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IT Strategic Alliances

Who We Are• 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?• 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.

• 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.

“We help our clients to make their best IT decisions for their business”

What’s Different Today?Today, organizations are facing unprecedented challenges:

– 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

•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

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:

Our Capabilities• 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

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Mercury

Open source

JAVA

Microsoft

Retail

Insurance

Bancing

Telcos

Manufacturing

Logistics

Testing

Migrations

ERP’s

Development

AMS

BI

ERP Implementation• Consulting

– Implementation– Customization– Interfaces

• Technology– SAP – Oracle

• Industry– 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– Mercury Interactive– Rational Robot– Compuware– Open Source tools (Junit, Jtests, OpenSTA, etc)

Legacy Systems• IBM Mainframe Platform

– 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 applicationsFlexibility to increase or decrease on demand tasksA Core-Support team with deep business knowledgeSelf-oriented to provide all the services required and established by the clientCMM and CMM-I Delivery ModelsJava, 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

• Forms • Reports• Oracle 9i/11i• Designer• Oracle iAS

• 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

• J2EE• JSPs• Java Beans• JDBC• Weblogic• JBoss

• AS400• Mainframe• CICS• JCL

• DB2• Websphere• MQ Series• AIX

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• Use

– 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

USA - Houston, TX - Austin, TX

Spain - Madrid

United Kingdom - London

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Spain

USA

Success CaseWal MartProject: 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 5.3Languages: JAVA, HTML, ASP, VB, VB-SCRIPT, JSP .NET, Cristal Report, Microstrategy,

Servlets VB, .Net, C+, 4gl, shells, SP, perl, Java, ESQL-C, C.  Business ObjectData Base: Informix 7.3 y 9.4 a 10.0

Results

•Reducing project spend•Increasing shareholder value•Lower support costs & controlling spending•Reduce administrative resource requirements•Best practices and knowledge transfer•Risk Mitigation

IT Strategic Alliances has a proven track record of:

Why us?

Risks

• 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)

Risks of not taking action?Benefits

• Increased corporate revenue• Maximized ROI• Reduced project spend• Best practices shared• Lean business process

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There are many benefits in allowing IT Strategic Alliances to partner with you:

Questions, Comments?

“There is no point to get to your final destination without enjoying the voyage”

-Roger Martínez González