OCI and Advantagea Professional Services Overview

Presented by

Ken Totten

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� Object Computing, Inc. (OCI) is a software engineering company that provides Consulting, Turnkey Development, Training, Integration Services, and Open Source middleware.

Staffing � Consulting � Turnkey Development � Training

Services, and Open Source middleware.

� Advantage Consulting, Inc. is an IT Staffing Solution company and preferred supplier at bioMerieux, Elsevier, Express Scripts and Edward Jones.

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Synergy Synergy

� Advantage and OCI “Synergy” Benefits Client

◦ Approximately 120 software engineering professionals working at client sites and within our two Development Centers.

◦ Advantage seamlessly incorporates and leverages senior OCI resources “just in time” to optimize and achieve client needs.

Staffing � Consulting � Turnkey Development � Training

time” to optimize and achieve client needs.

◦ Mixed OCI/Advantage consultant composition: � Keep costs down� Positions for change◦ Advantage developers are eligible to convert to perm if/when advantageous to client.

◦ Multiple Delivery Models: On-site, Off-site, Turnkey, Maintenance Support

◦ Strong staff retention (93-97% range)

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� Founded in 1993(Headquartered in St. Louis)

� Partial Client List

◦ Toshiba (Japan)

� Turnkey development of a Windows CE application for the Japanese Army providing a secure wireless PDA communications capability.

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◦ Keefe Commissary Network (St. Louis)

� Turnkey development of a distributed/multi-site Point of Sale and Inventory Control application using C#, C++, ASP.net, WinForms, SQL, and DB2.

◦ Teledyne ISCO (Omaha)

� Provide off-site .Net centric development services for commercial products.

◦ Bloomberg Financial (New York)� Turnkey development of real time data manipulation and data distribution

frameworks which process 40 terabytes of data per day.

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� Partial Client List – Cont’d

◦ Boeing (St. Louis, Huntington Beach, Phoenix, Seattle)� (1) St. Louis – Future Combat Systems, on-site systems integration and

architecture consulting; turnkey development from OCI office – recognized by Boeing and U.S. Army as Small Business Supplier of the Year. (2) Huntington Beach– Orbital Express, turnkey development from OCI Phoenix office – developed a common telemetry system framework for

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Phoenix office – developed a common telemetry system framework for Boeing’s low earth orbit satellite program.(3) Phoenix– Iridium and Iridium NEXT , on-site architecture and development and turnkey development from OCI St. Louis and Phoenix facilities – developed INF (infrastructure) and MPS (mission planning systems) software for the first global cellular phone network comprised of 66 satellites.(4) Seattle– Support IETM (interactive electronic technical manual – content creation, management and delivery system) and CSW (common structures workstation) used for load and stress design and simulations.

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� Partial Client List – Cont’d

◦ Raytheon (San Diego)

� Provided ACE/TAO support (training, architecture/design, consulting, testing and support) for the Ship Self-Defense System (SSDS) that is currently deployed on the USS Reagan aircraft carrier.

◦ Spot Trading

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◦ Spot Trading (Chicago)

� Turnkey development of trading application using C# and C++.

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OCIOCI� Services◦ Consulting

� Enterprise and Application Architecture� Mentoring and Development Support� Infrastructure and Integration � SOA, Web Services, Mobile Computing, Middleware, Agile/TDD, Performance,

Reliability and Scalability

◦ Turnkey Development◦ Turnkey Development� Business Application Development� Systems Programming

◦ Training� Largest provider of Software Engineering and Training services in the area.� Teach from 1,000 – 3,000 each year� Agile Methodology, OOAD, OO Design Patterns, Software Architecture, SOA,

Business Analysis, Developing Agile Requirements, Custom Courses� Delivery Models: Direct or through Washington University CAIT since 1993.

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� Open Source Products

◦ ACE ORB / TAO (Real time Message Handling Framework)

◦ OpenDDS (Data Distribution Service)

◦ QuickFIX (Financial Information eXchange messaging)

◦ Boost (Advanced C++ programming libraries)◦ Boost (Advanced C++ programming libraries)

◦ MPC (multi-platform software projects maintenance)

◦ NHIN Connect (open source implementation of FederalNationwide Health Information Network standard interfaces and protocols)

www.ociweb.com/products

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Advantage OverviewAdvantage Overview� Founded in 2002� Partial Client List

◦ Avala Marketing (Web Services Development)◦ bioMerieux (Laboratory Testing Device Software)◦ BJC (Patient and Physician Web Portal)◦ Edward Jones (Financial Applications)

Women Business Enterprise Certified

◦ Edward Jones (Financial Applications)◦ Pfizer (Research Applications)◦ Essence Healthcare (Patient Care and Claims)◦ Elsevier (Life Sciences Information)◦ Express Scripts (Client and Patient Web Portals)◦ Federal Reserve (Financial Applications)◦ NISC (Municipal Utilities)

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� Contract Labor with Right-to-Hire� Direct Placement and Contract-to-Perm

� How are we Different? ◦ Advantage and OCI Synergy –Breadth of services and

convenient, effective service delivery.convenient, effective service delivery.◦ Access to perm/career OCI technical staff for specialized,

senior consultants – short or long term.◦ On-going Training free/available to staff

� Attracts higher caliber of candidate � Improved Retention � Value add when converting to Perm

Our Submittal to Hire Ratio is 2:1

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� How are we Different?◦ Senior technical staff “qualify” candidates beforesubmitting. ◦ Web-based Candidate Tracking System

~10,000 local candidates in our database◦ Culture that promotes learning (Wash U CAIT, OCI, internal

tech luncheons)– strong staff retention

• Synergy• Recruiting• Culture

tech luncheons)– strong staff retention◦ Culture engenders a sense of community.

IT Roles and Technologies

Microsoft .Net RIA developers (C#, Silverlight, XAML, WPF, WCF),Java Web and C++ developers, SOA and Web Services Architects, DBA’s, BA’s, PM’s, System and Network Administrators and other roles…

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