Partners
Centare Group utilizes innovative products and software applications to address challenges in business productivity. Our consultants are continuously expanding their breadth of expertise because they are committed to delivering technology solutions that ensure our clients’ information systems remain efficient and reliable. This has led to partnerships with a select few companies that are recognizable leaders in the software industry.
As a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and an IBM Advanced Business Partner, Centare Group has access to advanced methodologies, technologies and products that are incorporated into every-day business practices. Centare Group also leads Southeastern Wisconsin in the integration of Actuate Enterprise Reporting and Performance Management applications.
These three core partnerships give Centare Group an edge when defining your company’s information strategy and implementing/integrating application systems that meet your business needs. With the aid of our industry-leading partners, Centare Group helps clients stay ahead of the technology curve.
Centare Group’s Partners
Microsoft
As a Managed Microsoft Gold Certified and ALM Inner Circle Partner, Centare Group delivers strategic solutions for clients that utilize Microsoft best practices in frameworks, methodologies and technologies. Many businesses leverage Centare Group’s partnership with Microsoft to gain a competitive advantage over their slow-to-adapt competition.
Our partnership with Microsoft reinforces our unique competencies in Custom Development Solutions, Database Management Solutions and Information Worker focused on Portals & Collaboration. Centare consultants participate in exclusive briefings from Microsoft experts and receive specialized training with new Microsoft-licensed technologies.
Centare Group offers expertise in Microsoft solutions and products such as:
Application Design and Development- C#
- VB.NET
- ASP.NET
- Application Lifecycle Management
- Visual Studio Team System 2005 - 2008
- Visual Studio 2005 - 2008
- Silverlight 1.0 - 2.0
Database Management and Design
- SQL Server 2005
- Reporting Services
Portals and Integration
- SharePoint MOSS 2007
- BizTalk
Actuate
Whether your business intelligence needs are large or small, complex or simple, Centare Group can utilize Actuate’s innovative line of products and services to deliver reliable solutions that meet your needs.
Through our partnership with Actuate, Centare Group provides clients with an enterprise-level reporting system that serves organizations of varying sizes and disciplines. Non-profits, family businesses and Wisconsin’s Fortune 1000 companies have all benefited from our expertise and experience with Actuate systems. For the past several years Centare Group has been the go-to partner for Actuate’s embedded line of products, BIRT and e.Spreadsheet. Recently Centare Group has expanded our partnership to include services built around Actuate’s flagship iServer platform, a scalable enterprise server that addresses an organization’s entire needs for report generation, management and security.
Using Actuate’s distinguished line of products, Centare Group helps businesses deliver 100% of users to a single platform. Whether it’s through web reports, paper reports and brochures, embedded reports, fully-functional spreadsheet reports, customer portals or scalability from hundreds to millions of users, the combination of Actuate’s designer reporting tools and iServer will benefit a wide scope of users.
One of only 10 exclusive Actuate partners, Centare Group is certified to design, develop and implement the following Actuate reporting solutions:
- eReport
- eSpreadsheet
- BIRT
- iPortal
- iServer
- iServer Express
- eReport Designer
IBM
As an IBM Advanced Business Partner, Centare consultants are certified in using several WebSphere and Rational products to the advantage of our clients. Our consultants have expertise working with IBM application servers and development tools. Specialized training sessions and with real-world engagements enable our team members to work with clients in determining which products best meet their business needs.
Centare Group can help you create, deploy and manage Java based solutions using IBM products. Many Centare consultants are certified Java programmers with experience developing reliable solutions using the IBM toolsets.
Instead of rewriting your enterprise solutions, Centare Group can provide a significant cost savings by helping your business leverage the latest IBM technologies and build composite applications that utilize your existing application infrastructure.
Centare Group can install and integrate IBM products such as:
- WebSphere Portal Server
- WebSphere Application Server
- Rational Application Development tools
Microsoft Success Story: Quad/Graphics
Utilizing Microsoft’s WCF and .NET 3.X, Centare Group assisted Quad/Graphics in developing loosely coupled business functionality while unifying existing customer and operational systems.
Actuate Success Story: American Motorcycle Manufacturer
Centare consultants reconfigured the client’s performance reports using Actuate’s e.Spreadsheet Engine within batch programs and web-based programs. The new reporting tool reduced the one to two week reporting process to two minutes. Previous reports had been generated on a monthly basis. However, with Centare Group’s help, the reports are now updated every night.
IBM Success Story: ThyssenKrupp Safway, Inc.
Centare worked closely with the staff and management of ThyssenKrupp Safway, Inc. to design and implement a web-based Java application that replaced and extended their current job costing capabilities. Centare Group used IBM WebSphere Studio Client for iSeries for application development and implemented an IBM Rational Application Developer to maintain the application.