Web Solutions - Our Vision

Tailwind Associates has both the range and depth of web expertise to provide world class, end-to-end, enterprise level web solutions. Mission-critical, time sensitive transfer of information is essential in the digital world. Tailwind Associates can help you maximize your IT dollars by incorporating your existing infrastructure into your web strategy.

The Web Solutions division improves the availability and accessibility of our customer's business information, allowing for better and faster business decisions. Together with the customer, our mission is to design, develop, and implement key web solutions that maximize return on investment and increase your competitive advantage. Our strategy is to satisfy immediate customer business needs through the analysis of requirements and appropriate use of the various web technologies to build stable, extensible, and scalable information delivery architectures.

We find out what you have in mind, and also inform you of the possibilities. Our skilled developers transform your design into physical solutions. Our comprehensive knowledge transfer aids in a smooth deployment.

WebSite Creation

Web Site creation provides for basic static and dynamic site development and support, including the setup of e-commerce capabilities where desired.

We are well versed in integrating video and multimedia into your web site in order to make the user experience immersive - beyond a basic web presence.

Application Development

Application development encompasses all Internet/Intranet/Extranet solutions, efficiently moving transactions and processes to a web based architecture.

Backend/Legacy Integration

Backend/Legacy Integration extends the life of existing systems through front-ending applications with a web interface or by providing an integrated information portal to ease the dissemination of information from multiple sources.

Your Security - Our Strength

—Focus ~ Information Security is a constant process of design, implementation, monitoring and assessment. To have an effective Information Security program, organizations must develop policies and systems that are in line with the organization’s mission and goals but also address the many areas of risk. Your information assurance and awareness programs will incorporate a number of products and processes to create a complete solution. No matter what part of the Information Security Life Cycle your organization is developing, Tailwind Associates has the knowledge and expertise to ensure your success.

—Strength ~ Implementing a strong defensive posture using a layered approach is how organizations mitigate risk. A strong security posture may include Perimeter Defense, Endpoint Security, Identity Management, Data Encryptions, Compliance and Software Assurance solutions. Delivering best of breed industry solutions coupled with decades of consulting experience is our greatest strength.

Information Security and Compliance

Many organizations are facing the monumental task of becoming compliant with industry and regulatory mandates like HIPAA, PCI, NERC, Sarbanes Oxley and GLBA.

Tailwind Associates offers a “Defense in Depth” approach to Information Security by delivering expert consulting services and products that address the design, implementation, monitoring and assessment phases of the Information Security Life Cycle. Our Information Assurance and Risk Management solutions for the enterprise include:

• Security Assessment
• Identity & Access Management
• Compliance
• Perimeter Defense
• Endpoint Security
• Software Assurance

Perimeter Defenses

Defending mission critical Websites and Corporate Internet connections is a critical part of every organization's defense posture. We address your perimeter defense strategy with solutions such as:

• Intrusion Preventions
• Intelligent Web Proxy's
• Email Security
• Firewalls

End Point Security

Laptop, workstation and server security requires constant vigilance and management. Tailwind Associates offers best of breed solutions for:

• Patch Management
• Malware Protection
• Disk Encryption
• Wireless Security
• Network Access Control
• Data Loss Prevention

Software Security Assurance

A "Defense in Depth" security strategy is important for securing your information assets. Using the latest technology in software analysis we can verify that your source code is written correctly and does not violate any security requirements during the development phase of any project.

When the application code is securely written we back that up with industry leading Applications Layer Firewalls for a layered perimeter defense and Database Firewalls to monitor and protect the core data repositories.

Business Intelligence

We provide customers with the ability to make both tactical and strategic business decisions by leveraging an integrated and structured organization of business information and measurements.

Together with the appropriate customer stakeholders, our mission is to recommend, design, develop, and implement leading BI tools to provide customer decision support services. These include tools such as:

• portals
• dashboards
• report capabilities

Our strategy is to satisfy immediate and future customer business needs through the analysis of requirements and appropriate use of the various business intelligence components to build stable, extensible, and scalable information delivery architecture.

Data Warehousing

Tailwind Associates has implemented a wide variety of full-scale data warehousing solutions for customers in both the public and private sectors.

We specialize in helping organizations increase their understanding and use of business intelligence. Tailwind accomplishes this by educating decision makers and Information Management (IM) professionals on the proper use of data warehousing strategies and technologies and by implementing information delivery solutions through the use of proven methodologies and techniques.

Tailwind Associates has many years of experience in building entire information factory architectures that support the strategic and tactical decision-making capabilities of our customers.

Our robust warehousing solutions focus on helping customers to:

• Provide information for e-business decision support solutions
• Improve decision-making abilities
• Improve customers' understanding of what is happening in different areas of their business
• Gain a competitive advantage
• Unleash "hidden" business intelligence
• Enable focused relationship marketing
• Facilitate analysis, measurement, and trending of business activities and events

Additionally, these solutions can provide capabilities such as:

• Customer profiling
• Product analysis
• Market segmentation
• Projecting customer lifetime value

Information Technology (IT) Consulting

We offer proven, practical, customer-focused solutions to real business problems. We can start with an Information Technology Assessment and proceed to Business Re-engineering, if it is required. We can help you deal with the maintenance of Legacy Systems, integrate Client/Server systems or implement new Web applications and even customize them to meet your needs.

Our methodology allows us to manage every phase of every project. To assure client satisfaction we establish expectations, use proven processes for meeting those expectations and evaluate progress continually.

Tailwind Associates established its Consulting Services Division to assist business with flexible part-time, full-time or temporary staffing requirements necessary for today’s economy. The key is the process we use to make our client’s job easier:

Bottom line, we attract and retain consultants that are qualified and experienced in Information Technology and have the technical skills that the markets we serve require.

Our Consulting Services

Popular Positions/Openings

Cloud Computing

Focus - Cloud computing is a new way of delivering computing resources, not a new technology. Computing services ranging from data storage and processing to software, such as email handling, are now available instantly, commitment-free and on-demand. Since we are are experiening stringent times, this new economic model for computing has found fertile ground and is seeing massive global investment. Governments are interested in the possibility of using cloud computing to reduce IT costs and increase capabilities. For example, the US GSA now offers a portal for cloud computing services.

Governments in particular have serious hurdles to overcome - in terms of public perception of the secure processing of citizens’ personal information in cloud computing infrastructures. Then there are also legal and regulatory obstacles which prevent many applications from moving to cloud. Nevertheless, both public and private sector entities face the reality that many of their employees will be using cloud-based services whether or not this is part of their official policy.

Strength - For cloud computing to reach the full potential promised by the technology, it must offer solid information security. Tailwind knows what cloud computing means for network and information security, data protection and privacy. We look at the security benefits of cloud computing and its risks. We cover the technical, policy and legal implications. Most importantly, we make concrete recommendations on how to address the risks and maximize the benefits. Finally, it is important to note that cloud computing can refer to several different service types, including:

• Application/Software as a Service (SaaS)
• Platform as a Service (PaaS)
• Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

The risks and benefits associated with each model will differ and so will the key considerations in contracting for this type of service

Solutions

Information Assurance Framework

Tailwind understands that one of the most important aspects is a set of assurance criteria designed to accomplish the following:

1. Assess the risk of adopting cloud services for target applications (comparing the risks in maintaining a ‘classical’ organization and architecture with the risks of migrating to a cloud computing environment);
2. Compare the many different cloud models and provide offerings and match them to the selected target applications;
3. Obtain assurance from the selected cloud providers.

The preparation of effective security questionnaires for third party service providers is a significant drain on resources for cloud customers and one which is difficult to achieve without expertise in cloud-specific architectures.

Cloud Readiness Assessments

Tailwind will work closely with you to help determine if your applications are targets for cloud computing by employing our knowledge of the many offerings and the associated risks.

Cloud Pilot Program

Tailwind will work with you to implement the target application(s) in the selected cloud computing environment.

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Microsoft Sharepoint

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As a Microsoft Gold partner, let us help you implement a Microsoft Business Intelligence solution that allows your people to:

• Analyze trends
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• Create flexible, customized scorecards
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Tailwind’s consulting staff of Certified Microsoft Professionals will help you benefit immediately from a SharePoint pilot by:

• Providing enterprise search capabilities across platforms and across content sources
• Build customized workflows to automate your unique business processes
• Simplify the management of corporate content, Intranet and Internet assets
• Cost effectively develop electronic business forms

Get the big picture on business performance with Microsoft Business Intelligence. Please contact us for an on-site assessment of your business intelligence requirements today.