CIO Bulletin

Using empirical data and hands-on experience, Apps Associates improves business outcomes and lower the total cost of technology investments

Apps Associates is a premier enterprise application advisory services leader with a customer-first focus. For more than two decades, decision-makers have turned to Apps Associates for end-to-end strategic counsel, system integration, and the services required to solve their most complex business and digital transformation challenges applying expansive expertise in data and analytics, application modernization, automation, digital systems, operations, and change management. Apps Associates delivers a breadth of services, unwavering dependability, and unparalleled agility that drives ROI. Apps Associates is a trusted partner for the management of critical business needs, providing strategic consulting and managed services for Oracle, Salesforce, integration, analytics, and multi-cloud infrastructure. Apps Associates differentiates through its relentless attention to delivery excellence and customer care.

Apps Associates is an Oracle Partner, a Premier Consulting Partner with Amazon Web Services with competencies in Oracle and Managed Services, Salesforce Consulting Partner, and a Snowflake Select Partner. No one has managed more Oracle to Cloud migrations than Apps Associates, giving clients deep-rooted expertise that is second to none. Operating in the United States, Europe, and India, the company has maintained long-term partnerships with its customers as a result of the high-quality solutions that its experts design, deploy and manage. These solutions are developed using Apps Associates’ proprietary global delivery model under the ITIL. The company’s consultants work closely with its customers to create solutions from concept to deployment, leveraging Oracle technology to improve their business performance through streamlined processes, improved insight, and an integrated IT environment.

An Extension of Customers’ Team

Apps Associates was founded in 2002. It is a company acknowledged for its expertise, values, a history of innovation and a strong commitment to customers and employees. Apps Associates offer the breadth of services and scale to make a difference while always treating every customer with the attention that they deserve. Today, it has over 1350 employees with exceptional retention of both staff and clients. Apps Associates was formed based on the belief that there has to be a better way to deliver IT-centric services and solutions. It was founded on the principle of partnership with its customers based on trust, value, innovation and continuous improvement.

Need help upgrading or implementing your CRM? Have complex pricing and subscription models? Want to remove manual processes, utilize time saving automation, and integrate your systems? There’s a better way with a Salesforce solution from Apps Associates. Apps Associates commitment is to solve advanced technological problems so you can focus on your continued success. Clients view them as a trusted advisor and close extension of their organization. Apps Associates have the size, strength and breadth of services to build solutions that meet your unique business needs, while aligning with your larger IT strategy and internal capabilities. With 90+ members located in the US and India, the Apps Associates Salesforce Practice has been a Salesforce partner since 2006 and carries a broad range of Salesforce certifications and expertise. Ethos joined the Apps Associates family in 2021. The combined forces to ensure that you are covered.

Over the years, Apps Associates has been the partner of choice for clients in numerous industries. They all view it as a trusted advisor and close extension of their IT organization—and that’s precisely who they are. The solutions it builds not only meet the unique business needs of the clients but also align with its overall IT strategy and internal capabilities. After all, it doesn’t want to create dependencies but, rather, help facilitate each client’s own IT governance. Apps Associates can help you protect your IT investments and accommodate your growing information needs because Apps Associates know how to make its custom applications interconnect with existing or new third-party systems, whether they are on premise or in the cloud.

Unify your business processes and enable the flow of data between them. Moving your ERP systems to the Cloud expedites and improves accuracy and access to that data. And if you have already made your move to the cloud, Apps Associates can ensure that you are maximizing the return on your investment. Apps Associates has expertise in all areas of implementing and managing ERP. Leveraging Oracle’s Modern Best Practice (MBP), its certified consultants have deployed Oracle ERP Cloud at dozens of customers across the US and worldwide. With quality and consistency, using a proven Implementation methodology, Apps Associates will become your trusted partner and knowledgeable advisor on your journey to the Cloud and help you manage it once you there. By collecting an organization’s shared transactional data from multiple sources, Cloud-based ERP systems eliminate data duplication and provide data integrity with a “single source of truth.” The benefits of partnering with it and migrating to the Oracle ERP Cloud:

Get real-time access to live data – Proactively resolve issues to move things along in an integrated fashion.

Better accuracy and control – Improve decision-making and increase accuracy during transaction entry, while also reducing transaction processing costs.
Better cash management – Improve cash inflows and manage cash positions.
Confidence with compliance Issues – Moving to the Cloud makes it easier to comply with global accounting standards and multiple legislative, industry or geographic requirements.

Custom Cloud Applications

Need a Cloud Solution Specific to Your Needs? If your business requires functionality not readily available from Oracle or other SaaS application providers, turn to Apps Associates to develop custom Platform as a Service (PaaS) modules that meet your needs. PaaS offers an open, standards-based application development platform to build, deploy, and manage API-first, mobile-first cloud applications. It can provide pre-built adapters to integrate on-premise and cloud applications. These pre-built adapters and connectors can ease the development of custom integrations to extend SaaS applications. Additional capabilities include data integration and replication, API management, integration analytics, along with data migration and integration that make it comprehensive. Apps Associates has got it covered and can be your first and most trusted advisor with the know-how to build a custom Cloud Solution.

Change Management

With Apps Associates’ Change Management offering it provides a framework to accelerate successful user adoption as well as user support. Whether migrating or introducing new business applications, automation, data visualization or choosing a hybrid or fully Cloud-based infrastructure, the biggest challenge to upgrading any important business system is not just in planning and supporting the actual implementation—it’s the human element of change and guiding overall user adoption. Organizations invest countless dollars in business applications; it only makes sense to ensure that users can leverage them to the fullest. Change Management ensures teams are trained and equipped with the right tools and processes to seamlessly go about day-to-day and mission critical operations with ease. Change Management helps to keep the human element of change in the forefront and provides a strategy to decrease implementation risk due to poor user adoption. Apps Associates can help; with added components of agility and creativity that emphasize value for its diversified customer base. Apps Associates bring alignment and resources that will elicit positive change and momentum for users and fast track ROI for businesses.

Managed Services

Apps Associates, Managed Services Offering helps support a more diverse, complex enterprise application and technology portfolio, while balancing competing business priorities of IT operations and innovation. It helps you stay focused on strategic, high-value activities, while providing ongoing support, and maintenance. The quality, service and convenience of working with a single IT Managed Solutions partner offer your business a single source of expertise and accountability across your enterprise. Apps Associates supports a broad portfolio of Applications (ERP, HCM, Supply Chain, EPM, and Data & Analytics), Infrastructure (OS, Network, Database, WebLogic, SOA), and Cloud technologies (Amazon, Oracle, Azure). With Apps Associates, you get the breadth of knowledge and expertise that comes from supporting multiple customer environments, as well as the depth of knowledge of experienced, specialized resources. If an issue arises, there is a good chance that its associates have resolved it before. As an extension of your staff, Apps Associates ‘certified teams support your environment, allowing you to focus on your business.

Adrian King, CEO