Calvis, a leading IT and management consultancy for the professional services sector, has signed a partnership agreement with Perot Systems, a global provider of IT services and business solutions. The alliance provides Calvis with access to a development resource which will further enhance its ability to design and roll out Microsoft solutions, primarily Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Working alongside Perot, Calvis will continue to offer clients technical and strategic consultancy, based on its industry knowledge, and high level architectural design insight. Recently, Calvis has undertaken SharePoint assignments for Hines, Cushman & Wakefield and Eversheds.
Since Calvis took the strategic decision to concentrate on the provision of Microsoft technologies earlier this year, it has made significant inroads in terms of building up its SharePoint client base. To fulfil demand and maintain growth, Calvis required a development partner who could supply both onshore and offshore resources and understood the dynamics of the professional services sector.
Chris Lees, executive director at Calvis, explained: “Our business model is simple; we work with partners to provide our clients with skilled, experienced and cost effective project teams. We do not believe that consultancies can justify maintaining in-house software teams that may be a jack of all trades but a master of none. Due to our architectural design skills and sector experience we can rapidly absorb, evaluate and rationalize a specific business requirement. Now, through our partnership with Perot, we are in a position whereby we can scale-up very quickly and turn that requirement into a robust, high quality solution.”
In relation to the business and process improvement capabilities of Microsoft SharePoint, Calvis specializes in document management and workflow, business intelligence, integration and extranet and intranet solutions.