strategies and systems they need to identify and exploit market opportunities, pinpoint ways to improve the bottomline, and proactively meet the changing demands of their customers.

Our consultants are capable of performing:

  • Data Warehouse Strategy and Alignment Roadmaps
  • Architecture, Design and Capacity Planning
  • Data Quality Assessment ETL Tool Selection
  • Data Warehouse Construction
  • Reporting and Analytics Development
  • Performance Tuning and Optimization

EAI: Enterprise Resource Planning
Supported Vendors
Tibco, Active Enterprise, Vitria
Technology Business ware,
SeeBeyond eGate, Web- Methods,
Microsoft Biztalk, IBM MQ/SI, BEA

As corporate IT platforms shift from monolithic Mainframe Systems through a continuum of distributed client/server applications, Web Based applications and ERP packages, businesses are creating a critical need for applications to share data and business logic that cross over a diverse group of applications. With the recent challenging economic conditions and ever increasing competition, attention on cost reduction and increasing ROI is heightened. Improving business process efficiency, identifying bottlenecks and eliminating duplications becomes increasingly important in delivering higher shareholder value. As the traditional EAI vendors are adopting the industry standard integration architectures (such as JCA) and supporting web services, organizations can integrate and access diverse, incompatible systems in a timely and cost effective manner.

Our consultants are capable of performing:

  • EAI vendor evaluation and product recommendation
  • Integration framework design
  • EAI Application development, implementation
  • EAI deployment and management
  • Web Service Strategy Development
  • Infrastructure Assessment and Evaluation
  • Web Services Proof of Concept
  • Partner Strategy and Tool Selection
  • Project Leadership and Management
  • Integration and Web Services Implementation
  • EDI and B2B/Trading Partner Application development