GANTECH is proud of our continuing accomplishments in Federal, State, and Local organizations.  A sample of solutions and services effectively implemented for our valued customers is profiled below.

Project management is a core competency of our firm as demonstrated by the Project Management Institute’s (PMI) certification of Project Management Professionals (PMP) held by five of our directors and the President / Principal Consultant. Individuals who hold PMI’s PMP credential demonstrate a highly proficient level of project management leadership skills vital to the success of our customer initiatives. PMPs possess a demonstrated ability to apply the knowledge, skills, and techniques used in effective project management. 

GANTECH’s Systems Integration and Software Development practices enable us to quickly respond to new requirements and the changing business needs of our customers. From regulatory compliance and post-merger integration, to cost reduction and business process outsourcing, information technology executives face an onslaught of new mandates that place greater demands on IT systems.

Achieving improvements in IT is even more challenging given the need to plan, build, and integrate new business applications while struggling to leverage existing technology investments and assets. A need to take advantage of promising yet unproven technology capabilities is balanced against company goals to meet urgent expectations and demonstrate immediate value to the business.

GANTECH helps our customers align business and technology for a greater return on IT investments. We focus on helping our customers create a roadmap to reduce costs and improve strategic focus, prioritize initiatives to increase the value of IT to the business, and provide a framework for understanding IT investments and tracking their performance.

GANTECH’s expertise in Systems Integration and Software Development leads our customers to:

• Improve IT performance — We help you increase speed and agility when responding to new mandates and shifting business requirements.
• Improve innovation — IT becomes a proponent of innovation within the enterprise by developing systems that have greater impact on the business and enhance competitive advantage.
• Reduce total cost of ownership — By better analyzing IT investments, you can develop an effective plan for reducing or redirecting your investment costs.

Our Security Services Practice offers expertise, proven performance, and commitment to customer satisfaction, supporting an organization’s mission to make data and networks more readily and securely accessible to beneficiaries, partners, and stakeholders. GANTECH is uniquely qualified to respond to your needs as a leader in security assessments with expertise in penetration testing, vulnerability analysis, risk management, security engineering, and integration for a broad range of technologies.

GANTECH’s Security Practice provides comprehensive security assessment solutions to a wide range of clients. The Security Practice employs professionals highly trained and experienced in security assessment engineering, system analysis, and evaluation. GANTECH’s engineers have an in-depth understanding of both old and new technology and perform comprehensive information security analysis, coupled with penetration analysis and testing, to discover exploitable vulnerabilities in design and configuration options. Using proven project management disciplines, GANTECH employs a calculated, phased approach to the management of all security assessments for our clients.  Some of our key security services include:

• Security Engineering
• Anti-Virus and URL Filtering
• Firewalls
• VPNs (Virtual Private Networks)
• Intrusion Detection Systems
• IP Address Space Management
• Reporting, Logging and Alerting
• Penetration Testing
• Certification and Accreditation

Network engineering was the original core competency upon which GANTECH was founded. Our name is an abbreviation for Global Area Networking Technologies. GANTECH has the expertise to engineer complex networks ranging from local, enterprise networks to carrier class networks.

Whether you are deploying new network technology or reengineering an existing network infrastructure, GANTECH offers a wide variety of network integration services to support your planning, design, and implementation efforts. GANTECH has been assisting customers with complex, secure WAN and LAN infrastructure rollouts since 1999. Some of our most popular systems services include:

• Novell to Windows Migrations
• GroupWise to Exchange Migrations
• Microsoft Active Directory Architectures and Implementation
• Novell eDirectory Architectures and Implementations
• GroupWise Messaging Engineering and Support
• Microsoft Exchange/Outlook Messaging Engineering and Support
• Netware 6.x Operating System Upgrade
• Microsoft 200x Operating System Upgrade

A software product often spends more than half of its life cycle in maintenance and support. However, planning for this stage of the product's life is at times surprisingly inadequate. This often happens because project managers, software developers, and customer requirements analysts are too obsessed with the challenges of software development and fail to devote proper attention and effort to software maintenance and support.

In order to stay above competitors, GANTECH ensures that our customers’ products and solutions are updated and enhanced on a regular basis and have all the features and functionalities as required and expected to promote operational efficiency.

Alongside our consistent approach to software development, GANTECH delivers highly professional software maintenance as well as continuous functional updates to your products.  Our highly competent IT staff can deal directly with software vendors on your behalf to ensure you are obtaining the most from your IT investment.     

 

GANTECH helps its customers address the entire life cycle of Information Assurance issues.  We focus on improving the overall security posture of our customers through services that improve the privacy, integrity, availability, and survivability of mission critical information and systems.  We provide Information Assurance (IA) expertise to our customers’ information technology programs primarily through technical support conducting Certification & Accreditation (C&A), using the DoD Information Assurance Certification & Accreditation Process (DIACAP). Using this process, we can  achieve uniform quality and a level of consistency throughout the life cycle of Automated Information Systems (AIS). Our staff performs IA Information Technology assessments of proposed and existing systems including:

• Assessment and verification of information systems including trusted systems.
• Identification and assessment of security requirements and deficiencies in applications, systems, local and wide area networks (LANs and WANs), and commercial switching, transmission and signaling networks
• Development of risk management guidelines.

Our services enhance our customers' organizations overall operational resiliency. We provide extensive experience in multi-level security domain integration and proven expertise in all phases of the Certification and Accreditation process. Our team of security analysts and engineers provide our customers with managerial, operational, and technical solutions that ensure compliance with the latest federal regulatory requirements.

With any IT system, a DR (Disaster Recovery) Plan is essential. Data is flowing constantly—some of it vitally critical, some not. GANTECH performs disaster recovery analysis on your data to determine the degree of its importance to your operation and company mission. For example, does your email need to be recovered in 30 minutes, 24 hours, or some other period of time? Does your website perform point of sale operations and need to be available 24/7/365 or is your site primarily information-oriented, where a small glitch won't disrupt operations in a drastic or harmful way?

We can review and analyze your current DR plan to suggest improvements, or we can assess your circumstances and build an effective DR plan from top to bottom. Next, we can perform all the necessary systems reviews with key employees, educating them on the business continuity needed.  Lastly, GANTECH can perform a full Business Impact Analysis (BIA) for all your corporate IT systems and processes including  associated recommendations on how to best achieve the agreed upon level of disaster recovery preparedness.  GANTECH’s goal is to provide effective disaster recovery for your organization, ensuring 99.9% uptime under extreme circumstances with an imperceptible transparency to the user community.

The increasing complexity of today's IT solutions creates an ever growing demand for end user support. As a result, the help desk has become a vital function for many organizations.

GANTECH provides high quality user support in high trouble ticket and heavy-call traffic environments. Our helpdesk performance has delivered cost reductions by combining its courteous and trained personnel and proven processes with state-of-the-art helpdesk tools.

GANTECH’s Helpdesk services provide customers the following benefits:

• An effective knowledge base created by tracking and reporting problems tickets and resolutions to help prevent reoccurring issues
• 24 x 7 coverage to ensure assistance is available during users’ working hours
• Highly skilled and knowledgeable personnel who have full understanding of your systems and can identify the cause of the problems and put the systems back in service quickly
• Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) best practices methodology for managing information technology (IT), infrastructure, development, and operations.

In today's business environment, organizations who best know how to manage their resources maintain a competitive advantage. GANTECH's training experience has helped enhance the skills base of our clients' staffs.  The GANTECH team has championed training as an integral component of success regardless of the industry. Users actively participate in defining and previewing new and planned features for upcoming releases, ensuring broader acceptance and reduced re-work needed in the future.

We will provide you a customized training solution at your site or at our state-of-the-art training facility in Columbia, MD.  We have experience evaluating, designing, developing and integrating Learning Management Systems and Learning Content Management Systems. We will either build these systems from the bottom up to your unique specifications, or help you transition to Computer-based Training, Web-based Training, Webcasts, and/or a Virtual Classroom depending on your needs and objectives.