Values On Competitors

Alliance Advisors is an independent advisory firm focused on Shareholder Engagement & Solicitation, Compensation Advisory, Governance & Sustainability Advisory, M&A - Activism, Institutional OwnershipIntelligenceand Retail Outreach strategies. We work around the world for public and private companies operating at board and C-suite level. We go beyond the norm to develop and execute bold, client-first strategies, resulting in winning outcomes. With a longstanding client base of over a 1,000 active public companies from a range of industries and market capitalizationsize. Our clientsengage with us on multiple services on a year-round basis. We are headquartered in the US, working together as one team, around the world, in multiple locations.

Value Partners is a Management Consulting and Digital firm, founded in Milan in 1993. It has more than 100 employees, and offices in 6 cities: Milan (headquarters), Turin, Rome, Dubai, São Paolo and Hong Kong. Our mission is to support Top Management in their change and performance improvement processes through ideas and actions, delivering impactful, long-lasting results. Anything that reinforces our clients’ competitive positioning is strategic to us. We deploy this approach all over the world through the integrated skills of our two divisions: Value Partners Management Consulting and Value Partners Digital Technology. Our clients are multinational Corporations, Private Equity Funds and high-potential enterprises for whom we identify and pursue value enhancement initiatives across M&A, innovation, international expansion, and operational effectiveness. We are always keen to hear from outstanding candidates.

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.