The business issues driving the e-business revolution are not new. The desire to improve profits, achieve competitive advantage, increase market share, expand customer bases, streamline processes as well as decrease costs.

And while these attributes are not that much different from those of traditional business, e-business does require a far greater degree of systems integration, coordination and collaboration with suppliers, partners, and, of course, customers.

Each of these groups has specific needs, expertise, and computing technology that constitutes the virtual, or extended, enterprise. We have specific skills to address these.

Our core consulting offerings include:

INTEGRATION:
We offer consulting in system integration, from application architecture strategy through to development of technical specifications. We assist with brokered middleware implementations and have vast experience in back-end ERP integration. The aim is to use technologies to leverage a business' existing IT infrastructure and believe in using best of breed products. Our integration work also involves linking into decision support and supply chain optimization packages.
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CATALOGING:
Develop and build catalogues, including the toolsets required to manage them. Normalise data via codification, from disparate sources and formatting it, conforming to accepted / requested standards eg. UN/SPSC, NATO. Data is catalogued and stored in format appropriate for client access (XML, RDBMS etc) and according to industry-accepted standards MS Biztalk, Rosettanet etc. We also have experience in barcoding / EAN implementations.
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SKILLS DEVELOPMENT:
We have a strong focus on skills development and aim to attract the top talent within our focused areas. We focus on PDI individuals, but the overriding criterion is potential. All project work must have a skill development component for us to consider it.
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PROGRAM MANAGEMENT:
SAVTEK can provide the program management skills required to drive / deliver e-commerce projects. This forms an important component of our integration offering and have methodologies to assist clients in project delivery.
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DEVELOPMENT:
We have resources in most major development environments including ERP specific languages to compliment our integration component of our work.
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