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Edgewater Technology, Inc. operates as a consulting company. The company provides customers with a range of business and technology offerings. It works onsite with customers, providing a full spectrum of services in the following primary areas: business advisory, product-based consulting, and technology consulting. Services The company’s consulting services are consolidated into three major synergistic offerings: Business Advisory Services, Product-Based Consulting, and Technology Consulting. The company’s service categories with sample services are as follows: Business advisory services The company’s business advisory services focus on monetizing knowledge, and new revenue streams from corporate data; customer transformation, moving from business-to-business to business-to-customer or the reverse for new revenue opportunities; cloud architecture and on-ramping strategic services; business process rejuvenation with industry best practice and cross pollination; specialized operational, due diligence and technology management knowledge to mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital; strategic advice, costing, estimates to complete, failing or failed programs or project initiatives; and independent package selection and request for information or proposal process design and implementation. Product-based consulting services: The company’s product-based consulting services focuses on effecting business transformation through the use of packaged software solutions; enterprise performance management with Oracle budgeting, planning, consolidation and strategic finance; enterprise resource planning with Microsoft Dynamics AX, discrete manufacturing and a specialty of process-based manufacturing; customer relationship management with Microsoft CRM; industry specific platform and best practice solutions; blended solutions; Microsoft CRM/XRM and custom technology consulting services; technical architecture and roadmaps; technical evaluations and design; and custom component design and implementation. Web-centric solutions: These include internal, external and/or collaborative; cloud integration and phasing solutions; on-going support services; and infrastructure optimization and redesign, disaster recovery and business continuity specialized design and assistance. The company also provides synergistic services in the area of data management and analytics. These services include the following: enterprise information management services; provide for data related matters: master data management, data governance, logical and physical data base design, data warehouse strategies and design; provide practical data architectures and roadmaps to support transactional systems, enterprise performance management, through advanced analytics; and provide forms of data manipulation, transformation and quality services. Analytics services These services include lead derivation of financial and operational performance indicators and correlate their measurement, visualization and action for a given organization; advise on opportunities for the use of predictive techniques, external data and benchmarks to improve business performance measurement and forecasting; advise on the creation and adoption of analytics architectures, roadmaps and supporting organizations; and advise, design and roadmap analytics-based near real-time to real-time alerting strategies and implementations. Strategic Alliances The company has working relationships with various companies, including Exact Target, Informatica Corporation, ISO Insurance Technology Solutions, Google, Microsoft Corporation (Microsoft), Oracle America, Inc. (Oracle), SAP, Soft Choice, TeaLeaf, TenDigits, UBMatrix, VMWare and Webtrends. Competition The company’s competitors in the IT and management consulting services space include technical consulting/systems integrators, such as Accenture, EDS, Mattersight Corporation (formerly eLoyalty Corporation), Tier Technologies, Ciber, Inc., IBM Global Services, Business and Decision Group, Caritor, Inc., LogicaCMG, Perficient and Sapient; offshore software development firms, such as Aztec Software, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Infosys, Ventyx, Satyam, Tata and Wipro; management/business consulting firms, such as Bain & Company, Booz-Allen & Hamilton, Boston Consulting Group and McKinsey & Company; Enterprise Performance Management / Business Activity Monitoring / Business Intelligence providers, such as Deloitte LLP, The Hackett Group, Hitachi Consulting Corporation, Hewlett-Packard, KPMG, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Ernst & Young; and Computer hardware, software and service vendors, such as Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Oracle, Microsoft and SAP. History Edgewater Technology, Inc. was founded in 1992.