The  culture provides an ability to attract and retain the best talent in the industry fostering creativity, integrity, growth and teamwork. Matching these skills sets with the most appropriate companies is what allows us to continually grow our database of satisfied clients. Below you will find links to Case Studies showcasing successful A2C projects from our satisfied customers in the following industry sectors: Pharmaceutical Sector MediMedia - CRM Master Data Management Financial Services Sector Gain Capitol - Trading Exchange Analytics Healthcare Insurance Sector Independence Blue Cross - IBC Highmark-Unified View M&A Project Management Office Member ID Cards & Fulfillment Member Benefits Information Exchange Thomson Reuters - Operations Optimization & Continuous Improvement Dynamic Data Center Reference Architecture Healthcare Data Platform Reed Elsevier - Pinpoint Quality® Suite Data Platform Saint Vincent Medical Centers - Electronic Medical Record Server Virtualization Case Study #1: Drexel University - On-Shore Managed Services for Development & QA Business Objective - Many companies have looked off-shore to provide cost savings for some of their development, quality assurance and legacy application maintenance and support needs. a2c has developed a unique service offering, which allows us to provide our clients with an “On-Shore” alternative to their IT applications development and quality assurance needs, that is more efficient and still cost competitive with today’s off-shore solution models. Companies have realized that while their current off-shore solution is still saving them money, their total cost of ownership is higher than the blended rates their suppliers advertise due to the quality of work, logistic differences and most of all the lost intellectual capital. Solution - has developed a model that not only allows our clients to enjoy a similar cost savings, but also provides them with a capability to incubate new IT talent for their organization that is already educated on their business environment, systems and technologies. By utilizing domestic talent from the best technology universities in the country, we can deliver these solutions either off-site at one of our solution centers or on-site at the client’s facility in the form of a managed services engagement. a2c will structure the engagement to ensure that your Service Level Agreements are met by co-mingling our experienced industry consultants with senior level college and graduate students that have full access to our proven development and quality assurance methodologies. ► Web-Based and Thin Client Development ►Legacy Application Maintenance & Development Support ►Quality Assurance Testing ►Enterprise Data Migration & Cleansing Benefits Realized – Clients are able to realize a substantial savings on their managed services engagements without sacrificing quality and have the ability to retain their intellectual property by hiring these young, talented resources who will be able to be contributors to their organization from day one because they are intimately familiar with their business processes, technology and work culture. Case Study #2: Comcast - Enterprise Data Warehouse Strategy Business Objective – Comcast is the country’s largest provider of cable services - and one of the world’s leading communications companies, focusing on broadband cable, commerce, and content. Comcast selected A2C to elicit, compile, and classify its strategic operational and informational reporting requirements, and to estimate its explosive data volumes and query load over the next 18-30 months - in order to determine if requirements exist that might drive Comcast to use of specialized data warehousing software and/or reporting appliances. Solution - ’s Information Services organization conducted a multi-faceted assessment of Comcast’s strategic reporting needs – measuring both organic growth of existing reporting systems, and driving organizational discussion around anticipated reporting needs based on Comcast’s evolving and growing market. Based on this assessment, A2C’s resultant findings are recommendations included: ► Estimations of data explosion and storage needs for Comcast’s Voice, Data, and Video businesses. ► Empirical forecast / estimation of total informatics data capture and retrieval footprint, based on top-down and bottom-up perspectives of data growth, user community growth, deepening business intelligence and predictive modeling sophistication, and planned analytic application initiatives. ► Recommendations on hybrid data warehousing architectures and frameworks – appropriate to address Comcast’s formidable data streams and broadening reporting needs. ► Next Step recommendations related to feasibility studies and Proofs-of-Concept, to validate, stress-test and benchmark A2C-supplied short-list of reporting technologies and platforms identified as viable candidates for the hybrid architectural component roles. Benefits Realized - Comcast now has identified next steps that will reduce the risk of planned business intelligence investments, and a recommended architectural framework that can extend to address their planned and future data warehousing needs. A2C continues its relationship with Comcast to explore realization of the strategy and recommendations – through technical proofs of concept and feasibility studies in support of a Comcast’s ambitious reporting, information, and insight objectives. |