FAI Consulting - Services: Enterprise Project Management | Information Workers | Sharepoint | CAD | Enterprise Search

FAI Consulting Services specializes in helping organizations to implement, configure, customize, integrate, and adopt the Microsoft Enterprise Project Management (EPM) suite of tools. We have expert skills in all EPM technologies including, Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server, Microsoft Office Project Server, Microsoft Project Professional and Windows Sharepoint Services.

FAI understands the challenges involved in adopting a project management system. We seek to mitigate the risks of application and technology implementation with a proven, structured project management methodology that leads your team through the process. This methodology provides the tools, templates and framework to build a successful project infrastructure that will allow our customers to monitor, control, measure and achieve the results that they seek.

FAI’s project managers are trained to achieve consistently excellent results in leading the project team. This assures rapid and smooth transition to your new processes and systems. Our methodology and best practices allow you to:

Information Workers

Sharepoint Server

FAI has the experience, knowledge, skills and people to effectively guide you through your Sharepoint Server deployment by providing services for portal definition; portal planning; enterprise content management; technology implementation; end user training and mentoring.

Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server and Windows Sharepoint Services allows organizations to gain access to, explore and communicate information throughout all levels of their organization both internally and externally with customers and business partners.

FAI has a deep understanding of the Sharepoint Object Model and Web Parts technology which allows our development teams to leverage the Sharepoint framework to its full potential and to use it as a development platform for enterprise applications.
The primary business uses of Sharepoint include:

Enterprise Search

FAI develops search solutions which address a broad range of information retrieval needs and that helps people find, analyze and understand information. Studies show that information workers spend up to 40% of their time searching for information or recreating it because they can’t find it. Our clients use FAI’s enterprise search solutions to make their information workers more productive by unlocking knowledge across their enterprise. Our search solutions offer organizations and employees a window into everything from email and desktop files to departmental documents located on shared network drives to structured data located in enterprise-wide knowledge bases.

FAI’s technologists extend Microsoft's Sharepoint search technology to create customized solutions that meet specific client needs. Customers benefit from FAI’s expertise as well as leveraging their Sharepoint infrastructure investment. The use of Sharepoint has added advantages of allowing IT workers and line-of-business managers to launch, optimize, and maintain enterprise-class solutions without additional licensing, training and administrative costs.

Microsoft Office Integration (Smart Clients)

FAI has extensive experience in developing smart client solutions for a variety of businesses. FAI combines technical expertise in .NET with business savvy to create value for our customers.

While web applications solve many business needs there are certain advantages to smart client applications. Smart client applications often offer richer end-user experience, have stronger security and increased performance. Furthermore, smart client applications often integrate with existing systems more efficiently and are accessible when offline.

A smart client solution enables users to seamlessly call information from a central data store and pull it into a familiar, MS Office application such as Word or Excel. This real-time data query enables better decision-making by providing more accurate and immediate access to information. Administration and maintenance of a smart client application are simpler because changes are made in a central location and user workstations are automatically updated at the next connection.

Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence (BI) allows organizations to gain access to, explore and communicate information throughout all levels internally and externally with customers and business partners. Facilitating accurate and timely information across the enterprise allows for better business decisions.

FAI has the experience, knowledge, skills and people to effectively guide you through your Business Intelligence deployment by providing services for strategy definition; project planning; technology selection; technology implementation; end user training and mentoring.
Our consultants are skilled in these technologies:

Business process automation

We utilize the Windows workflow component (Windows Workflow Foundation) and 3rd party business automation packages to automate the flow of information in your business. Our services include business process mapping, technical consulting, solutions design and architecture work, development and project management.
The benefits to your business:

Custom Application Development

Many organizations have unique requirements that can't be met using commercial off-the-shelf applications. In order to achieve or maintain competitive advantage, these companies require unique software solutions that are tailored to their specific needs which operate and integrate with their existing line-of-business systems.

FAI’s development approach is rooted in a lightweight development methodology that is optimized for rapid prototyping and incremental delivery of application features. This approach lets us quickly react to changes in scope while managing project deadlines and costs. FAI works jointly with your team, and our project managers, architects and developers stress mentoring and knowledge transfer, to ensure your organization is prepared to take ownership of the system after the engagement is complete.

FAI ‘s consultants have expert skills in Microsoft .NET technologies and we are committed to successfully delivering your solutions. FAI can assist with your application development and integration through the following services:

Methodology

Mapping/GIS

FAI provides GIS and Mapping software and integration services that help our customers make sense of an increasingly complex world. Through spatial software and integration services, FAI provides organizations with the power to see and understand vast amounts of complex data as comprehensible visual representations, enabling them to make better and faster operational decisions.

Our solutions incorporate location and GIS data with enterprise applications to provide decision support for understanding how to improve businesses workflow, management, supply chains, sales and marketing, and risk management.

FAI has broad experience in geo-spatial and mapping applications especially with regard to integrating geo-spatial applications with line-of-business applications so that end-users can visualize data more intuitively. Our consultants are skilled in ESRI products, MapInfo products as well as other technologies such as MapPoint, Virtual Earth, MapQuest, and Google Earth.

Services

Enterprise Project Management