1. Who is Cornerstone?

2. What type of projects has Cornerstone completed?

3. Why does Cornerstone prefer fixed-price projects?

4. What are Cornerstone's basic products and services?

5. Who are Cornerstone's customers?

6. What technology does Cornerstone use?

7. Can Cornerstone provide supplemental IT staffing?

1. Who is Cornerstone?

Cornerstone is a software engineering firm located in St. Louis, Missouri. We've worked for clients in St. Louis, the East Coast, the Gulf Coast, and the Midwest for more than a decade.

2. What type of projects has Cornerstone completed?

Our forte is understanding your unique business needs and then developing one-of-a-kind custom software and e-business solutions. Our projects have had some of the following characteristics:

Business Purposes:

Tracking customers, issues, products. Managing workflow to reduce labor and improve quality and throughput. Integrating sales and order-entry with order fulfillment and billing. Improving communications with customers and employees. Delivering web-based training. Increasing sales through e-commerce. Acquiring and reporting validation data.

Industries:

A broad range including inland marine, manufacturing, health care, mortgage financing, warehousing and distribution, higher education, telecommunications

Platforms:

Desktop, client/server (thin-tier and n-tier), internet and intranet

User Communities:

From four users in a department, to 300 users in a call center, to high volume corporate internet commerce sites

Work Effort:

From one person/one month to 7 persons/12 man-years

Project Budget:

From $25 thousand to $1+ million

3. Why does Cornerstone prefer fixed-price projects?

First, we feel that fixed-price projects reduce your risk and provide more benefits. Second, our methodology supports fixed-price projects. Following the methodology helps avoid the classic pitfalls associated with software development. We do some time and material work, but prefer fixed-price projects for the structure they provide and results they produce.

4. What are Cornerstone's basic products and services?

Our basic product is a successful software application. We deliver that product by providing a variety of key services, including:

• Business analysis and analytics
• Application design
• Application development and implementation
• Web site development
• Interactive user training
• Technical application support
• Data mining

5. Who are Cornerstone's customers?

Our customers are small and mid-size businesses and major corporations from a broad range of industries. They all:

Need a custom application or web-based solution,
  but
don't have or can't free up internal development capabilities,
  and
want a solution delivered as a complete project,
  or
need access to meaningful operational data already being tracked in various applications.

6. What technology does Cornerstone use?

Platform stability, functionality and ease of support are important to our clients and us. We use industry standard development tools from Microsoft. Our applications run on Windows NT, 2000, 2003 and XP platforms.

7. Can Cornerstone provide supplemental IT staffing?

We focus on implementing solutions as the result of full life-cycle development projects. As such, we do not provide consultant resources for hire on a temporary or interim basis.