• Client-Server Development
• Network Administration
• Project Management
• Quality Assurance
• Technical Architecture
• Technical Writing

Superior services & solutions, professionally delivered by capable, committed people...

That's the ‘PEC’ way. With our focus on IT projects, we provide expertise and professional services throughout the entire project from concept to implementation, user training and maintenance. Whether your project is using a traditional systems development approach or object-oriented analysis and design, we have consultants who deliver results every step of the way!

Over 25 IT professionals are currently working in partnership with PEC and our customers. Our collective expertise includes skills in all of the latest technologies such as systems management, e-business, portals, data warehousing, and web-based document and records management.

The company has acquired a leading edge in Microsoft Systems Management Server technology by providing customers with the resources capable of developing strategic, tactical and technical solutions for the implementation of SMS solutions. PEC provides both informal coaching and more structured consulting assistance.

PEC complements SMS skills with the state of the art creation of SMS Installer scripts and repacking technology. PEC consultants can enhance the SMS or Wise Install technologies with their experience of Visual Basic and C++ knowledge and experience.

PEC continues to demonstrate to our clients our commitment to working with them in delivering their business and technical solutions. The solutions that we have delivered have included integration of off-the-shelf packages with customized application software. We have a wealth of project planning, management knowledge and experience.

Given the experience and characteristic seniority of PEC consultants, PEC provides the following skills and expertise:

• Project Management and Implementation Planning
• Training Strategy and Planning
• Communications Planning and Delivery
• Change Control Management
• Strategic Information Technology Planning
• Proposal Development
• Database Design, Development and Administration
• Systems Standards and Procedures Development
• Functional Specifications Development
• Internet/Intranet Site Design and Development
• GUI Systems Design and Coaching
• Applications Development
• Quality Assurance Integration & Systems Testing
• Technical Writing and Documentation Management
• Designing, Developing and Writing Training Materials

Power Edge Consulting specializes in State-Of-The-Art Solutions, Enterprise-Wide Application Integration, Distributed Computing, Business Intelligence and Web-based Applications.

Customized software solutions:

• Systems Management Server support
• Scripting and repacking of the off the shelf applications and “home-grown” applications with SMS Installer and Wise Install technology
• Altiris deployment server support
• NetIQ AppManager server support
• Applications Integration
• Component Based Development
• Data Warehousing
• Web Application Development

Network Solutions and Technical Support Expertise:

Client-Server Development

We have recognized specialists in client/server tools such as Visual Basic and PowerBuilder, with an established reputation for innovation, leadership and results. Strengthened by the support of our PEC product partnerships, we have built many mission-critical client/server solutions aimed to protect corporations from virus (anti-virus products) and spam (anti-spam products).

PEC consultants have expertise in the tools used at every stage of the development process. Beginning with CASE tools such as PowerDesigner and Oracle Designer, our consultants can then implement using languages such as PowerBuilder and Visual Basic connecting to the most common RDBMS' such as Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server, DB/2 and MS Access.

With many Microsoft Certified Engineers (MSE) and Certified PowerBuilder Developers (CPD) available to help you, PEC can deliver new client/server applications, as well as convert existing c/s applications to a web-enabled infrastructure.

Network Administration

Today’s enterprise IT is a conglomerate of devices. It is a true ‘homogenous’ environment.

Now that users have the freedom to choose the devices and applications with which to connect to the Internet, it is becoming increasingly important to build networks that support open interfaces, open protocols, open standards. PEC consultants will help ensure that you are able to leverage your investments in networking over many years and that your applications remain interoperable. They will design appropriate network infrastructures and assist with implementation of the web servers, firewalls and application servers required to build a web-based network infrastructure.

PEC's certified networking specialists have the product knowledge to design, refine, and tune virtually any network. From a small office LAN to an international corporate private network over the Internet is what our specialists specialize in. We have specialists trained in UNIX, Windows NT, Novell NetWare, BANYAN Vines, and various communications protocols such as X.25, X.400, X.435, X.500, SNA and TCP/IP.

Project Management

Successful projects don't just happen. It takes hard work by committed, disciplined skilled people to ensure that projects are in scope, on time, and within budget. Today there are considerable pressures to do more with less - less money, less people, less time. Ensuring that projects are properly managed offers a significant opportunity to respond to these pressures, both by increasing productivity and enhancing the quality of the result.

At PEC, we know how important it is to get a job done quickly, completely, and cost-effectively. Our certified Project Managers have the experience, tools and knowledge to deliver projects to the total satisfaction of our clients. Many are recognized specialists in their fields. All have at least 10 years experience directing projects and possess the business and analytical skills to handle complex situations. Each has a proven delivery record and is single-mindedly focused on achieving quality results on time and within budget.

PEC's Project Management professionals have managed and helped customers implement projects up to several million dollars in size. Our Certified Project Managers can help you achieve project success through realistic project planning, change control, effective management, and communication with the project team, users, and third-party software vendors. Our disciplined, committed professionals work with proven, practical methods and tools to help deliver your projects more successfully.

Call us today to see how a Project Manager from PEC can manage your project to a successful implementation!

Quality Assurance

PEC's team of senior Quality Assurance specialists can develop rigorous system and application testing procedures for all of your projects, whether in development or in production. Our QA professionals have developed and executed test plans, strategies, procedures and cases, and have managed the efforts of large test teams. They have extensive software testing experience, ranging from Windows-based client/server applications to testing and evaluating new software testing facilities. They are familiar with automated testing tools such as SQA Team Test.

Count on our qualified testing specialists to assist you with:

• Test plan development
• Test bed configuration and management
• Test data generation
• Test scripting, execution, and results analysis
• Selection and implementation of automated testing software
• On-site or classroom training of QA techniques and tools

PEC QA specialists are able to train your staff on the development, proper use and implementation of testing techniques. This training is of interest to software developers, test/QA engineers, and technical managers.

PEC's testing experts bring discipline, experience, and expert knowledge of top industry tools to design, automate, and execute test cases that validate an application's functionality during development and on an ongoing basis. Early detection of problems results in a less expensive development project and higher quality results upon completion. We can help you achieve higher process maturity levels through a well-defined and optimized quality management process.

Technical Architecture

As organizations move from client-server deployments to an n-tiered architecture approach, it becomes increasingly important to understand how the various components interact with each other, and how changes impact overall system performance and stability. Advanced architectures provide many opportunities for both optimization and the ease with which inevitable system changes can be made over time. Technical architects are often called upon to do system configuration and make recommendations for load balancing, performance and scalability improvements, capacity planning, clustering, user data aggregation, connection management, data and request caching, and fine tuning operating system parameters.

Many organizations today are grappling with issues related to the scalability of their e-business web sites. For existing environments, the first step is to identify all components and how they relate to each other, as well as understanding what can and cannot be changed. Transaction types and volumes are very important. The workload may vary considerably over time, and there may be bursts of activity during peak hours. A well-planned system can cope with bursts without system failure. Studies show that most organizations underestimate volumes, so it pays to have some spare capacity in case the traffic quickly outpaces projections!

Our technical architects will provide your application with the optimal configuration for:

• web servers
• application servers
• the network
• directory and security servers
• firewalls
• interfaces to legacy systems and other applications
• database servers

Technical Writing

PEC's technical writers have advanced skills in producing effective on-line and hard copy user and system documentation that will get your organization leveraging any new application. Working in tandem with your project team, our documentation specialists are an effective interface between the system development group and the user community. Their services include:

• Technical writing
• Training plan creation
• Designing system and user documentation
• Policy and procedure writing
• User training
• Computer based training design and development
• Web-based training design and development

Our technical writers can produce content for multiple media and outputs such as hard copy, web pages, CD ROM and Help files. Using content management software or an XML publishing system, we can ensure that your content is authored once only and re-purposed for multiple outputs without undue costs.

For creating PC-based on-line help, our technical writing professionals make extensive use of tools such as WinHelp Office 95 (RoboHelp) and Doc-to-Help. We also have expertise in XML authoring software such as SoftQuad's XMetal for multi-purposed content. For graphics and color, count on one of our multimedia specialists to add some visual excitement.