Group Atlantic is an Information Technology (IT) Management consulting organization that assists senior executives in optimizing investments in technology. We are experienced Information Technology practitioners who clearly understand the demands placed on IT organizations as well as IT's critical role in the achievement of corporate success and profitability.

In serving our clients, we concentrate on matters of strategic concern to the executive team. Group Atlantic combines technical and operational expertise with a broad business perspective that incorporates organizational and financial viewpoints. We are uniquely positioned to partner with senior management to identify, analyze and resolve their most pressing IT issues and challenges.

Our flexible and creative approach yields results quickly and has resulted in a proven track record of assisting businesses, from start-ups to global enterprises, in a wide range of strategic initiatives that enable new business models, enhance IT effectiveness, lower costs and increase the return on IT investments.

Microsoft

The CMSVAINC Consulting Microsoft Practice has earned a long-standing reputation as a premier Gold Certified Partner for regional enterprise and mid-market organizations. Our consultants offer deep Microsoft-centric expertise in e-business infrastructure and application solutions for a wide range of industries and clients. CMSVAINC Consulting has access to the right people and technology to excel your business to where you want it to be, in a timely and cost effective manner.

IBM

The IBM Practice of CMSVAINC Consulting consists of more than 20 years of premier technical professional services to small, medium and Fortune 500 organizations across all industries. As an IBM Advanced Business Partner, we leverage our relationship with IBM and provide your company with the best solutions, tailored to fit your business needs. Our tenure in the business has provided us with the experience to efficiently and effectively manage the technologies of yesterday and today.

Discover Phase
The Discover phase helps clients examine how their business could change through the use of technology. Resulting changes to the client's processes, organization, and marketing are considered in this light.

Project Definition
This is the initial stage of the project. The idea for the project is conceived and communicated to the project developer via a request or proposal. The developer expands on this information to clearly define the objectives, scope and cost/benefits of the proposed project. A clear plan for achieving the project objectives is developed.

Analysis
Requirements are defined and data is collected to determine what the project results should be and what resources are required to accomplish these results. Quantitative and qualitative benefits to the business of doing the project are evaluated and communicated.

Design Phase
The Design phase focuses on producing a better understanding of the initiative and creating a set of deliverables that help stakeholder's experience the proposed solution. In this stage, the logical design of the system is translated into a physical design. The requirements for what the system will do are transformed into a system architecture and detailed design which stipulates how the system will deliver the requirements

Deploy Phase
The Deploy phase actually delivers, and rolls out the implementation of an initiative.

Implementation
When all involved parties agree on the acceptance of the product results, final documentation work is completed and the application is delivered to production.

Production
The system product is enhanced and maintained as necessary to ensure it continues to meet established performance criteria, and to ensure it responds to the inevitable changes which occur in the business and technical environments.

Debrief Phase
The Debrief phase evaluates and measures functionality and performance identified in the original solution proposal. Key measurement criteria and user surveys may be used to evaluate the project success and identify additional functionality required.

CMSVAINC Consulting set out to create a consulting company with a business model that would truly attract and retain the IT industry's best-one that recognizes and rewards people for their contribution to the organization. A critical success factor was taking cost out of the model, thereby increasing customer value. Accordingly, CMSVAINC differentiated itself in the increasingly crowded consulting marketplace by doing for IT services what Dell did for PCs. Now, we're building-to-order solutions with our Assemble-to-Order Engagement Teams.

So many times when dealing with bench-based consulting firms, clients feel like their consulting dollars are funding on-the-job training. If you feel like you're never getting your money's worth, it's probably because your team is made up of people on the bench. Typically, the bench is comprised of resources that are, many times, unproven and underskilled. Rather than settling for second-string players, savvy bench-based consultant managers tend to pre-commit the best resources before their expertise is actually required. The best talent is rarely on the bench-and you end up paying the additional cost of this pre-commitment. You also end up paying for the overhead associated with under-utilized bench consultants. At CMSVAINC, this doesn't happen. We assemble-to-order the most qualified people who deliver projects on time and on budget. This means you get custom solutions designed and implemented by highly experienced consultants.

CMSVAINC eliminates the need for a costly, inefficient bench, delivering efficiencies in the form of better-suited, more motivated engagement teams that add greater value. This benchless model flies in the face of how our competitors have been doing business for decades. And that's just the way we like it-not to mention the way our clients like it, too.

For our consultants, the Assemble-to-Order Engagement Team approach means they can pick and choose projects that interest them. For CMSVAINC, this approach enables us to rapidly scale our business. And, because our overhead is significantly lower, we attract superior talent by appropriately compensating our consultants.