Organization Profile
NWN Corporation
Organization Overview
NWN Corporation provides clients with a
complete range of networking services and
solutions. We bring our clients the premier
products in the industry, tailored to their
specific needs and situations. These include
technologies from Cisco, Microsoft, HP,
EMC, and many others.
Our clients include private and public sector
organizations in almost every line of work.
We provide solutions to major banks, universities,
manufacturers, hospitals, and state and
local government agencies. Our clients operate
locally, nationally, and internationally.
The NWN approach is simple. We take the
time to understand a client’s needs, then use
our deep technology expertise and broad
experience to offer the best IT solutions. We
don’t just implement technologies for our
clients — we take on day-to-day accountability
for managing and maintaining them as well.
As a result, we take an owner’s perspective in
everything we do.
Solutions
Application Development
Data Center and Virtualization
End User Computing
IT Staffing
nCare Managed Services
Network Infrastructure
Security
Smart Government
Unified Communications and Collaboration
Notable Accomplishments / Recognition
NWN Corporation Acquires International Application Development Firm ComFrame
Customers to Realize Strong Relationships, Business Agility and Lower Cost Structure
Waltham, MA - IT systems integrator, NWN Corporation announced the acquisition of ComFrame, an international application
development firm with offices in Birmingham, Alabama; Nashville, Tennessee and Beijing, China.
ComFrame, a Microsoft Gold partner with considerable Java programming expertise, is a 13-year-old application development
services provider that has distinguished itself by providing robust custom development solutions for more than 300 companies in the
Southeastern and Central United States. ComFrame, and NWN itself, are two of only 37 nationally managed Microsoft system
integrators.
"This makes us one of the more substantial applications development services companies in the business, and one of the few
focused on both the commercial midmarket and public sectors," said NWN CEO Mont Phelps.
With the China-based off-shoring capabilities, the deal provides NWN with the expertise to provide the kind of application
development and deployment services that power bigger global systems integrators. It also marks the first time that NWN has all the
pieces from strategic consulting to application development and deployment, and 24x7 support to offer its customers a complete
solution to their business problems.
"The differentiator", says Phelps "is NWN's lower cost structure, business agility and its strong local relationships with customers
which provide the opportunity to "Team-Shore" -- a unique blend of local development and business resources combined with an offshoring
capability."
The acquisition makes NWN one of the premier companies providing a full range of solutions, including application development
services, to midmarket commercial and public sector customers. "We believe that our customer-centric approach is going to have
tremendous appeal in those markets," said Phelps. "We have the capabilities and resources to compete with anybody in those
markets. We can go in and sit down with CEOs and CIOs and talk about where they are going with their business strategy and then
be able to design, implement and support the systems they need."
ComFrame CEO Marc Guthrie commented, “ComFrame has built a model that allows us to provide high value solutions based
services to our clients across the Southeast. We are looking forward to the opportunity to expand this offering throughout the NWN
customer base. NWNs Customer first philosophy matches with ours and that was a major driver for getting this done. After meeting
with the NWN management team it was clear to me that ComFrame’s current customers would continue to receive excellent service
and benefit from the additional corporate offerings.”
(continued)
In addition to the news of this acquisition, NWN announced a vertical consulting group. Jane Linder, the managing director of the
company, is going to oversee the new vertical solutions group chartered with sharpening the company's focus on health care,
education, state and local government and midsized banks/credit unions.
"There are plenty of VARs out there that only think about technology," said Linder. "We know how to help customers use technology
so it creates business value. That requires a deeper knowledge of the customer's business in addition to the technology."
The acquisition officially closed at 11:59 p.m. EST on New Year's Eve.
About NWN Corporation
Headquartered in Waltham, MA, NWN Corporation provides clients with a complete range of end-to-end IT services and solutions.
The company brings clients the premier products in the industry, tailored to their specific needs and situations. These include
technologies from Cisco, Microsoft, HP, McAfee, EMC, VMware and many others. Clients include private and public sector
organizations in almost every line of work including major banks, universities, manufacturers, hospitals, and state and local
government agencies. NWN solutions include Application Development; Data Center and Virtualization; End User Computing; IT
Staffing; nCare® Managed Services; Network Infrastructure; Security; Smart GovernmentTM; and Unified Communications and
Collaboration.
NWN is a woman-owned business with thirteen branches throughout the US and a branch in Beijing, China. The company serves
clients operating locally, nationally and internationally. In addition to corporate headquarters and a branch in Waltham, MA, NWN
serves clients with branches in Farmington, CT; Mt. Laurel, NJ; Raleigh, NC; Greensboro, NC; Charlotte, NC; Greenville, SC;
Nashville, TN; Birmingham, AL; Houston, TX; Fresno, CA; Sacramento, CA: Salt Lake City, UT and Beijing, China.
About ComFrame
Since 1997, ComFrame Software Corporation has completed more than 300 elegant, large-scale software projects for clients across
the southeastern and central United States, helping them reduce IT complexity and successfully deploy modern architectures and
applications that improve business agility and efficiency. From offices in Birmingham, Nashville and Beijing, ComFrame delivers a
broad range of custom solutions and packaged business applications. More than 100 architects, software engineers and project
managers make up our highly skilled team. Expertise ranges from enterprise application development, integration and global delivery
to strategy and program management, business intelligence and enterprise data management, collaboration and knowledge
management, usability and user experience engineering, web branding and content management, IT mentoring and training in new
information technologies and service-oriented architectures. For more information about ComFrame, visit www.comframe.com .