ACRO is a highly qualified provider of information technology (IT) services. ACRO has Global Technology and Software Development Centers in Livonia, Michigan and New Delhi, India. Through our Technology Consulting practice, we supply IT expertise to organizations of every size and from every sector. Our ability to successfully serve diverse markets is the cornerstone of our business.

Technology consulting is the process of working with customers to define, document and solve their business problems. ACRO utilizes a proprietary methodology, KeyTransfer^SM, to accurately identify, qualify and quantify a client's specific IT needs, thereby providing greater value added solutions. Engagement parameters are customized to maximize value and minimize costs.

Core Technologies

ACRO specializes in four core technologies. These core technologies guide and direct us. They are the litmus test for determining what business opportunities we will accept and what opportunities we should reject. Our consultants then provide services that apply our core technologies to solve business problems. We specialize in the following technologies:

• Web - Technologies that use the World Wide Web to communicate information and to conduct business. (e-commerce, e-mail, web pages, portals, web testing)

• Mobile Computing - Technologies that use mobile computers, PDA's and cell phones to communicate information and conduct business.

• Information Integration - Technologies used to share information between dissimilar systems and various distributed operating units within a company. (Networking, messaging systems, storage management, virtual repositories)

• Relational Database - Technologies that store and manage corporate information and knowledge.

Core Services

ACRO offers a variety of services to our customers. These services are practical implementations of our core technologies and are designed specifically to solve customer needs and business issues. Some of the services that may be of interest include:

• Staff augmentation services - Acro provides information technology staff augmentation services to solve all your staffing challenges. Our RiteSource recruiting methodology ensures that we match your specific requirements with a candidate's background. Acro offers long-term and short-term staffing, permanent placement and managed staffing solutions.

• Project management services - ACRO has experienced project managers. All our project mangers have been trained by the Project Management Institute PMI. We are a supporter of PMI and a believer in the value of the PMBOK methodology.

• Application development services - Our consultants can custom develop an application for your needs. We can develop applications to help you solve business needs. We can even write applications for your mobile and hand held devices.

• Relational Database Design and development services - We have experienced database consultants that understand database design, development, maintenance and tuning.

• Web design and development services - We provide web site design and development services to ensure your presence on the Internet. We can help you create a site that help you market to potential customers and that is easy for potential customers to find.
  

• Application Web enablement services - We can put you applications on the web faster than anybody else. We will move your current legacy applications to the web right away and then we will work with you to give it a more traditional web look and feel. This strategy will save you time while maximizing you investments.

Core Products

ACRO uses a variety of products to help our customers solve business problems. These products are our tools. We use these tools to create and implement solutions and like any good professional we only use the best tools. The following section lists the tools that we use and the technologies they support.

Web
FrontPage, NetObjects Fusion, DreamWeaver
Citrix, EA Server, IIS, WebSphere, ColdFusion, JRun
PowerBuilder, Visual Basic, Kawa
Topaz, Astra

Mobile Computing
MobileBuilder, CodeWarrior, Photon

Relational Database
MS SQL Server, DB2, Ingres, Oracle, Sybase

Information Integration
DataJoiner, Omni Connect, MQ Series, DocuShare

With its extensive onshore and offshore experience and resources, Acro is ideally suited to help IT organizations explore offshore options, devise the optimum and custom offshore scenarios and set up the necessary infrastructure, processes, coordination, resource recruitment and management. More specifically Acro is able to provide the following offshore services to its customers.

• Offshore Project Services
• Build-Operate-Transfer Service
• Offshore Staff Augmentation

More detailed information about our offshore services is available at Offshore Services.