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| National Lab, Department of Energy |
Stratium has led key initiatives over multiple years across laboratory business and technology sectors providing strategy and delivery. Including critical projects such as the strategy and implementation for Enterprise Business Intelligence and Enterprise Content Management, BI delivery / data warehouse development, HTML5 Video microsite, concept and creation of a tool that is being rolled out to the entire laboratory as a user experience platform for Business Intelligence. |
- Identified hotspots that must be addressed in the immediate to mid-term.
- Developed a long term strategy that included people, process and technology for a holistic transformation to the desired state.
- Advised on iterative development methods that provide immediate benefits and allow the lab to make measurable progress over time.
- Development and implementation activities required across the full development lifecycle from requirements to support.
- Modernization activities to provide improved mobile delivery, improved visualization techniques, tactical and strategic dashboards and reporting.
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| Global Financial Services Firm |
A global financial services firm’s application development has historically operated in a trusted environment with broad access to production systems for rapid and flexible development. This has led to gaps in control processes. A Firm-wide IT SoD program had been launched to evolve the firm’s operating practice to support new regulatory requirements pertaining to data security for PII, MNPI, SOX and MS Bank applications to address:
- Developer Access to production
- Data masking and obfuscation
- Segregation of Duties supported by technology infrastructure
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- Key involvement outlining governance model for the overall program, including: Program planning, stakeholder identification, communication planning, designing the overall program including organizational structure. creating key management presentations and outlined draft reports for FRB deliverables.
- Outlined approach to collect , capture, and report on data collected during working sessions with business.
- Conducted PMO & reporting tool comparison.
- Identified firm-wide gaps and proposed a plan to address those gaps.
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| Large Telecommunications Company |
Stratium assisted a large telecom company manage the build-out of a multi-million dollar online platform to strengthen and compete in the marketplace. The new platform allowed the merchandising business to create product details, personalize the product to customer needs - all without the need for IT daily release. The project also included a complete makeover of the online customer experience. |
- Our personnel played key leadership role in the overall program and project management of this initiative.
- Developed a standard work breakdown structure and standards that would be utilized for all project work.
- Introduced a new "Best In Class" principles around release management and risk/issue management.
- Defined business processes for the new solution.
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| Large Hedgefund Company |
Stratium assisted in defining a future state reference architecture for the enterprise. |
- Documented current state technology landscape and reviewed against industry standards.
- Developed a comprehensive roadmap to address newly defined scalable processes.
- Prioritized roadmap based on risk and payback for optimal results and minimal disruption to the core business.
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| Big Four Consulting Firm |
A leading global management consulting organization had an objective to streamline the creation, management and distribution of core organizational methodologies and related content. The existing framework provided many challenges including: lack of consistency, increased time to market, material not tailored to vertical markets, lack of re-use of common methodology elements. |
- Created an assessment and roadmap which laid the foundation for a more efficient and effective management of content related to organizational methodologies.
- That in turn expedited: a) creation of a scalable, agile, consistent framework b) more user-friendly presentation c) workflow capabilities to facilitate approval d) enhanced search capabilities including metadata and full-text search e) improved context of search results.
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| Large Conglomerate's Commercial Distribution Finance Business
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Designed and developed a web portal modernization effort. The portal was built using legacy web technologies and was data intensive. Key challenges addressed:
- Data intensive web tables. Ability to filter data within the web tables and still maintain the modern Web 2.0 look and feel and features.
- Ability to download the data from web tables in the CSV format for offline viewing or further analysis.
- Ability to drill down from within the data tables.
- Provide graphical representation of the data in the tables with drill down capabilities.
- Be able to support multiple devices without any dependency on third party software.
- User specific personalization at various levels including web parts, data tables, charts, etc.
- Be able to display geographical data on a graphical map with the ability to click through to get to details.
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- Standards based web interface framework utilizing technologies such as HTML5, CSS3 and JQuery.
- All web tables were converted into Web 2.0 rich tables utilizing jqGrid plugin for JQuery. Following key features were implemented:
- Sorting, filtering and re-arranging of columns
- Adding or removing columns based on user preference
- Ability to download table / grid data into CSV format
- Ability to restrict functionality available in the grid based on user permissions
- Ajax based server interaction for data exchange enabling smoother user experience.
- No third party software required and the portal was accessible on mobile devices and tablets including iPads. Biggest win was the iPad access since majority of the users work on the floors and now could see and update data in real-time.
- Most of the tables were now accompanied by graphical chart(s) making a data intensive page look more appealing and readable.
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| Large Retailer |
Web platform for customers to create scrapbooks, photo cards, calendars online. The project involved launching new products to the existing assortment, continually enhancing the website features through Agile methodology for better customer experience and improving the backend application for customer support team. |
- Improved the internet marketing strategy by increasing the overall visibility of the client’s e-commerce site in search engines results.
- Sped up end-to-end purchase of the customer on the e-commerce website.
- Sped up issue resolution and bug fixes.
- Created a client-branded websites for both Canadian and US businesses and integrated the back-end financial and accounting pieces with the client systems.
- Initialed step to globalization with a roll out to Canada, enabling cross-border shipments.
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| Employee Benefits and Payroll Company |
A financial services company specializing in insurance broker services related to employee benefits wanted to make the transition from an entirely paper based organization for all policy related documents to an electronic document imaging solution. The key goal was to provide online access for Brokers to view their Case Documents via a Website and send them an Email Notification on the recent documents uploaded. |
- Reduced call-center requests, created a more consistent relationship with the Broker and addressed one of the top Broker Survey items.
- Progressively eliminted storage costs, including those related to filing, boxing, shipping, and special retrieval requests from hard-copy storage facilities.
- Automated workflow for extended functionality to improve consistency, timing, and completeness of operational activities.
- Implemented performance management reporting for enhanced resource support, including productivity monitoring and resource leveling.
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