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Key Benefits to IT Departments

Orbees enables the IT departments to benefit in the following ways: Higher productivity and improved ROI for IT projects Timely delivery of IT applications and services well within budget Cost effective maintenance of legacy applications On-demand access to technical and functional expertise Enhanced ability to attract and retain IT staff who can focus on innovation and leading edge projects

Orbees IT Services for Higher Education

Information Technology (IT) departments in Higher Education community face a common problem: Rapidly growing demand for IT services and applications from the school community far outstrip the delivery capacity of schools internal IT resources. As a result, the IT leadership is forced to postpone or abandon high impact projects and services. This negatively affects the institutions ability to meet its strategic goals in the areas of Teaching, Research, Innovation, Collaboration and Administration. Learn how IT departments in higher education community have overcome this predicament by using Orbees Higher Education Services.

Orbees Solution Offerings

Application Development: Orbees assists in the development of new applications for Research, Teaching, Collaboration and Administration. Orbees acts as an extended organization of the IT departments in higher education institutions and offers the following: Development and customization of administration applications such as student information systems (SIS), human capital management (HCM) systems, financial applications, and client relationship management (CRM) applications. Custom application development for research and teaching projects Custom application development for online marketing, subscriber management, event registration etc. Business intelligence applications and data warehouse development Development of e-Learning and collaboration applications that leverage social networking and web 2.0 concepts. Development of collaboration applications using commercial platforms such as Microsoft SharePoint as well as open source platforms such as Sakai Application Integration for Enhanced Business Flows: Orbees helps enhance the institutions business processes by integrating legacy applications with new applications. We also help to integrate the applications with web services such as payment gateways, social networking sites, external data services etc. Strategy, Process Improvement, and Best Practices: Based on the extensive experience gained from working with higher education community, Orbees provides strategic and process consulting services to IT departments. We help to streamline the workflows and to improve the efficiency of the IT services such as project management, quality assurance, help desk services etc. Orbees also works with IT departments to provide functional consulting in the areas of CRM, data management and analysis. Deployment and Customization: Orbees assists the IT department in the customization and rollout of commercial and open source applications in the areas of school administration, learning management (LMS), web content management (CMS) and others. Web Enablement and Re-architecting: We web-enable legacy applications for better access by the school community. Orbees also helps the IT departments to redesign and migrate the school websites to various web content management systems. Additional services include upgrading the older web applications to the latest web 2.0 standards.

"One of the values provided by Orbees to Higher Ed is inherent in its business model that ensures continuity of resources and staff working with the institution. The net effect is the building of strong relationship, institutional knowledge and trust that results in an effective collaboration." - Top 10 Business School, Head of Computing Services

Orbees Inc.
www.orbees.com
44250 Old Warm Springs, Suite 10 Fremont, CA 94538 Email: info@orbees.com Phone: 1-510-623-0400 Fax: 1-510-578-7645

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Maintenance of Legacy Applications: By taking ownership of the maintenance and enhancement of legacy applications, Orbees frees-up the in-house IT resources who can focus on high impact projects. Legacy applications can be custom applications as well as commercial/open source applications. We also enable porting of legacy applications to standard frameworks such as Microsoft SharePoint and enhancing of older applications to leverage newer technologies.

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Unique Advantages of Orbees
Our customers in higher education community trust and value Orbees services due to the following unique advantages: Expertise in solving problems that are unique to higher education community Customer-centric relationship culture Reliability in quality, expertise and timely delivery Dedicated team for each institution provides continuity, consistency, and better awareness of customer business processes Well defined processes, end-to-end project visibility, knowledge transfer and thorough documentation Cost advantage due to onshore-offshore global delivery model

Orbees IT Services for Higher Education

Solution Methodology
Orbees has a mature delivery process that utilizes a combination of highly skilled on-shore and off-shore resources that brings speed and cost advantages. At every step, we work alongside our clients. Prolific Relationship: As the first step, we understand the business and strategic goals of the customer to structure a prolific relationship between Orbees and the customer. If required, our team of experts may initially perform an extensive study of the existing systems and practices. Based on our findings, we work with the customer to introduce best practices and technologies. This helps in designing the most efficient solutions. Our emphasis is on improving ROI, reducing the total cost of ownership while ensuring highest quality of service. Extended Organization Model: As the next step, our on-shore project manager will act as the bridge between the customer and the offsite resources ensuring a virtually seamless extension of the customers capabilities. In the Extended Organization concept created herein, our customer dedicated team will be focused solely on the customers needs. This ensures consistency and continuity. Knowledge of Customer: Fundamental to Orbees organizational philosophy is our commitment to provide value to customers by designing solutions that perfectly fit to their business goals, IT, and business process environment. To achieve this, Orbees experts will work to understand the macro and micro issues of the customer and design the solutions accordingly. We have internal tools and processes to manage customer specific knowledge that we gain through our projects, which in turn helps us provide better and cost effective solutions. Responsiveness: We have the capability to mobilize additional resources if the customer schedule demands, or to meet the ad-hoc needs. We maintain constant communication and provide projects status on a continuous basis. Finally, customers have direct access to key executives of Orbees to discuss concerns and resolve issues immediately

Technology Expertise
.NET Framework, C#, ASP.NET, VB.NET J2EE Framework, Java, JSP, Servlets, Struts Framework, JDBC Javascript, PHP, VBscript, ActiveX WebLogic, WebSphere, Apache, Tomcat Oracle & Developer 2000, Jdeveloper, WebDB SQL Server, Oracle, Access, MySQL C, C++, Visual C++ Microsoft SharePoint, Sakai

Contact Orbees

Orbees Inc.
www.orbees.com
44250 Old Warm Springs, Suite 10 Fremont, CA 94538 Email: info@orbees.com Phone: 1-510-623-0400 Fax: 1-510-578-7645

To benefit from the speed and cost advantages of Orbees Higher Education Services, email us at info@orbees.com or call us at (510) 623 0400.

About Orbees
Orbees is a global services provider delivering innovative IT and Marketing & Communication services to Higher Education community. We help our customers to complete mission-critical projects well within time and budget. We act as an extended organization to our customers and complement their in-house expertise and resources. Orbees is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay area with a global delivery center located in Hyderabad, India. Our current customers include institutions such as University of California-Berkeley, University of California-Irvine and others.

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