Vignon Corporation provides information technology consulting services
and staff to the Public Sector, Utilities,
and to select commercial companies.
Our clients in the public sector include government entities at the
city, school district, county, and state levels.
Our clients in the private sector range from Fortune 25 companies at
the national level to small, independent business at the local level.
MARKET DRIVER - "BABY BOOMERS" EXITING THE WORKFORCE
One of the current major drivers in the market for IT services and staff (and one that
will continue for the next 5 or more years) is the looming retirement of the approximately
77 million Baby Boomers. These people, born between 1946 and 1964, are just now becoming
eligible to retire at age 62. The generation behind the Boomers, Gen-X, does not have
enough people to fill all the voids in the workforce caused by the boomer retirements.
Many labor articles on this subject project a shortfall of 30 million as there are only
46 million Gen-Xers in the labor force. This shortfall is expected to trigger a
series of consolidations, the use of shared or leveraged IT services and IT legacy
system modernizations due to the institutional knowledge walking out the door at retirement.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, over the next decade, the greatest demand for
skilled workers will be in health care, education, accounting and computer services.
In a March 2008 article published by Jay Vegso of the Computing Research
Association (CRA), the number of people seeking Computer Science degrees
has declined significantly.
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March 12th, 2008, Bill Gates testified before the House on the need to
expand the H-1B Visa program in order to increase the available IT talent
pool.
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SOME OF VIGNON’S RECENT ENGAGEMENTS
Large-State Department of Public Safety
The DPS had an aging, out-dated, legacy driver license issuance system
that was not integrated and very difficult to support and enhance. Vignon
was engaged on a 5-year project to successfully design and implement
a new, integrated, web-based system using web services and relational
database technology.
A Southern State
This southern state had legacy financial, human resource and payroll
applications that were not integrated, so they were difficult to support
and to enhance. Vignon implemented SAP ERP software to provide fully
integrated applications, improve reporting capabilities and streamline
maintenance and support functions.
Mid-Sized Water Utility Company
This company selected Vignon to plan the implementation of SAP to replace
its legacy maintenance and customer information and billing systems.
Vignon reviewed existing processes and systems and provided cost, timeline,
and resource estimates to implement the required functionality. The planning
phase of the project is now complete with the implementation planned
for November of 2009.
Small Electric COOP
This small electric cooperative has been a long-time customer of SAP.
After several years of using the system, the coop considered moving its
customer information and billing functions into SAP to compliment its
financial, plant maintenance, and human resource applications. Before
a CIS and billing implementation could get underway, they needed to upgrade
to the current version of SAP. Vignon was selected to assist them
with the upgrade in preparation for the pending CIS implementation. In
the interim, Vignon has also implemented SAP’s change request management
and service desk portions of Solution Manager.
