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• Large Not-for-Profit Organization Engages GalaxE.Solutions® for Grant Budgeting System - July 2008
  GalaxE.Solutions®, Inc., will create a state-of-the-art Grant Budgeting System (GBS) for one of the largest not-for-profit organizations in the world. The solution for the not-for-profit client was designed around a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) approach, where functionality is grouped around business processes and packaged as interopable services. GalaxE's implementation of SOA for development of this GBS application will provide secure, reliable, transaction-based messaging and complete interoperability, with all business flows captured and implemented using a lightweight and extensible engine. The GBS application will have the ability to administer each workflow that runs in the system and allow any user to update a workflow online. Business rules will be separated from the code for convenient on-demand, approval-based user updates through a simple user interface.
  
   
• Pharmacy Benefits Management Firm Renews Support Contract with GalaxE.Solutions® - June 2008
  A leading U.S.-based pharmacy benefits management company has renewed its support contract with GalaxE.Solutions®, Inc., for an additional year. By leveraging its integrated and dynamic offshore management capabilities, GalaxE was able to provide a cost-effective support solution that met all of the pharmacy benefits management company's strict requirements. This latest support contract renewal highlights GalaxE's firm commitment to developing high quality, customer-centric solutions.
  
   
• GalaxE.Solutions® Delivers for a Leading Pharmacy Benefits Management Company - June 2008
  Using its proprietary Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) methodology, GalaxE.Solutions®, Inc., has successfully concluded a project to assist a top pharmacy benefits management company with the replatforming of an important legacy platform. The project involved comprehensive review of the complete Software Development Life Cyle (SDLC), analysis of existing technical documentation and production of supplemental business artifacts. The customer engaged GalaxE because its IV&V methodology consists of a proven, cost-effective process and toolset to provide a critical view into a system's internal workings and behavior.
  
   
• GalaxE.Solutions® Provides Critical Application Production Support for Large Retailer - June 2008
  A large U.S.-based retailer of luxury goods engaged GalaxE.Solutions®, Inc., to provide production support for the roll-out of a major PLM-based application and its integration with a Business Intelligence (BI) tool and other mission-critical products. GalaxE leveraged its integrated and dynamic offshore capabilities to provide 24x7 production support and minimize costs, ensuring a successful roll-out.
  
   
• GalaxE.Solutions® Launches COBOL Training Program - June 2008
  As part of its continued leadership role in new Information Technology initiatives, GalaxE.Solutions®, Inc., launched its first COBOL Training Program in early June. GalaxE started this training program to teach students the basics of one of the oldest programming languages, making a critical contribution to the related educational intitiaves and body of knowledge in the United States. COBOL, which stands for COmmon Business-Oriented Language, defines its primary domain in business, finance and adminstrative systems for companies and governments. As a result, GalaxE developed this new course to educate students on the importance and necessity of both learning and continuing with COBOL training. The classes meet for two hours a day, four days a week and will span a total of three months.
  
   
• Another Major Retail Chain Engages GalaxE.Solutions® - June 2008
  A leader in the apparel and footwear industry, with a broad range of brands and associated products, has engaged GalaxE.Solutions®, Inc., to deploy its proven Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) methodology. GalaxE's IV&V will be used to ensure the smooth replatforming of an existing style/buy-play system to SAP. The major deliverables from GalaxE will include a well documented, re-usable codebase, as well as complete domain and business process models, current architecture review, and detailed recommendations. These deliverables will include a Proof of Concept (POC) and future state roadmap for this top retailer.
  
   
• GalaxE.Solutions® and Galaxy Systems Complete Corporate Move - May 2008
  GalaxE.Solutions®, Inc., and sister company, Galaxy Systems, Inc., have successfully completed the move of their combined corporate headquarters from New York City to their expanded, state-of-the-art, Somerset, New Jersey, delivery facility.
  
   
• GalaxE.Solutions® and Siperian Sign Enterprise Business Alliance Agreement – April 2008
  GalaxE.Solutions®, Inc., and Siperian, Inc., have entered into an Enterprise Business Alliance Agreement for Employee Master opportunities. GalaxE and Siperian will be combining their market-proven capabilities to explore emerging business opportunities in industries such as manufacturing, retail, pharmaceutical, energy and utilities in support of HR and other types of Master Data engagements.
  
  GalaxE will be Siperian’s preferred and recommended partner for new Siperian HR or Employee Master opportunities in Life Sciences and other verticals. For joint opportunities where scope expands beyond HR or Employee Master, GalaxE will be the preferred and recommended partner to Siperian in support of any other Siperian implementation or service offerings that may arise. 

  The GalaxE service offerings in conjunction with Siperian will include installation and configuration, report development, cube development, modeling, performance tuning, onshore and offshore delivery, report migration, database design, project management, training, and capacity planning. It is from this depth of delivery capabilities that GalaxE.Solutions will be one of Siperian’s most trusted partners in developing and deploying business applications on top of Siperian’s framework.
  
  

• GalaxE.Solutions® receives highest performance ratings from top pharmaceutical company – August 2007
  One of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies has issued GalaxE.Solutions® its highest rating for IT project performance. GalaxE received a score of 4.8 out of a possible 5.0 for its performance across multiple fixed price engagements. The categories included Support, Quality, Delivery and Value. Of particular note – and highly unusual for this client – was that GalaxE consistently received the highest ratings in all categories. The client's projects were delivered successfully under extreme time and cost pressures. This represents GalaxE's commitment to excellence in delivering solutions in areas like Master Data Management (MDM), Business Intelligence (BI), Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), QA Automation and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM).
  
  
• Leading jewelry retailer engages GalaxE.Solutions® for retail stores application development – July 2007
  GalaxE.Solutions® will create a scaleable retail stores application for a leading jewelry retailer by leveraging its unique onshore/offshore development model. The retailer chose to partner with GalaxE for its dynamically scaleable offshore capabilities, capability to provide talent with a wide-range of skillsets, and ability to deliver extremely cost-effective pricing.
  
  
• Leading retailer engages GalaxE.Solutions® for a BI assignment integrating Cognos with a PLM and SAP solution – July 2007
  GalaxE.Solutions® successfully concluded a Business Intelligence (BI) engagement for a large US retailer of high end apparel and leather goods. The client needed Cognos BI reports delivered from a huge volume of data residing in a PLM and SAP solution. GalaxE was able to deploy its proven Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) methodology to map the legacy PLM and SAP applications to design reports within Cognos and deliver reports that return PLM mission critical real-time data to the client.
  
  
• GalaxE.Solutions® delivers MDM-based HR solution for a worldwide medical technology company – July 2007
  To address a Fortune 500 medical technology company’s global needs, GalaxE.Solutions® deployed its Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) in leveraging Siperian’s capabilities to develop a Master Data Management (MDM)-based HR solution that will be used across more than 35 different countries. The successful deployment impacted several thousand global employees, and, despite the challenges, made use of legacy data residing in diverse systems like SAP and Lotus Notes. GalaxE utilized the state-of-the-art capabilities of Siperian for its MDM requirements.
  
  
• Large US retailer of high end apparel and leather goods utilizes GalaxE.Solutions®’ IV&V methodology to manage its legacy applications – June 2007
  GalaxE.Solutions® deployed its Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) methodology at a leading retailer to manage its undocumented legacy planning applications deployed in a production system. Using GalaxE’s IV&V, current and target states of the application were established. Documentation on all applications and databases was delivered at the end of the project. The client benefited through the use of this documentation by all existing and new employees within the company.
  
  
• Leading insurance company engages GalaxE.Solutions® to provide application development services to create a new Loss Prevention Engineering system – July 2007
  GalaxE.Solutions® successfully concluded the initial phase of a three phase project to design and develop a new loss prevention engineering system. GalaxE worked directly with the business users to define the new system from the ground up. The new system will allow the client’s underwriters to perform automated analysis, collection and reporting duties from the field location, while automatically synchronizing data through the company network. The design phase (Phase II) of the project is scheduled to begin in July with the system targeted for production use in early 2008.