Consulting Services

Our consulting division’s core mission is to implement innovative information technology solutions that help clients address industry challenges, cost containment and transformation in their respective marketplaces.

Blackstone maintains a strong record of delivering industry-focused solutions for a range of industries including Energy, Communications, Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare, Financial Services and Government.

To deliver these industry-focused solutions, Blackstone leverages one or several of our primary sevices delivery domains, depending on our client’s specific needs: Integration, JEE, Microsoft, Business Intelligence, ERP or PMO. The intersection of our industry and domain capabilities – that helps us derive unique solution value for our clients - is depicted below:

             

Blackstone's Integration Services Domain Go To Top

Blackstone’s Integration Domain delivers solutions ranging from strategic service-oriented and event-driven architecture solutions to more tactical Business-to-Business integration, Application-to-Application connectivity, and simple message-oriented-middleware (MOM) approaches. Blackstone’s Integration Domain provides clients with an array of options through its eleven plus years of delivery to large, medium, and small enterprises, and our work with nearly a dozen distinct integration and business process automation vendors

Integration Solution Offerings: Integration Delivery (SOA, ESB, BPM, EAI, EII) Integration Competency Centers Integration Maturity Services Integration Roadmap and Cost Benefit Services Integration Remediation Services Integration Platform Migration Services Open Source Integration Services	Integration Vendor Expertise: IBM TIBCO Webmethods Oracle Microsoft SAP EMC BEA Mule And More...

Blackstone's JEE Domain Go To Top

Blackstone’s JEE Domain brings deep web application and portal development expertise to commercial and government organizations for delivering scalable, mission-critical applications that reduce maintenance costs, improve time to market, and enhance cost containment across maintenance and support lifecycles. Blackstone’s JEE domain provides clients with an array of options through our ten years of delivery experience, our numerous application server vendors, and our proven application development approaches.

JEE Solution Offerings: Web Application Delivery JEE Development Competency Centers JEE Development Maturity Services JEE Roadmap and Cost Benefit Services JEE Remediation Services JEE Platform Migration Services Open Source Development Services	JEE Vendor/Technology Expertise: EJB 3 SPRING HIBERNATE AJAX SEAM STRUTS IBM Oracle BEA JBOSS

Blackstone's Microsoft Domain Go To Top

Blackstone’s Microsoft Domain delivers solutions for our clients that span front office, back office, collaboration management, business intelligence, intranet/extranet, and infrastructure. Our key focus is to help clients get the most out of their investments in Microsoft technologies, and enable their organizations to focus more on the business solutions that Microsoft products can provide and less on technical-related challenges.. Blackstone is a Microsoft Managed Gold-Certified partner with capabilities across the Microsoft solution stack to best support our clients’ business needs.

	Microsoft Solution Offerings: Dynamics CRM Configuration and Customization Dynamics ERP Configuration and Customization Business Intelligence Solutions SharePoint Portal Implementations Custom .NET Application Development IT Infrastructure Planning & Execution Active Directory Redesign and Migrations Exchange Migrations New Offering! Business Intelligence Readiness Assessment	Microsoft Product Expertise: CRM SharePoint Great Plains Performance Point Active Directory Exchange SQL Server BizTalk

Blackstone's BI Domain Go To Top

A sound Business Intelligence solution involves a collection of core technical elements that work together to translate integrated system data into insightful business information. Blackstone is well-skilled in designing business intelligence environments that encompass the end-to-end BI lifecycle from data acquisition through end-user information delivery. As well, Blackstone understands the significance of clients looking to leverage the most out of its existing investments in a specific set of BI technologies. Thus we take client technology-specific preferences into account when designing a BI solution that’s most appropriate given the current IT landscape.

BI Solution Offerings: Project Execution & Delivery - Dashboard & Scorecard - Enterprise Reporting - Dimensional Data Modeling - Extract Transform & Load (ETL) - Multidimensional OLAP design Data Governance & Master Data Mgmt Data Mining & Discovery Operations & Administration Competency Centers Remediation Services New Offering! Business Intelligence Readiness Assessment	BI Product Expertise: Ab Initio Ascential Aspect BusinessObjects Cognos Composite Software Hyperion Informatica Microsoft MicroStrategy Oracle SAP SAS

Blackstone's ERP Domain Go To Top

For end-to-end delivery of ERP-based, industry-focused solutions, Blackstone excels at analyzing current business processes, identifying key performance indicators for technical and business improvement, and delivering expertise that accelerates time-to-value and improves future business and technical flexibility. Blackstone’s success in our ERP service delivery is based on the strength of our Business Transformation expertise, knowledge of the ERP environments, thought leadership around the integrated enterprise, and our relentless delivery of high quality business solutions with measurable business value.

ERP Solution Offerings: Supply Chain Solutions - Master Data Management - Order to Cash - Inventory Management - MRP Planning & Forecasting Financial Back Office - GL/AP/AR Integration - B2B Invoice Integration Regulatory Compliance Solutions System Integration Maturity Services	ERP Product Expertise: SAP Microsoft Dynamics Oracle

Blackstone's PMO Domain Go To Top

The Blackstone Project Management Office (PMO) Domain delivers management and functional process competencies for clients to support a diverse range of IT project delivery. From establishing a Program Management Office to managing IT projects to implementing tools and techniques for better monitoring an IT project portfolio, our PMO delivers services that focus on helping improve our client’s efficiency and effectiveness in maximizing its IT spend.

PMO BluePrint: PMO Maturity Assessment PMO Planning and Development PMO Implementation		Business Process Enhancement: Assessment Enhancement Implementation
PMO Partner: Program Management Project Management Third Party Management Sourcing		Enterprise Architecture: Architecture Development Capital Planning Change Management

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