Today's Software Consultancy Environment

Throughout the U.S., there is a great demand for trained and experienced staff in all areas of Information Technology. In this environment many companies, even those with little or no experience in IT, are attempting to supply people to meet this need. But a wide gap exists today between the promise of quality, affordable cost and responsiveness and the reality of "delivery" on these fronts. Vendors promise all these, but deliver partial solutions. Frequently it is you - the customer - who must contend with the incompatibilities and limitations.

AHC understands the real-world issues of quality, schedules and cost in the enterprise IT environment. Our extensive in-the-field experience enables us to understand your computing challenges and to design and implement solutions quickly, providing you with both highly professional and cost-effective services. What permits us to make this claim?

What is Different About AHC?

Unlike other consulting firms that offer services in many areas, we specialize in two areas:

Web based commerce and enterprise solutions. Therefore, we offer you highly focused, highly knowledgeable consultants. In addition to a large pool of in-house consultants and our own proprietary product development team members, AHC, through its network of resources and corporate partnerships has access to over 850 consultants with expertise in a wide variety of skill areas. Thus, we are able to respond to clients'requirements in a flexible, timely and an effective manner. Rapid deployment of the right skills at reasonable price is our motto. Additionally, we have been utilizing our skilled resources to develop software applications and solutions for our clients for ten years. We are a unique Company that has actually developed its own award-winning, proprietary software products. We have over 200+ man years of firsthand and entire software development life cycle experience that has allowed us to develop a unique sensitivity to our clients' development challenges. We were selected by the U.S. Air Force as one of only two Corporations in the USA to assist them in software life-cycle process evaluations for their multi-billion dollar software procurements. AHC knows your process issues. AHC's experience and focus on business driven solutions means that we understand your problems and can help you solve them quickly and efficiently. AHC's award winning product development has enabled us to master state of the art software development methodologies.

AHC's team of staff consultants has been integral in establishing our track record. They have accepted the daily challenge of superior performance in a team environment required of every AHC consultant. Our staff is the cornerstone of our client relationships and our business in general. We are justifiably proud of our team. They have enabled AHC to grow to be one of the most respected consulting firms in the industry.

All AHC consultants have extensive hands-on experience. AHC's current staff gives us strength in a variety of areas involving support of all phases of a system's life cycle from feasibility studies and development through installation and maintenance. This experience allows us to complete your projects on time and on budget, which translates into direct cost savings to you and more competitive positioning of your company in your marketplace. Through our world-wide recruiting efforts, AHC can offer you consultants who have "earned their wings" configuring enterprise systems, porting software across platforms, designing enterprise architectures, and building client/server applications. Because of our world-wide "reach" we will fill your requirements!

What Expertise Does AHC Offer?

Our services include application porting and development, enterprise-wide solutions and consulting, and intra-network development services. We are experienced with the leading programming languages and graphical user interfaces from multiple environments. We're well versed in both proprietary and open environments, including Intel, IBM, Microsoft SUN, (and other UNIX platforms), as well as a variety of database management systems.

On the application side, we know how to migrate and access mission critical legacy business applications via client/server and internet/web based architectures. We understand the software engineering discipline that mainframe users have been used to for multi-media document management and electronic commerce applications development. We provide quality and consistency across multiple platforms.

Does AHC Operate Internationally?

Yes. Our Asia/Pacific software development centers are staffed with the highest quality programmers, offering the finest programming skills at extremely competitive rates. Because we have international operations, you can leverage a 24-hour work day.

Many of AHC's clients are international enterprises, including government and commercial customers. We can provide assistance with off-shore software development. Our own development projects achieved both cost effectiveness and timeliness (speed) of development for our own proprietary software product development of 200+ man years over the past ten years. We have developed award winning, proprietary products and technology in the area of document management, electronic commerce, object oriented data bases, search and retrieval products, image and video editing products, compression technology products and intra-network design products, network simulation products, and project management software suites as well as financial management suites of products. We have developed expertise in off-shore software projects development and management and are invited by prestigious universities to share with them the art and science of successful off- shore software projects. We understand and are extremely sensitive to the related issues around quality, cost, and schedules that affect our customers.