THE IES VALUE PROPOSITION:

We understand that resources are only useful if they are applied effectively. Technology budgets alone do not solve anything, but do provide the necessary energy required to accomplish the work of building your business systems. That energy must be effectively and securely coordinated, integrated and managed.

This is where IES excels, by turning ideas and focused resources into the building blocks for breakthrough business performance. The net effect of these efforts is on your most important consideration - your bottom line.

We specialize in applying our disciplines and focus in two primary practice areas of high value to our clients:

• Architecture and Process Enablement
Helping You Build Your Business Systems Right the First Time
• Security and Risk Management
Helping You Protect Your Systems Right From the Start

ASK OUR CLIENTS:

HUD; Ginnie Mae; Bank of New York (Trust Division previously at JP Morgan-Chase); U.S. Army; National Institutes of Health; Department of Interior; Yardi Systems; Deloitte Consulting; Whitestone Capital Group; Federal Maritime Commission; Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; Creative Information Technology, Inc.; Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (formerly National Association Of Securities Dealers); Knowledge Management Systems; Radian Guarantee; Drayton, Drayton and Lamar; The Presidio Trust; Calibre Systems.

Better yet, become a valued client and see for yourself how we can help optimize your business performance!

RECENT EXAMPLES OF IES LEADERSHIP:

Held April 21-23, 2008 at the Renaissance Washington, DC Hotel Located in the Downtown Area of DC

Since 2006, The Only Conference to Join Business Process Management and Enterprise Architecture Under the Agenda of Business Transformation!

IES Co-sponsored this Major National Conference on Enterprise Architecture (EA), Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), and Business Process Management (BPM): IES joined with Transformation+Innovation to host the latest version of the Architecture and Process Conference Series, Architecture and Process 2008, to learn the latest methodologies and case studies for modeling business processes and services pursuant to SOA-based deployments and EA implementation using BPM technologies. Major vendors and integrators in the EA, SOA, and BPM spaces exhibited concurrently with the conference sessions on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 and Wednesday, April 23, 2008. In addition, IES conducted a day long tutorial on "How To Model Business Processes and Services for SOA-based and EA-compliant Implementation" on Monday, April 21, 2008 in a Pre-conference Workshop that was adapted from IES training offerings.

IES Featured In the Outlook Series Audio Interviews On Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Technologies: IES's leadership in helping clients implement ECM and SOA technologies has recently been recognized in a series of in-depth Outlook Series audio interviews about these two different information technologies. The most recent interview discusses how ECM functions could be re-architected to operate as Web Services within an SOA framework: Outlook Series Interview - "The Implications of Web Services Across the Document Lifecycle". An earlier interview discusses how SOA technologies, particularly Web Services, can enable migration to a target Enterprise Architecture (EA) while mitigating associated risks: Outlook Series Interview - "SOA & Web Services Drive EA Migrations". The very first interview conducted compares ECM and SOA, and considers how the two should co-exist: Outlook Series Interview - "Can ECM and SOA Forge A Marriage?".

IES Proposes To the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) How the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) Program Can Be Reengineered To Better Preserve and Extend FHA's Share of the Reverse Mortgage Market: Based on its considerable expertise in mortgage banking/insurance and with FHA itself, IES has prepared a White Paper that describes how the HECM Program, the FHA reverse mortgage product that it insures and is by far the leading offering in the rapidly growing reverse mortgage market, can be reengineered under a Business Service Provider (BSP) model for delivery of HECM-related services. Under a BSP model, FHA can take the opportunity to move its automated support for HECM from a functionally limited system on an aging and poorly integrated legacy platform to an improved portal and system that will be remotely operated under a BSP service delivery model, and fit within HUD's and FHA's architectural direction of leveraging SOA technologies, including Web Services and Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) technologies. This IES White Paper can be downloaded from this website (see the listing for "Forward Thinking on FHA Single Family Reverse Mortgages.")

2006 Government Computer News (GCN) Awards: On October 25, 2006, HUD and IES were acknowledged for their efforts as innovators in e-Government at the annual GCN Awards ceremony. HUD initiated a study that found substantial errors being made in determining the amount HUD pays on behalf of families receiving public housing & Section-8 assistance. As a result, HUD developed and implemented the “Enterprise Income Verification” (EIV) System to share state wage and unemployment information with Public Housing Authorities for use in verifying tenant income. IES, working closely with HUD, has helped PIH reduce improper payments by almost $1.8 billion.