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At Blackstone Technology Group, our core mission is to implement creative, efficient, and future-focused information technology solutions that help to shape innovative companies into industry leaders. We are succeeding in this mission by providing a unique and comprehensive suite of service offerings, including System Integration, IT Staffing, and IT Infrastructure Services. Blackstone’s information technology solutions are helping to transform companies in the Telecommunications, Financial Services, Energy, and eBusiness categories into the leaders of the new economy.

COMPLETE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS

We provide companies ranging from aggressive start-ups to progressive Fortune 1000 firms with our broad suite of information technology services. Blackstone’s three-pronged approach, combining System Integration, IT Staffing, and IT Infrastructure Services, lets our clients rely on Blackstone for complete IT solutions.

Our unique approach to System Integration allows Blackstone to consistently provide customers with IT solutions that make sense based upon their individual needs. The Blackstone method ensures integrity, honesty, and teamwork throughout every step of the IT process. By standing by these key values in everything that we do, we have established lasting relationships with our customers and partners.

System Integration Services

Our System Integration experts take on the whole IT picture for our clients: from analysis, design and development of business applications to their physical implementation. Our lifecycle development methodology ensures a high standard of quality throughout the development process, and is also flexible enough to adjust to each of our clients’ needs. In fact, we like to meld our techniques with those of our client to ensure a smooth and efficient team-based approach that ends in success.

Our consulting teams are kept “lean and mean” to guarantee the most efficient use of our customer’s IT dollar. Fortunately, the teams are comprised of self-motivated IT experts who thrive on turning technical puzzles into future-focused solutions. This allows “lean and mean” to be “cost effective and creative”.

Information Technology Staffing Services

At traditional consulting firms, independent contractors are seen as the enemy. And it makes sense; a contractor could potentially take away precious billable hours from the firm’s consultants. But what if a customer ’s business needs do not call for all of the skills, and the price tag that comes along with those skills, that a firm’s consultant has to offer? This scenario is the impetus behind our IT Staffing Services.

At Blackstone, our broadest goal is to provide our clients with solutions that make sense for them. And sometimes the right solution is not a Blackstone consultant. If this is the case, our staffing experts will find an IT professional whose skill set and price tag match the specific IT needs of the client.

Our staffing capabilities remove the conflict of interest that can sometimes exist between the needs of a consulting firm and the business needs of a client. This allows Blackstone to maintain the professional integrity that is paramount to developing and maintaining strong partnerships with our customers. Information Technology Infrastructure Services

Companies have better things to do than to try to keep up with the latest type of router configuration or newest “enabling” technology to hit the market. That is why Blackstone offers IT Infrastructure services. Our IT experts help to define the long-term information technology architecture needs of our clients. This is of course only part of the equation. We also procure and install the hardware and software and keep a close eye on any maintenance needs. By developing and delivering hardware and software procurement strategies, we can make sure our clients are never playing “catch-up” with the technical foundation of their company.

INDUSTRY EXPERTISE

At Blackstone, we specialize in building Web capabilities across several industries, including Energy, Financial Services, Telecommunications, and the broad eBusiness sector.

Financial Services Practice

Nothing has driven change in the financial services industry more than information technology. Convergence, globalization, and electronic markets are all the result of ongoing advances in computing and networking technologies. Currently IT is propelling the industry toward the emerging online marketplace where conventional notions of business are being challenged and in some cases redefined. These can be daunting challenges to a company that is not confident of their IT situation.

That’s where the Financial Services Practice of Blackstone brings value to our clients. We offer financial services firms a complete portfolio of IT services and capabilities complemented by a thorough understanding of the global financial industry.

We help financial services firms cope with the challenges of rapid change. Our consultants understand and implement the latest, most innovative technology solutions used in the marketplace. We have the knowledge and experience in the financial industry to make the timely and critical decisions that enable our clients to surpass their competition. Whether our clients need custom front-ends or back-office integration, we have the project management and system implementation capabilities to ensure they have the systems they need to make better decisions faster.

Utility Practice

As the deregulation of the energy markets continues to accelerate, it has become undeniable that a strategic relationship has evolved between deregulation and electronic commerce. Blackstone’s Utility Consulting Practice understands the evolution of deregulation and how e-Commerce plays an integral role in the new energy marketplace. We are able to translate this intimate industry knowledge into IT solutions that are customer-focused, scalable, and smart.

This new market dynamic has also placed a huge strain on the current IT infrastructure of many energy firms. Existing Customer Information Systems are not able to handle the new complex billing, metering, and enrollment requirements. At the same time, regulatory agencies are forcing wholesale and retail trading partners to move all business transactions to the Internet. By utilizing Blackstone as a long-term integrator-partner, companies are able to meet these infrastructure challenges and keep up with the growing demands of deregulation.

The energy industry has seen its paradigm not just shift, but actually fall over and crumble. Blackstone’s consultants understand the dynamics of this new playing field and have utilized this knowledge to implement creative and intelligent IT solutions for such innovative companies as Utility.com.

eBusiness Practice

“Forrester Research predicts that annual business-to-business sales will reach $1 trillion by 2003”. It seems like every analyst who covers the eBusiness space is echoing this sentiment. Whether B2B sales grow to $900 billion or $1 trillion, the reality is this: to be viable in today’s business environment, a company must have a dynamic electronic business strategy. The companies that “get it”, the companies that are not just slapping a web page on their legacy apps and calling it eBusiness, are helping to build the electronic marketplaces that will define the future of electronic business.

Blackstone enables companies that “get it” to “do it”. By leveraging strong systems integration relationships with companies like Vitria, Tibco, and WebMethods Blackstone makes eBusiness strategies a reality. We are enabling companies to integrate their business processes and their enterprise systems, which in turn allow them to offer new and innovative services. These companies are seamlessly conducting eBusiness transactions with their customers and vendors and reaping the benefits. Blackstone constructs business systems that help companies do business the way they need to, quickly, intelligently, and with a customer focus.

Telecommunications Practice

Increasingly, the words change and telecommunications have become synonymous. The forces behind the changing face of telecom include technological advancement, regulatory restructuring, digital convergence, consolidation, and globalization. This environment of change has created new markets, new players, and a host of new challenges.

In this chaotic arena, the implementation of future-focused information technology solutions has become a true source of competitive advantage. Blackstone’s consultants possess the experience, expertise, and industry knowledge necessary to provide our telecommunications clients with the scalable eBusiness solutions that enable them to capitalize on change. Our consultants allow our customers to deliver new services and technologies to the marketplace, leverage investments in legacy infrastructure, capitalize on next generation systems and technologies, and manage the effects of mergers and acquisitions.

Blackstone offers eBusiness integration capabilities, including the development of business strategy, the definition of appropriate architecture and infrastructure environments, development and implementation of “end-to-end” systems integration solutions, and web-enablement of applications. These solutions will place Blackstone’s clients in a prime position to take advantage of emerging opportunities within the new telecommunications industry.