About Innovent

Innovent Solutions is a consulting firm, dedicated to the improvement of decision making through effective information management. Using commercial and open source technologies, we build systems that enable our clients and their customers to:

• Find the information they want and need
• Understand the context and meaning of information
• Trust the information to be accurate and timely

Our focus on customer goals and objectives combined with deep technical depth and experience, allow us to build successful, high visibility solutions that deliver immediate value to our clients.

Information Access & Search

For today's knowledge worker, finding the right information is critical in making intelligent decisions. In most organizations, information is stored in numerous locations including websites, databases, content repositories, and application services. Being able to quickly, securely and reliably locate information is a critical component of a search solution.

Today's eCommerce web users are very sophisticated. They want and expect to find product information to make a purchase decision or obtain support about products already purchased quickly and intuitively. Additionally, eCommerce site managers need the tools necessary to create a merchandised eCommerce site to reach customers with the appropriate products at the right time to increase conversions.

The Innovent Solutions Information Access & Search practice designs and builds solutions that enable users to find the information they need when they need it.

Business Intelligence

Innovent Solutions has built a set of services to enable users to understand the information contained in their data assets. We help to select, design and utilize the appropriate BI tools that will be effective and affordable over the long run.

We have partnered with the several BI vendors, as well as work with a variety of open source solutions, but consider our approach valuable regardless of the reporting tool. We work with the tools that best match a client's business requirements with the goal of leveraging existing IT infrastructure. We focus on the solution first, and move to the specific implementation details for the tools once we have a clear idea of the business objectives.

Data Management

Innovent Solutions' Data Management Practice focuses on ensuring that the data generated by a business entity is appropriately managed to deliver actionable information to decision-makers. Although very much linked to the technology environment, Data Management addresses the issues faced by the business community in using the data within their organization. Examples of data management deficiencies include low data quality, non-integrated enterprise data models, absence of data governance and poor analytical and reporting capabilities.

With the goal of solving business issues with data, our services address areas such as governance, enterprise data modelling, data profiling and quality, data integration, augmenting and monitoring.

Application Development

Innovent has delivered a number of application development projects for clients of various industries and sizes, many with a focus on information delivery to customers, employees and partners. Our capabilities include gathering of business, functional and technical requirements, creation of functional and technical design and specifications, project management and solution delivery based on your vision and budget. We focus on using methodology with a small "m". This means that we always insist on a stable process to complete the work, but are flexible on the actual details of the process.

With a focus on flexibility and cost, we work with the technologies you use, such as J2EE and Java, .Net and C#, databases such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL, MySQL and DB2, application servers such as Websphere, Weblogic and Apache, and have embraced numerous open source and related technologies.

Open Source Software

Innovent is a strong proponent of the adoption of OSS technology. Our selection approach can be informal or formal using methodologies such as the Open Source Maturity Model (OSMM) or Qualification and Selection of Open Source (QSOS).

Based on client needs, our core goals are to:
• Identify capabilities required for the particular solution
• Identify costs and capabilities of existing software assets
• Perform licensing and financial analysis
• Provide an assessment and recommendations

Whether it be within our Information Access & Search, Business Intelligence or Data Management practice, we have found many reliable, scalable and secure alternatives to commercial software that can be utilized in the enterprise.