Business Process Automation

Process Improvement Services

Successful organizations must not only offer the right products and services, but also use the right sales and production processes. Innovation and superior execution in your business processes can be the difference between getting by and success among your market peers. Cogent's process improvement services are centered around the premise that 'how' work is executed is as important 'what' work is accomplished. Cogent's Associates have extensive experience working with small and large organizations to identify and develop processes that can be automated, processes that can be improved, and ways to measure and manage those processes.

People Centric Workflow Solutions

Cogent helps organizations streamline forms-driven business processes with easy-to-use, intelligent, XML-based electronic forms based in SharePoint and InfoPath (Forms Server) that integrate smoothly with existing systems. These security-enhanced, client/server platform solutions provide rapid-solution creation and deployment, centralize form management and maintenance, and helps to extend business processes to customers, partners, and suppliers.

Office Application Integration

There has been an ongoing debate among IT professionals about the best way to satisfy the increasing demands of business users. Today’s users want more than just content they can read. Information workers are paid to plan and act, and respond to changes in fast-moving and competitive markets. Organizations also are seeking to take advantage of the rapid advances in mobile computing to extend the enterprise into the field.

The result is an increasing demand for “occasionally connected,” mobile, powerful computing capabilities. This demand is being met through the emergence of “smart clients.” Smart clients are computers, devices, or applications that can provide:

• The best aspects of traditional desktop applications, including highly responsive software, sophisticated features for users, and great opportunities for developers to enhance existing applications or create new ones.
• The best aspects of “thin clients,” including a small form factor, economical use of computing resources such as processors and memory, ease of deployment, and easy manageability.
• A natural, easily understood user interface (UI) that is high quality and designed for occasional connectivity with other systems.
• Interoperability with many different types of devices.
• The ability to consume Web services.

Operational Reporting Solutions

Reporting is essential to everyday business, whether you are trying to communicate with employees, partners, investors, and customers or enable better decisions and improve customer satisfaction. Based on SQL Server 2007 Reporting Services, Cogent's operational reporting solutions focus on what you need to operate your business and improve performance. While Reporting Services reports can be managed in any site or document library, Office SharePoint Server 2007 includes out of the box functionality for reporting, referred to as the Report Center. Report Center is delivered as a site template to enable you to easily create an Office SharePoint Server 2007 site for hosting reports.