Services
Business Integration Solutions
Companies looking to truly invigorate their business systems need to eliminate the friction between their existing platform applications and the new innovative technologies that the industry has to offer. Centare Group’s business integration solutions act as traffic cops by letting multiple applications interact with one another without “jamming up.” This ultimately grants clients with easy access to their data and allows them to utilize it in unprecedented ways. By centralizing business data and information systems, businesses increase productivity and reduce costs.
Centare consultants use .NET, Java and Open Source technologies to overcome the obstacles of seemingly non-compatible systems. They also have expertise with both IBM’s Business Process Management(BPM) Suite and Microsoft’s BizTalk and SharePoint toolsets and products. With Business Process Management and SharePoint, Centare Group can web-enable business functions and integrate your company’s systems at a whole new level.
True business integration is a valuable commodity. Let our consultants show you how.
Service Oriented Architecture Solutions
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a standards-based design approach to business integration that organizes information sources and processes as independent services that are capable of responding to the rapidly changing marketplace. This global pool of services is cross-functional and fluid with the company’s varied business needs. SOA solutions allow for the reuse of existing applications in combination with new technologies to provide end-users with immediate access to both stored data and reporting processes.
SOA solutions are scalable to fit the needs of dynamic businesses. SOAs ensure that customers and suppliers are interacting efficiently and effectively, be it through web based applications or mobile devices. As a result business decisions are made easier through hassle-free access to more accurate and more comprehensive sources of information.
Let Centare Group help you use SOA solutions to your strategic advantage.
Information Delivery Solutions
In business, communication is king. Centare Group breaks down walls established by outdated technology applications and enables our clients to communicate important information with customers, partners and suppliers.
Centare Group’s information delivery solutions maximize an organization’s ability to create and manipulate rich-content, data-driven reports. These reports can be accessed via the web, presented in a brochure quality format or used as fully-functional spreadsheets. Many of these information delivery solutions can also be embedded into existing applications. This “on-demand” access to information streamlines the process for making critical business decisions.
Centare Group incorporates the innovative reporting tools such as Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services and Actuate Reporting Solutions to design, develop and implement solutions that provide businesses with reliable reporting tools. Whether it’s embedding secure and scalable technologies into existing .NET or Java applications, Centare consultants deliver the information you need, when you need it.
Portal Solutions
Centare Group’s portal solutions are advantageous to any business looking for smarter ways to manage content, share information and ultimately increase productivity.
Centare consultants are experts in delivering customized portals housed under the industry-leading technologies of Microsoft SharePoint and IBM WebSphere Portal. Our secure and scalable portals are perfect for organizing both intranet and Internet websites. Portals are also ideal for managing various business data components, including internal documents and historical records.
Centare Group routinely designs and implements portals that allow users to intuitively interact with information from multiple sources. Our business-driven portals allow users to search and sort information, track key performance indicators and maintain reporting tools in web environments that can be integrated into a single platform.
Mobility Solutions
What does it mean to be mobile? The dictionary defines it as “capable of moving or being moved easily.”
At Centare Group, our consultants are mobile. Many of our clients are too. And so are their customers. But to effectively function in a mobile business world, companies often need fixed wireless and mobile wireless applications.
Centare Group understands that stagnant information is often useless information. That’s why our mobile applications provide users with up-to-the-minute reports and instant access to key pieces of information needed to make smart, quick business decisions. Centare consultants use innovative .NET and Java applications to implement mobile solutions that are appropriate for your business needs.
In today’s business economy it pays to be mobile.
User Experience Solutions
User-friendly. It’s a term that many IT “body shops” throw around when describing their reporting tools and software applications. Often times, however, there is a failure to translate potentially innovative technologies into everyday business practices.
At Centare Group, our consultants possess the knowledge, experience and people skills needed to deliver successful user experiences. They collaborate with clients to learn their business practices and deliver user-centered designs. They develop an essential understanding of what it will take for their professionals to function efficiently and effectively on a daily basis and maximize their system’s usability.
Centare Group takes the terms “user-friendly” seriously. We are committed to establishing positive user-experiences after every engagement. As such we provide the following user experience services.
User experience services:- Focus Group Facilitation and User Interviews
- Audience Profiling and Persona Development
- Information Architecture, Card Sort and Taxonomy
- Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, Interface Design and Visual Design
- User Interface and Prototyping
- Style Guidelines and Design Specifications
- User Testing and Usability Testing
- Heuristic Evaluation and Expert Review
Strategic Technology Assessments
Centare Group's consultants are high-level experts with the credentials and resources to provide strategic direction. We understand that business process and software analysis are necessary to eliminate risks before starting a costly development project. Using Centare Group experts for such analysis protects resources and investments because we have the experience and the resources to get the job done right the first time.
We provide the following strategic services:- System Assessments
- Software Analysis
- Fit Analysis (Discovery)
- Part-time CIO
SOA: 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.
Information Delivery: 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.