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We are pleased to announce that Encore has earned the distinction of IBM Premier Business Partner specializing in the WebSphere, Rational, and Information Management brands.

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Your company does not have an intranet that provides a way for employees to collaborate and share information. Solution: How the Encore SharePoint “Jump Start” works:

When most people think of uploading files to SharePoint, they think of navigating to the site, clicking upload, choosing their file and saving it. While it's true that you can upload files this way, there are other options that might be more effective that you should educate your users on.

The ability to improve business performance is a critical requirement for organizations and the people who manage them.

The Mechanism™ facilitates enterprise-wide change and transformation. It has emerged over the last decade from an array of applications conducted in a spectrum of industries and has involved a wide range of business challenges.

Integrating disparate business units can benefit an organization through gains in complementary product offerings, industry knowledge sharing, procurement purchase power, and operational productivity.

The task of selecting software applications to support specific process and organizational companies that do not perform these searches with any regularity.              

Healthcare provider needs a successful implementation a quality program which means storing hundreds of documents and communicating hundreds of process metrics.

The mission of this project was to create an application to provide section managers with metrics based on analysis of past performance and predicting future workflow and throughput

Standard Windows programs are usually fast and efficient because they take advantage of your computer’s memory and disk space. Web-based applications, on the other hand, rely on the web browser and any distribution is limited to updating the server end of the client-server equation. This simplifies distribution, but can also have a negative impact, namely usability.

Effort to develop, unleash and leverage the capabilities that demonstrate the inherent innovative prowess of the enterprise. The key objective of this initiative is the generation of meaningful business results and to increase shareholder value.

The goal of this project was to improve the accuracy and timeliness of the distributor delivery schedule information by allowing distributors to directly maintain the information.

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Encore will ensure that the most efficient hardware and software technology is in place to support the high quality of the programs for which the Executives’ Club is noted. Encore stands ready to promote the Executives’ Club to its clients and help the Club achieve a record high membership.

It is a simple, inert object that is familiar to all of us. We use it, sometimes abuse it and likely give it little thought. But examining a coffee cup is very revealing. It teaches us to recognize how our perceptions, assumptions and habits constrain our thinking and creative abilities. The lessons of the coffee cup are analogues to business. Understanding and practicing them not only removes these barriers to innovation but become the impetus for transforming how we view our business, how we think about our opportunities and ultimately how we compete.

Those who have been watching the Supply Chain Management industry over the last few years may have noticed the acceleration in the level of sophistication in supply chain management metrics.

The requirement that the client articulated was to develop a comprehensive enterprise-level B2B web application based upon technical infrastructure and desired web functionality. Such a web application would complement the corporate e-commerce strategy.

Projects don't fail on their own accord. Some sequence of events (or lack thereof) preceded its failure. All failed projects were once projects in trouble. What are the telltale signs of a troubled project? How do you identify the problems? What corrective action can be taken to get the project back on track?

For the last 30 years, strategies for using IT mostly consisted of making multi-million dollar investments in whole new collections of hardware and software. Massive new systems were installed using expensive software packages or built from scratch. Overall, the success rate and ROI of these endeavors has been modest to put it politely.

It is a simple, inert object that is familiar to all of us. We use it, sometimes abuse it, and likely give it little thought. But examining a coffee cup is very revealing. It teaches us to recognize how our perceptions, assumptions and habits constrain our thinking and creative abilities. The lessons of the coffee cup are analogues to business. Understanding and practicing them not only removes these barriers to innovation but become the impetus for transforming how we view our business, how we think about our opportunities and ultimately how we compete.

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The Business Consulting Practice integrates business prowess, process, people, and technology to deliver powerful solutions that enable the competitive performance of the enterprise. By unlocking the experience and creativity inherent within your company, unparalleled value is created by fueling innovative change and transforming how a company adopts, aligns and leverages technology to materially improve their 'top-to-bottom' line performance.

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Encore Consulting Services, Inc. has been tabbed as one of the elite providers of Supply Chain Management solutions to IBM Corporation's Small and Medium Business (SMB) marketing initiatives. With over 90,000 business-to-business relationships worldwide, IBM reaches much of their client base through extended relationships of Regional Systems Integrators (RSI), Independent Software Vendors (ISV), and consultants and integrators that make up this network. From this network, Encore was added to the SMB program as part of the top 0.5% of partners because of its knowledge of the supply chain industry, its balance of technical and functional skills, and its understanding of the particular requirements of the small and medium business community. "Our knowledge of the supply chain industry and history with SMBs enable us to provide a proven performance to our clients," notes Peter Mauro, President and CEO of Encore Consulting Services, Inc.

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Encore Consulting Services, Inc. has been awarded a contract by the Public Programs function of Arkansas Blue Cross Blue Shield (“ABCBS”) to prepare the several processes used by the organization for ISO9000 certification. Encore’s senior ISO9000 consultants will follow a tailored and proven approach to analyze and prepare the functions for a comprehensive ISO9000 audit. The project is headed by Encore’s published expert in total quality and ISO9000 compliance, Dr. Manu Vora of the Illinois Institute of Technology.