Santeon Group Profile
Santeon Group Inc. operates as a diversified software products and services company specializing in the transformation and optimization of business performance through the deployment or the development of products and services using Agile in the commercial, government and consumer sectors.
Business
The company serves the enterprise, government and consumer markets with platforms and services that enable organizational growth through transformation, automation, integration, outsourcing and online user experiences. Additionally, the company invests in building its own software platform in the areas of transformation, automation, electronic exchange and content management.
Strategic Consulting Practice
The services the company provides to corporate customers entail Agile training, coaching and consulting work. In 2012, the company expanded its consulting and services practice into the U.S. federal government and added another significant customer for whom the company is a sub-contractor under a U.S. government contract with the Department of Homeland Security. The company’s Agile portfolio covers the full Agile life cycle that entails: training, consulting, coaching and software development.
Outsourcing Practice
The company is a provider of software development outsourcing and utilizes its offshore development facilities to deliver these services with service level agreements. The company offers software development support to several clients.
Software Development
The company’s Agile development approach aims to achieve specific goals, namely: decrease time of development and gain earlier return on investment; increase stakeholders’ involvement by enhancing the team’s ownership; improve planning and prioritization of features; build flexibility and adaptation to change; and improve transparency and tracking of progress.
Electronic Benefits Network (eBN)
The company’s eBN practice offers an automated and electronic cloud-based business process outsourcing (BPO) service for benefits management by connecting hundreds of employers with SGI’s network of hundreds of health and non-health benefits providers. During 2012, the company licensed its technology to human resources management software providers, as well as payroll software providers and service bureaus to implement and market the company’s eBN service.
Agile Assessment and Management Platform
The company invests in research and development to develop a platform that models the Agile project management discipline rather than using platforms that are based on traditional development practices and then made to look ‘agile’. The company released the first module of its project management framework to conduct an Agile readiness assessment and deployed it at two large enterprises during 2012. Also during 2012, the company released publically a smaller version of the Agile readiness assessment for smaller enterprises and individual IT teams.
Content Management and Media Streaming Platform
The company’s rich video media platform (RVMP) is an out-of-the-box, component-based, and integrated IPTV network community that is ready to populate and deploy in minutes. The RVMP enables to provide end-users with a media experience at their desktop or laptop computer or on any mobile device. The company’s RVMP gives an administrator total control of managing video content with ease.
Strategy
The company’s strategy is provide shareholder value through the continuous investment in platforms that are incubated, released to clients, commercialized, generate revenue and profits then spun-out to bring in cash-infusion to continue to support its innovation forward.
Customers
The company’s clients include state and local governments, federal agencies and various private sector customers.
Competition
The company’s competitors include IBM Global Services, Accenture and HP/EDS.
