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The Women's Business Enterprise National Council is the nation's largest third party certifier of businesses owned and operated by women in the United States. WBENC is a resource for the more than 700 U.S. companies and government agencies that rely on WBENC's certification as an integral part of their supplier diversity programs.

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Application Development

Strategic combination of onsite, offsite and alternative development essential to meet strategic objectives of today’s high-speed, competitive marketplace.

Companies today need to focus on core businesses to achieve a competitive business edge in the marketplace. And doing that — while addressing the data management needs from application and reporting development to migration and re-platforming mission-critical applications within budget — provides more challenges than ever before.

LEC brings two decades of application development and integration experience. We provide clients with a strategic approach to addressing application development, integration and delivery needs through process improvement, leveraging appropriate technologies, and following best practices for Project Management and Change Management.

In addition, our development teams are comprised of skilled, experienced and high performance individuals who provide insight, guidance and services in Application Development. These team members — experts within their respective disciplines, certified in one or more technology products — work directly with client teams — in an offshore model — providing mentoring, education and the necessary knowledge transfer to empower clients to meet their strategic objectives.

Our software development and quality assurance methodology is followed rigorously on each project, while still maintaining flexibility to accommodate our clients’ unique internal processes. This flexibility allows us to implement these solutions within the right price points through onsite, offsite and alternative combinations.

Technical Competency Areas

  • Database Management Systems - Oracle, DB2, Sybase, Informix, Microsoft SQL Server, Teradata, Netezza
  • Database Design - Dimensional or Normalized
  • Extraction, Transformation and Loading (ETL) Tools and coding - Informatica, DataStage, SQL Server Data Transformation Services, Oracle Warehouse Builder
  • Data Access Tools - Business Objects, Cognos, Microstrategy, Crystal Reports, SAS, Essbase, SQL Server OLAP Services
  • Data Cleansing Tools –Trillium, DataStage 
  • Data Warehouse/Mart Project Management
  • Source Systems - POS, SAP, Peoplesoft/other HR, Claims, Membership, Financial, many others in all data types
  • Master Data Management – Siperian, Kalido, Oracle, IBM
  • Programming – MSI, .net, C#, Java
  • Analysis – Data, Business, Data Stewardship

Application Focuses

  • Customer Segmentation
  • Customer Lifetime Value/Customer Profitability
  • Churn and Retention Analysis
  • Channel Parity
  • Targeted Marketing and Campaign Management
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Yield Management
  • Workforce Management
  • Call Center Management
  • Sales Analytics
  • Balanced Scorecards and KPIs
  • Many others