Alignent Software and ICOR Partners Announce Alliance to Provide Roadmapping Solutions to Public Sector Clients
Partnership Combines Roadmapping Best Practices Consulting and Enterprise Software That Makes Roadmapping Easy for Clients
Carlsbad, California - July 18, 2006 - Alignent Software, the leading provider of collaborative roadmapping solutions, and, ICOR Partners, LLC, a strategy, transformation, and business improvement consulting firm serving the public sector, today announced a strategic alliance that allows both firms to provide clients strategic roadmapping solutions.
Under the terms of this partnership, ICOR will consult with clients to optimize their strategic visibility and decision-making processes by integrating roadmapping capabilities and best practices with strategic planning, technology planning, program management, and investment strategy. Alignent will work in partnership with ICOR consultants to provide roadmapping software solutions, including data management, reporting and custom client solutions to help clients reap the powerful benefits of roadmapping software.
Designed to optimize strategic visibility and decision-making, Alignent Software supports the powerful process of roadmapping. Alignent makes the roadmapping process easy for clients by bringing forward-looking strategic planning information - including market, technology, product, requirements, and capabilities - together into a single integrated system. The roadmapping capability will provide alliance clients with the unique ability to collaborate across stakeholder groups, understand the strategic impact of potential changes and provide a mechanism to more effectively visualize and communicate complex, integrated programs and initiatives. Today, customers including BAE Systems, Corning, Honeywell, Lockheed Martin, Motorola, NASA, the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Navy rely on Alignent’s flagship product, Vision Stategist roadmapping software, to make accurate, timely business decisions about the future.
According to Wayne Simmons, CEO and Managing Partner of ICOR, “many of our clients, particularly those in the federal government, are in the planning stages of investing in major strategic transformations and innovative new programs. In order to successfully plan and execute those efforts, it will be critical for those organizations to synchronize business processes and technology initiatives with strategic objectives, budget cycles, product cycles and regulatory requirements.” Simmons added, “from our experience and vantage point, the need and potential for roadmapping capabilities in the federal sector continues to expand.”
“We are certainly seeing the public sector emerging as a growth market for roadmapping, so aligning ourselves with ICOR, a high quality consulting firm with strong domain expertise in the public sector, is an important component to our future success,” said Dennis Clerke, Alignent Software CEO. “We expect great things from our partnership with ICOR, and we look forward to working with them as both our firms continue to experience rapid, exciting growth.”
About Alignent Software
Alignent is the first and only software company to support the powerful process of roadmapping. Alignent’s solutions can dynamically connect product and technology planning across the company, empowering organizations to visualize, manage and communicate future directions within a single system. Alignent focuses R&D, program planning and transformation efforts, fosters cross-functional collaboration and aligns people around a unified plan of record that enables accurate, timely business decisions. The world’s most sophisticated product and technology planners rely on Alignent, including BAE Systems, Corning, Honeywell, Lockheed Martin, Medtronic, Motorola, NASA, the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Navy. For more information, visit www.alignent.com.
About ICOR Partners, LLC
ICOR Partners, LLC is a strategy, transformation, and business improvement consulting firm serving the public-sector. ICOR’s mission is to be the trusted advisor that helps public sector clients achieve sustainable success by solving their most critical management, organizational, technical, and operational challenges. Established in 2002, ICOR is a veteran-owned, certified small business and is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. The members of ICOR have deep experiences from some of the leading global consulting firms, “Big 5” systems integrators, government agencies and the U.S. Armed Forces. ICOR’s clients include the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Department of Health and Human Services - Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONCHIT), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS), Department of Energy (DOE), National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), American Red Cross, and the U.S. House of Representatives. For more information, visit www.icorpartners.com.
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