APTUDE, INC.
LISLE, IL

Aptude's Corporate Background  Aptude, Inc. is an IT consulting firm incorporated in 2000. Our business model has two distinct focuses that blend together to meet our customers' diverse needs. Working within the complementary spaces of IT consulting/development and IT staffing, we're able to leverage our knowledge, experience, resources, and expertise in project management to find the best solutions for our clients. In providing IT consulting and development services, we strive to deliver outstanding, high quality technical solutions with second-to-none customer service. Aptude's managing partners have over 50 combined years of experience in technology and business and are personally committed to meeting our clients' needs with integrity and complete satisfaction. With their knowledge--and that of our staff of technical and business consultants--spread across a number of technologies, we are able to assist organizations in implementing their own application development solutions. Learn More About Aptude’s IT Consulting Services We provide clients across multiple industries with quality IT professionals and consultants to assist them in creating innovative business solutions. Whether you need to hire IT staff, fill a temporary development position, or piece together a project team, you can depend on Aptude to deliver results. Take a look at  Aptude's Value - IT Consulting Partnerships Aptude values accountability, professionalism, and teamwork.  staffing firms by providing our customers with a second-to-none  What sets Aptude apart? More than staffing: we also provide end-to-end development solutions to meet your needs. Unlike some companies who only provide contractors for hire on an hourly basis, we also offer senior consulting and systems design experts to that can help you identify the optimum strategies for implementing business and technology solutions.  Aptude's Sustained Competency Staffing Model Additionally, we provide customizable end-to-end solutions that include consulting, project management, designing, planning and implementing technology-based projects—in almost any shape or size—to support your business and technology objectives. We have the capability to provide any combination of on-site, offsite or offshore delivery models so you can stick to your budget and maintain whatever level of control over your project that works best for you. We are more than mere recruiters who match buzzwords—our principals work hands-on implementing projects and providing technology solutions for our clients. When meeting your staffing or development requirements, we understand your challenges and have the first-hand knowledge and insight to address them.  In addition to critical systems, software development and project management expertise, our management team has many years of sales and marketing experience working at senior levels for large companies. They bring new ideas and a fresh perspective to everything from problem-solving to pursuing new business opportunities.  We use a proprietary database and management software program for our prospecting and customer service activities. Through our various alliances, industry affiliations and previous project work, we enjoy an extensive worldwide base of contacts. Our reputation and relationships with executives allow us access to these companies and individuals that may not be available to competitive professional services firms.  Our Approach - Aptude's Commitment to Excellence We consider the people and organizations who depend on us to provide superior IT staffing and development services as valued partners. Each new relationship is as important as our existing ones, and we work hard to meet their needs through: Understanding business and technology needs At the detailed project level, Aptude follows the Project Management Institute’s (PMI) method of project management, which includes multiple process groups and knowledge areas. We also follow common technical methodologies including RUP and SDLC. Among Aptude's customers are the professionals who entrust us to source new employment opportunities. To serve their needs, we are committed to: We have developed a core group of highly qualified and professional consultants and contractors for whom we are a primary source of marketing to the industry on a project-to-project basis or for placement with a full time career position. Therefore, we know we must provide an environment of mutual trust and fairness in all our dealings. "Aptude provided us with Oracle DBA migration support, including an upgrade from Oracle 11.1 to Oracle 11.2, and the project was completed on time and to specifications. The project manager and project consultants were responsive and proactive, resulting in a successful conclusion to the work. I would definitely contract with them again, and have recommended them to other technical offices at the University of Georgia." - How Aptude helped a leader in logistics and transportaion overcome their big data challenge with a Hadoop implementation Aptude provided Build.com a Java, MySQL, Webservices and other UI based solution in the business domain of analyzing and reporting on user activities for our ecommerce website. Utilizing Omniture’s APIs to download, parse, and regenerate and upload back so that we could be more effective in our marketing. I was satisfied with their project work and delivery and would consider utilizing them for future projects.” – Dan D., Build.com Business Intelligence Case Study - OBIEE A global, multi-billion dollar manufacturer of retail goods needed an Executive Dashboard to provide information on Global Strategic Planning, Corporate Marketing, Distributor Compensation and Sales.  Defined and implemented a process for annotating the scorecards with user provided information.  The users provided information and we included all the other metric data in the CSV file.