STA - Mapping Business Strategies to Technology

STA has performed many successful customer engagements. Some recent highlights include:

•	Virtualization in an SAP Environment Virtualization is only beginning. STA was key in helping Lextron virtualize in an SAP environment. View Success Story >
•	The City of San Jose Complete Data / Information management Solution Their first two attempts were unsuccessful. STA helped make the third time a charm. The City of San Jose is the third largest in California, and ranks tenth nationally. Being the anchor city of Silicon Valley, it’s the hub for almost 7000 technology companies who employ more than 254,000 people. Total city population is approaching one million. View Success Story >
•	ERP Implementation Frozen Food Transportation and Trucking Company STA always delivers. Even in the eleventh hour. One of our most recent customer wins is also a testament to the STA commitment to focusing on solutions that add value to a customer’s business and relentlessly sticking to our principles. In this case, the customer was working with an Oracle ERP rep, who introduced us to them. View Success Story >
•	EMC Solution Publicly-Traded Laser Manufacturing Company Their business was evolving. STA helped them evolve their I.T. Headquarted in San Diego, this company has built a worldwide presence delivering lasers to customers all over the world. Besides the manufacturing, servicing their products is just as critical, and they employ a large organization for on-site service. For their business, service plays a role in bottom line growth just like the initial sale of the product. Lasers require a substantial development cycle, so overall production is fairly limited. Over the years, the company has diligently reinvested profits to stay on the leading edge of both innovation and quality. View Success Story >

•	Major Credit Union STA provided infrastructure design, implementation and roll out as this Credit Union transitioned from the HP 3000 platform to UNIX running Oracle. We created a high availability fail over solution to ensure the application was available to users and customers on a 24x7 basis. Our solution included HP servers, HP storage, MC Serviceguard HA software, replication software, etc. The customer utilized InfoMap, ApplicationMap and PSMap solution sets from STA.
•	Major County Transportation Agency The customer had backup policies and procedures that did not meet current business requirements. Additionally, they were operating two backup applications, which they deemed a difficult strategy to support for the future. STA provided Professional Services assistance to implement the Veritas NetBackup software application and define and document revised operational procedures that more accurately reflected the customers current and planned operating environment. The customer utilized PSMap solution sets from STA
•	Large medical products manufacturer and distributor The customer runs SAP applications and Oracle database on 13 HP-UX servers and EMC storage. STA defined a server and storage consolidation strategy that reduced operating costs, simplified system management and boosted application performance. The environment was staged in STA’s Tech Center to accomplish the bulk of the migration in a non-disruptive manner. This resulted in a rapid 2-day production implementation! The customer utilized InfoMap, ApplicationMap and PSMap solution sets from STA.
•	Regional Community College The customer was experiencing application performance issues with a core student registration application. STA designed a solution to provide server and storage upgrades within the minimal budget that existed. This resulted in a 400% performance increase and allowed the College to eliminate backlog and non-responsive telephone and on-line registration requests. The customer utilized InfoMap, ApplicationMap and PSMap solution sets from STA.
•	Privately Held Manufacturer of Supplements Customer was a long time HP 3000 user with a customer application. When HP announced the discontinuance of the HP 3000, they chose to port their application to UNIX. They also decided to consolidate server operations from an internationally distributed approach to a single high availability cluster. STA provided all design and implementation for the products and services to facilitate this migration, including MC Serviceguard, Oracle 9iRAC and HP SAN technology. The customer utilized InfoMap, ApplicationMap and PSMap solution sets from STA.