Argosy provides management and information technology consulting services in various, synergistic domains of expertise.  Three practice areas have evolved from the clients and partners of Argosy over the past years.  The key to success in IT is being "down the learning curve" on the variety of best practices, methodologies and technologies that form the foundation of data processing automation.  Each client's requirements are unique, however, Argosy's staff has probably seen and solved many of the problems facing your organization many times before.

 Consulting Practices:

• e-Commerce Genesis - early "dot com" development of highly interactive, multi-media product commerce sites was where Argosy got started in July 1997.  Argosy staff applied experience gained from building the early versions of interactive video-on-demand, high-performance computing platforms to the "narrow-band" Internet.
• e-Business - construction of advanced business-to-business sites and business-to-consumer websites led to secure, collaborative business models supporting the tighter integration of business partner relationships and trading models.
• Information Assurance - the "hardening" of client's networks and servers spawned Argosy's IT security practice in 2001.  Since this time, Argosy has developed extensive expertise in IT Security best practices, technology and regulatory compliance. See Argosy's Federal Information Systems Security for Agencies and Prime Contractors - FISMA Compliance and Testing for more information on federal information security readiness and compliance.
• Business Continuity - a greater dependency on e-Business automation increased the risk to system-wide outages.  High-availability system engineering led to the spawning of this third practice domain in 2002.

Staff Consultants:

• System Engineering - enterprise architecture of servers, workstations and networks
• Network Engineering - design for performance, security and high-availability (resilience)
• Software Development - full-life-cycle application and component development to Java/J2EE and .NET technologies and standards.
• Security Analyst - system assessments, testing and remediation
• Testing/Quality Assurance - independent verification and validation (IV&V) to quantifiable and qualitative standards.
• Program Management - federal, state and commercial program management services.

Consulting Engagements:

• Project Lifecycle - from business concept to implementation, Argosy has successfully assisted, as well as led, client teams in "getting to market faster and better."
• Business Process Outsource (BPO) - clients have continued to outsource essential, but not core, operational competencies to Argosy's managed services team.
• Staff Augmentation - clients depend on Argosy's ability to recruit, train, and support key staff members through a range of service agreements from "try-hire" to project-based engagements.

Certifications:

• Development - Argosy is a SEI-CMM Level 3 facility
• Security - Argosy's staff have CISSP, CISA, and vendor specific certifications (e.g. MCSE)
• Business Continuity - a range of certifications in contingency planning
• Program Management - a range of certifications in federal and commercial program management

Professional Associations:

• ACT/ISA - Argosy staff lead and support various committees at the American Council of Technologies / Industry Advisory Council in support of federal initiatives to improve security, architecture and e-Government initiatives (e.g. National Healthcare Information Network)
• ISC2 - Argosy staff have certifications from the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium, Inc.
• ISACA - Argosy staff are members of Information Systems Audit and Control Association