Asta Professional Services


To help your business reduce costs and maximize productivity, Asta offers speciality trained resources that come from our dedicated pool of consultants and developers with years of experience and training. We can work with you to staff new projects, support ongoing development efforts, and provide access to highly skilled talent in a shrinking workforce, including hard-to-find out-of-market candidates.

Get immediate help with projects such as:

New system installation and development
Business process re-engineering
Retiring/updating old systems
Expanding project scope
Scaling up a PMO office
System maintenance/redundant infrastructure

Our long-term staffing partners apply valuable experience from every project toward innovations for future solutions. With access to Asta’s extensive knowledge base, there’s no technology we can’t support and we can deliver more for less with our highly competitive rates.
We provide extensive business knowledge, 50+ years of experience, market-leading technology skills, and a focused approach using in-house project management, enterprise Six-Sigma methodologies, frameworks and tools.
Benefit immediately by outsourcing to highly skilled, available resources and gain value from solutions developed with extensive experience from specialized talent.

Premier Technology Execution Services
Our reputation of providing the right expertise with the highest level of customer service has earned us the right to extend our offerings beyond technical staffing to team services, component and even workforce management services. You see, we believe that when you have the right people with the right skills, background, and professionalism, you can easily achieve your goals.
ASTAsystems® has been placing highly qualified technical professionals on the job for over 20 years and building long term relationships with both clients and technical professionals. We've developed a reputation for customer service that's second to none. Let us put our experience and expertise to work for you. We offer the following IT and communications services:

Staffing Services
Team Services
Workforce Management Services
Component Services

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IT Consulting and Staffing


Asta Professional Staffing (APS)

Asta's consulting staff has extensive experience in all phases of CA Clarity implementation and integration. Our APS offerings complement and extend our client's PMO staff, leveraging best practices learned during numerous Clarity implementations to rapidly deploy and then maintain the Clarity PPM suite. Our offshore and near shore solution centers offer a Virtual Software Factory for rapid, affordable custom development projects.

Project Portfolio Management Solutions for Microsoft EPM
Asta provides the expertise needed to help Microsoft EPM customers achieve their most challenging PPM goals and objectives. The EPM Solution includes Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007, Microsoft Office Project Server 2007, and Microsoft Office Project Web Access. Our approach includes product implementation and outsourced professional staffing.

Implementation Services
Implementation does not simply mean installing the software. Many Microsoft EPM users find that the out-of-the-box applications have gaps or don't exactly map to their business processes. Asta's fills in those missing tools & utilities, extends native functionality, fully automates workflows, and even develops custom application enhancements.

Asta Professional Staffing (APS)
Asta's consulting staff has experience in all phases of Microsoft EPM implementation and integration. Our APS offerings complement and extend our client's PMO staff, leveraging best practices learned during numerous EPM implementations to rapidly deploy and then maintain the Microsoft application suite.

The consulting services industry is going through perpetual challenges. The ability to find the right resources, time-to-market, non-availability of senior resources for consulting / temporary assignments et al is putting a lot of burden on the business plans of organizations. A strong provider with an excellent base in consulting services is essential to successfully engage on consulting services.

Some of the biggest blue chip corporations in the world have chosen to work with Asta for their consulting services needs.

The Asta edge of:
Knowledge
Experience
Talent pool
Finishing School (USA & India)
Delivery
Faster turnaround

have enabled organizations to focus on their core competence and meet their business objectives. An extremely strong audited 4 step recruitment process coupled with a hire-train-deploy philosophy has enabled high levels of customer satisfaction and retention

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Direct Placement Services


We help you identify talented, highly experienced IT professionals who are an ideal match with your organization’s culture. Though we often focus on contract positions, which give you the opportunity to gauge the IT professional on a temporary basis with no commitment from you, when you need to fill a direct hire position, we streamline the entire process for you.

Market Your Value Proposition

Asta search account managers and recruiters understand today’s extremely competitive IT job market and the challenges you face when searching for top IT talent. Many critical positions are extremely difficult to fill. We take the time to know your business, to fully understand your culture and what makes an ideal fit for you and your team. With this detailed insight, we help you create an Employee Value Proposition (EVP) that can compel top IT talent to want to work for you over the competition.

Business Process Services


Organizations in all industries are under enormous pressure to do more with less. With Asta's business process services (BPS), clients are lowering administrative and operating costs, delivering new services more quickly, improving customer satisfaction, and enhancing their focus on core business activities.

Our BPS offerings combine deep industry expertise, high-quality process execution, and technology capabilities and scale with a distinct partnership model. We carefully address your unique business needs while leveraging the efficiencies and savings that come from Asta's balanced blend of global delivery options.

The result is secure, highly streamlined work processes with an enhanced level of efficiency and productivity, together with a business analytics capability that delivers real value. With each of our services, we build in a route map for future innovation and continuous improvement.

We group our services into six broad areas of expertise, each of which is focused on delivering business outcomes. If you can’t find the service you need, visit our new service launch page and explore how we could work together to build a mutually profitable new offering in the market.

Experience and expertise

Cross-industry and industry-focused offerings combined with accountable local partnership and high-value global delivery models
Strong partnerships with leading organizations, including Desjardins and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
ISO-certified processes and world-class technology platforms

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Support and Maintenance


People

Asta' global workforce has been at the core of its innovation and works with customers to deliver real business results. Asta is committed to creating an environment that enables it to attract, develop and retain talent.

Centers of Excellence

ASTA' endeavor to offer high quality IT solutions and services is further strengthened by the Centers of Excellence (CoE). The global CoEs focus on continuous development of people, processes, offerings, assets, and methodologies. From technology tracking, development of offerings to address specific needs of customers, supporting software development to managing assets and knowledge, the CoEs function like a centralized hub of knowledge.
Some CoEs around specific technologies include IBM, SAP, Oracle, Adobe, WebLogic, Vignette, Sun, and Microsoft .NET among others.

Asta uses Centers of Excellence (COEs) to foster excellence, encourage knowledge sharing and innovation and build competency in specific technologies or industry areas. Key goals from our Centers of Excellence model:

Support process maturity and high quality
Maximize efficiency and increase cost effectiveness
Aggregate decentralized teams and provide an organized, central organization
Build and retain world-class methodologies, tools and infrastructure processes
Provide efficient management and utilization of highly skilled and best fit associates
Support building deep application and domain-specific knowledge
Establish SLAs and measure performance for improvements

Quality Framework

ASTA' ability to deliver high-quality services and solutions is unmatched. It became the world's first organization to achieve an enterprise wide Maturity Level 5 on both CMMI® and P-CMM®, using the most rigorous assessment methodology - SCAMPISM. ASTA' Integrated Quality Management System (iQMSTM) integrates process, people and technology maturity through various established frameworks and practices including IEEE, ISO 9001:2000, CMMI, SW-CMM, P-CMM and 6-Sigma.
ASTA' focus in quality has helped its customers adopt the quality standards and best practices and benefit from operational and business excellence.

Acquire, Grow and Retain High Value Customers

Asta believes the key to long-term sustainable growth lies in the ability to identify, acquire, grow and retain high-value customers. The competitive environment today has never been more complex and fierce. Customers are more demanding and have greater choice in the marketplace. Companies must identify and retain their most valuable customers in order to survive, and those companies that can consistently acquire and grow new high value customers become leaders in their industry.

Asta follows a well-defined project execution methodology. The Asta Organization's Standard Software Processes (OSSP), developed and maintained by a dedicated Software Engineering Process Group (SEPG), drives Asta's project execution methodology.

The OSSP defines the SDLC processes, Procedures, Manuals, Guidelines, Formats and Templates to be used by projects. In addition, the SEPG also maintains the Process Database of published results, artifacts of past projects, library of reusable components and training material. The Project Managers and the Software Engineering Team are well trained in the use of OSSP for their projects.

The Asta Methodology addresses various requirements from Project Acquisition, through Project Execution to Quality Assurance.

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