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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.


Aptude provides a professional service and process for serving our customers. We are in the technology business and focus our activities in serving both the developers and users of technology. We have extensive worldwide contacts and, our own proprietary database of candidates for customer projects or career placements. As a consulting firm, we are also able to assume and manage design through implementation customer projects with defined specifications and objectives. We have excellent business acumen, experience, and treat all our interfaces with customers and candidates with the utmost respect and integrity, just as we expect from them. Our customers find that we provide very high quality resources at very competitive rates because of our experience and efficient operating processes.

 

COMMITMENT TO OUR CUSTOMERS

  1. Understanding our Client’s Business
  2. Understanding our Client’s Needs
  3. Understanding our Client’s Technical Environment
  4. Understanding our Client’s Company Culture
  5. Understanding the Candidates

PEOPLE UNDERSTANDING TECHNOLOGY:
APTUDE, Inc. is an IT Consulting Company. It is in the business of creating and maintaining enterprise applications. Its management as well as its staff, account executives and recruiters are technologist. They do much more than match buzzwords. Who do you want staffing your critical IT requirements — A staffing company or a vibrant IT consulting company?

OUR CONSULTING COMPLIMENTS OUR STAFFING ABILITY:
In addition to staffing, our consulting practice lends itself to talented individuals working on exciting new projects. Unlike some companies who only provide contractors for hire on an hourly basis, we also offer senior consulting and systems design experts to help companies identify the optimum strategies and directions for implementing business and technology solutions. We have the capability to provide on-site, off-site or off-shore turnkey development projects. This industry understanding further leverages our ability to help our customers with their FTE placement requirements.

EXPERIENCE:
APTUDE has experience staffing Fortune 100 companies as well as government agencies. We have significant experience in proposing, winning and managing enterprise projects.

STRONG RELATIONSHIPS:
Even the largest IT consulting and staffing companies cannot have consultants available on its bench for every need. This is also true with Aptude. When we cannot fill a client's need internally, we utilize a preferred list of partners whos man times will have the right candidate who will satisfy the positions.

RICH AND ACTIVE CANDIDATE DATABASE:
Aptude keeps a recruiting application that it utilizes internally for saving candidate information broken down by skill sets, location and availability. This is an internal custom application that provides quick response especially for those clients interested in FTE.

CLIENT AND ASSIGNMENT UNDERSTANDING:
We insist on meeting our customer's expectations and do so by a detailed understanding and definition of the scope of effort, deliverables, timing and terms of each individual contract. Similarly, for FTE placements, we utilize the same basis of understanding of the job responsibilities and desired experience to identify the requirements for the specific job opening. We then select the appropriate candidate)s) who provide the best combination of skills for the specific project or position. We utilize our own rating of software programming proficiency levels to understand their exact skills and experience. We only provide candidates for presentation to our customers if we feel that candidate is a good fit for the customer's requirements. We determine the applicability of the candidates through our own screening process which includes a) personally knowledge based on previous successful subcontractor experience with us, or b) our own interview and review processes of the potential candidates. We have significant experience in interviewing and hiring as well as techniques and methodologies utilized to accurately evaluate a candidate for the job requirements. We conduct background checks va a nationwide professional outside firm.

IT CONSULTING SERVICES

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EMERGING ENTERPRISE (MIDDLEWARE) TECHNOLOGIES:
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 mCommerce Applications
Application Security


TECHNOLOGIES AND SUPPORTED VENDORS:
BEA Weblogic Application Suite, IBM Websphere, .NET framework,
Windows CE, Palm OS, Ariba, Broadvision and Vignette Story Server

EAI: Enterprise Application Integration
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

ERP: Enterprise Resource Planning
Supported Vendors
Peoplesoft, SAP, Oracle,
JD Edwards

Organizations are becoming increasingly globalized and are constantly increasing the number of products and services they offer. Therefore, companies need data from business units and offices around the world. ERP applications hold the key, providing a competitive edge by acting as the backbone for integrating back office date, automating business processes and synchronizing information across various functions and/or departments. The touting of improvements, cost savings and productivity realized through a new ERP system speaks volumes. Companies see the value of sharing a centralized database with all users and gaining the cumulative integrated Human Resource /Payroll benefits, e-Procurement, Accounting, Ordering, Budget control of an integrated application. One of the greatest benefits is the shift in focus from reacting, inputting and verifying to innovation, problem solving and customer focus.

  • Business Analysis
  • Vendor evaluation
  • Initial Implementation
  • Upgrading & extending existing implementation
  • Integrating enterprise applications
  • Managing, Optimizing and supporting existing applications
  • Providing continuous business process improvement to maximize
    the application investment and change in product landscape.

CRM: Customer Relationship Management
Supported Vendors
Siebel, MySAP, Oracle CRM,
Peoplesoft, Microsoft, Clarify

In every industry the rule of thumb is the same, customer service means being on the cutting edge. And in this age of technology, he with the most information wins! With CRM maturing as a practice, and offering proven results, some companies will be left behind. With an exponential increase in our access to data, both customer data and market research, it is becoming imperative to manage this information efficiently, use it to add value to your business effectively and pass on these benefits in the form of increased customer service consistently. In a recent Aberdeen Report (Aberdeen – April 2003) a Siebel study asserts that CRM initiatives can have a positive affect for a corporation in the areas of service and productivity as well as customer retention.

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