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CITADEL CONSULTING, INC.

 

 

  CORPORATE CAPABILITIES

 

GSA FEDERAL SUPPLY SCHEDULE CONTRACT #GS-35F-0162N

 

154 West Schubert Avenue

Glendale Heights, Illinois 60139-2447

Phone: 1.630.668.2184          Fax: 1.630.668.7595

www.citadelconsulting.com                   info@citadelconsulting.com; citadel@super-highway.net

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MISSION STATEMENT

he Mission of Citadel Consulting, Inc. is dedicated to excellence. Our objective is the development and implementation of efficient data processing systems that will satisfy the user requirements and, at the same time, be cost effective. Our systems are designed with hardware considerations; be it for large mainframes or mini-computers. Our flexibility increases efficiency by providing the best tools available for each specific task.

Our goal is to build customers for a lifetime by strengthening the bonds that link our businesses to each other.

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OUR MOTTO

"e are in the business of helping companies with their computer and management needs....."

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Company Information

Corporate Background

Business History

            1 - Philosophy

            2 - Products

            3 - Service

Primary SIC Code/NAICS

Secondary SIC Codes/NAICS

Product Service Codes (PSC)

Federal Supply Classification (FSC)

Fortune 1000 Proven

Management And Organization

Skills Inventory

    1 -     Citadel Resources and Experience

    2 -     Policies, Methodologies and Standards

    3 -     Mainframe

    4 -      Midrange/Minicomputer

    5 -     Client/Server/Distributed Systems

    6 -     Desktop

    7 -     LAN

    8 -     Languages and DBMS

    9 -     Database Administration

 10 -     Application Development Tools

 11 -     End User Tools

 12 -     Database Structures and Methodologies

 13 -     GEAC, Dun & Bradstreet Software / Millennium

 14 -     Software Applications

 15 -     Help desk solutions/technologies

 16 -     Data Development

 17 -     GIS Software

 18 -     Electronic Commerce/EDI

 19 -     Electronic Document Management Systems

 20 -     Telecommunications Wide Area Networks

 21 -     IT Staffing, Other Specific Technologies

 22 -     Graphic/Web Design Tools

Project Experience

            Millennium Experience

                    Production Supports For: HR:M, GL:M, AP:M, AR:M, FA:M, VP:M

            SAP Experience

                    SAP Projects

Types of Projects

            MM

            FI

Production Support & Installation

Previous Project Participation

            Manufacturing

            Finance

            Government

            Education

            Public Utility

            Insurance

Client Continuity

Business-To-Business Partnership

            What You Need, When You Need It

            Responsive Service, Year In And Year Out

            Expert Guidance In A Changing World

            Here For The Long Haul

CITADEL REFERENCES... (Upon Request)

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COMPANY INFORMATION

Business Name: Citadel Consulting, Inc.

Corporate Address: 154 West Schubert Avenue Glendale Heights, Illinois 60139-2447

Telephone: (630) 668-2184

Fax: (630) 668-7595

Web Page: http://www.citadelconsulting.com

E-mail: citadel@super-highway.net

Type of Business: Citadel is a technology services company, providing IT consulting services, system integration and Solution development services worldwide.

GSA Federal Supply Schedule Contract: #GS-35F-0162N

Client Contact: Wilner De Daye

E-mail: wilnerdedaye@citadelconsulting.com; citadel@super-highway.net

Corporate Background:

Citadel Consulting, Inc. is a well established over twenty (20) year old IT consulting services company, recently awarded GSA Federal Supply Schedule Contract Number GS-35F-0162N. We specialize in consulting, custom developer of computer software, with computer consultants providing software technology, analysis, programming, hardware, software evaluation, and services that dramatically improve application quality and developer productivity. Citadel places special emphasis on manufacturing, government, insurance, education and financial organizations.

 

Citadel offers a wide array of systems integration capabilities including:

 

We have developed strong knowledge of the SAP system.

 

These services are designed to make sure that customers realize the full benefit of Citadel services, and that they achieve their goal of rapidly delivering mission-critical applications that answer business and user needs.

As more and more client organizations seek to leverage their mainframe investments, Citadel is prepared to win their long-term business with customized mainframe management strategies designed to grow and evolve as business needs change.

To fulfill this concept of client relationships we at Citadel provides a level of service that is unmatched in the consulting industry. Only by developing a high degree of client awareness can a consulting firm understand each client's needs. In order to attain this understanding, Citadel assigns an account representative to each client to work on a day-to-day basis. This service enables Citadel to ensure a high degree of client satisfaction, as any inter-personal or technical conflicts can be identified and solved before problems occurs.

Since our inception in 1981, we have grown in a judicious and deliberate fashion. We believe we bring a strategic advantage to our customers' organization. We traditionally provide a high quality of service to a relatively small number of clients. We at Citadel has compile a cadre of clients whose loyalty, we feel, is unprecedented in the industry.

To this end, we populate our employment ranks with decidedly senior professionals with state-of-the-art expertise and experience.

Citadel provides exceptional personnel to guarantee client satisfaction. Citadel has a full time personnel staff whose sole responsibility is to acquire high caliber technicians. As a result of the company's concept of client relationships, all technical needs for a client can be fulfilled exclusively by Citadel.

Citadel's approach will be to use our resources, and in instances when talent is limited, either subcontract or hire the necessary talent needed to completes the tasks. Citadel will deliver the completed product at a competitive-price insuring that the project remains within the budget and time frames required. Included in this proposal is the price associated with all phases of the development life cycle.

Growth is deliberate at Citadel. The current rate of growth is over 20% per year. This goal of company growth and expansion creates opportunities for Citadel employees to excel and to achieve increased responsibility and rewards, which reflects increased productivity for the client.

Future growth at Citadel is assured by a mixture of innovative products, quality service and an aggressive marketing program. Becoming an industry leader in the field of consulting is a commendable achievement. These results have been produced by effective management, dedicated people and a unique desire to excel.

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BUSINESS HISTORY

Since our inception, Citadel has been providing services, developing products, investigating markets, and accomplishing other activities characteristic of a development stage company. The development of new products and the provision of new service are planned as ongoing activities.

Companies of all sizes have become more reliant upon information technology to run their business. They realize that the right technological strategy can provide them with a significant competitive advantage. Because of the complexity and variety of today's evolving technologies, developing a strategy is not simple.

Businesses need a company that can guide them through the maze of the computer marketplace. They need an independent company that can create the best possible solution to their management information needs, regardless of the manufacturer of the equipment. And they need a company with the knowledge, experience, and background to provide them with a competitive advantage.

Wilner De Daye and Thony Daye combined their expertise filed Articles of Incorporation with the State of Illinois Office of the Secretary of State, for the purpose of providing computer consulting services to small and fortune 1000 companies.

On April 04, 1993, Citadel Consulting, Inc. was certified as a Small Disadvantaged company to do business with the Federal Government by the Small Business Administration SBA 8(a) program, for a period of nine years.

On December 04, 2002 was awarded GSA Schedule Supply Schedule Contract Number GS-35F-0162N.

Since its inception, Citadel has been providing services, developing products, investigating markets, and accomplishing other activities characteristic of a development stage company. The development of new products and the provision of new service are planned as ongoing activities.

Since our inception in 1981, we have grown in a judicious and deliberate fashion. We believe we bring a strategic advantage to our customer's organization. We traditionally provide a high quality of service to a relatively small number of clients. Citadel has compiled a cadre of clients whose loyalty, we feel, is unprecedented in the industry. To this end, we populate our employment ranks with decidedly senior professionals with state-of-the-art expertise and experience.

To fulfill this concept of client relationships we at Citadel provides a level of service that is unmatched in the consulting industry. Only by developing a high degree of client awareness can a consulting firm understand each client's needs. In order to attain this understanding Citadel assigns an account representative to each client to work on a day-to-day basis. This service enables us at Citadel to ensure a high degree of client satisfaction, as any inter-personal or technical conflicts can be identified and solved before problems occurs.

Citadel provides exceptional personnel to guarantee client satisfaction. Citadel has a full time personnel staff whose sole responsibility is to acquire high caliber technicians. As a result of the company's concept of client relationships, all technical needs for a client can be fulfilled exclusively by Citadel.

 

1 - PHILOSOPHY

We at Citadel are dedicated to excellence. Our objective is the development and implementation of efficient data processing systems that will satisfy the user requirements and at the same time is cost effective. Systems are designed with hardware considerations; be it for large mainframes or mini-computers. This flexibility increases efficiency by providing the best tools available for each specific task.

Growth is deliberate at Citadel. The current rate of growth is over 20% per year. This goal of company growth and expansion creates opportunities for Citadel employees to excel and to achieve increased responsibility and rewards, which reflects increased productivity for the client.

Future growth at Citadel is assured by a mixture of innovative products, quality service and an aggressive marketing program. Becoming an industry leader in the field of consulting is a commendable achievement. These results have been produced by effective management, dedicated people and a unique desire to excel!

 

2 - PRODUCTS

In an effort to ensure the satisfaction of our customers, Citadel offers comprehensive training, consulting and technical support services on a worldwide basis. These services are designed to make sure that customers realize the full benefit of Citadel services, and that they achieve their goal of rapidly delivering mission-critical applications that answer business and user needs.

CITADEL offers all services required utilizing full Systems Integration to conduct business with the private sector or federal government. Customers may request total solutions package or individual services.

 

3 - SERVICE

Utilizing the latest technological innovations and methods structured design and programming techniques, all major programming languages, the latest operating systems and analyst/programmer tools and aids - Citadel provides exceptional personnel to guarantee client satisfaction. Citadel has a full-time personnel staff whose sole responsibility is to acquire high caliber technicians. As a result of the company's concept of client relationships, all technical needs for a client can be fulfilled exclusively by Citadel.

To fulfill this concept of client relationships we at Citadel provides a level of service that is unmatched in the consulting industry. Only by developing a high degree of client awareness can a consulting firm understand each client's needs. In order to attain this understanding Citadel assigns an account representative to each client to work on a day-to-day basis. This service enables Citadel to ensure a high degree of client satisfaction, as any inter-personal or technical conflicts can be identified and solved before problems occurs.

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SIC CODE and NAICS Description

 Primary SIC Code

SIC Description of Product/Services

NAICS

NAICS Description

7371

Computer systems software, Computer Programming Services

541511

Custom Computer Programming Services 

Since its certification, Citadel has added additional SIC codes. Additionally, custom systems software programming services; custom applications software programming services; custom utility's software-programming services, custom systems software programming services.

Secondary SIC Code

SIC Description of Product/Services

NAICS

NAICS Description

5045

Computers and Computer Peripheral Equipment and Software

443120

Computer and Software Stores (pt) - Retail

7372

Prepackaged Software

511210

Software Publishers

7373

Computer Integrated Systems Design

541512

Computer Systems Design Services (pt)

7374

Computer Processing & Data Preparation

514210

Data Processing Services

7375

Information Retrieval Services

514191

On-line Information Services

7376

Computer Facilities Management Services

541513

Computer Facilities Management Services

7377

Computer Rental and Leasing

532420

Office Machinery and Equipment Rental and Leasing (pt)

7378

Computer Maintenance and Repair

443120

811212

- Computer and Software Store (pt)

Computer and Office Machine Repair and Maintenance (pt)

7379

Computer Related Services, N.E.C.

514210

541512

541519

- Data Processing Services (pt)

- Computer Systems Design Services (pt)

- Other Computer Related Services

7389

Business Services, N.E.C.

514210

Data Processing Services (pt)

 

 

 

Product Service Codes (PSC)

D313         COMPUTER AIDED DESIGNS/MFG SVCS
L070        
 TECH REP SVCS/ADP EQ & SUPPLIES
N070         INSTALL OF ADP ,EQ & SUPPLIES

W070        LEASE-RENT OF ADP EQ & SUPPLIES

Federal Supply Classification (FSC)

7020        ADP CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT (CPU, COMPUTER), ANALOG
7021        ADP CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT (CPU, COMPUTER), DIGITAL

7022        ADP CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT (CPU, COMPUTER), HYBRID

7030        ADP SOFTWARE

7042        MINI AND MICRO COMPUTER CONTROL DEVICES

 

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The following is a partial list of customers Citadel has served:

Fortune 1000 Proven

  Allstate Corporation
  Asen Computer Associates, Inc.
  Asset Management Company (AMC)
  Association for Manufacturing Excellence, Inc. (AME)
  Briggs & Stratton, Corp.
  Carter's Income Tax Service (Electronic Tax Filing)
  Chicago Transit Authority (CTA)
 
Corporate Information Systems, Inc.
  Computer Marketing & Consulting Services, Inc. (CMCS)
  City of Chicago
  Consulat of Haïti (Chicago)
  CR Industries
  Dean Witter, Discover & Co.
  Dun & Bradstreet Software
  EDI Technology
 
FMC Corporation
  G. D. Searle & Co.
  Haïtian-American Chamber of Commerce of Chicago
  Haïtian-American Community Association
  Harnischfeger Industries
  Indecon, Inc.
  International Business Systems, Inc.(IBSI)
  J I Case (A Tenneco Company)
  Joseph T. Ryerson & Sons Inc.
  Leaf, Inc.
  McCreary & Bowman Associates, Inc.
  Natural Gas Pipeline (a Div. of Occidental Petroleum)
  Packaging Corporation of America (A Tenneco Company)
  PC Products Services
  Planning & Resource Services, Inc.
  PriceWaterhouse Cooper
  Roundy Foods
  Senco Corporation
  Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
  Spiegel
  SPR
  Technology Consulting Corp. (TCC)
  Trilogy Consulting, Inc.
  UOP - United Oil Products
  US Steel

 

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MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATION

 

The management team is composed of:

Wilner De Daye - President and CEO, who is responsible for the marketing and sales operations, and making major financing decisions for the business.

Thony Daye - Vice President, is responsible for managing human resources, consulting services, and product support.

Willie C. Doss - Marketing Director, is responsible for expanding the firm's presence in financial markets and increased custom development work.

Wilfrid Amisial - Account Executive for the Washington Branch Office. 

Keith Coleman - Account Executive.

Marthe P. Sterlin - Secretary, provides administrative and purchasing support.  

Wilfred DeRoy Koomson - Vice-President of International Group (Africa), provides marketing, and consulting services.

 

Citadel receives outside finance and legal assistance from:

 

Citadel believes it is advantageously positioned in the highly fragmented business of systems integration as a result of its efforts to recruit skilled network consultants, software programmers and sub-contractors. Our professionals are experienced in every aspect of systems integration from the analysis and design to implementation and management. The expertise of our professionals spans a multitude of computer network technologies.

Since the development of this expanding market is still in its early stages, no dominant company exists. At Citadel we believe that our ability to instill confidence in our clients expanding needs, with our technical ability is critical in an ever-changing market.

Citadel Consulting, Inc.'s success is principally dependent on certain key management personnel for the operation of its business. Because of the technological nature of the Company's business, Citadel is dependent upon its ability to attract and retain technologically qualified personnel.

 

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SKILLS INVENTORY

This section is a combination of narratives and questions that outline Citadel's technical skills and abilities relevant to the selected Service Category. Citadel provides exceptional professionals to guarantee client satisfaction by utilizing the latest technological innovations and methods, computer hardware, data base management systems, structured design and programming techniques, all major programming languages, the latest operating systems, micro-processor development technology and analyst/programmer tools and aids to fulfill its concept of client relationships. Citadel provides a level of service that is unmatched in the consulting industry. All of our client's technical needs can be met exclusively by Citadel. Figure 1. Graphically represents an overview of the gathering, analyzing and reporting process of our suite of Impact Assessment tools.

 

 

 

                                Figure 1 - Impact Assessment Process

Citadel can provide the following range of services to meet your various needs: personnel hardware, software, documentation, tools, materials, labor, transportation, development & software modification, designing & implementing user interface, database design, training, systems support, on-site maintenance and other items necessary to support the maintenance and enhancement of any organization.

 

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1)     Citadel Resources and Experience

        Cisco
        Geac
        Peoplesoft
        SAP
        SAS

Comment:
Citadel has the resources and experience to address our client needs. We have an experienced staff of system development professionals located in Illinois and an even larger pool of resources available from our sub-contractor pool of companies in Illinois. In addition to the local resources, we can call upon our technical consultants partners within the United States. We have the experience to assist you in a wide range of technology projects from traditional systems development to cutting-edge web based development. Added to our internal resources, Citadel maintains close relationships with the world’s premier technology providers and a number of specialties consulting firms (Cisco, Geac, Microsoft, Peoplesoft, SAP, SAS and many others). We draw upon these resources as appropriate. Citadel's consultants are able to draw from a wide range of technology resources. Direct access to laboratories and research centers provides Citadel with the ability to develop custom strategies, understand and select the most viable architecture components, and chart a direct path to implementing the new IT architecture. We partner with our clients to help them understand their unique architectural needs, the technology necessary to achieve their goals, and the requirements to achieve their business objective.

 

2)     Policies, Methodologies and Standards

        Data Flow 
        Diagrams Prototyping Systems
        H.I.P.O. Chart 
        Warner/Orr Diagrams
        Nassi-Schineiderman Charts 
        Yourdon Structured Method

Comment:
We adopt the client policies, methods and standards whenever they are available. We have a complete set of Citadel policies, methods and standards that we share with our clients if their existing methodologies are not sufficient. For example, with client/server development projects we often find the existing policies and standards do not adequately address the new technologies. In these cases, we will work with the client to develop new standards for their organization using our methods as examples.

 

3)     Mainframe

        CDC 6000 
        ClearPath;
        DEC 
        Honeywell;
        HP1000 / 3000 
        IBM - 390;
        IBM - AS/400 
        IBM - ES9000
        IBM PC's 
        IBM MVS/XA, VS1, DTMS
        IBM - S370 
        IBM - S36
        Prime 400 
        Unisys-A Series
        VAX 11/780, 11/785 
        WANG

Comment:
As a small systems integrator, Citadel has worked in a variety of technical environments, with varying mixes of computing platforms. Citadel has encountered virtually all combinations of the above environments. Citadel is an independent and objective provider of services and our professionals have expertise in multiple-vendor computing environments. Citadel has also provided a wide range of management consulting services including strategic planning, operations improvement, and business process re-engineering.

 

4)     Midrange/Minicomputer

        AIX 
        UNIX
        AT&T 
        SOLARIS

Comment:
As a Small systems integrator, Citadel has worked in a variety of technical environments, with varying mixes of computing platforms. Citadel has encountered virtually all combinations of the above environments. Citadel is an independent and objective provider of services and our professionals have expertise in multiple-vendor computing environments.

Citadel has also provided a wide range of management consulting services including strategic planning, operations improvement, and business process re-engineering.

 

5)     Client/Server/Distributed Systems

        Banyan 
        Sun
        Novell 
        Windows NT
        OS/2

Comment:
Client Server Development heightens information accessibility and control through improved system connectivity. Linking a sophisticated workstation, information servers, to a mainframe or powerful microcomputers. Client/server systems expedite and enhance business processes. Unlike traditionally limited host-based systems. Client/server systems deliver the operational and organizational efficiency that today’s fiercely competitive marketplace demands.

 

6)     Desktop

        Apple
        PC Platforms
        IBM Compatible 
        SUN

Comment:
Citadel’s technically trained professionals possess extensive experience and are committed to providing the added dimensions of increased interoperability and flexibility to your business process. Our professionals deliver smooth transitions to client/server systems. We advise and support business specific initiatives, package selection, integration strategy formulation and strategic alignment. From a thorough evaluation and integration of existing hardware/software to the development of a customized system design, development and implementation, Citadel’s client/server development practice enables businesses to dramatically improve efficiency.

 

7)     LAN

        Ethernet
        Token Ring
        Firewalls/Security 
        Wireless Communications

Comment:
Information Technology (IT) Architectures help today’s complex distributed systems work together seamlessly to achieve your business objectives. Citadel’s IT Architecture services are needed when your business experiences rapid or radical change. Often these times are when a business is in the midst of:

  •     Business process reengineering project
  •     Mission-critical package implementations
  •     Client/server migration efforts
  •     Downsizing or explosive growth
  •     Mergers and acquisitions

Enterprise Networks consist of the hardware, software, and connectivity required to effectively transport voice, data, and video across an enterprise. Moreover, these enterprise-wide infrastructures are typically vendor- and system-independent, and provide for anywhere-to-anywhere connectivity, locally, regionally, or globally. Sometimes referred to as the fourth utility, networks have become absolute prerequisites to the implementation of almost any mainstream information system of importance to business today.

 

8)     Languages and DBMS

        COBOL
        FORTRAN
        PL/1 RPG
        ACCESS 
        BASIC HTML
        ASSEMBLER 
        SQL
        SAS 
        ADF
        MAPPER 
        PASCAL
        C++ 
        VISUAL BASIC
        CLIPPER 
        FOX PRO
        IMAGE (HP) 
        IMS SQL/DS TOTAL

Comment:
Citadel assists clients in planning, implementation, and evaluation of enterprise-wide communications networks. We use a structured approach for assisting clients in essential planning for hardware, software, carrier, and other support needs in an enterprise-wide communications network. DATABASES: Describe products and experience.

  

9)     Database Administration

        ORACLE
        JAVA
        NATURAL 
        QMF
        ABAP,     
        ASSEMBLER 
        SDT (PDL)
        ADABASE 
        BOMP/DBOMP
        DB2 IDMS 
        VAX-11 IDMS

Comment:
In today’s marketplace, the amount of data an organization can collect and use has multiplied exponentially. However, many would admit they are data rich and information poor. Increasingly demanding deadlines and fast-track priorities challenge organizations to find the information they really need and in an expeditious manner. Business Process Reengineering studies report that processes are being strangled by the inability of today’s non-integrated systems to share data.

 

10)   Application Development Tools

        POWERBUILDER
        VISUAL BASIC
        LOTUS DOMINO 
        JAVA
        IBM VISUALAGE FOR JAVA 
        FILENET

Comment:
Citadel has assembled a team of highly trained and experienced specialists who are practiced in all facets of application development, testing procedures and processes. Unlike software vendors and implementation consultants who simply provide training, our professionals take full responsibility for data quality, user balancing and control functions, involving the users and internal auditors during the entire development and implementation process.

 

11)   End User Tools

        MICROSOFT OFFICE SUITE
        LOTUS OFFICE SUITE
        ABT PROJECT WORKBENCH 
        OPEN PLAN & WELCOM .

Comment:
Developing a reliable record standardization and lookup approach. Utilizing a technical approach that uses CRM’s assignment function

  •     CRM System: customer, contact, address, opportunity, activity tables
  •     ERP System: customer, contact, address, order, invoice, and payments objects.
  •     Field Service System: customer, contact, address, incidents

 

12)  Database Structures and Methodologies

        ADABASE
        DB2 IDMS
        ABAP 
        NATURAL
        BOMP/DBOMP 
        ORACLE

Comment:
Citadel’s Data Management solutions enable businesses to successfully transform disparate data into valuable information. Such a transformation makes information delivery more timely, allows for easier decision making, makes financial analyses and reporting more comprehensible. Offering value in terms of timeliness, completeness, consistency, integrity and flexibility enables data to be a vital part of an information system that reflects the current state of your business.

 

13)  GEAC, Dun & Bradstreet Software / Millennium

        Dun & Bradstreet Software Interfaces
        Project Management
        Production Support
        Product Installation


        Balancing and report writer testing
        Posted transaction testing


        Month-end testing
        Front-end transactions


        Production parallel
        I/M-A/M Verification phases

Comment:
Citadel’s Technology Testing group provides our clients with the assurance that the technology they are using, or intend to use, has been proven and validated to meet their business specifications. Through a combination of network, data management and workstation based tools, knowledge workers can now subscribe to relevant information that can be easily navigated and quickly comprehended. Faster access to data allows enterprise data to be transformed into constructive, valuable information.

 

14)  Software Applications:

        SAP 
        GEAC - D & B, Millennium
        PeopleSoft 
        Microsoft Products

Comment:
Citadel assists clients in planning, implementation, and evaluation of enterprise-wide communications networks. We use a structured approach for assisting clients in essential planning for hardware, software, carrier, and other support needs in an enterprise-wide communications network.

Mainframe development and support: Provided User and technical support for Geac (Dun and Bradstreet) GL: M, AP: M, PO: M, AR: M, and FA:M systems, as well as an in house Project Accounting and Billing system.

Designed and developed new procedures/reporting in the Accounts Receivable system that would facilitate better reporting on the reorganization of Market Area. Design and development of new financial subsystem, containing several new screens/interfaces/reports to reflect Strategic Business Unit realignment.

Responsible for complete support of Dun & Bradstreet's General Ledger, Accounts Payable and Purchase Order systems, including the design and development of a conversion from the DBS Purchase Order system to the a proms Accounts Payable/Purchase Order system.

 

15)  Help desk solutions/technologies

        Corel Products Lotus Products
        Claris Products Adobe Products
        Web Browsing Products Web Development Products
        Unisys Products IBM Products

Comment:
Technology Management encompasses the broad spectrum of processes, skills and tools that companies employ to efficiently control and utilize their information systems resources. Effectively managing technology enables efficient, consistent, and secure access to information. Building solid systems management foundation, which addresses availability management, problem and change management, Help Desk, operations, security and business recovery is essential in developing a successful business.

 

16)   Data Development

        Data Analysis 
        Data Modeling Facilitating and Consulting

Comment:
Citadel works with clients to unlock data and create a rich information environment across an enterprise. Citadel’s decision support services focuses on Executive Information Systems, Decision Support Systems, Analysis and Reporting, and Database Mining. Building a solid information foundation is essential to compete successfully in today’s global marketplace.

 

17)  GIS Software Intergraph

        Certificate Authority
        Smart Card/Token Card
        Biometrics 
        VAN
        Electronic Catalogues 
        VPN

Comment:
Citadel has experienced groups of professionals specializing in providing document management, work flow, and image processing solutions for a wide variety of businesses and clients. Our experience in both document management, and its application in systems for a wide variety of industries, is unparalleled.

  

18)   Electronic Commerce/EDI

        ACH 
        PKI
        ANSI x12, 
        EDI Internet/Intranet Solutions
        EFT

Comment:
Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is the multi-functional communication technology that facilitates a paperless exchange of commercial information between partners. EDI expedites the preparation, communication, and processing of documents and transactions, eliminating the expense, errors and redundancy associated with paper processing. As well as improving cycle time, productivity, and data quality, EDI strengthens existing commercial relationships and attracts new EDI-compliant trading partners. From superior customer service to operational efficiency, EDI enhances your position in today’s globally interactive marketplace.

 

19)   Electronic Document Management Systems

        ODMA
        TIF
        BMP 
        JPEG
        GIF 
        PDT

Comment:
Document Management is the process of creating, reviewing, approving, releasing, and accessing the information that describes your business. Many businesses are adopting technology to assist them in managing this process because of the tremendous opportunities that exist to make this effort more efficient and cost effective.

 

20)  Telecommunications Wide Area Networks

        Public Switched Networks
       Virtual Private Networks
        High Capacity Infrastructure 
        SONET
        ATM 
        WDM

Comment:
Enterprise Networks consist of the hardware, software, and connectivity required to effectively transporting voice, data, and video across an enterprise. Moreover, these enterprise-wide infrastructures are typically vendor- and system-independent, and provide for anywhere-to-anywhere connectivity, locally, regionally, or globally. Sometimes referred to as the fourth utility, networks have become absolute prerequisites to the implementation of almost any mainstream information system of importance to business today.

 

21)   IT Staffing, Other Specific Technologies

        Technical & Application Expertise
        Customer Reporting


        Upgrades & Update Bulletin Installation
        User Training & Education

Comment:
Software migration services help businesses leverage the functionality and investment of current computer systems, while building the paths to utilize new, advanced technology. Software migration allows companies to renovate current systems without losing their entire financial investment. Citadel has assembled a team of highly trained and experienced specialists who are practiced in all facets of testing procedures and processes. Unlike software vendors and implementation consultants who simply provide training, our professionals take full responsibility for data quality, user balancing and control functions, involving the users and internal auditors during the entire implementation process.

 

22)  Graphic/Web Design Tools

        NetDynamics
        PowerBuilder
        IBM Visual Age
        JAVA,
        Visual Basic

Comment:
The Internet is a collection of thousand of networks connecting tens of millions of users in companies, governments, and educational institutions around the world. Through the Internet, individuals and organizations can instantly access and exchange information, process vital business transactions, and build strategic business advantages. Over the past year, Internet growth has been explosive. Analysts in every industry agree that the Internet is a critical tool for opening new markets and lowering costs of doing business. Citadel has the business experience and technical skills you need to realize the broad-based benefits of using the Internet. Our professionals specialize in providing end-to-end services for making the Internet connection, using Internet’s tools and protocols, and understanding the Internet’s true potential. Whether you need information retrieval from Gopher servers, or need to establish a marketing presence on the World Wide Web, Citadel has the knowledge and resources to help you stay competitive in today’s global marketplace.

 

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PROJECT EXPERIENCES

 

                                         Millennium Experience

 

Production supports for: HR:M, GL:M, AP:M, AR:M, FA:M, and VP:M

 

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                                      SAP Experience

SAP Projects:

Design and develop inbound/outbound interfaces. Managed all external and internal SAPscript forms (SD, MM, WM, QM, PM, PP, FI, SM, HR). Configured output determination and text determination. Developed interactive reports. Developed digitized A/P check layout set, including MICR line and signature. Taught SAPscript and ABAP courses at client site for all IT, permanent, employees. Designed and developed conversion programs. Developed multiple Basis utility transactions to facilitate system administration. Designed and developed all bar-coding requirements.

Application developer lead for the FI module. Customized and configured the FI module to meet business requirements of the company. Responsible for data mapping, conversion and migration from an AS/400 system into SAP. Developed customized ABAP/4 reports to meet the requirements of the finance business units. Developed customized ABAP/4 programs to perform batch input, as well as using and modifying the standard batch input programs in SAP. Migrated data into SAP, using customized and standard batch input programs. Created and maintained user profiles and authorizations.

Created and modified SAPscript layout sets and ABAP/4 programs for various FI and SD documents. Created ABAP/4 Query for financial reports and lists. Created and maintained an interface with CitiNet. Prepared and performed corrections and transports

to be carried out between instances. Defined and configured output devices. Wrote and executed test scripts to unit test and system test functionality of the system. Trained end users in using the module and the system.

ABAP/4: performed analysis, design and development of custom transaction and report development, implemented various user exit, menu exit and coding block enhancements.

 

Undertook the following tasks and responsibilities in the areas of:

Types of Projects:

        MM:

                E-Business (web-base application development etc.)

                Development of Material Master data conversion and load program

                Development of Purchase Order conversion and load program

                Development of Consumption (Forecasting) conversion and load program

                Development of Material Determination conversion and load program

                Development of Purchase Information Record conversion and load program

                Development of custom Dialog programs used in the cleansing of conversion data

 

        FI:

                Development of Employee Receivables conversion and load program

                Development of Positive Payment file interface to vendor banking institution

 

SAP Conversion and Support: Completed all phases of data conversion process for three locations from Geac, (Dun and Bradstreet), General Ledger to SAP R/3 FI modules. Duties included design, development, and mapping, of a large number of Batch Data Communication (BDC's) for loading of all Financial master file data including Cost and Profit Centers, Chart of Accounts, and General Ledger balances.

Created several SAP function modules to convert legacy master data to SAP master data. Designed and developed a series of screens used to collect, validate, cleanse, and convert all financial master data using ABAP/4 dialog programming language. Designed and developed Purchase Order conversion to SAP.

Responsible for design and development of several interfaces both to and from SAP R/3 and various legacy systems. Designed and developed the process to load customer information into Taxware's Step software to be used with SAP R/3 Sales and Use Tax system. Design and development of several reports for all SAP R/3 FI modules including several Use and Sales Tax reports.

Design and development of Bank Check Reconciliation programs/procedures to interface bank files with SAP R/3 system. Responsible for support of Lockbox procedures and bank interface.

Created several programs to reclassify various financial documents in order to hit the appropriate Project system networks and activities.

 

Production Support 

Product Installation

DBS - Dun & Bradstreet

Dun & Bradstreet Software Interfaces Project Management Technical & Application Expertise Customer Reporting Upgrades & Update Bulletin Installation User Training & Education.

SAP

ABAP/4, FI, HR, MM, PM, PP, QM, SD, SM, WM.

ORACLE

ORACLE 7.0, 8.

PEOPLESOFT

DEVELOPER

 

 

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PREVIOUS PROJECT PARTICIPATION:

 

Manufacturing:

 

Finance:

 

Government:

  

Education:

Public Utility:

 

Insurance:

 

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CLIENT CONTINUITY

One of Citadel's most distinguishing characteristics is our client loyalty. We believe that our record in this area is outstanding and that the basis of client satisfaction is getting the job done well. Every client has different needs, perception, level of expertise, environment, industry, organization form, procedures and resource adequacy. Successful vendors have to adjust to a variety of settings with a minimum of disruption to client operations.

Citadel has helped many companies worldwide, municipalities, and utilities harness the power of their information systems - reducing costs, increasing productivity, and enhancing decision-making. We do so by offering expertise in the administrative processes critical to those markets, as well as a spectrum of supporting products and services, from software and turnkey systems management to implementation assistance and dedicated onsite support. The demand for Citadel products and services has, in fact, grown dramatically, nearly tripling over the past five years.

We continued to build upon our strong performance of previous years, foster collaboration and making further progress toward our other major goals, financial and otherwise. These achievements are all the more gratifying because we have attained them at a time when growth is slow in our industry as a whole.

 

Business-To-Business Partnership

Today, more than ever, building a business requires a comprehensive approach. All the elements, whether employer personnel or sub-contractor, must work together toward one common goal. At Citadel, we understand this need, and we are putting increasing emphasis on business-to-business collaboration so that we can provide our customers with more integrated information and solutions.

The greatest impact of collaboration is that it gives our associates a wider spectrum of products to sell. As a result, they can be more effective in meeting customers' needs. Collaboration is also instrumental in giving Citadel a seamless appearance to customers who purchase a variety of our products and services. This is important factor in building long-term relationship.

The ability to share information across the partnership becomes increasingly important as our family of company's works together more closely in meeting customer needs. As a result, we are giving high priority to developing the technological infrastructure that enables us to use our information resources effectively. The better we manage information, the more we can do to serve customers and the stronger our partnership with them becomes. Furthermore, the ability to leverage information through technology has very positive implications for top- and bottom-line growth.

Building a lifetime partnership means going that extra mile. We took our first step toward this goal in early 1995 after one our customers boasted that "Citadel is a partner that customers can depend on when they face decisions that affect their project needs".

 

     What you need, when you need it.

Building a lifetime partnership means providing the products to fit our customers need, whatever their size or financial category. Therefore we look at the customer relationship as a continuum over time, and each point in that continuum represents a need that we can meet.

     Responsive Service, year in and year out.

Building a lifetime partnership means maintaining a consistently strong track record in customer service. Some businesses provide great service some of the time, and others provide a little service all of the time. A company that wants to keep customers for a lifetime has to provide outstanding service all of the time.

One of Citadel guiding corporate values is "Serve our customers as they want to be served." This means, in part, responding promptly each and every time a customer has a need, a problem or a question. It also means building strong relationships with the people and organizations who distribute our products to the public, because good service and high customer satisfaction are goals we share with them.

Via our Onsite services partnership, Citadel works with each client to optimize or improve the client's existing computing and information management operations or restructure those operations as needed, utilizing new, less costly yet more productive information systems.

Clients can tailor our Onsite services partnerships to meet their own specific and unique requirements.

Citadel uses proven methodologies to match a client's needs to the most cost-efficient computing environment; improve computer facilities; develop and implement software; plan the information management process; and measure performance. Onsite services enhance service while controlling data processing costs-often with immediate financial benefits-and improve the control of computing resources. Customers who are confident that they will always get the service they need are customers who will stay with Citadel for a lifetime.

Citadel commitment to our customers means, first of all, having a clear view of who they are and how they measure satisfaction. We make every effort to listen to our diverse customer base, and respond in ways that exceed expectations.

That might mean introducing exciting new products, strengthening marketing and distribution, and improving responsiveness and efficiency. While the means may be different for each of our customers, the end remains constant - to provide customers with quality, value and satisfaction. This is the cornerstone of Citadel business and our operating philosophy. We recognize that providing superior products and service for our customers is essential to producing excellent financial performance for our associates.

 

    Expert guidance in a changing World.

Building a lifetime partnership means offering practical advice when our customers have important decisions to make. The process of building a company is like a journey. Each step represents a decision that must be made. And because life is always changing, there are always new decisions to consider. Citadel is a partner that customers can depend on when they face decisions that affect their future. We've been in the computer technology business since 1981, and we're a noted source of knowledge and expertise. Likewise, our partners are experienced professionals who are experts in their fields.

We cannot make decisions for our customers, but we can provide the information, options and advice they need to make informed decisions of their own. Our good advice builds the trust and confidence that keep customers with Citadel for a lifetime.

 

    Here for the long haul.

Building a lifetime partnership means that we are here when it counts, no matter how far in the future. Citadel has been here for 20 years, and we will be here tomorrow.

We have the long-term view that it takes to build a financially secure future, and our products are designed to last a lifetime. Our customers know they can count on Citadel to deliver on its promises.

This success is a testimony to three important factors. One factor is our associates. We asked a great deal of them and they more than met the challenge. We thank everyone at Citadel for a job well done.

The second factor is our customers and business-to-business partnership program. They are simply doing an outstanding job, as our sales growth demonstrates. We thank them for their business, and we will work to keep strengthening our partnership with them.

The third factor is that we have focused on the right strategies for growth. As we move forward into a new fiscal year, we are confident that we are building on a strong strategic foundation. Our goal is clear and simple: to build customers for a lifetime by strengthening the bonds that link our businesses to each other and to our customers. The result will be greater financial security for our customers, greater value for our business-to-business partners and more opportunities for our associates. We believe that Citadel has exciting prospects for the future.

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