Spark Group | About Us


	About Us

The Spark Group is an experienced solutions provider of dynamic, interactive and secure web-based applications and portals for the automation of client facing and business partnering business processes. The full time, dedicated staff of The Spark Group provides our clients a broad range of business, technical and management experience and expertise focused on the growing Business-to-Business and Business-to-Consumer markets as well as Business-to-Employee opportunities.

Mission Statement

It is our mission to,

	Provide innovative, incentive driven, value added electronic solutions and consulting services that enable our clients to create and sustain significant competitive advantage.
	Ensure high-quality and rapid response by providing the correct blend of industry, design, and technology expertise to meet each client specific need.
	"Partner" with our clients to establish a shared vision, passion and accountability for success.
	Measure our successes by the degree to which our clients achieve theirs.

Corporate History

The Spark Group is a privately held corporation, which was founded in 1997 by Mr. Dave Cianfarini who brought with him his expertise in applying the utility of the Internet to internal and external commercial business processes. The Spark Group started as a provider of services, primarily focused on the design, development, implementation and support of Internet based business-to-business extranets as well as corporate Intranets. Based primarily on our client's referrals and recommendations The Spark Group and our clients continue to benefit from our steady and continued growth.

Expertise

When you work with The Spark Group, you can count on innovation, creativity and state-of-the-art technology - in everything we do. Expert talent is available in many areas. Below is a list of some our expertise:

	Oracle RDBMS			Visual Basic
	SQL Server RDBMS			Powerbuilder
	XML			Delphi
	BEA WebLogic Server			Java
	IBM WebSphere Server			COM, COM+
	Microsoft ASP			J2EE Specification
	VBScript			.NET, ASP+
	JavaScript			HTML
	Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS)			DHTML

Services

Our diversified staff of industry professionals allows The Spark Group to provide our clients with a broad range of services in the areas of technology and project management. We prefer and are experienced in working on all aspects of the full life-cycle of our clients' initiatives, but we are also capable and willing to work on any of the following individual project components :

	Solution Strategy Development
	Program / Project Management
	Requirements Definition and Analysis
	Application/System Architecture, Analysis, Design, Development and Implementation
	Infrastructure Architecture, Analysis, Design and Implementation
	Database Architecture, Analysis, Design, Development and Implementation
	Graphical Design, Development and Implementation
	Integration Testing and Stress Testing
	Production and Operational Procedure Definition
	Site Management & Administration
	Content Management and Administration
	Site Maintenance