Pressroom Archive 
TRANSCOM Begins Transition to SOA
January, 22nd, 2009 at 3:23 pm
The U.S. Transportation Command has begun the rollout of a five-year program that will transform it from an organization dependent on old and slow stovepiped systems and applications to one that uses single-click, Web-based enterprise services to get things done.
At the end of last year Asynchrony Solutions Inc., which won a $14 million support services contract in July 2008, delivered the first element in a three-phase effort to build a services oriented architecture (SOA) that will form the backbone for USTRANSCOM’s Corporate Services Vision (CSV).
The ultimate goal is nothing less than a net-centric driven revolution in the way the military provides resources to its warfighters around the globe.
Agile for a New Age
December, 1st, 2008 at 4:10 pm
Ask Jim York what it takes to master agile methods, and he points to the skill set of a team known for silliness, not software: Drew Carey and the ensemble cast of “Whose Line Is It Anyway?”
York, founder of Virginia-based agile training and consulting firm FoxHedge, runs improvisational-
theater-style seminars that teach developers to think on their feet. Like improv, he noted, agile development sets a few basic rules and then lets participants run with the project, summoning their creativity to flesh out the concept. In his classes, developers are assigned scenarios and must then work together to “act” their way out of them, much as the cast does on Carey’s TV show.
Museum Living
October, 9th, 2007 at 5:43 pm
Stephanie Greytak admits it takes a certain kind of person to live in a loft like hers.
“This is like living in architectural art,” she says. “I don’t know that it’s for everyone, but it’s definitely for me. I like the quirky and the offbeat.”
Greytak lives in one of the first lofts created in the City Museum. Being one of the first, she had free reign in how she wanted her loft to be designed. With her doing the dreaming and Bob Cassilly doing the designing, the outcome is simply incredible.
Asynchrony Solutions Announces 10,000 square foot Corporate Headquarters Expansion in Historic Downtown St. Louis Building
April, 10th, 2007 at 5:46 pm
Asynchrony Solutions announced the opening of a 10,000 square foot addition to its current headquarters in the historic, century-old King Bee Hat building in downtown St. Louis. A ribbon cutting ceremony was held on Friday, April 6. Dignitaries speaking at the event included U.S. Senator Kit Bond of Missouri; St. Louis Deputy Mayor of Development, Barbara Geisman; and Lewis Reed, President-elect of the St. Louis Board of Alderman.
Bond Celebrates Asynchrony Solutions’ Expansion Senator Praises High-Tech St. Louis Company
April, 9th, 2007 at 5:48 pm
“What happens on the battlefields of Iraq or Afghanistan or on dangerous seas often depends on what happens in the high technology plants in St. Louis and across Missouri,” said Bond. “Our ability to conduct successful combat operations is increasingly dependent on high-tech communications systems. That is why companies like Asynchrony are so important.”
Today’s ceremony celebrated the 10,000 square foot addition to Asynchrony’s current headquarters in the historic, century-old King Bee Hat building in downtown St. Louis. The expansion increases Asynchrony’s total space in the building to 25,000 square feet, which will help the company meet the growing demand for their products.
Growing on Washington Avenue
April, 9th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
Asynchrony Solutions, an information-technology consulting firm with revenue of $10 million in 2006 and 80 employees, expects to grow revenue 50 percent and add 20 or more employees this year, Bob Elfanbaum, chief executive, said. The firm has signed a five-year lease at 1701 Washington Ave. and has expanded its space by a third, for a total of 24,000 square feet, at a cost of $750,000. Elfanbaum and his brothers – Steve Elfanbaum, president, and David Elfanbaum, vice president – founded the firm in 1999 along with Nate McKie, chief technology officer. Inc. magazine identified it as one of the 500 fastest-growing private companies in the United States in 2005 and 2006.
Process Improvement and Other Fairy Tales
November, 8th, 2006 at 5:52 pm
Ever since engineers first exchanged their slide rules for punch cards, information technology professionals have been working to improve the quality of software development. Despite more than a half century of Herculean effort and the almost complete disappearance of pocket protectors, recent studies report that fewer than one in three projects meet requirements and are completed on time and within budget. Is software development like baseball, where a .300 batting average is the best we can hope for, or are our efforts somehow off base?
The reason that such concerted effort hasn’t produced better results is because the traditional development methodology everyone keeps trying to improve is inherently flawed. It’s based on false assumptions that can accurately be described as fairy tales or myths. As long as we keep riding the same lame unicorn, we won’t run any faster, let alone fly.
Asynchrony Solutions Makes Inc. Magazine 500 List
August, 24th, 2006 at 5:54 pm
Three St. Louis-area companies made Inc. magazine’s 2006 list of America’s 500 Fastest-Growing Private Companies, which was released Wednesday.
The Inc. 500 list, published in the magazine’s September issue, measures revenue growth from 2002 through 2005. To qualify, companies had to be U.S.-based, privately held and independent – not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies – as of Dec. 31, 2005, and have at least $600,000 in net sales in the base year.
Local companies that made the list this year were:
- IT staffing firm KellyMitchell, Clayton, Mo., ranked No. 299 with sales growth of 450.8 percent and 2005 revenue of $20.3 million;
- Defense contractors Asynchrony Solutions, St. Louis, ranked No. 466 with sales growth of 322.3 percent and 2005 revenue of $12.3 million;
- Logistics Management Solutions, St. Louis, ranked No. 470 with sales growth of 322 percent and 2005 revenue of $58.2 million.
Information Technology Standards: Why They Are Important to Public Safety
August, 9th, 2006 at 5:58 pm
New technology standards are being developed that will dramatically improve the way information is shared across the public safety spectrum. The importance of these efforts cannot be overstated. To illustrate the importance of sharing information in public safety, consider the following scenario: A tanker truck carrying hazardous materials overturns on a bridge that spans a river between two jurisdictions. The truck’s container ruptures and the contents begin leaking into the river below. Vapors from the container create a plume of potentially toxic particles that slowly spread downwind toward nearby businesses and residences. The contaminated water flows downstream toward another community’s water intake system.
Many different government and private sector agencies would need information about this incident to fulfill their responsibilities. In addition to first responders, government agencies at the local, state, and federal levels with responsibilities related to this type of event would need to receive information about the incident so that they could muster their resources as part of the response and recovery effort. Likewise, private-sector entities such as the water company and hazardous materials response companies would need to be informed so that they could take action to protect the water supply. Elected officials and the media would be seeking up-to-the minute information about the incident to protect and inform the public of the possible danger.
Integrated Systems: XML, GPS, RF New-age Crime Fighters
August, 9th, 2006 at 5:56 pm
Federal, state and local government agencies, at times with the help of corporate and private security operations, have jumped ahead with computer and communications technologies to track out-of-jail individuals as well as share law enforcement information.
In New Hampshire, jail officials now use a GPS-based system from BI of Boulder, Colo., as an alternative to monitor inmates and pretrial defendants who, because they are not a risk to society, need not be incarcerated. In Missouri, justice officials were tasked to create methods to transfer local court data from 49 unique court case management systems to a statewide Oracle database thanks to Asynchrony Solutions of St. Louis. Both security projects were equally complex tasks.
Emergency and Disaster Teams Benefit from Asynchrony's Mobile Field Kit
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