What challenges are you currently facing? New imperatives? Limited funding? Higher expectations?

Companies like yours can make real, measurable improvements with help from CCN COMPUTER. We combine deep industry knowledge and experience, offering a comprehensive set of business consulting services -- tailored to your needs and carried out by some of the IT industry's most trusted advisors -- to help your business succeed. Talk to us. We're listening.

Aerospace and defense
CCN COMPUTER can help you meet these challenges and more. Our industry expertise, proven technologies and innovative business models can help you collaborate more effectively with partners, respond to unforeseen events and focus on the core competencies that differentiate your company.

Automotive
CCN COMPUTER can help you meet these challenges and more. Our industry expertise, proven technologies and innovative business models can help you collaborate more effectively with partners, respond to unforeseen events and focus on the core competencies that differentiate your company.

Banking
Technology and the growing pressure to increase shareholder value are driving globalization, consolidation and convergence in the banking industry, while a slow economy has again made cost reduction a priority. Newly empowered customers expect customized, easily accessible services. And investor demand for integrated wealth-management services continues to drive convergence among banking companies.

There is one thing successful banking companies do to stay ahead of market shifts and customer demands: anticipate. When you understand what's coming next, you can do more than just keep pace -- you set the pace and create the momentum for business transformation.

Our global banking practice anticipates changes, creates strategies and uses technology solutions to reinvent your business. By making processes more efficient and exploring new ways to be responsive to customers, we help can help you build and sustain competitive advantage.

Chemicals and Petroleum
Chemicals companies are wrestling with major changes that will affect the way they do business. Industry consolidation, globalization and e-business are just a few of the challenges that are impacting performance. Others include regulatory compliance; environmental, health and safety issues; an increasingly demanding customer base.

Chemicals companies must reduce costs, integrate their supply chains, improve performance and provide their customers with specialized services. We can help you both effectively respond to these and other challenges, while uncovering and exploiting new opportunities to gain competitive advantage.

Consumer Products
Leading-edge logistics and supply chain management technologies are reshaping relationships among manufacturers and retailers to better meet the needs of the consumer. Successful companies must learn to reshape their sales, marketing, accounting and logistics processes.

Our consumer products teams understand how to successfully adapt your company to meet the requirements of this rapidly changing industry. We build a team of experienced specialists from each of our three consulting areas who work together with you to deliver a solution that meets your need, be it strategic change, performance improvement or technology solutions.

Education
The education landscape is changing dramatically. Now more than ever, it involves standardized state and federal testing, making sure that your school is Internet-ready, and ensuring that the teachers and administrators are as tech-savvy as the students.

In higher education, technology has a pervasive influence across the entire spectrum of the community. From the bursar's office to the science lab to the library -- access to technology is key. By creating and maintaining your IT infrastructure, you provide students, educators and administrators with the tools they need.

We'll help you get there. We can team with you to transform the way your administration manages, educators teach and students learn.

Electronics
Electronics companies face acute challenges to stay competitive, remain innovative and ensure shareholder value. Industry leaders must address immediate economic imperatives -- optimizing, rightsizing and realigning where necessary -- while they aggressively build winning models for the future.

And what does that future hold? As an industry, Electronics will become horizontal, with the proprietary and vertically integrated business model of the past "unbundled" into component layers that can be assembled more cost-efficiently by others. It will also be hyper-competitive, with the maxim "innovate or die" becoming more meaningful than ever.

We can help you develop global strategies, processes, performance indicators and technology enhancements that deliver compelling benefits to suppliers, customers and shareholders while preparing for the demands of an industry in transformation.

Energy and Utilities
As utilities companies have become deregulated and exposed to the demands of financial markets, it's become clear that they need to change the way they do business to compete effectively in this new industry landscape.

Our utilities industry teams from around the globe have developed a map of the new utilities world. Strategy, organizational structure, change programs, information systems implementation and e-business are just a few of the services we provide our utilities clients. And since the pace and rules for deregulation vary by location, we have local teams that understand our clients' individual business and regulatory climates.

Financial Markets
Financial markets have faced difficult times recently: mergers and IPO activity has declined, as have broker-dealer commissions, and asset management firms have watched their assets under management shrink rather than grow. To respond to these pressures, a better solution -- one that goes beyond traditional, short-term "cost cutting" -- is called for.

With our help, firms are embracing new operating models, unlocking new levels of productivity and discovering real, sustainable value.

Government
Government organizations face many of the same challenges found in the business world -- containing costs, improving performance and serving customers. We help government meet these challenges by working with them to reengineer processes, realign resources and upgrade technology.

By working closely with our clients to identify and implement the right set of technology-enabled solutions for their complex problems, we are transforming the way government does business. Our global practice also serves foreign governments and international agencies.

Healthcare
Today's healthcare industry is under pressure to reduce clinical and administrative costs and meet tighter compliance and security mandates. CCN COMPUTER provides the technology, services, consulting and e-business experience you need to meet those demands and realize new opportunities in the ever-changing healthcare environment.

A pioneer in healthcare information technology, CCN COMPUTER remains at the forefront of improving how healthcare organizations deliver efficient, high quality care. CCN COMPUTER, in combination with our global network of business partners and strategic alliances, delivers powerful e-business technology and comprehensive services that help your healthcare organization achieve success.

Insurance
The insurance industry is facing pressing issues: personal lines carriers are finding it difficult to sustain growth; consumers are increasingly choosing to less-profitable products; health insurers are facing the demands of an aging, empowered customer base; and commercial lines carriers are under intense competitive pressure from brokers for large, complex accounts and from shareholders expectations of improved returns.

We can help firms address these and other issues by identifying new, sustainable sources of value through modernizing and integrating virtually every business process insurers use, both within and outside the organization.

Life sciences
Declining research-and-development productivity, the soaring costs of developing, launching and marketing drugs and social pressures are just a few of the challenges the industry is facing at a time when shareholders expectations are increasing.

We provide powerful products and unmatched expertise to help researchers and scientists speed their processes and optimize results.

Media and entertainment
Today's media and entertainment industry is one of rapid, relentless and complex change. New technologies require updated operating procedures within the enterprise, while increasing demands from business partners and consumers alike create new challenges and opportunities.

Several strategic imperatives will drive the future success of media and entertainment companies. Companies need to:
Start serving the global marketplace
Focus on understanding and serving their customer base, while strengthening brands' ability to draw and maintain audience attention
Establish new paradigms for content creation, embracing user-created and regional content
Ensure that the infrastructure is in place to support tomorrow's operations

As strategy and technology practices become inextricably linked, those with the boldness of vision to meet these challenges by transforming the way they do business today will be the industry's winners tomorrow.

Retail
For retailers, success requires using multiple channels to reach consumers, then giving customers what they want, when and where they want it.

We also work with clients to make their supply chains transparent; using the Internet, they can share product and marketing information with suppliers and customers.

And because selling great products is simply not enough, we also help companies build great customer relationships. Our comprehensive customer relationship management strategies can enable you to integrate sales strategies across channels; improve distribution, delivery and customer service; and harness technology to enable an intelligent "sense and respond" approach to retailing by tracking individual purchasing patterns, linking supplier information with customer data, and ensuring that inventory and distribution respond accordingly.

Telecommunications
Telecommunications firms face a host of challenges, from changing regulations, to financial pressures, to changing customer needs, to industry restructuring and consolidation -- and the list goes on.

But these challenges also represent opportunities for those companies who realize that in order to grow, they must move beyond merely providing new products and services, and participate in redefining the market. A clear vision and the resolve and resources to execute strategies will distinguish industry leaders from industry laggards.

We can help. Our telecommunications teams have the industry-specific knowledge and technology skills to design and implement changes to your business models and those of your customers.

Travel and transportation
Sustaining profitability during an era of rapid business change is the challenge in the travel and transportation arena. And now more than ever, the industry is turning to e-business technologies to grow long-term customer relationships, streamline operations, improve security and manage costs. CCN COMPUTER has the experience and end-to-end offerings to get you there.

Wholesale distribution
Today, wholesale distributors must offer a broader product mix and meet increasingly sophisticated demands from more suppliers and customers. Wholesale companies also face increased competition to gain and maintain customer loyalty. And increased competition squeezes revenue, profits and margins, making it harder to ensure profitability. New technology solutions and initiatives can help wholesale distributors meet the challenges of today's economic environment.

Cross-industry
Companies in every industry worldwide are in a race: a race with competitors that are becoming bigger, stronger and more innovative. Globalization, disruptive technologies and industry convergence mean that the rules of the race are constantly changing, too.

Regardless of industry, the organizations who recognize that intense competition and shifting requirements are now the norm -- and then respond to the new reality by learning how to anticipate and quickly respond to change -- will be tomorrow's winners. Start with our unmatched combination of business, industry and technological expertise.