ACCUCOM - Solutions

Involved in IT consulting from the inception of MS-DOS , Accucom, experience lends a wealth of knowledge to companies trying to make cost effective yet scaleable decisions for their computing infrastructure requirements. Offering server and workstation support has been the mainstay of our consulting service. We currently work for many companies as their MIS department but also supply consultants on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis for simple and complex projects in the SMB and Fortune 500 market.

• Server migrations
• Enterprise support
• Outsource staffing

In short , we have provided a host of skills in project management to many regional and global corporations. Our client list is available by request. (template here for client info and then automatically e-mailed to info@accucomci.com)

Legal

Accucom Consulting, Inc. has been involved in providing software and computer network services for the legal community for over 15 years. Understanding law firm work flow process has allowed us to deliver specific consulting needs that include data management, discovery and governance. Our clients have learned to not only survive technology advances but to embrace them. Our experiences ensure a full complement of law practice services ranging from time and billing applications (Juris, Time Matters, Billing Matters, PC Law) through document assembly and management (MS-SharePoint and Worldox). We can provide onsite or remote demonstrations of any of the listed applications.

Working closely with law firms in case and practice management is an objective that we have maintained for almost 20 years. The past several years has us involved in data forensics and e-discovery processes. Because of our diverse experience and competency set we have been able to extract invaluable information for our clients to use in complicated litigation.

Relying on a granular understanding of messaging (Exchange, Note, GroupWise, et.al) we have been instrumental in culling germane and specific case related incidences. While using industry standard tools to accomplish these tasks we have had to device and create addition tools to accommodate client’s aging and outdated operating systems and back up routines.

Performing digital excavation and identification has allowed us to develop unique techniques in analyzing case related e-mails, calendar appointments, To-Do lists, contacts, Instant Messaging and raw data from spreadsheets, databases, document and image repositories, contact managers, time mangers and specific hand held devices ( Blackberry , Windows Mobile…) including customized client relation management (CRM) applications. We have been very successful in retrieving deleted items form all of listed categories.

Services Include:

• Email Discovery
• Forensics Consulting
• Browsing Analysis (Calendars, Document Management Systems, CRM, Etc.)
• Mail Servers Exploration (Notes, Exchange, GroupWise, Etc.)
• Email case indexing
• Web Histories Forensics (Calendars, Document Management Systems, CRM, Etc.)
• Instant Messaging Forensics
• {{Acquiring and Analyzing Specialized Systems (SAS, PeopleSoft, etc.) }}

Financial Services

Strategic integration for financial firms and institutions has been a forte of Accucom’s core support offerings. Providing an information conduit and a digital tool set for broker’s, trader’s and asset managers has permitted our consulting group the insight to provide available and affordable fault tolerant and redundant measures that is baseline to the financial services industry. Concatenating network integration and application development supplies managers with the opportunity to transparently expand office operations converting technology into profit.

Accucom Consulting’s financial services competencies include:

• Technology Review and Certification
It is necessary to perform an initial but through survey of network and application processes. Here is where we discover any obstacle that can impede workflow and also allow us to make necessary recommendations to improve performance through design and implementation.

• Core applications
Financial software can be complex and our experience has provided us with installation of a myriad of products dating from the Schwartzatron and Bloomberg terminals to current web based clearing.

• Application Development
From sophisticated reporting to spreadsheet and database design our objective has always been to streamline information flow. Our development team has been instrumental in this on-going process providing deliverables in a timely and expedient manner.

Accucom Consulting, Inc currently supports hedge funds, insurance companies’, private equity firms, brokerages, mortgage companies, private wealth asset managers and other financial services firms. We have a long history of working with commodities and energy companies who also use a financial service model for managing their companies.

Hosting Facilities

As an ASP Accucom Consulting, Inc. provides secure "hardened " facilities to house our client's servers and applications. Application Service Providing allows Accucom to leverage our software and networking management skills to monitor and distribute the clients' programs. A central computing (server-centric) model consolidates resources ( hardware, software and configuration) at a single level and distributes the application to a "thin-client ( a workstation or terminal ) that requires little or no processing power. In turn this reduces any initial infrastructure investment and allows the client to reach their applications anytime and anywhere. This server-centric/thin-client computing model allows the host provider to apply application and programming upgrades once and propagate them to all users. All of these processes take place in a manned 24 hour 7 day a week facility with redundant power and bandwidth vendors. Some of these applications are also mirrored in a similar facility with equal redundancy. All of these components can translate to consistent lower monthly costs.

Internet

Internet access is no longer a luxury but a necessity. Most businesses today use the Internet as frequently as the telephone. Whether it is sending e-mail , instant messaging , file delivery and retrieval, research or a delivered service it is now the backbone and conduit of B2B information. Selecting the correct form of bandwidth to accommodate the client's requirements has become a challenge. Our internal Internet personnel resources have made this selection seamless. Along with the right ISP and correct data streams are the considerations for multiple conduits and transparent "fail-over" redundancies to prevent minimum down time. Many of our clients enjoy the bandwidth monitoring service we offer to alert them to potential disruptions and allow them to prepare for these instances. Case studies available.

E-Mail

Accucom Consulting's Microsoft Certified engineers have been installing MS- Exchange since its foundation. Are expertise travels well beyond MS-Exchange to Lotus Notes, Novell GroupWise and Unix Send-Mail. For clients who prefer POP3 Internet based accounts we have two mail servers in two different locations providing each others redundancy manned by a 24 hour technical staff in a multiple fiber bandwidth and generator protected facility.

Remote Access

With the advent of inexpensive residential cable modems and DSL offerings we've seen our client base increasingly request access from remote locations to their offices. VPN, WAN connection, PC Anywhere , Citirx , Terminal Server, VNC, Tarantella which solution is right for your firm? Accucom Consulting has been answering these questions since DOS (Jurassic Age of Computing) was the only PC operating system choice. Currently Accucom Consulting has many clients that have remote locations, branch offices and wireless field representatives that use a combination of all the technologies listed above.

Security / Anti-Virus

Security has come to mean much more than "is the front door locked?" It is often a case of whose watching the door. With products that provide Intrusion Detection, Stateful Inspection, SMTP Gateway filters, Port blocking, Content Filtering and Authentication Service we can in effect provide the client with a myriad of protection and also a list of potential suspects looking to gain un-welcomed entries to their network.

While all Internet users realize that Anti-virus is mandatory not all users have an optimal configuration. Accucom Consulting has deployed proven practices that are transparent to the client but have provided an unparalleled success rate for arresting, quarantining and deleting these intrusive annoyances. The latest scheme by these detrimental developers is the adware or spyware that invades your Internet preferences and reports your browsing habits. We have confronted this nuisances with our own white paper outlining the circumstances ( link for Randy's white paper)

IT Solutions Outsourcing

Accucom's experience on augmenting corporation's staff has been two fold. In the early Nineties with a tentative economy we saw companies not willing to hire in house which made them look to temporary IT assistance . Throughout the decade as the economy improved some of those same companies could not interview and acquire employees fast enough to meet their technology requirements. In both cases Accucom was able to provide competent technicians as wells as project managers that not only met the requirements but exceeded the expectations.

Further staffing assistance information can be obtained by contacting our office @ 203-221-1212 or cmcloughlin@accucomci.com

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