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Contact: Rajiv Mehta
Synergetics Incorporated
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Synergetics Receives ISO 9001:2008 Certification for its Quality Management System
FORT COLLINS, CO. – (Business Wire)- August 11, 2009 – Synergetics® Incorporated, a Fort Collins, Colorado based Information Technology services company has received ISO (International Organization for Standards) 9001:2008 certification for its Quality Management System. Synergetics® Incorporated has demonstrated its commitment to meeting the globally recognized management system requirements and regulations for the design and development of computer systems, computer applications and program management.
Rajiv Mehta, president and CEO of Synergetics® Incorporated announced, “Synergetics Incorporated ISO 9001:2008 certification is an important achievement that illustrates to our customers our focused commitment to quality within all levels of our organization. All competing companies claim high quality products and services. Standards such as ISO are an independent verification that the quality Synergetics offers can be qualified and quantified. We want our customers to be confident that Synergetics can meet and exceed their needs and requirements in a timely manner while creating real value for them through our innovative techniques and ideas. Our success at achieving ISO 9001:2008 certification is proof that Synergetics is continually striving to improve the solutions we provide to our customers as well as our quality management system.”
ISO 9001 Certification is an important differentiator within the market. Companies, such as Synergetics, that can achieve ISO 9001 2008 certification hold a distinguished position and have increased credibility within the market. The ISO 9001:2008 quality certification is based on eight fundamental quality management principles. These include:
• Customer focus
• Leadership
• Involvement of people
• Process approach
• System approach to management
• Continual improvement
• Factual approach to decision making
• Mutually beneficial supplier relationships
Synergetics also has the first ISO 8000-110 certified product: Synergetics’ Integrated Mobile Database (IMD) suite. Synergetics’ IMD solution solves problems associated with managing and distributing data in technology constrained environments such as limited, intermittent, and low bandwidth Internet access. This is a frequent technology constraint for national and global organizations. Storing and accessing logistics data, parts catalogs, or inventory data from portable media and devices is a challenge for organizations with end-users that are constrained to small footprint media solutions.
Finally Synergetics is an active and voting member in multiple international working groups that are establishing global quality standards. These include:
• ISO 8000 Master Data Quality: a technical specification that describes the fundamentals of data quality, defines related terms, and specifies requirements on both data and organizations to enable data quality.
• 22745 Open Technical Dictionaries (eOTD): the foundation for design collaboration and industry standards. eOTD is a dictionary of cataloging concepts used to create unambiguous language, independent encoded descriptions of individuals, organizations, locations and goods and services.
• 29002 Exchange of Service and Product Characteristic Data: a developing standard to achieve interoperability between ISO 22745, Open technical dictionaries and their application to master data, and ISO 13584 by developing a series of common data models and XML schemas, which can be specialized in the respective standards.
• NATO AC135: provides participant Nations with a uniform NATO Codification System to be used as the global reference standard for material identification and to support NATO and multinational interoperability and harmonization of logistic systems.
Synergetics® Incorporated provides information technology solutions to Government (Federal, State and Local) and Fortune 500/1000 organizations. For more information, please visit www.synergetics.com.
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Contact: Eric Strand
Synergetics Incorporated
1520 South College Avenue
Fort Collins, Colorado 80524
PHONE: (970) 498-9723
FAX: (970) 498-9775
EMAIL: IMD@synergetics.com
FORT COLLINS, Colorado, December 12, 2007 – Synergetics Incorporated, a Fort Collins, Colorado based IT services company was awarded the Federal Logistics Data (FED LOG) contract by the Defense Logistics Information Service (DLIS). This contract, issued by the Document Automation and Production Service (DAPS) is for the publication and dissemination of FED LOG on portable media.
Rajiv Mehta, president and CEO of Synergetics Incorporated announced, “We are honored to have the opportunity to support DLIS and their mission in Department of Defense (DOD) supply chain management using our Electronic Commerce Code Management Association (ECCMA) (http://eccma.org) and International Standards Organization (ISO) standards-based solution.”
Synergetics’ Integrated Mobile Database (IMD) suite is the first and only ECCMA - ISO 8000-110 certified product. Synergetics will provide its ECCMA and ISO certified IMD technology suite to sustain the current DLIS portable media product (FED LOG) and to develop an upgraded, adaptive and more capable method to deliver information via portable media for use in U.S. Military and other Government logistics operations and supply chain management.
The DLIS mission is to provide interoperable, integrated, quality logistics data and enterprise IT solutions for joint warfighters, the Military Services, the Defense Department, other Federal agencies and international partners in order to optimize the effectiveness and efficiency of the DOD supply chain. FED LOG is a catalog of logistics data used by DLIS customers. FED LOG on portable media is the primary product produced and delivered by DLIS.
DLIS is faced with providing logistical data to the warfighter in environments in which access to telecommunications and connectivity can be very limited or nonexistent. In these environments, mobile media-based products containing databases and data views, combined with robust access tools, play an essential role in assuring operational success. FED LOG is distributed to users worldwide via CD-ROM or DVD format.
Data quality continues to be an important initiative at DLIS. By adopting standards such as ISO 8000‑110 and ISO 22745 (a standard that defines open technical dictionaries), DLIS will maintain data quality by specifying the data it needs and obtaining it directly from manufacturers in a standard usable format.
Synergetics’ IMD solution solves problems with managing and distributing data in technology constrained environments such as limited, intermittent, and low bandwidth Internet access. This is a frequent technology constraint for national and global organizations. Storing and accessing logistics data, parts catalogs, or inventory data from portable media and devices is a challenge for organizations with end-users that are constrained to small footprint media solutions.
The ECCMA mission is to develop, maintain and promote the ECCMA Open Technical Dictionary (eOTD) to provide unambiguous labeling standards that are essential for data exchange between DOD/North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) agencies and commercial vendors.
Synergetics’ IMD suite provides data compression, data storage, data production and retrieval tools to produce ECCMA and ISO certified portable media versions of the original data. IMD’s logistic data compression and query performance is unequalled in the marketplace.
Synergetics’ certified IMD solution will be used by DLIS and is available to other government agencies and commercial vendors facing similar challenges in distributing mission critical data via portable media and devices.
Synergetics® Incorporated, is a certified SBA 8(a) technology services company headquartered in Fort Collins, Colorado. Synergetics’ expertise provides information technology solutions to Government (Federal, State and Local) and Fortune 500/1000 organizations. For more information, please visit www.synergetics.com.
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Contact: Barbara Grofe
Synergetics Incorporated
1520 S. College Avenue
Fort Collins, Colorado 80524
PHONE: (970) 498-9723
FAX: (970) 498-9775
EMAIL: bgrofe@synergetics.com
Synergetics Portable Media Product certified by ECCMA for ISO 8000
FORT COLLINS, Colorado, October 29, 2007 – Synergetics Incorporated, a Fort Collins, Colorado based IT services company announces its Integrated Mobile Database (IMD) is the first and only Electronic Commerce Code Management Association (ECCMA) and International Standards Organization (ISO) certified portable media product. Synergetics’ IMD technology suite has the ability to extract, compress, and index data to produce ECCMA certified, ISO 8000 compliant portable media versions of the original data.
The mission of the ECCMA is to develop, maintain and promote the ECCMA Open Technical Dictionary (eOTD) as an international open standard descriptive language for cataloging individuals, organizations, locations, goods and services. The global, open standard dictionaries are used to unambiguously label information. These dictionaries enable information to be passed from one computer system to another without losing meaning. The eOTD unambiguous labeling standards are essential for data exchange between DoD/NATO agencies and commercial vendors.
Synergetics supports ECCMA and its mission to develop and maintain open standard dictionaries. The ECCMA – ISO 8000 Master Data Quality certification ensures the ability to exchange data between DoD, NATO and commercial vendors.
Synergetics originally developed the IMD solution in response to the needs of DoD for distributing mission critical data on portable media and devices. Synergetics’ IMD solution is now being offered to other government agencies and commercial vendors facing similar challenges in distributing mission critical data via portable media and devices.
Synergetics’ IMD suite provides data compression, data storage, data production and retrieval tools to extract data from SQL databases, compress, index and produce ECCMA – ISO certified portable media versions of the original data. IMD’s logistic data compression and query performance is unequalled in the marketplace.
According to Rajiv Mehta, president and CEO of Synergetics Incorporated, “Federal government agencies and commercial vendors that have worked as data producers or data consumers are familiar with the problems inherent in managing mission critical data. These organizations also have lines-of-business that require quality data management and distribution for catalog data, inventory data, and other logistics data in technology constrained environments. Synergetics now offers an ECCMA – ISO certified solution to these needs.”
Synergetics’ IMD solution solves problems with managing and distributing data in technology constrained environments such as limited, intermittent, and low bandwidth Internet access. This is a frequent technology constraint for national and global organizations. Storing and accessing logistics data, parts catalogs, or inventory data from portable media and devices is a challenge for organizations with end-users that are constrained to small footprint media solutions. Synergetics' IMD also recognizes enterprise security constraints and requires no hard drive or registry footprint during use.
Synergetics® Incorporated, is a certified SBA 8(a) technology services company headquartered in Fort Collins, Colorado. Synergetics’ expertise includes providing information technology solutions to Government (Federal, State and Local) and Fortune 500/1000 organizations. For more information, please visit www.synergetics.com.
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Contact: Steve Smith
Synergetics Incorporated
Phone 970 498 9723
Fax 970 498 9775
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1520 S. College Ave
Fort Collins, CO 80524
www.synergetics.com |
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Synergetics Assists with Earthquake Studies
FORT COLLINS, CO. - November 15, 2006 - Synergetics has been contracted by the Department of Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, to perform scientific research for The Advanced National Seismic System (ANSS), which is a major national initiative that serves the needs of the earthquake monitoring, engineering, and research communities as well as national, state, and local governments, emergency response organizations, and the general public. When fully operational, the ANSS will be an advanced monitoring system (modern digital seismographs and accelerographs, communications networks, data collection and processing centers, archival and alert systems, and well-trained personnel) distributed across the United States. The ANSS is a National resource that operates with high performance standards, gathers critical technical data, and effectively provides timely and reliable earthquake products, information, and services to meet the Nation's needs. The ANSS will automatically broadcast timely and authoritative alerts describing the occurrence of earthquakes, earthquake source properties, the distribution of ground shaking, and, where feasible, broadcast early warnings and alerts for the onset of strong ground shaking. Most importantly, the ANSS will provide earthquake data, derived products, and information to the public, emergency responders, officials, engineers, educators, researchers, and other ANSS partners rapidly and in forms that are useful for their needs.
Synergetics personnel are assigned to help develop The PAGER (Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response) system which is an automatic system to estimate human impact following significant Earthquakes. The work is being performed at the U.S. Geological Surveys National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC) which reports over 30,000 earthquakes a year. Tragically, on average, 25 of these cause significant damage, injuries, or fatalities. The USGS often detects these damaging quakes well before eyewitness reports are available and must rapidly decide if Federal and international agencies should be alerted of a potentially damaging event. Currently, the USGS primarily relies on the experience and intuition of the on duty seismologists to estimate the impact of an event. To improve the accuracy of this assessment and the content of the USGS earthquake alerts, the USGS is developing the PAGER system to estimate human impact immediately following global earthquakes.
The PAGER system will provide important information to help emergency relief organizations, government agencies, and the media plan their response to earthquake disasters. PAGER will distribute alarms via pager, mobile phone, and e-mail that will include a concise estimate of impact: red for severe, yellow for moderate, and green for little or no impact. The alarms will also report the earthquake location, magnitude, depth, an estimate of the number of people exposed to varying levels of shaking, a description of the regions fragility, and a measure of confidence in the systems impact assessment. Associated maps of shaking level, population density, and susceptibility to landslides will be posted on the Internet. This information will be available within minutes of the determination of the earthquake location and magnitude. Earthquake solutions are generally available within the hour for significant events and improvements to the realtime earthquake detection system will decrease the response time to as little as fifteen minutes.
Synergetics® Incorporated, is a certified SBA 8(a) technology services company headquartered in Fort Collins, Colorado. Synergetics’ expertise includes providing information technology solutions to Government (Federal, State and Local) and Fortune 500/1000 organizations. For more information visit www.synergetics.com.
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Energy Estimator Tools Team Wins USDA Group Honor Award
FORT COLLINS, Colo. and WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Synergetics, Incorporated, a Fort Collins based company, announced today that the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Mike Johanns awarded the USDA's most prestigious group award to a team comprised of United States Department of Agriculture, National Resources Conservation Service (USDA, NRCS) and Synergetics, Incorporated employees.
The NRCS Team was comprised of NRCS Chief Arlen Lancaster; USDA Energy Team Leader Stefanie G. Aschmann; NRCS Information Technology Center (ITC) Director Wendall Oaks, Douglas Lawrence, Felix Spinelli, George L. Edmonds, Gloria Weirrman, David Lightle, William Kuenstler, Christoph M. Gross, John Russell Davis, Stan Hitt, Peter Robinson, Dennis K. Carman, Clarence Prestwich, Phil Smith, Jennifer Schukar, Sylvia Rainford, Suzanne Pender, Jerry Lemunyon, Jerry Walker, Raegan, A. Weber and Ken Rojas. The Synergetics Team included Lori Anderson, Robert Hoch, Zhipeng Zhao, Jill Burgchardt and Randy Johnston. The effort represented a collaboration of NRCS offices from Washington DC; Portland, Oregon; and Fort Collins, Colorado with Synergetics employees from Fort Collins, Colorado, and other contractors.
The 2006 USDA Group Honor Award was for the development and deployment of the USDA, NRCS Energy Consumption Awareness Software Tools. The USDA Group Honor Award is given once a year in recognition of outstanding services and contributions of USDA employees and contractors toward fulfilling USDA's missions and goals. The Energy Consumption and Awareness Tools met these criteria because it provides valuable and critical information to farmers and agricultural professionals. These tools can assist farmers and ranchers in cutting fuel costs, maintaining production, protecting soil and water resources, while reducing the nation's dependence on fossil fuels. The USDA strongly supports conservation practices that save farmers and ranchers money and improve the environmental health of the United States.
The Team developed three energy tools designed to increase energy awareness in the agricultural community and to help farmers and ranchers identify where they can reduce their energy costs. The tools include an Energy Estimator for Irrigation, Nitrogen Application and Tillage.
The Energy Estimator for Irrigation tool enables the farmer to estimate potential energy savings associated with pumping water for irrigation. This tool was developed to integrate relevant agricultural information including type of crop, current energy prices, type of irrigation system, and pumping requirements. http://ipat.sc.egov.usda.gov/
The Energy Estimator for Nitrogen tool enables farmers to calculate the potential cost-savings related to nitrogen use on their farm or ranch. This tool was developed to integrate general technical information on nitrogen use with farm-specific information on fertilizer types, costs, timing, and placement. http://nfat.sc.egov.usda.gov/
The Energy Estimator for Tillage tool estimates diesel fuel use and costs in the production of key crops in the farmers' geographic area and compares potential energy savings between conventional tillage and alternative tillage systems. http://ecat.sc.egov.usda.gov/
Synergetics, Incorporated is a Fort Collins based Information Technology services and solution provider founded in 1995. Synergetics has multiple Government and Fortune 100 clients. In addition to this award, Synergetics has received numerous accolades such as the award for Best Practices in Government Contracting.
Source: Synergetics, Incorporated
CONTACT: Bonnie-Lee Bowman, Synergetics Incorporated, +1-970-498-9723,
fax, +1-970-498-9775
Web site:
http://ipat.sc.egov.usda.gov/
http://nfat.sc.egov.usda.gov/
http://ecat.sc.egov.usda.gov/
