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IMEA Professional Services Offering

IMEA is a full service business and IT consultancy with background and experience in both simple and complex solution development and deployment. Our teams address need you may not have even recognized yet, and leverage their experience to ensure success at every step.

Identity Management Managing identities in a broad enterprise environment can be a difficult and challenging task. Our experts specialize in addressing this need, bringing with them decades of experience and hands on solutions from across several industries. Look at what our experts can do to aid your enterprise needs! read more	Our Identity Management services address the critical need for enterprises to properly manage individuals accessing their digital environments, the characteristics (or identity traits) that pertain to those persons of interest, and the lifecycle management of the identities and related characteristics. This provides organizations with tremendous visibility into the security of their digital environments by answering the all important question, “Do I really know that this individual is who they claim to be on my network?” With a comprehensive understanding to that question, risk profiles allow for solid business logic to rapidly and correctly determine if those individuals really should obtain access to applications, services, or data
Enterprise Architecture Enterprise Architecture requires a deep understanding of business and technology to succeed. Our consultants provide decades of experience in understanding your business needs, and rapidly providing the visibility into cross cutting architectural needs for your organization. read more	Our team of experts is well versed in Enterprise Architecture Framework definition, development and deployment efforts across industry and the government. Our teams fully understand the categorizations and definitions of architecture, and apply that knowledge at every step of any engagement to ensure successful delivery of solutions that not only address EA requirements, but also offer visibility into financial investments strategies that make sense for organizations, both large and small. Enterprise Architecture definition and development required both business understanding and technology exposure. Our team provides both sets of core expertise required, which allows us to provide meaningful and useful tools for senior executives and managers for decreasing investment needs over time through elimination of redundancy, faster time to market for solutions that meet business demands, and applying common sense security solutions for cross-cutting architectural needs.
Services Oriented Architecture Standards bodies, such as the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS), have worked diligently to derive the guidance and recommendations for Services Oriented Architecture (SOA). See what we offer with our vast experience in these new paradigms. read more	IMEA is well versed in the recent adoption of SOA in industry, and the OASIS standards forum recommendations that outline the principals of SOA. Our teams have demonstrated past performance for SOA implementation that aid in the goals of information sharing, data quality improvement, and simplification of solution implementation through the use of commonly accepted web service approaches. We will abstract away the technology complexity for these business focused approaches and provide the solutions you need quickly and efficiently.
Information Assurance Security is only asgood as the weakest link in the chain. Information assurance seeks to analyze this chain and looks across people, processes, and technology to elevate overall security posture. See what our services provide you in addressing these critical needs. read more	IMEA is unique in its capabilities for Information Assurance. Our corporate leadership is expressly aware of the challenges of Information Assurance. Recognizing that there are a number of government mandates and regulatory instructions across all industries, internal or public security concerns surrounding the identity theft problem, and a real need to protect privacy, health, financial, or corporate sensitive information, our experts apply the strongest and best security approached available today to address these needs. Our solution does more than apply security templates and “quick hit lists” that feed a false sense of security for your organization. We provide the critical thinking and time tested industry approaches that take the security demands head on. We assess the current state of your environment, compare that against a future state vision, and deliver you a report that serves as a roadmap for security posture improvement over time. Further, we will help you implement that security roadmap through the implementation of policy, procedures, and technology needed to properly secure your environment and reduce your risk to the real world challenges that exist today.
Quality Assurance Delivery of products, services, or applications that don't hit the mark is akin to burning money on bad investments. To really be sure of the quality you are receiving for the investments you are making, it is always best to be sure by engaging an Independent Validation and Verification (IV&V) team that knows that needs to be done, and how to get to the finish line. See what IMEA offers before you engage in a project that leads to little or no value! read more	IMEA is a full service business and IT consultancy. We provide the independent verification services you need to ensure that the teams you already have engaged are providing a quality that is commensurate with your needs and what others have already accomplished across other comparable industries. Our teams know what can be realized, and apply that knowledge to help you understand what you should be expecting from your existing delivery teams. We provide decades or background and experience to you, and provide you with the supporting material to justify our claim of anticipated quality you should be expecting. Sometimes we have to face the reality that either technology has not achieved a requisite level of maturity to fully and properly address a need. Sometimes the problem is more related to a lack of understanding about a problem that delivery teams are trying to solve. Other times, the problem is that the problem is well understood, but the approach being used is all wrong. Our teams get engaged and assess all of these factors, and provide you with a detailed understanding that allows you to answer the questions, “Why is this happening, what can I do, and how do I fix it?” You don’t have to feel like you are all alone with sometimes daunting technology or business problems. IMEA can provide you with the support you need to address these, and other quality concerns, today.
Compliance & Audit Compliance is a requirement that any organization will struggle to address. Audits are equally as enjoyable to deal with. Check out what our staff can do to address this critical and necessary function in your organization. read more	Our teams are well versed in all of the various compliance and audit requirements across federal, financial, product manufacture, and health industries, to name a few. We provide full service compliance and audit services for our customers, addressing needs such as the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) audit standards, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) audit standards, just to name a few of the more notable audit requirements that face our customers. We have the ability to not only address a one time audit request, but we have our experienced and skilled consultants provide the thinking for paradigms and solutions that address the core aspects of people, process, and technology to offer you options that allow you to more proactively address these compliance and audit concerns with tangible solutions such as Identity and Access Management (IAM) frameworks, PKI signature and encryption solutions, disk encryption solutions, VPN technology, Firewall ruleset assessments and recommendations, just to name a few. These solutions require adjustments in processes, education of people, and in some cases new technology implementations that put simply, our competitors cannot offer. IMEA is the right team to address your compliance and audit needs.
Program/Project Management Proper management and governance over engagements can mean the difference between winning and losing. Not just anyone can pull off successful management of engagements. Complexity, internal politics, and any number of financial or risk factors can rapidly tank your projects! Check out our services and see what we can do to support you with the resources you truly need! read more	Our management capabilities are proven and demonstrate results. Our teams are well versed in managing the largest of engagements, across national or global scopes, or even addressing simpler needs for well tested and inexpensive solutions that provide high return on investment (ROI) for our customers. We apply full Program Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) and Program Management Institute (PMI) approaches to properly tracking all aspects of our projects. This ensures that we not only set a critical path and deliver in accordance with a well spelled out plan that you can follow, but that we also address all aspects of Earned Value Management, risk tracking and mitigation, configuration management services, document management, public relations and user awareness, and much more!
Software Development Anyone that builds technology solutions knows that it takes developers, engineers, and architects with technical vision and leadership. Offshoring development isn't the answer, and finding guys who are "good at coding" can be outright dangerous. It takes methodology, discipline and experience to succeed. IMEA knows how, see for yourself. read more	IMEA can provide you with a software development capability that is unparalleled, leveraging some of the brightest and best development talent available. Our programmers and developers have experience from embedded systems development, to certified Java developers. We fully support object oriented program (OOP) approaches using RUP, RAD, and AGILE development methodologies that provide you tangible results using iterative development approaches that delivery value to business customers as results are achieved. In our participation and contribution to one of our largest customers, our team has fully demonstrated its integration and software development skill through complying with one of the most rigorous federal identity standards ever conceived, and we did so in only four short months. In taking an iterative approach, our customer met their mandated timeline to deliver a solution, and is continuing to evolve their solution to address operational efficiency needs and reduced operating cost targets. In looking for a software development team, you need look no further than IMEA. We make this stuff look easy!
Web Services Applications Development with a specialization in web services is a rather recent development in industry. Not just anyone can really pull these solutions together. Don't risk implementations with legacy resources that don't understand the recent development in industry. Use skilled, experienced, and well balanced services from a professional organization. See what IMEA has to offer, and how we deliver successes for our customers. read more.	Our development teams are fully versed in web services development that allow for organizations that wish to evolve to composite application construction. In accordance with the principals of SOA, and embracing the power made available in J2EE and .NET development frameworks, our development teams can implement web service enabled applications and services with very short delivery timelines. We work in partnership with our customers to determine the business need, and expeditiously capture an n-tiered vision of the resulting application or service. With this knowledge, execute an agreed upon plan that quickly determines the data sources, application tier, and user interface (presentation layer) services that need to be pulled together to implemented a properly developed web service application. Any managed end point systems that are to be affected are quickly determined, and our development teams work diligently to integrate a solution that can be published in an appropriate publication source, such as an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), or similar solution. This allows the web service to be widely consumed by other business or IT stakeholders that share a similar need, and reduces development costs across your enterprise.