IDAT Consulting & Education is a technology- and vendor-independent consulting firm. That means we can identify solutions that are right for you, not just solutions we supply.

IDAT Consulting & Education provides a full range of services to the user community, from basic education and equipment selection through system design and implementation. Terms can be tailored to your individual needs, from hourly phone consultation to full contract services.

IDAT Consulting & Education offers companies services in four basic areas:

• Education
• Technology Assessment
• System Design
• Corporate Standards
• Implementation and Training

Education

Whether you need to educate your key personnel, your entire work force or your vendors, IDAT Consulting & Education can tailor an educational program targeted to your audience and their needs.

IDAT Consulting & Education can cover:

• Benefits,
• Applications,
• Technology options and choices,
• Equipment options and capabilities,
• Compliance and
• Standards.

Whatever your needs, we can develop a program to meet them.

Technlogy Assessment

Sometimes a great idea...isn't. Or maybe it would be with a different technology or a slightly different approach. Sometimes, the difference between success and failure is a little more knowledge.

Whatever the case, we can help keep your project on track by working with your project team to:

• assess the opportunities (and pitfalls),
• identify the right technology or technologies,
• help develop realistic goals, and
• identify key "points of leverage."

Because we know how other companies have successfully implemented ADC and EDI, we can even save you a lot of time.

We'll help you look at the big picture to see whether some of your "blue sky" ideas might be attainable without sending the budget over the moon.

We can even help develop your project team and, if necessary, be available to facilitate meetings.

In short, we'll do our best to keep you out of endless meetings so you can be out doing something constructive.

System Design

A successful ADC system is more than just a couple of black boxes wired into your network. AIDC systems first must work within your corporate, workplace, and data communications environments. They must combine technology, standards, practice, and management.

Planning for the changes that an AIDC system will bring is part of a total system design. And planning for tomorrow's challenges and opportunities should also be part of it.

We can help you develop a system that solves today's problems without becoming one of tomorrow's headaches.

We'll help you:

• develop equipment and quality specifications,
• identify applicable industry, national and international standards,
• help you draft internal documentation, and
• cost-justify the system in real terms.

Corporate Standards

Developing a strong AIDC system is only the first step. A successful system depends on having clear written policies and procedures -- and they need to be reviewed regularly to ensure they reflect current industry standards, customer requirements, corporate practices and equipment.

IDAT Consulting & Education can help you develop a corporate standard that is tailored to your specific corporate culture and requirements.

Implementation and Training

IDAT Consulting & Education will work with you to develop realistic implementation plans: from pilot programs to employee education and manuals.

We can help you identify the best vendors to provide equipment, software and supplies and to install the system. We can also serve as your liaison to large-scale integrators to ensure that the system is installed and configured correctly.

Because we do not offer equipment or integrateion services, our only interest is in helping you develop a robust and successful system that will provide a solid ROI.