| IT advice and updates for Annex customers | FALL 2008 |
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ANNEX ADVICE Requirements Management Pitfalls By Guy Neill, IT Consultant, PMP There is plenty of literature concerning software requirements practices available to IT professionals through books, proprietary methodologies (RUP, Microsoft Solution Framework, etc.) and other sources. These sources provide extensive information about the best ways to gather requirements, format requirements, and store/manage requirements. Read more... Encrypt Your Confidential Information Seamlessly By Aleksandar Kragl, Senior DBA How many times in recent years has a story in the news about stolen or lost computers or disk drives drawn your attention? Such news certainly was not comforting to people whose confidential information was stored on those computers and potentially compromised. These days it is too easy for someone with malicious intent to steal another person’s identity just by knowing a few critical pieces of information about them. Read more... The Basis for the IT Strategic Planning: Questions to IT Governance By Dr. Eugene Nizker, CIO, Management Consultant A lot is being said lately about the importance of strong CEO/CIO relationship and IT-business alignment. This relationship is often tested when IT prepares its strategic plan. It is apparent that the IT strategic plan should be aligned with the strategic plan for the entire company, otherwise efforts to align IT with the business would fail and CEO/CIO relationship would get strained. But does a corporate strategic plan always contain sufficient information for IT planning? Read more... |
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Annex appears in the 20th annual PROFIT 100 listing of Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies by PROFIT Magazine. Ranking Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies by five-year revenue growth, the PROFIT 100 profiles the country’s most successful growth companies. Read more... |
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CDN ranks Annex Consulting Group Inc. as one of the Top 100 Solution Providers in Canada for the second year in a row. CDN (Computer Dealer News) has been a leading information source for Canadian IT solution providers since 1985.
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For the second year in a row, Annex Consulting Group Inc. has been ranked as one of Canada's largest technology companies by the Branham Group. Annex appears in the 2008 Branham300 list which ranks the top publicly traded and privately held information technology companies in the country. Read more... |
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Sean Marthinsen
Client Manager
Sean has been a Client Manager with Annex for 4 ½ years. His responsibilities include building and maintaining relationships with some of BC’s most successful companies. In addition to account management, Sean is also very adept at finding top-calibre consultants to meet his client’s IT requirements. During an engagement, Sean completes regular service management with customer and consultant to ensure Annex maintains its 97% customer satisfaction rating. Prior to Annex, Sean worked for a number of prominent national and local recruitment firms. Outside of work, Sean enjoys boating, ball hockey and coaching minor hockey.
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