IT's about our customers, really.S3M Consulting has
positioned itself as solution supplier of choice for a vast
array of customers from very diverse sectors, including
automotive, defense, government, telecommunications, mining,
travel, banking and insurance, logistics, software
development, transport, geological exploration and many
more.
To serve its customers, S3M focuses on growth in
domains where its customers are best served. Simple, yet
effective. Customers want deep expertise and high quality
delivery in services often not part of their own
core-business. S3M delivers.
A brief overview of our
history is testimony of this continuing pursuit of synergies
and complimentary expertise in best interest of its
customers.
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Customer Focus ?! |
1999Founders and industry experts decide to join
forces in S3M Corp (STREAM) focusing on software development
outsourcing initiatives – at the time not mainstream and
certainly no obvious choice. S3M rapidly gains visibility and
credibility in its Western European market; from Scandinavia
to the Mediterranean.
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Initial
organization to streamline individual professional’s industry
expert service and support offerings. |
2000S3M Corp is partner of choice in the highly
pressurized booming software and technology sectors during the
months before the infamous Y2K. S3M helps organizations
realize their software and data system modifications goals,
through focused priority and targeted delivery of desired
technological objectives.
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From
initial establishment of technology partnership to realization
of first benefits, often no more than a week passed. Time
pressures and the biggest deadline in a thousand years did not
pose a mentionable challenge to S3M’s responsiveness and
reliability.
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2001S3M Corp acquires Katz and Daugh, LLP, Montreal,
Canada and expands into American and Canadian markets –
securing government contracts, as well as specialized
aerospace and mining technology consultancy
assignments.
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Increased markets allow broader fine tuning and
alignment of best practices, allowing customers to benefit
from broader streamlining and optimization of their technology
facing processes. |
2002S3M forms strategic alliances with specialized
firms in Eastern Europe, Far East and Canada to provide
turnkey solutions to its expanding customer base.
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Growing budget pressures at the customer means
S3M searches beyond borders of its home markets to find
expertise available at competitive prices. Furthermore initial
explorations are made to enable S3M to offer follow-the-sun
operational support. |
2003Software Development Competence Centers open in
Montreal, Paris, and Sofia to ensure and promote optimal flow
of expertise and new insights in emerging
technologies.
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Readily available expertise and experts, both in
house and offshore means customers can count of a vast and
growing pool of knowledge available to every S3M
consultant. |
2004S3M becomes preferred supplier of choice for
several multinationals in automotive, banking, security and
logistics.
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Standing framework agreements allow faster
responses to complex technology and consultancy needs.
Simplified proposal and acceptance cycles means we can
increase focus on the activities enabling the solution to a
problem, rather than heavy negotiation and
administration. |
2005S3M Corp and K Consulting merge into S3M
Consulting, and with local presence in Belgium, Bulgaria,
Canada, France and the United States and France, continue to
expand service offerings to a client base with international
corporations as well as local businesses in very diverse
industry sectors. |
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S3M
Consulting is a local solution supplier, with global reach and
pools of experts. Increased scale and reach, expanded
proximity, access to large and lower cost pools of
professionals… Simply stated – from a customer perspective:
more bang for the buck! |
2006S3M Group acquires Lang Consultants in Hong Kong
and Pitbull Software in Adelaide, Australia. S3M becomes
preferred supplier of more than 40 multinationals, to supply
industry experts, coaches and trainers, and experts are also
requested frequently in universities and schools to help young
people find pleasure and understanding in abstract
technological concepts. |
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Increase of global competence centers, and the
local availability of instructor networks, allows an
integrated solution of software development, system
configuration and instructor trainings to ensure customer’s
investments render maximized benefits through their whole
operational lifecycle. |
2007S3M keeps growing, even in unsure economical
times due to its constant pursuit of efficiency and productive
measures in business. The Test Competence Center in Bulgaria
ends first in a European ranking of Test and Quality Centers.
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While
the customer organization focuses on the challenges in their
line of business, S3M keeps focus on resource efficient
delivery of results to withstand economical downturns and
seize opportunities in changing markets. |
2008S3M is instrumental in the CIO of the year award
in Belgium, and wins several awards throughout Europe. Focus
also goes to growth of local business expertise in East-Asia,
as many partners and customers are shifting their focus
towards the East. |
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S3M’s
continuous drive to quality results in recognition increasing
visibility and allowing positioning of larger scale
initiatives at highly competitive prices. |
2009S3M expands its Circle of Partners, and forms an
alliance with European Software Institute (ESI Tecnalia),
Bilbao, Spain. S3M celebrates 10 years, and confirms 10 years
of double digit growth. |
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Experts at S3M realize the ever growing
diversity of industry standards, for quality, security, audit,
processes, business continuity, maturity models are best
served through strategic partnerships with domain experts in
their respective domains. |
2010Additional partners at S3M bring additional
colors to the spectrum of its corporate vision and access to
resources positioning the company for growth in Asia and
Eastern Europe. |
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Customers in North America and Western Europe,
with expanding operations in Asia, can continue to rely on
local presence of S3M expertise, even on cross border
initiatives. |
2011The Consultancy and Outsourcing activities grow
steadily as an increasing number of consultants decide to team
up with S3M, to seek win-win-win opportunities. |
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A
larger pool of available specialists ensure the right person
at the right time is available to answer to the often rapidly
evolving customer needs in difficult economic
times. |
2012The future is still being written… |
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S3M’s
“ability to deliver” and “will to achieve” continues, striving
to the most efficient utilization of resources, and the “going
the extra mile” quality results customers have grown
accustomed to.
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