North Wind Business Solutions LLC
Navigating through transformational change with the innovative and competitive use of technology....
Achieving sustainable competitive advantage by encapsulating and reinventing best practice business processes with innovative technology solutions
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We can provide the business process and technology infrastructure that enables you to drive business improvement and transformational change using word class business applications. The proper foundation for delivering this business value lies in a sound IT Governance Process. Visit our IT Governance Services page to find out how you and your IT organization measure up to those best practices. Beyond sound Governance processes, you need to adopt best practices in selecting and implementing packaged software applications and in developing custom written systems. You must execute in a way that sets your investments in business applications up for success.
Providing a Complete Suite of Business and IT Solutions
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Business Application Development and Maintenance Services
System Development Life Cycle Methdology (SDLC)
You need a playbook and a methodology for selecting packaged software applications and for developing and implementing custom written systems. The methodology must meet the demands of today's business environment and its technology needs, which is changing at the speed of internet and mobile commerce.
Business agility is paramount but speed to market is not the only consideration when crafting an SDLC. You need to balance this need with the architectural discipline required to avoid constant application rework, expensive application outages, reputational damage and lawsuits attributable to security breaches, and the inability of your applications to scale and perform as your business grows.
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Messaging and Collaboration
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Your employees need to collaborate with each other, with your partners, and with your customers. This is a key goal of the new Digital Enterprise.
In today's world, these applications are fundamental to doing business and may include, but not be limited to, the following:
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Email,
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Internet based chat,
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A secure collaboration space for communicating among and between teams and with executive management,
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A separate, secure collaboration space for communicating with employees about business strategy, policies, procedures, benefits, and similar topics,
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A separate, secure collaboration space for communicating with customers and with supply chain partners.
We can help you select and implement these important applications and decide if you want to run them in the cloud.
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems​
Many vertical industries have packaged software applications that encapsulate and integrate best practice business processes across alI functional areas. Adopting these ERP Systems can help you to achieve significant cost reduction and grow revenues and profitability. But traditionally these ERP Systems have been challenging to install, upgrade, and maintain.
Enter ERP Systems that now run in the cloud and can be installed, upgraded, and maintained through a managed service. We can take the pain out of adopting ERP Systems by introducing you to a network of trusted partners who are expert in the installation, upgrade, and maintenance of ERP Systems. Depending on your preferences, they can operate these applications as part of a premise based installation or as Software as a Service (SaaS) applications running in the cloud.
Internet Application Development​
Achieving long term conpetitive advantage may require that you develop custom written internet based applications to differentiate your products and services. Your choice of software development platforms and your technical architecture design could have a dramatic impact on the cost, flexibility, usablility, and return on investment of these applications.
We can guide you on your choice of development platforms, your technical architecture design, and your use of onshore and offshore development resources to optimize your development cost.
Need a comprehensive program management solution to lead this development? We have over 25 years of experience leading high performance development teams building custom software applications.
Mobile Application Development
The mobile channel is increasingly the channel of choice for consumers because it extends the time, location, and process convenience of the public internet to "anytime and anywhere." Adopt the "SoLoMo" strategy consumers love. Your employees also can benefit from maintaining connectivity with their colleagues and your supply chain partners when on the move.
Our development partners can show you how to build mobile business to consumer (B2C), business to employee (B2E), and business to partner (B2P) applications that will streamline your business and maximize your return on investment. They also are expert in optimizing development of your internet and mobile applications to lower your development costs by achieving maximum software reuse on both channels.
Predictive / Prescriptive Analytics​, AI, and Machine Learning
There is exponential growth in the use of artificial intelligence and predictive analytics to achieve breakthrough business process change. Watson has graduated from winning Jeopardy to assisting domain experts in several industries create ground breaking knowledge management and machine learning applications. Along with IBM Watson, other leading Cloud Service Providers - Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure - are developing and deploying their own AI platforms curing cancer and helping leisure travelers plan their vacations.
Predictive analytics has long been used in several industries to forecast consumer demand, optimize inventory management and pricing, drive incremental revenue, and increase profitability.
We have trusted partners who can help you understand how to take advantage of these advanced technologies and embed them them in your core applications.