Wise Men Consultants and Sun help enterprise customers attain their business goals

"Companies that are successful today are doing so because they can react more quickly to change," says Lance Slippen, Director of Software Solutions Practice for Wise Men Consultants. "These changes can be driven by their customers, their competitors, or from within the organization in the form of new management directives — but they need to do them now, and many IT staffs do not have the bandwidth to achieve them. We can help."

Wise Men Consultants, a Sun Partner Advantage Program principal partner, supports energy, logistics, healthcare, retail, and financial services customers by using a service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach that encompasses all aspects of the final result, including hardware, software, staffing, project management, on and offsite training, full 24x7 support, and more.

For over 12 years, their services have provided cost-effective capabilities for companies seeking experienced, interim support for mission critical business projects. "From zero to fully engaged, we support our customers at every step of the way, then move forward with them as they grow," says Peter Berkman, Vice President & CTO.

As a worldwide provider of Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and business-to-business (B2B) solutions, Wise Men Consultants can help ensure that business integration projects reach completion on time and on budget. Wise Men Consultants is accredited as a Sun Microsystems Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Specialty partner, the result of extensive training, board reviews, and documented successful engagements.

With certified Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite (CAPS) Center of Excellence (CoE) locations in the U. S. and India, Wise Men Consultants not only delivers top-tier service and support globally, but also implements a CoE on site in the customer's environment, enabling the client to be self-sufficient when the engagement is completed.

Wise Men Consultants also provides high-quality training services as a Learning Services Partner of Sun Microsystems. Through a results-oriented learning process, an expert team of well-qualified trainers helps ensure clients keep pace with ever-changing technological trends.

Sun Java CAPS offer unparalleled business agility

Wise Men Consultants leverage Sun Java CAPS, a standards-based, open, extensible platform for developing software infrastructures using a SOA approach. The unified and comprehensive suite helps enterprises create composite applications from existing investments as well as deliver new business services in a flexible SOA environment with no vendor lock-in. "We go beyond the standard support model," says Grant Gocke, Vice President of Sales. "Customers engage us to provide worldwide 24x7 operational support for their complete implementation based on Sun's SOA products."

Resource Optimization

A Fortune 500 transportation logistics company was having difficulty within its IT department. Support was an overbearing burden, with staff spending nearly all of their time trying to find and fix problems. As a worldwide operation, this situation resulted in too many 2 a.m. calls and not enough focus on new project development to meet new business goals. After a knowledge transfer to align the company with best practices, the Sun partner was able to take over first, second, and third line support of the customer's extensive JavaCAPS infrastructure from the Wise Men Consultants Java CAPS CoE in India. Support has stabilized and the internal IT group is now able to work on new value added projects.

Data Integration

The marketing department at a major hospitality brand was facing numerous new initiatives that would be used to transform the business, and needed data from around the company to proceed. The problem was they did not have adequate IT resources to support this effort. Wise Men Consultants was able to deploy Java CAPS as a central technology in capturing data from different sources, and refining it into usable information. Through a series of deployments, Wise Men Consultants has provided the skilled expertise around Java CAPS to fulfill project requirements for a small IT staff, and in the process become a trusted technology advisor.

Reduced Transaction and Processing Time

A logistics company had been using faxes and manual data entry to initiate and monitor the flow of goods, with manual data entry to integrate with their backend systems — there was poor visibility and manually-induced errors and omissions. Wise Men Consultants provided additional software, hardware, and services as complete and packaged solutions around their business requirements. The result is an automated, B2B solution that integrates with their IT infrastructure, and with customers and suppliers, too.

The Java CAPS functionality tied in disparate systems and applications, and was used to create an executive-focused dashboard with drill-down visibility and accurate, up-to-the-minute information across all of their logistics operations, including cargo location, shipping information, and volume data. Wise Men Consultants trained the IT staff of the company to be self-supporting in Java technology, application servers, Java CAPS, and much of the rest of the stack.

Next Steps

Get more information on Sun SOA solutions, and Wise Men Consultants and its SOA-based offerings:

• Learn about Wise Men Consultants
• Learn more about Wise Men Consultants Center of Excellence (CoE ) in India
• Sun SOA solutions
• Sun and Wise Men Consultants Solutions Sheet