Accreditation / Certification / Awards

An overview of our accolades:

ISO 9000 Experience
ERP Certifications
Database Certifications
Unix Certifications
Microsoft and Other Certifications
Project Management
Internet Awards
Authorship

ISO 9000 Experience:
 Concord Solutions has an associate who led the ISO 9000 effort at IBM's Application Software Development Lab in Southlake, Texas.
 Concord Solutions has two associates who participated in the ISO 9000 effort at IBM's Application Software Development Lab in Rochester, Minnesota. This was the first software lab in the U.S. to achieve ISO 9000 status. Project Management Certification
 Project Management Professional (PMP) from Project Management Institute (PMI), Pennsylvania, USA.
 Project Management Certification from SAP in Accelerated SAP methodologies.
Project Management Certification courses from PricewaterhouseCoopers and American Management Associations.


ERP Certifications:
SAP Certified Consultants in the following modules:Human ResourcesFinancial and ControllingSales and DistributionMaterials ManagementCustomer Service o Production PlanningProject SystemBusiness WarehouseCustomer Relationship ManagementCertified in ABAP programming languageCommerce OnePeopleSoftSiebel


Database Certifications
 OracleMS SQLSybase


Unix Certifications:
 HP UnixIBM UnixSun Unix


Microsoft and Other Certifications:
 Microsoft Certified Network ConsultantsJava 2 Programmer Level Certification from Sun Microsystems, USAAnalysis and Design Modeling - ARIS - Business Process Reengineering


Project Management:
 Project Management Professional (PMP) from Project Management Institute (PMI), Pennsylvania, USA.

 Project Management Certification from SAP in Accelerated SAP methodologies.

 Project Management Certification courses from PricewaterhouseCoopers and American Management Associations.

 Concord Solutions has an associate who was certified at IBM as Project Manager for both U.S. and multi-national projects. He managed and successfully completed projects at IBM's World Trade Headquarters, as well as multi-national projects at IBM's development labs in the UK, the Netherlands and in Greece. In some cases the work was performed for IBM proper, in some cases for small IBM subsidiaries in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

 This associate taught project management courses at IBM's International Education Center in La Hulpe, Belgium and hosted cross-functional technical discussions of emerging technologies for both IT and functional management from various IBM operations. He is certified in Accelerated SAP, the SAP project methodology, for both 3x and 4x releases. He has served multiple projects as a Functional Team Lead as well as the SAP Project Manager.

 Concord Solutions has another associate who has provided consulting services for management of several Fortune 100 and 500 companies. These services included project management and product strategy consultation for IBM Toronto, Texas Instruments, Hewlett Packard, Lexmark, IBM Lexington, and others. He has also lead seminars for Senior Managers and seminars for Project Managers at Toronto Dominion, the second largest Bank in Canada, and at Lexmark.

 This associate was invited to be a Guest Editor of IEEE Software's Special Issue on Managing Object-Oriented Development (volume 29, number 9). He co-authored the article introducing the Special Issue and co-headed the referee process by which scholarly papers were selected for inclusion.


Internet Awards
 Concord Solutions has an associate who is the author and maintainer of the Internet hosted C++ FAQ list, the official Frequently Asked Questions list for the C++ language. Developed on the Internet since 1991, it has an estimated worldwide readership nearing five hundred thousand people and enjoys consistently high reviews. It is hosted in a dozen countries and has been translated into six languages: English, Russian, Chinese (Mainland), Taiwanese Chinese, French and Portuguese. This web site has received the Key Resource Award from Links To Go, and both the White and Blue Awards from the Developer Exchange.

 This associate is also an originating co-author of the CORBA FAQ, the official web site for Frequently Asked Questions on CORBA technology. Developed and published on the Internet since 1996, it is being hosted in four countries (USA, Ukraine, India and Germany) and appears in three languages: English, Japanese, Korean. This web site has received the Top 100 Award from Big-Mir, the SL Award from SpyLOG, and the M6 Award from Kiev.UA.


Authorship
 Concord Solutions has an associate who is the lead co-author of the successful book C++ FAQs, Addison-Wesley publishers. The book has sold over ten times its initial printing, has been reprinted a dozen times in two editions, was translated into Japanese, and gets five-star reviews at Amazon.com and other bookstores.

 This associate is a contributor to several other books including Building Application Frameworks (Wiley and Sons Publishers) and Problem Solving, Abstraction and Design using C++ (Addison-Wesley Publishers). He is also the author or co-author of numerous articles on various technical subjects.

 He is a co-creator of the Enduring Business Theme approach. This approach was highlighted in the Communications of the ACM and a Wiley and Sons book, and has been used in several companies including UPS, HP, IBM, and Canada Trust bank.