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Orion began as a one-employee operation headquartered in Minneapolis. The company grew slowly its first several years, instead building its reputation and its relationships through high quality work with regional companies, such as 3M, Best Buy and ValueVision International, Inc. But as the demands of its clients grew, Orion was asked to grow in support of them. Today Orion Consulting is one of the fastest-growing IT consultancies in the Upper Midwest, with revenues of $25 million and nearly 200 employees in offices in Minneapolis and Chicago. The company specializes in Internet technology, ERP, CRM and Supply Chain management. And its roster of clients includes some of the most recognized companies in the world. Orion Consulting looks a lot different today than it did 18 years ago when it had two consultants and a handful of clients. But its values and its culture remain rooted in Wicker's original vision for the company. To this day, experience remains the hallmark of an Orion consultant, and their ability to tackle tough business problems still result in satisfied clients that keep coming back. Orion consultants come on board with an average of 13 years of industry experience. Applicants go through a rigorous screening process. And those that are chosen usually choose to stay. In 1998, the Greater Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce recognized Orion for achieving an employee retention rate of 93 percent. For clients, that means they can count on lasting relationships with Orion employees. And many companies, from Fortune 500s to startups, realize the advantages that type of relationship brings. Northwest Airlines turned to Orion when it wanted to revamp its frequent flyer program - its most extensive project in seven years. And Target Corp. turned to Orion when it wanted to implement an internet-based application to manage its personnel more effectively. Other industry leaders, such as Daimler Chrysler Corp., Lucent Technologies and Mars Inc., rely on Orion consultants for creative, dependable results. In ...

You cannot modernize what nobody can describe. Before you migrate, rewrite, or point AI at forty years of COBOL, somebody has to know exactly what is in there. That is what we do, and it is all we do. Benchmark builds one complete, precise, standards-based model of a legacy estate: every program, batch job, transaction, file and database, the data between them, and the business rules buried inside them. COBOL, JCL and CICS are read together, as one system rather than three separate inventories. The model is structured on ISO/IEC 19506, the Knowledge Discovery Metamodel published by the Object Management Group. We did not invent it and we do not control it, so what you receive is a description of your own systems in a documented, published form. Your team can read it and your migration partner can consume it. No proprietary format, so no format lock-in. Every element carries a reference back to the line of source it came from, so anything the model tells you can be traced and audited. Why this matters now. Every AI coding tool depends on a language server to tell it what is actually true about the code. COBOL never got one. That absence is why AI-assisted mainframe work keeps producing output that looks right and fails late. We build what that missing layer would produce. Engagements: estate assessment, migration readiness, business rule recovery, data lineage, Datacom conversion, cloud porting. Work runs in our own hosted environment or, where source code cannot leave your building, on a server inside your environment over VPN. Clients in banking, insurance, financial services, healthcare, transportation and the public sector. Benchmark is also the maker of IRIS Business Architect, a business and enterprise architecture platform with its own home at biz-architect.com. The belief underneath both is the same: you cannot change a system safely until somebody can describe it precisely. IRIS describes the business. This describes the code the business runs on.

StrategyWise is a global provider of data analytics and business intelligence solutions. We help companies and governmental entities create value by capturing, analyzing, and applying data insights to drive policy formation, business process improvement, and game-changing innovations. Taking a unique approach to each situation, we analyze qualitative and quantitative data to uncover strategic, actionable insights that help move our clients forward. Whether you need us to provide a bird’s eye view of your industry’s competitive environment or comb through your company’s marketing and business practices, we leave no stone unturned when determining the best strategy to positively impact your bottom line.