Since 1985, Chateaux has been providing technology services and products to define, design, and deliver high-quality corporate information to mid-market and enterprise-level organizations. Chateaux offers both project and resource services in the following solution areas: Business Intelligence / Analytics, Data Management, Application Integration & Development, and Lean Architecture.
Creating the Strategy and Roadmap, Mapping the Direction…
Creating a strategy requires an understanding of the lay of the land. Where are you going? How will you get there? Who will take you? Who knows the detours, roadblocks, fast lanes? Is the fastest path also the most obvious? We help create the definition for the project using traditional techniques that involve "active listening," "model building," "high-level planning." With a great definition, a great design is eminently achievable.
Design.
Visualizing the Solution…
Based on a solid definition, designs move from ordinary to exceptional. Great designs combine engineering with esthetic formulation. We create great designs by taking the constraints and using them to your advantage. It's not what is seen directly in front, but what is envisioned behind the façade that makes it all work.
Deliver.
Building, Testing, Remediating, Implementing…
With a great design in hand, delivery becomes a matter of craftsmanship, and, frankly, hard work. Understanding the intent of the design, creating exceptional code, implementing with determination and purpose. These are the methods and techniques that contribute to our overwhelming success in a difficult field.
Employs its "Define. Design. Deliver." methodology with each engagement
Integrates its lean architecture approach with agile development
Cultivates strategic and long-term partnerships with clients
Utilizes a team-based approach for all projects
Maintains strong alliances with technology partners including SAP, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle and Informatica
Brings in-depth industry experience for CPG and Retail, Financial Services and Leasing, Manufacturing and Automotive, Healthcare and Life Sciences
Integrating with:
Service Oriented Architecture with Microsoft .NET Framework
Team Foundation Server / SharePoint Integration
Custom Mobile and Web Applications
SAP BusinessObjects, Cognos, QlikView and Tableau
In 1984 (before we were incorporated), we secured our first client. The name of the company was Inventories Specialists, Inc. and their business was valuation of hospital drug inventories (hence the name!). They had six employees and they typed (on old-fashioned typewriters) every counted item, then laboriously looked up each price in massive tomes, finally arriving at a total inventory value on which their hospital client could rely. They needed help. Of course in those days the PC was viewed simply as a glorified machine one would use to store recipes, maybe some simple lists.
After some very interesting conversations, and not a little skepticism, we were able to persuade the owners that we would be able to create for them a way to store all of those counted items and match them up to a predefined list of drugs that they would build and store (a precursor to what we now know as a data mart). We showed them a way that they could mine that information not only for their existing clients but also as a proprietary product offered to their future clients, leveraging the deluge of information pouring in every day. It worked, and they quickly became the leader of their industry.
That was over a quarter of a century ago. Today, the company, renamed to Hospital Inventories Specialists, Inc. (www.hisi.com) employs almost 200 people and is widely regarded as the premier organization that hospitals around the nation count on to obtain an independent, reliable value of their assets.
And Chateaux, after all those years, continues to provide HISI with top-notch service that keeps them competitive and profitable. Frank Grande, one of HISI's founding partners, told us recently that, "Chateaux has an incredible track record of providing great team members who can help us move our business forward. We would really be lost without them!"
When we talk about partnering with our clients, this is what we mean. It's a long-term commitment towards combining thoughtful collaboration with best practice methodologies. It's what we do.
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CASE STUDY
Automotive One of the world's largest automotive companies is able to receive important data from all its dealerships with the help of Business Objects and Chateaux. Read more
In 1984 (before we were incorporated), we secured our first client. The name of the company was Inventories Specialists, Inc. and their business was valuation of hospital drug inventories (hence the name!). They had six employees and they typed (on old-fashioned typewriters) every counted item, then laboriously looked up each price in massive tomes, finally arriving at a total inventory value on which their hospital client could rely. They needed help. Of course in those days the PC was viewed simply as a glorified machine one would use to store recipes, maybe some simple lists.
