Your Technology Partners
IT Strategic Alliances
Who We Are
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IT Strategic Alliances is a premier IT Consulting and Staffing firm
with a global presence. Leveraging more than 25 years of
experience, we have built upon our core competency of consulting
and staff augmentation by creating offerings that bring cost-effective,
client-centric solutions to specific markets.
Our offerings include:
• Project Solutions
• Nearshore Global Development Centers
• Staff Augmentation
How Are We Different?
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We thrive in an environment where new ideas are in abundance and
knowledge is shared freely. Different backgrounds and experience
allow us a unique vantage point with perspective from all angles.
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We see ourselves as Strategic Advisors to help our clients fix
business problems (not just technical challenges).
We look for and implement cost cutting measures and efficiencies in
order to provide our clients with a quick ROI.
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“We help our clients to make their best
IT decisions for their business”
What’s Different Today?
Today, organizations are facing unprecedented challenges:
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Do more with less
Maintain focus on business-critical issues and initiatives
Cut departmental budgets
Reduce administrative overhead
Improve overall efficiencies
Adapt to new technologies
Unfortunately, most organizations are trying to face these new
challenges with old solutions.
Our Mission
IT Strategic Alliances offers specialized services that are
tailored to deliver proven, repeatable and scalable
solutions to meet your specific needs.
Our process begins by understanding your unique
challenges and long-term business goals. From there we
work with you to define the solution that is best for you,
no matter the challenge.
“We clearly understand that we will not
succeed without our clients. Therefore,
we build strong, long lasting win-win
relationships”`
Our Strategy
We believe that each organization cannot use a “one
size fits all” model and requires a tailored approach to
their specific business challenges. IT Strategic Alliances
offers:
•Full project teams – managed by you or jointly with
IT Strategic Alliances
•Full responsibility – of partial deliverables (i.e.,
phases or activities within a larger project effort)
•Complete deliverable – and/or service level
accountability, from beginning to end
Our Capabilities
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ERP Implementation and Support
QA & Testing
Legacy Systems Development (Mainframe)
Business Intelligence and Data warehousing
Customized Solutions
Application Maintenance and Support (AMS)
Nearshore Delivery Solutions:
– Software Factory (SwF)
– Remote Testing Lab
– Application Maintenance & Support Centers
Testing
Retail
Migrations
Insurance
ERP’s
Bancing
Development
Telcos
TAE
AMS
Solutions
Manufacturing
Tecnology
BI
Logistics
Quality/Procesess
Open source
Microsoft
Mercury
JAVA
ERP Implementation
• Consulting
– Implementation
– Customization
– Interfaces
• Technology
– SAP
– Oracle
• Industry
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Energy (O&G)
Logistics
Banking & Finance
Food chains
Manufacturing
Testing
• Strategies
– On site Testing engineers and leaders
– Center of Excellence Model
– Development and execution of End-to-End strategies
• Services
– Functional Testing
– Unit Testing
– Integration Tests
• Automated Tools
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Mercury Interactive
Rational Robot
Compuware
Open Source tools (Junit, Jtests, OpenSTA, etc)
Legacy Systems
• IBM Mainframe Platform
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Online and Batch processing using Cobol/CICS
Relational Database Design using DB2
JCL’s, VSAM, VTAM
VMS Operating System
• Analysis and Design of Solutions
– Functional and Business Analysis
– Complete Solutions in the development cycle
– On site and remote delivery
• Mainframe Interfaces
– Plain text files
– XML Files
– IBM MQ Series
Application Maintenance & Support
Maintenance of in production applications
Flexibility to increase or decrease on demand tasks
A Core-Support team with deep business knowledge
Self-oriented to provide all the services required and
established by the client
CMM and CMM-I Delivery Models
Java, J2EE, .Net, PL/SQL, Oracle Tools
Business Intelligence
• Planning, design and building of Data warehouse
and Data marts
• Exploitation of information, using several tools
like:
– Cognos, Business Objects, Informatica, Warehouse
Builder
– Oracle eBusiness Suite and Discoverer
• Design and creation of Balanced Score Cards
• Integration with ERP’s
• Creation of BI Portals
Specific solutions to meet your
expectations
•DB2
•Websphere
•MQ Series
•AIX
•AS400
•Mainframe
•CICS
•JCL
•Forms
•Reports
•Oracle 9i/11i
•Designer
•Oracle iAS
•J2EE
•JSPs
•Java Beans
•JDBC
•Weblogic
•JBoss
•Oracle Portal
•JDeveloper
•Discoverer
•Warehouse Build
•PL/SQL – Pro*C
Other Technologies
•HP-UX
•Open Source
•Linux
•Tuxedo
•Sun Solaris
•MS .NET
•Web Services
•Visual Basic
•SQL Server
•Microsoft SharePoint
(Moss)
•ASP
•Access
•Windows
•Biztalk
•DCOM
Customized Solutions
• IT Strategic Alliances helps organizations to increase
shareholder value by reducing labor costs, lowering support
costs and controlling project spend through outsourced IT
solutions. We accomplish this through:
– Onsite Project Solutions
– Nearshore Global Development Centers (GDC)
Methodology
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CMM-I, Six Sigma
RUP, ITIL
Oracle AIM
ASAP
• Concentrated in Business processes
– Strong support in client processes
– Self Service
• Technology innovation
Tae IT Locations
Mexico
- Monterrey
- Mexico City
Spain
- Madrid
USA
- Houston, TX
- Austin, TX
United Kingdom
- London
Mexico
Spain
USA
Success Case
Wal Mart
Project: Heterogeneous Migration of 96 application from HP and IBM platforms.
Objective: Migrate 96 applications, more than 33,693 components that operate on HP into
IBM.
Services: migration and Coding, Data migrating, Testing, Product Installation, Post
Installation Support, capacitation and project management.
Mayor benefits: Business continuity and cost reduction.
Technologic Platform:
Operating Systems: UNIX HP y AIX 5.3
Languages: JAVA, HTML, ASP, VB, VB-SCRIPT, JSP .NET, Cristal Report, Microstrategy,
Servlets VB, .Net, C+, 4gl, shells, SP, perl, Java, ESQL-C, C.
Business Object
Data Base: Informix 7.3 y 9.4 a 10.0
Results
IT Strategic Alliances has a proven track
record of:
•Reducing project spend
•Increasing shareholder value
•Lower support costs & controlling spending
•Reduce administrative resource requirements
•Best practices and knowledge transfer
•Risk Mitigation
Why us?
Risks
Benefits
Risks of not taking action?
There are many benefits in allowing IT
Strategic Alliances to partner with you:
•Exceed budgetary constraints
•Report lower than expected profits
•Buy from the wrong vendor
•Loss of time/additional man/hours
•Business as usual (no change/improvement)
•Increased corporate revenue
•Maximized ROI
•Reduced project spend
•Best practices shared
•Lean business process definition
Questions, Comments?
“There is no point to get to your final
destination without enjoying the voyage”
-Roger Martínez González