aap3 Profile

1. www.aap3.comUK +44 (0) 207 016 3000USA +1 877 299 7364Prepared by:Lindsay MunnsLondon Manageraap3 -558800-485775 Company Profile people. process. productivity<br />2456180-151130<br />Proprietary Noticeaap3 publish information and express opinions in good faith, but accept no liability for any error or omission in any such information or opinion including any information or opinion contained in this document.Whilst aap3 have endeavoured to ensure that the information in this publication is accurate, they shall not be liable for any damages (including without limitation damages for pure economic loss or loss of business or loss of profits or depletion of goodwill or otherwise in each case, whether direct, indirect or consequential, or any claims for consequential compensation whatsoever (howsoever caused)) arising in contract, tort (including negligence or breach of statutory duty), misrepresentation, restitution or otherwise, in connection with this publication or any information contained in it, or from any action or decision taken as a result of reading this publication or any such information.All warranties, conditions and other terms implied by statute or common law are, to the fullest extent permitted by law, excluded.Nothing excludes or limits the liability of aap3 for death or personal injury caused by their negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation or for any matter which it would be illegal for them to exclude or attempt to exclude liability for.Statement of ConfidentialityThis document is proprietary to aap3 (UK) Ltd and is supplied in confidence and except for evaluation purposes in connection with this proposal should not be copied, disclosed or otherwise revealed to outside parties without the written consent aap3. These limitations are commercial in nature and are not in any way intended to restrict business between aap3 and its clients or prospectsAll rights reserved:Any products, services or company names which may be referred to in this proposal that are trademarks are herewith acknowledged. Copyright aap3 2010Document information:aap3 Company Profile v.1.0 – 01.02.2010 Document Information<br /> Company Profile<br />It’s all in the name – all about people, process and productivity.<br />aap3 is a global IT and Business Solutions Company that provides people-based solutions to address the increasingly complex technology and commercial requirements of today’s businesses. It’s the unique collaborative approach of aap3’s three business units that differentiates its solutions – focusing on technology, business improvement and human capital.<br />2105025114935aap3 currently have over 450 employed consultants located across the globe working on campus premises, customer sites and ‘in the field’ providing technology and business solutions to a diverse group of businesses from global technology firms and large industry players to specialist service providers. <br />Since 1997, aap3 have provided organisations with innovative solutions for changing, developing companies that require talented individuals with complex combinations of skills on a contract basis, permanent hire or a fully managed (outsourced) service. aap3’s talent sourcing & solution delivery enables businesses to focus on their core competencies and strategic goals - their key commercial objectives - by ensuring that they have people with the skills, experience, commercial knowledge, drive and commitment to help them succeed.<br />Your core business focus should not be compromised by diverting your attention to contextual activities – such as reliable and fit-for-purpose IT and IM systems, targeted commercial strategies based upon reliable data sources and having qualified, skilled specialists to deliver your vision or proposition to your clients. It’s ‘core versus context’ where your strength is in your core activities and where you can lever a competitive commercial advantage by partnering with app3 who’s core business is your ‘context’.<br />For each project or assignment, aap3 assemble the appropriate in-house professionals and tools to make a unique solution to meet the specific customer needs. As a result, the services it provides are completely unique to each customer’s requirement. <br />aap3 provide a complementary specialist skills provision that helps its customers create increased value and wealth from their core business without headaches, unnecessary costs and distractions.<br />Geographic coverage<br />aap3’s global footprint extends to 60 countries world-wide including Europe, the Middle East, Africa and North America. aap3 are constantly developing opportunities to provide localised solutions that support its plans for global expansion and provide it’s clients with much needed regional support.<br />aap3 has engineers currently operating across a large number of countries including the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Netherlands, Czech Republic, Italy, Israel, Poland, Switzerland, Russia, Belgium, the Middle East (Dubai), throughout the US and South Africa. In addition it has a core group of engineers and project managers who travel to wherever there is a project need working in isolation or with a client’s in-house team, bringing aap3 specialist skills and expertise to the requirement <br />aap3 Business Groups <br />Engineering Solution Group<br />aap3’s Engineering Solution Group provides qualified IT engineers engaged to perform specific pieces of work or projects such as Network Infrastructure design, build and support, Network Discovery, Telepresence install & support and Desktop Support.<br />Fundamentally, aap3’s Engineering Solutions Group works with companies that are facing two primary needs:<br />Firstly, by delivering engineering managed services, aap3 enable its system integrator partners, equipment vendors or end-user customers to focus on their core “front office” activities by taking on some or all of their IT, networking or Audio/Visual or Telepresence “back office” operations. <br />Secondly, using its own employed ‘staff’ resources, on a project or ad-hoc/retained support basis, help its customers to rapidly augment, their own IT, IP or TP/AV Networking resources with individual engineers or complete teams -from one engineer implementing a VoiP Telephony Call Manager installation that takes a day, or the complete integration and configuration of a sophisticated Telepresence system with a team engaged for up to a week, right through to a large on-site Managed Service Team that looks after your entire IT infrastructure over a period of years.<br />As has been said, before, aap3’s staff are fundamental to its ability to deliver its high-quality solutions and consequently the company invests in its staff’s personal development, assisting and encouraging them where possible to take appropriate certifications. As a result, all aap3’s staff have one or more of the following qualifications; CCNA, CCDA, CCNP, CCDP, CCIE, CCVP, MCP, MCSE. Investment in future technology is also key to aap3’s development of its staff for new technologies and up and coming projects & assignments. Consequently, a number of aap3 employees are studying for Cisco’s new CTSS and CTIS Telepresence qualifications.<br />Engineering Solution Group Solution Specialisation – Network Discovery<br />Network Discovery is an activity, using software tools, to connect to a network and discover the Cisco devices that make up and exist on the network. This process results in the production of a report that contains the inventory details for each device. This report can be used to make sure your maintenance lists are accurate or that your network has no unsupported - or ‘rogue’ equipment on it. <br /> Additionally, the information can be used to establish if your network is ready for the next (business required) application.<br />In summary, aap3’s Engineering Solution Group can:<br />Plan, design, implement and operate your IP network as well as optimising your maintenance fees by ensuring discovered routers are on maintenance cover.<br />Design, build, implement and integrate your business video system requirements.<br />Plug technical skill gaps with a person or team when you need it.<br />Provide innovative technical staffing models (smart sourcing) by bringing disparate contractors under “one flag” and then migrating to a more flexible and better value managed service solution.<br />For a customer with a HQ site and various branch sites, aap3 can provide you with a more cost effective Local IT support solution.<br />Recruitment & Resourcing Services<br />With it’s heritage firmly in the sourcing, selection and provision of technical staffing solutions, aap3’s Recruitment & Resourcing Services team source candidates for aap3’s managed services business - where it is the ‘client’ - and provide recruitment solutions to external customers on a contingency, preferred supplier, retained and Recruitment Vendor-Management basis.<br />aap3’s recruitment team have placed on project with its largest client alone, over 1150 individuals over the past 8 years. This efficient, ‘competent crew’ is able to provide this service for clients to agreed service level agreements designed to reduce the overall cost- per-hire.<br />The aap3 approach <br />aap3 is operating in a market that is becoming increasingly sophisticated in terms of client needs and expectations. aap3 is driven to re-designing current recruitment solutions and deliver better, quicker, cheaper, more sustainable and effective ways for organisations to hire, manage, retain and develop their people. As market leaders, aap3 is determined to build a business proposition that addresses terms of recruiter engagement and delivery ethics in partnership with its clients that challenges current, traditional industry models.<br />“70% of executives source career options through networking.Execunet”<br />aap3 is increasingly working with its clients to tightly agreed service standards to deliver savings in total costs; from initiatives such as using technology to reduce transaction costs, engaging in shared risk & reward strategies for collaborative business success and supporting global/regional procurement, thereby reducing operating costs for the client through economies in scale.<br />Having the modern equivalent of a Rolodex, detailing all of the industry movers, shakers and ‘players’ for a specific business sector may seem like the nirvana for most recruitment professionals but without the appropriate combination of experience, intelligence and a proven methodology for attracting and engaging the best available candidates, this amounts to nothing more than a ‘yellow pages’. In addition to a broad professional network, encompassing a huge range of technical and business professionals, aap3’s consultants have a wide industry knowledge and greater understanding of what makes a successful recruitment hire – whether that be a short-term contract position, Interim assignment or permanent hire.<br />aap3are capable of delivering exceptionally accurate recruitment solutions in almost any market or sector because we adopt a defined methodology and proven research and search processes. Its deep understanding of the complex combinations of skills required by today’s leading companies is unparalleled and by working closely with client, aap3 provide flexible staffing solutions, changing with the needs of the organisation to create a competitive commercial advantage.<br />Recruitment & Resourcing Services, Solution Specialisation – Contingency Contract recruitment<br />Skilled contract resource can make a real difference to profitability, business performance and the successful of a project. The ability to hire specific skills for limited periods of time is an efficient, cost-effect solution to getting the required job done.<br />aap3’s team of experienced recruiters maintain an ongoing dialogue with a wide range of IT contract professionals through networking groups, technical forums and user-groups – in addition to the ongoing refresh of a comprehensive global contractor tertiary databases. It’s this level of communication and understanding that contributes towards aap3 attaining “Very Good” or “Excellent” scores in its most recent annual Contractor Survey in ‘understanding [contractors] needs and matching them to suitable positions’.<br />Business Solutions Group<br />From software development to Professional Services provision, Project and Programme Management, creative web design to SaaS-powered business analytics and Business Intelligence, aap3’s Business Solutions Group offer flexible technical consultancy services that deliver improved efficiencies and increased productivity throughout your enterprise.<br />aap3’s wide-ranging Business Solutions Group provides specialist skills that help build and enhance computer software solutions across a wide range of business functions and provides additional IT & Business support services for areas as diverse as Sales Support, Marketing Bureau management & support, Project and Programme management and Vendor Management services.<br />aap3’s Business Solutions Group provides people-based solutions in each of the following main areas:<br />Business Intelligence<br />Web & Creative Solutions<br />Development Services<br />Vendor Management Services<br />aap3’s Business Intelligence (BI) capability covers the full ‘Information Supply Chain’ portfolio from Data Management through to Reporting and on into high level predictive data analytics. aap3’s can ‘segment’ certain areas of data management and just supply, for example, a Data Cleansing and Governance product offering, or supply the entire BI service which includes Reporting and Analytics. aap3’s unique partnerships with leading companies such as Dataflux & SAS, means that it can offer solutions using its ‘SaaS’ (Software-as-a-Service) model at a very cost competitive rate.<br />Web & Creative Solutions provide leading edge Web Solutions in areas such as e-Commerce, Video, Flash and Motion Graphics, Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and traditional web-site creation and support. aap3 also specialises in Web Marketing where it can not only build your Web technology, but advice and coach companies on the most effective use of their website(s) as a marketing tool.<br />aap3’s Development Services team build and enhance corporate Intranet and Extranet web solutions, ‘back-office’ Reporting and Administration IT solutions (Office Tools Automation) and build and support bespoke IT software solutions (using .NET technology). <br />A rapidly growing capability within the organisation, aap3 currently have a 24x5 Analysis and Development capability to deliver solutions to Global companies as well as local ‘SME’ companies.<br />Vendor Management Services offer ‘traditional’ vendor administration and reporting services in the Human Capital business sector. This encompasses coordinating Vendor spend requests, defining and managing ‘Statements-of-Work’ (SOWs) and contracts, administering all payments and fees (into the core systems), in addition to managing a company’s ‘Preferred Supplier List. Another key function is to set up and run a reporting and analysis capability (systems & Tools) that provides a ‘Single-Source-of-Truth’ for all vendors spend and trend analysis.<br />Should you require any further information, please contact your dedicated account manager detailed below or through aap3’s website at www.aap3.com.<br />CONTACT INFORMATIONaap3’s communication contact for all matters relating to this document is:Lindsay MunnsLondon Managere: l.munns@aap3.comtel: +44 (0) 207 016 300019 Berkeley StreetMayfairLondonW1J 8ED<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />www.aap3.com<br />16389355793740United Kingdom (Head Office)aap3 Ltd3 Benham RoadBenham CampusSouthampton Science ParkChilworthHampshireSO16 7NPUK+44 (0) 845 2300 189Franceaap3 SARL114 Avenue Charles De Gaulle92200 Neuilly Sur SeineParisFranceItalyaap3 Sri.c/o Borioli & ColomboLargo Donegani 22-20121MilanoItalyGermanyaap3 GmbHWilhelm-Strauß-Straße 45-4741236 MönchengladbachGermanyUnited Kingdom (London)aap3 Ltd19 Berkeley StreetMayfairLondonW1J 8EDUK+44 (0) 207 016 3000United States of Americaaap3 Inc.2107N.First StreetSuite 550San JoseCaliforniaCA 95131+1 (408) 876-4866<br />