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 For over twenty years, Alliance Data
Systems has been developing solutions that help clients build lasting
relationships with their customers. As one of the largest providers of
transaction, credit and marketing services, Alliance Data Systems serves the
retail, petroleum, utility, financial services and hospitality markets.
Alliance Data Systems partners with its clients to help their business grow and
improve business performance.
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Alliance Data Systems regularly engages with large enterprise customers to
provide vendor selection services for large-scale technology initiatives.
Alliance has a finely tuned process for helping its customers select the most
appropriate vendor and software based upon the business requirements. After
manually implementing this process many times over, Alliance concluded that
automating the process and centralizing the information would provide
tremendous efficiencies and value to customers.
Alliance developed a prototype concept for a vendor selection solution called
"AllSource". While the prototype satisfied the core functional requirements, it
became clear that the company needed to partner with an expert software
development company in order to bring the idea to full fruition. After
investigating several Microsoft-focused software development firms, Alliance
Data Systems selected Northridge Systems as its partner to design and develop
the production version of AllSource.
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Northridge Systems expanded on Alliance's design of the AllSource prototype and
migrated from a classic "ASP" website framework to a more robust and scalable
ASP.NET application. In addition, Northridge Systems migrated the data store
from a Microsoft Access database to a more robust SQL Server solution. Detailed
and functional application screen designs were completed and application
workflow was geared for a more technical user community.
The new version of AllSource has allowed Alliance to effortlessly add and
manage new projects, including new questions and requirements to a tree-view
structure, creating a full project tree of questions and requirements derived
from a pre-existing template. In addition, Alliance personnel can easily set up
internal users, client users, and vendor users with specific rights and
privileges based upon the user's role in the engagement.
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AllSource has proven to be a measurable success for Alliance Data Systems and
its customers. Alliance is able to deliver vendor selection engagements in a
fashion that is clearly ahead of its competition. Its customers have secure
access to the real-time solution and are provided with an array of reports to
quickly ascertain the stage of the selection process and analyze the quality of
the vendor responses.
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| "We can't say enough about the work that Northridge delivered for us. Every aspect of the project, from user interface design to application functionality, met or exceeded our expectations. Hats off to the Northridge team for an exceptional project delivery." |
| Scott Burba |
| Alliance Data Systems |
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