BENEFITS WE ACHIEVE
for our clients from jobs we have done

           • Projects Finish On Time

           • Projects Finish Within Budget

           • Costs Controlled due to Careful Project Management

           • Market Share Increased

           • Internal Inefficiencies Eliminated

           • Operations Streamlined

           • Redundant Data Input Eliminated

           • Conflicting Sources of Information eliminated and...
              replaced with Single Source Information Repositories

           • Overhead Decreased/Margins Increased

           • State-of-the-Art Systems Designed, Developed and Implemented

           • Executive Information Systems Developed with "exception drill down
              capability" (the ability to determine the cause of problems at the level of
              detail desired by management, issue by issue)

           • Buy-In Achieved from all Internal Departments

           • You can choose what services you want us to perform, but...
           • WE CAN DELIVER ALL of the COMPONENTS OF A TOTAL SOLUTION:
              • agreement on the business objectives
              • requirements definition
              • system design
              • FUNCTIONAL AND TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
              • PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT or PRODUCT SELECTION
              • alpha testing
              • beta test planning (but performed by Client resources)
              • documentation and training
              • system implementations
              • ongoing support, product enhancements and
              • WRITTEN GUARANTEES on our work

           • Our costs are paid for in faster project conclusions that, as a result, ultimately
              save our clients money.  Both the real cost and the opportunity cost of projects
              that "never end" can bleed companies of the return and benefits that justify
              projects in the first place.  ACUMEN has a solid track record of bringing
              projects to proper and timely conclusions,

           • AND we perform up-front analysis for our clients AT NO COST!  We want
              your business. But we compete with big name competitors.  Therefore, we
              know we must prove ourselves to you.  Based on scope, parameters and
              objectives defined in advance with our clients we do work to prove ourselves
              to you,... to earn your trust and to earn the jobs we can do for your company.