About Sine Nomine AssociatesSine Nomine Associates is a vendor-neutral research and engineering consultancy dedicated to objectively identifying and implementing the best solution for each client. Faithful to the company's business model, engineers spend half of their time researching advanced computer and network technology, which enables them to envision and shape what will become bleeding-edge technology in the future. We provide engineering and business planning services for existing and evolving systems. Our services include installed mission-critical infrastructure and applications, business transformation applications, ongoing support, and long-term operations training. Together, these services create durable, scalable and secure solutions. Balancing between developing the cutting edge and implementing best practices, our solutions are based on four core maxims:
Preserve Effective Existing SystemsApplying rare knowledge and unique expertise, Sine Nomine Associates solutions preserve and enhance the reliability, stability, and supportability of tried-and-true, mission-critical infrastructure. While knowledge is based on information and research, expertise is built on realworld experience in designing, implementing and supporting long-term solutions to business needs. Sine Nomine Associates offers an elite engineering team, each drawing on over fifteen years of industry experience on systems and networks, and each having acquired rare knowledge and unique expertise on computing infrastructure. We are dedicated to the preservation and enhancement of the value of our clients existing infrastructure, regardless of what that infrastructure includes. Our clients have invested in their current infrastructure and sometimes wish to retain it for good technical and business reasons. Sine Nomine Associates appreciates and supports these preferences, especially when the existing solutions serve mission-critical functions. Evolve New Systems and ServicesTurning methodical, vendor-neutral investigation of technical requirements and strategic vision into creative and disciplined analysis, Sine Nomine Associates solutions evolve new systems and services that efficiently and effectively reach and surpass each customer s goals. Creative thinking and disciplined planning combine the strengths of new services and existing business infrastructure. Rather than disruptively replacing or altering entire infrastructures, new services should evolve logically and incrementally from what exists, and should include not only systems and networks, but also business practices. Efficiently and effectively grafting new functionality onto established business practices, Sine Nomine Associates delivers solutions that prove more rewarding than other costly and invasive replacements. Sine Nomine Associates delivers "the right tool for the right job." Due to our vendor-neutrality, our solutions are multi-vendor, interoperable, scalable, manageable and secure. They demonstrate that the best solutions employ existing technologies to augment proven systems, while applying appropriate next-generation technologies to prepare for the future within the context of effective business processes. Training and knowledge transfer are an integral part of Sine Nomine Associates services. We believe that enabling our customers to fully operate their solution completes a job well done. Working directly with client s staff on their own systems, we employ proven methods to transfer knowledge to our clients. Since our approach invests in our clients staff and enhances their expertise, we move our clients from help to self-help. This customer-empowering approach to knowledge transfer is supplemented by Sine Nomine Associates support offerings, lending the full depth of our expertise to our clients. Apply Research and DevelopmentHarnessing an historical view of technology development, and charting future business needs, Sine Nomine Associates research directs our continuous development of rigorous testing regimens and comparative studies that are shared in publications, presentation and industry communication, and that influence standards committees, cooperative research groups and corporate strategies. Research and development is at the core of our success. From participation in major industry organizations to vendor-neutral development and testing, we shape and define emerging technology. We lead and act, rather than follow and react. As development and testing of new technology and solutions is critical to Sine Nomine Associates, we are able to provide the IT industry with proof-points on the viability and efficacy of new technologies and designs. A wide array of Proofof- Concept projects for customers worldwide has earned Sine Nomine Associates a reputation as reliable visionaries and pioneers. Sine Nomine Associates examines the business impact of competing solutions and provides Total-Cost-of-Ownership analyses. In keeping with our philosophy of the right tool for the right job, we determine both the strengths and weaknesses of competing solutions, and then recommend that which best meets and surpasses each client s goals. Sine Nomine Associates is dedicated to industry-wide knowledge transfer. We participate in a wide variety of industry organizations, including the IETF, IBM s ABC, SHARE, the Frame Relay Forum, and the Global Grid Forum. Also, we regularly publish articles and technical papers in trade and scholarly journals, and we are the recognized experts for zSeries and z/VM questions on Search390.com. Our experts are active contributors to Open Source software development projects, and they influence technological development on behalf of business needs and customer visions rather than vendor strategies. Predict What Systems Will Be Needed for the FutureEngineers at Sine Nomine Associates understand not only the currently available technology and current IT trends, but also the underlying theoretical principles and real-world needs that drive those trends. The depth and breadth of experience available to the Sine Nomine Associates team provides a richer context for anticipating rather than just reacting to emerging technologies. Technology, as applied science, represents a convergence of the needs and goals of people and enterprises with scientific research and experimental discoveries. Some technology is assimilated into enterprises and societies easily, some is rejected by the marketplaces of economics and ideas, and a very few technologies are so fundamentally elegant that they disrupt and reshape the marketplace and the way we think about information systems. At Sine Nomine Associates, our objective is always to evaluate potential solutions not only as they apply to the client's immediate needs, but also as they relate to the broader context of leading-edge research and development. Sine Nomine Associates' goal is to maximize the probability that the deployed solution will later be seen to have been wisely selected. |
