Latest News August-6-2010

August 2010 US Airforce SNIM Contract Announcement We are happy to announce a recent award on which Global CI is a named team mate on the SNIM vehicle. "This is another wonderful opportunity for Global CI to continue to grow our cyber-security group and contribute with our SMEs in Enterprise Architecture, SOA, Database Warehousing, Informatics, Infrastructure, Embedded Systems and Applications development." said Mike Ziman, Global CI's CEO. Global CI as part of the team led by Battlelle has been chosen as one of a select number of teams given the chance to bid on computer software, network, information, modeling and simulation programs for the federal government under the SNIM contract. Battelle’s selection by the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) means we will be allowed to bid on up to $2 billion worth of task order contracts over the next five years covering cyber-security, networks, software design and other information-related programs in support of the departments of Defense, Homeland Security and other government agencies.  Jeanette Miller, Global CI's lead Business Developer said "Our proprietary TOR (Task Order Review System), HCMT (Human Capital Management Tool) and Business Development style are made to order for this type of contract.  We look forward to meeting the challenge everyday."  AFCEA Health IT Day Right on the heels of HIMSS, Global CI is off to another Health IT event!  Please join us at AFCEA Bethesda Chapter Health IT Day on April 6.  More information can be found here -à http://guest.cvent.com/EVENTS/Info/Summary.aspx?e=b1f75097-7adf-4da0-91b7-1f037ada28ab March 2010 HIMSS 2010 Change is everywhere...Opportunity is here! Transforming healthcare through IT. Global CI is participating in the HIMSS conference again in 2010! We will be at booth 1162  to learn what is new and hot in Health ITand to continue to lead the way in developing the best applications of technology to solve the complexities of partnering government and industry for our clients and the benefit of all people. Key Global CI consultants will also be speaking at the Interoperability Showcase representing SSA. Please call us to arrange an on site visit at the conference... Global CI...Your Partner for Building a Better Future! For more info... http://www.himssconference.org

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Case Study - Finance   Global CI has designed, coded, implemented and supported financial applications since its inception. Global CI created a team of analysts and programmers who worked on this long term projects for a Financial Loan institution. For example: Quarterly Reporting to the Department of Education (D.O.E.) As a result of the signing of the Higher Education Reconciliation Act (H.E.R.A.) of 2005, which made significant changes to the Higher Education Act (H.E.A.) of 1965, Our client's impact was seen in what is termed “Reauthorization of the Federal Family Education Loan (F.F.E.L.) Program. Some of the changes affect the way F.F.E.L. lenders report quarterly to the D.O.E., involving the student loan process in the areas of loan origination fees and interest rates. Global C.I.’s employee impact was the involvement in writing program specifications and program modifications to reduce the mandatory 3 percent origination fee to 2 percent for Stafford loan borrowers, as well as maintaining the 3 percent fee for certain undergraduate student loan borrowers. The implementation of these changes went into effect July 1st, 2006 and is meant to target loans first disbursed on or after July 1st, 2006 but prior to July 1st, 2007. Program changes were also made to accommodate increases in interest rates for both Stafford loans and certain undergraduate student loans. Our input covered the areas of program specifications, assignment of tasks, sharing in the program modifications and their testing, then finally in the quality assurance phase and eventual implementation into the production environment. Implementation was accomplished on time and successfully, as demonstrated by the reporting quarters 3 and 4 of year 2006.  Enhancement of undergraduate student Loans Our end client took the major undertaking to enhance the processing of its undergraduate loan processing by increasing its flexibility. The improvement manifested itself by allowing loan borrowers to sign a promissory note which would be in effect for 10 years. The greatest benefit of such an endeavor was in allowing the borrower to add loans to the same promissory note for 10 years after first signing, thus shortening the application process after the approval of the initial loan. Global C.I. had a very significant presence in this project, with 15-23 members involved in every sphere of its life cycle, from requirements-gathering to analysis and design, through to programming, testing and implementation. Our impact in this project was unique in that experience gathered by our most senior employee in terms of Client tenure was able to function in a consulting capacity in its truest form, providing guidance to the Client's project leaders and employees, as well as Global C.I. employees. The final product was implemented successfully and in a timely manner. Global CI designed and built a distributed printing and information dissemination system for Alex Brown. Global CI staff supported various applications for Union Trust Bank, Bank of Virginia, Signet bank including, Demand Deposit, Retirement Accounts, Collections, Savings Accounts and Personal Banking. Global CI Staff provided Help desk systems support for Leggy Mason. You have just perused a sampling of Global CI work examples. Global CI has provided solutions and/or staff augmentation to help our clients solve significant IT challenges in a timely manner often under budgetary constraints. Please contact us to let us know how we can help you