News and Announcements

Neocogito is Selected to Lead Retail Pricing and Item Master File Project - June 2002

Save Mart Supermarkets, in Modesto, California, has selected Neocogito to provide project leadership for a strategic project that promises improved item data integrity, faster, more powerful and more effective rules base price management between the corporate Host and the Store Systems. This project also includes the introduction of Web based project collaboration using eRoom.

Neocogito is Selected to Define Web Business Requirements and Technologies - March 2002

Save Mart Supermarkets, in Modesto, California, has selected Neocogito to conduct a two phase analysis. The first phase requires extensive interviewing and gathering of Web-related business requirements which are then presented back to Save Mart in a comprehensive and consistent format sufficient for making a decision on whether the project should be pursued and further. The second phase defines an appropriate Web technology architecture, given the legacy systems and resources, and the proposed projects, a roadmap proposes a sequence for acquiring and employing theses technologies.

Save Mart is a major player in the Central California grocery marketplace with approximately 100 stores in two formats (conventional and box stores), private label products, warehousing and refrigerated trucking.

Neocogito is Listed on the 'Interactive Week' Top 500 Online Companies for 2001- November 2001

Interactive Week magazine has ranked Neocogito amongst the top 500 online companies for 2001. Though we are not a classic retailer or advertiser on the web, our consulting revenues are recognized as online revenue because we deliver the majority of our services via online collaboration. Neocogito has always been a promoter of online collaboration methods, both synchronous and asynchronous, to enable remote teams to deliver a cohesive and high value product or service. See the article at Interactive Week.

Neocogito Establishes a New Sister Company in Mendocino California - September 2001

Neocogito has always been postioned as a very focused and intentional high tech consulting firm that is typically employed to define, oversee and execute small and medium projects with a significant degree of business and technology complexity. This has been an excellent niche for the San Francisco Bay area, however, we needed to distill and transform the best and most applicable things we offer and repackage them for the Mendocino County market place. Please visit the web site for our new company - BlueSky Technology.

Neocogito Establishes Key Interactive Design and Branding Alliances - June 2001

Neocogito is very delighted to have formalized alliances with two outstanding companies - The Engine Room and Ram Design. These two companies bring extensive expertise in all aspects of marketing: design, general advertising and interactive. This is very complimentary with Neocogito's expertise in the technical aspects of web-based transactional applications; dynamic content and personalization; and closed-loop marketing systems.

Neocogito Establishes Key Offshore Alliances - June 2001

Neocogito is excited to have established alliances with two outstanding companies - Recognos (Romanian development team with strengths in highly interactive designs and Java applications) and Diligent Team (Indian development team with strengths in full lifecycle development of Java applications). These two companies bring a quantity of applications development horsepower and reasonable (offshore) rates. This is very complimentary with Neocogito's expertise in the definition of requirements, design, architecture and project management.

Neocogito Establishes iTeam Collaboration Demonstration Server - June 2001

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Neocogito Completes CIX Project for Documentum - September 2000

Neocogito's assignment was to twofold:

1. Analyze and document Documentum's As-Is Architecture.
2. Define a mid range architecture to support Documentum's business vision and to provide a plan for incrementally implementing that architecture.

The implementation of the first phase included the deployment of BEA's Web Logic Commerce Server and Microsoft's Active Directory Server (LDAP) to total renovate the Order entry and tracking process for Documentum worldwide.

Neocogito Completes New Web Site Launch for Documentum - September 1999

Neocogito Completes New Web Site Launch for thap! - September 1999

Neocogito's assignment began with a creative brief and concluded with the creation and launch of thap! web site design, graphics and content timed just prior to their first round of funding.

Thap! is a pre-IPO ASP that has pioneered the design and delivery of integrated health and absence management programs in American industry. In the 1980s, thap!'s founder, Dr. Phillip Polakoff led legislative efforts to help the business community integrate coverage across different programs (group health, workers' comp, etc.) thap!'s Internet applications embody the principles and goals of integrated health and disability management for employees and their dependents.

• The PeopleSoft Creative brief provided site architecture for a multilingual international presence driven by the FutureTense content management system.
• The gazoontite role as one of technology and system integration consulting as they looked to advance to a more richly functioning and integrated suite of portal and eCommerce services to their consumers customers.

ClearInk is a leading San Francisco Bay Area Web agency that has recently merged with Shugart Matson and Young. With enormous expertise in all aspects of written and visual communications, technology, and business operations management, Clear Ink is one of the few professional services companies in a position to help companies create a truly unified message across all media and ensure that their daily processes support that message.

Neocogito Contributes to Safeway Architecture Project for Primitive Logic - April 1999

Neocogito's assignment was to operate in a project manager and senior consultant role as a member of the Primitive Logic team in a subcontractor capacity. The overall engagement consisted of multiple objectives:

1. Define a technical structure to permit the current systems to evolve into a fully integrated system.
2. Build a foundation to support future development and integration of diverse systems.
3. Select and scope the effort to implement the architecture on a system.

Primitive Logic is a leading, project-oriented consulting services firm founded in 1984 and located in Sausalito, California. Formerly named The Communications Group, our company has more than sixteen years of experience providing infrastructure solutions to Fortune 1000 companies and leading dot com firms. Today we are meeting the corporate needs for global networks, infrastructure and the new eCommerce economy.

Neocogito Completes Project Blueprint for Adecco - April 1999

Neocogito's assignment was to twofold:

1. Analyze and document Adecco's As-Is Architecture.
2. Define a long range architecture to support Adecco's business vision and to provide a plan for incrementally implementing that architecture.

Project Blueprint provided an architectural design that included a custom information bus that designed to allow a very complex migration of front office systems for 100's of branch offices.

Adecco SA is the global leader in personnel services. Following the acquisition of Olsten Corporation in March 2000, the Adecco network connects up to 600,000 associates with business clients each day through its network of over 28,000 employees and over 4,500 offices in 60 countries around the world. Adecco provides clients with staffing services and solutions covering all major industries as well as specific professions. The Company focuses on global industries in transition, including automotive, banking, electronics, logistics, and telecommunications. Adecco is also a worldwide leader in each of the major professional staffing segments with several business lines: AOC (Accountants on Call) and Jonathan Wren for Finance, Banking and Accounting; Ajilon and Computer People for high-end Information Technology, TAD and Roevin for Engineering and Technical. Adecco also offers a range of HR solutions with Econova/Lee Hecht Harrison, delivering outplacement and career management services.

Neocogito Completes National Accounts Tactical Solutions for Adecco - March 1999

Neocogito's assignment was to quickly analyze the near terms needs of Adecco's National Accounts and develop a framework for developing and implementing solutions in an incremental fashion delivering Adecco the capacity for a more efficient, market competitive and repeatable set of solutions that are compatible with the near and long term IT vision.