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The company was formed in 1992 to provide assistance to
companies wishing to take advantage of the Internet to automate their business. The core
of expertise offered is a deep, technical understanding of the Internet combined with the
experience of linking these technologies to a variety of business types and business
challenges. This means that we can answer the question, 'why is identity
resolution so important...and how do I implement it?'
Based is Western Canada the principal, John Hanson, has
done work directly for United Nations Industrial Development Organization (Syrian
government pharmaceutical industry regulation), EXXON Chemical (worldwide synchronization
of policies and procedures), and online training and evaluation for safety compliance for
Home Oil (petro-chemical) Internationally. regionally they have done work for Funds
Administrative Services, Tiger Media, Alberta Education, District of Sturgeon, Hurtig
Publishing, Universal Industries, Nelson Great Western Homes, CAE, Enbridge, City of
Edmonton, Byers Transport, Learning Resources Distributing Centre, Reidmore Publishing,
The Driving Force, Edmonton Catholic School Board, TELUS, and many others.
Indirectly John has worked with companies like SNECMA Moteur, FIAT, Euclid-Hitachi,
AHLSTOM, Hansen Rail Systems, Invensys, Solectron, Menlo Logistics, Tokyo Electron,
Buckman Chemical and many, many other International companies while working as a Global
Product Manager for Baan NV. Although based in Edmonton, Canada John Hanson has worked
regionally, nationally and Internationally providing deliverables for many companies.
John has good to very good relationships with different
vendors. This combined with intensive research and diligence provides a good foundation
for understanding and communicating solutions to business problems. These alliance
partners include IBM, Sun Microsystems, Baan, Arbortext, COSA, as well as Crystal
Decisions, FileNet, Network Solutions, CyberSource, Progress Software Corporation, and of
course Microsoft. While it is impossible to maintain ongoing relationships with all
vendors John has considerable experience in partnership, partnership negotiations,
technology embedding, technology acquisition, and partnering and purchase models.
Scratch a consultant or tap a consulting firm on the
shoulder and you will find specific competencies or a comfort range that the consultant
operates in. Since John Hanson Consulting provides both
technical AND functional
consulting around the use of the Internet On the technical side, JHC has
expertise in:
1.
Generic client server architecture
2.
Relational databases
3.
Catalog, catalog creation, catalog management, and catalog structure
4.
Internet infrastructure...the bits and bytes that form security,
scalability, performance, ease of maintenance and support, and COM (.NET)
and Java strengths and weaknesses
5.
Enterprise application integration into ERP...if you
haven't tried then you won't know the risks and rewards of doing this
6.
Internet development and the management of development resources
7.
Document management from document imaging and drawing management to document
element management and everything in between), for regulated and
non-regulated companies. This in Internet parlance is called content
management or knowledge management and is generally accessible through a
portal
8.
Portal and especially securing users and content
9.
Workflow for authoring, messaging, alerts and notifications, secured,
non-secured, compound and simple, encrypted and non-encrypted
(messaging/application process triggering)
John Hanson
Consulting has business process coverage in the following operational &
specialty business areas:
1.
Assisted and unassisted selling (called CRM and PRM)
on the Internet
2.
Order management
3. Internet purchasing and sourcing including item
unification (SRM)
4.
Manufacturing and the requirements or possible uses of the Internet
especially in the engineered to order environment (product lifecycle
management, product data management, E-BOM, collaborative engineering, LiveLink, supply
chain, demand planning, supply chain planning, multi-factory assembly of a common product
and multi-product assembly by a single or multiple factories for example)
5.
Business roles and typical workflows for manufacturing, retail, sales and
marketing, distribution, project industries, service, and finance in
addition to typical permissions and privileges for these lines of business
6.
Pharmaceutical, petro-chemical, finance, leasing, publishing,
transportation, and telecommunications experience
7.
Cultural differences from country to country within the same company or
supplier and/or partner companies
8.
Able to speak with all levels of management
9.
Able to bridge functional and technical groups within companies
John Hanson Consulting focuses on the Internet
and using the Internet as an extension of legacy systems and processes. The description of
E-Enterprise Server best sums up John Hanson Consulting capability for enhancing customer
successful use of the Internet, and was the latest project for John before leaving Baan:
'iBaan E-Enterprise
Server is an ERP aware infrastructure platform providing secured inserts and outputs to
and from the Internet. It is assisted by third party technologies for membership, data
store, alerts, connectors, security, catalog management, document management, workflow,
and reporting. These technologies provide services that automate domain operations like
sales, service, purchasing, customer relationship management, manufacturing, project
management and finance for ... vertical markets.'
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