Consulting Services   At Blestone,  we believe that a successful project requires a true partnership with our clients and a rigid project methodology. It's surprising how often we hear stories, or even read press accounts, of companies who have developed expensive, full-featured systems which are never really adopted by the very users for whom they were supposedly designed. Blestone avoids this pitfall by working closely with our customers from the very beginning of any project. Throughout our phased approach, from requirements gathering through deployment, Blestone's customers are partners, rather than passive spectators, in an iterative process that joins technology solutions to business needs.  The close relationship between our clients and Blestone is built though our commitment to superior customer service. Our Project Review process incorporates frequent meetings and milestone reviews dedicated to each project to ensure that every project is developed according to expectations.   Staffing Services Blestone Staffing Services Division works hard to get the most talent available in the market. Your Success is Our Success!  Our goal is to provide you with the best choices in today's strained labor pool. We take the time to achieve a thorough understanding of the positions you wish to fill. We then conduct a comprehensive search for prospective employees so you can focus on more critical business needs.  We fully guarantee our direct-hire services. We have candidates that are not in the public job-seeker databases. We have over 50 years of networking in the technical community. We know who is the right professional for your direct position.   Outsourcing Services We understand the role that information, speed and accuracy play in creating successful business. Coupled with our market knowledge, we thrive on making the application of that expertise relevant to all of the companies with whom we work, no matter what part of the world.  We advocate a collaborative approach to providing service solutions. We talk to our clients. We understand not their current, but also their future business needs. We are proud of the fact that our clients see us a true strategic partner, rather than a tactical supplier.  We understand that everything we do has to deliver business results.. We offer a genuine partnership to enhance business performance - form strategic consulting, delivering significant change programmes, through to selectively outsourcing and managing our clients' systems. Technology Our areas of expertise include: Technologies .Net Framework, COM, DCOM, COM +, LDAP, Active X, SOAP, Web Services  Languages C#, C/C++, Visual Basic Web and Scripting ASP.NET, ASP, XML, XSL, JavaScript, VBscript, HTML, DHTML, XHTML, CSS, JSP, WML, WAP Server Software SQL Server 2000, Commerce Server 2002, Content Management Server 2002,COM+ (Component Services), Internet Information Services, SharePoint Portal Server 2003, MS Exchange Server 2003 Middleware and Messaging BizTalk Server 2002, Message Queuing Services  Operating Systems Windows NT/2000/XP, Windows Server 2003 Development Environments Visual Studio .NET, Visual InterDev Content Management and Collaborative Applications with workflow: Using SharePoint 2003 and Office 2003.