TULSA, Okla., October 15, 2009 – Stonebridge, a privately held IT consulting and systems integration services company, today announced that it experienced positive growth in the third quarter as the result of increasing its services with existing customers and winning competitive bids with new customers.
“In any economic environment there are plenty of opportunities to win business, even during one of the most severe economic downturns in history,” said Stonebridge CEO James Ivy. “The third quarter was by far our most successful quarter of the year as measured by profitability, which gives us a good head of steam as we head into Q4 and gear up for 2010.”
In the third quarter Stonebridge saw increased business in its core business lines: business intelligence, content management, custom application development, and IT services.
Key Stonebridge wins in Q3 include:
- A large multi-state financial holding company selected Stonebridge to develop a SharePoint-based workflow automation and document management system for the bank’s commercial banking operations. Stonebridge is responsible for creating a standardized forms-based interface for creating and archiving documentation for the bank’s diverse number of commercial loan types. The system will provide an online credit file, eliminate redundant data entry and provide bank management with a robust reporting function.
- One of the world’s largest oil and gas drilling contractors engaged Stonebridge to provide .NET application development support for a well analytics and rig performance system. The system, which runs on Microsoft SQL Server, enables the company to collect drilling information via satellite in near real-time from more than 200 land and offshore rigs contracted out to major oil and gas producers. The data is used by the company to make informed on-the-fly adjustments in order to optimize drilling and reduce downtime. In a separate project, the client company engaged Stonebridge to play an advisory role in developing the high-level approach and architecture for an enterprise data warehouse strategy.
- An independent oil and gas company is utilizing Stonebridge project management and technical resources for the implementation of the IT Business Management (ITBM) application suite from BMC Software. The ITBM software is designed to help companies better manage the resources and budget of its IT projects. Stonebridge, a BMC partner, is developing the project plan and will assume a lead role in the project rollout.
- A regional construction materials company signed a one-year agreement to outsource its database administration (DBA) function to Stonebridge. Stonebridge will manage the company’s entire production database environment through a SmartSource DBA managed services contract. The SmartSource delivery model provides the client company with cost-effective onsite and offsite technical support built on a customer-defined service level agreement and at a fixed cost over the length of the contract.
- A drilling services company chose Stonebridge to perform an assessment for the development and implementation of a KPI executive dashboard. After presenting an overall project plan and budget, Stonebridge is currently working with the client company management to formulate KPI definitions and calculations.
- A global supplier of pump equipment for the oil and gas industry chose Stonebridge as its strategic partner for a company-wide integration and enterprise data warehouse development initiative. The client company selected Stonebridge from a group of competitors that included Deloitte and Palladium Group to conduct a comprehensive assessment of the company’s data integration and data management environment.
- One of the largest wholesale nursery growers in North America selected Stonebridge to help it develop a proof-of-concept (POC) solution to improve its sales reporting and analysis capabilities based on Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services and SQL Server Analysis Services. Stonebridge is developing the POC utilizing the client company’s existing databases and business intelligence tools in order to demonstrate the proposed solution’s core reporting functionality and its potential usability for other departments such as accounting and inventory.
- A regional college engaged Stonebridge to install and configure the SQL Server 2008 database for a mission-critical application. Stonebridge will provide database services for the institution’s migration from Oracle to SQL Server through the end of the year. The institution has relied on Stonebridge’s DBA managed services for its Oracle database environment for more than two years via a SmartSource agreement.
- A leading coal and natural gas producer selected Stonebridge to develop a Microsoft-powered business intelligence (BI) portal solution for volume reporting and analytics. The fully integrated BI solution will be built on the SharePoint platform. The client company, which is based on the East Coast, chose Stonebridge over three local companies because of Stonebridge’s superior industry knowledge, Microsoft BI project experience, and BI domain expertise.
- An international law firm selected Stonebridge to lead a workflow automation development project. In a time-sensitive six-week project, Stonebridge built an approval routing process system using ASP.NET with SQL Server as the data base and K2 blackpearl as the workflow engine.
- A global drilling services company engaged Stonebridge to develop an enterprise content management (ECM) solution for the client company’s operations group, its largest department. This project follows earlier successful SharePoint-based ECM rollouts Stonebridge has implemented for other departments. The new project, which will increase visibility and controls of important documents, will be conducted in four phases.
- One of the world’s largest diversified chemical companies chose Stonebridge to assist its efforts to upgrade its public-facing Web site. The project involves upgrading the site from Sitecore CMS 4.5 to version 6.0. Stonebridge is leading the development effort that, among other things, involves migrating 1.1 framework ASP.NET code to 3.5 framework and rewriting a number of custom controls.
Stonebridge is an IT consulting and systems integration services company focused on data management and data integration solutions. Our core competencies include business intelligence, content management, custom development, database services, and IT service management, and we have a consulting practice dedicated to oil and gas industry solutions. For more information, contact us at info@sbti.com or 800-776-9755. Visit Stonebridge on the Web at www.sbti.com.