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LCS Technologies Ranks No. 90 on the 2011 Inc. 500 list of
America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies

2,800% growth over 3 years

SACRAMENTO, CA, August 23, 2011 — Inc. magazine today ranked LCS Technologies number 90 on its INC 500 list, an exclusive ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. The list represents a comprehensive look at the most important segment of the economy-America’s independent-minded entrepreneurs. LCS is a leading information services provider for Oracle software, service and training needs.

The 2011 Inc. 500 is ranked according to percentage revenue growth when comparing 2007 to 2010. LCS has doubled its revenue every year for the last three years, ending 2010 with revenues of $4.7 million. This impressive growth enabled LCS to rank number 5 in the Inc. 500 list of information technology services providers.

“To be recognized on a national level and included in the 2011 Inc. 500 is a testament to our philosophy of developing and connecting the best teams possible to guide customers toward the successful implementation of IT projects that solve real business problems,” said Stephane Come, CEO of LCS Technologies.

LCS has a simple philosophy: Help its customers by “Connecting the Dots.” This means seeking the best solutions and making the right connections by pinpointing the best resources: People, partners, hardware and software needed to solve business problems. LCS’ Connect the Dots approach enables the company to provide best-in-class solutions for its customers IT needs by leading with innovation, providing the highest quality customer care and helping customers maximize infrastructure and operational efficiency.

“We listen to our customers, make the right connections to address their needs, and create the solution to help them achieve successful and measurable business results,‚” said Steve Simonetto, COO of LCS Technologies.

The 2011 Inc. 500, unveiled in the September issue of Inc. (available on newsstands August 23 to November 15 and on Inc.com), is a group of companies that are smaller but much faster-growing than last year’s crop. Aggregate revenue is $10.5 billion, with a median three-year growth of 1,275 percent. The companies on this year’s list employ more than 46,000 people and generated over 35,000 jobs in the past three years. Complete results of the Inc. 500, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found on inc.com/500.

About LCS Technologies
LCS Technologies of Sacramento, CA is a leading information services provider offering a single source for all your Oracle software, service and training needs. LCS has a simple philosophy: help our customers make the right connections to achieve successful and measurable business results. LCS leads with innovation to empower our customers to maximize their infrastructure and make their team more efficient and effective.
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About the Inc. 500
The 2011 Inc. 500 is ranked according to percentage revenue growth when comparing 2007 to 2010. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2007. Additionally, they had to be U.S.-based, privately held, for profit, and independent-not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies-as of December 31, 2010. (Since then, a number of companies on the list have gone public or been acquired.) The minimum revenue required for 2007 is $100,000; the minimum for 2010 is $2 million. As always, Inc. reserves the right to decline applicants for subjective reasons. Companies on the Inc. 500 are featured in Inc.’s September issue. They represent the top tier of the Inc. 5000, which can be found at inc.com/500.

Leading With Innovation: Helping You Make the Right Connections

LCS has a simple philosophy: help our customers make the right connections to achieve successful and measurable business results. We call it “Connecting the Dots.” It means seeking the best solutions and making the right connections by pinpointing the best resources: people, partners, hardware and software needed to solve your business problem. Once we’ve identified the right “dots,” we seamlessly integrate all of these “dots” into the right business solution to address end user challenges and create stronger customer relationships.

Our Connect the Dots approach enables us to provide best in class solutions for your IT needs by leading with innovation, providing the highest quality customer care, and helping you to maximize your infrastructure and operational efficiency.

Seeing the Big Picture
By stepping back and looking at the big picture from the business perspective, LCS can identify the challenges and the problems that need to be solved even when the connections are not clear.

“The connections are always there. Even when it is not obvious what needs connecting or how it will connect,” explains Stéphane Côme, LCS CEO.

Once the dots and connect points are identified, LCS puts the right information services team in place to connect them.

Five Keys to Connecting the Dots
Our Connect the Dots approach is based on five principles:

1. Be agnostic about the solution. Find the best in class “dots”: people, vendors, partners, hardware, software, delivery and pricing. At LCS, we start with questions, not answers: What is the problem? What results are expected? What is the optimal solution? Once we have the questions, we connect the appropriate dots to provide the best answers.
2. Unchain the process. Too often, companies are constrained by following a process, this may be an old process developed many years ago when technology limitations dictated the process. When the objective is to create connections that are not obvious or that may not yet exist, process can be the problem rather than the solution. If you follow a process along a well-traveled path, you may miss opportunities because the process puts arbitrary constraints on how you view the problem and the potential remedies–essentially, stifling innovation.
3. Remove constraints to see the opportunities. It’s difficult if not impossible to connect the dots if you have artificial constraints on what you think you can do or achieve. When these constraints are removed, thinking can be changed, innovation is unleashed and business results can be improved, often dramatically.
4. Lead with Innovation. From solving a customer problem to finding the most efficient way to operate internally, LCS leads with innovation. The solutions often recommended by LCS are not just based on Best Practices, but are driven by experienced staff, prior successes and shared domain knowledge. The LCS team is always looking for new ways to maximize efficiency and reduce costs. For LCS, business as usual-isn’t.
5. Make the connection for the customer even if there is no tangible reward for LCS. The key is creating the connection and making sure the connection is an advantage for the customer.

Call LCS (855-277-5527) today and let us know how we can help you make the right connections for your information technology challenge.

Leading With Innovation: LCS Database Xccelerator

Database Overload.Total System Shutdown. It’s a doomsday scenario that strikes fear in the heart of every database administrator. Combine that with the busiest and most critical sales month of the year for your company and you’ve got a DBA’s worst nightmare.

Here’s the story of how one company faced a nightmare situation and came out ahead of the game.

The Meltdown
This Fortune 500 online retailer handles thousands of transactions per day on a regular basis. Accounting and business operations require that the transactions be batched nightly with jobs typically taking 6 to 10 hours to complete on an Oracle 10g RAC database.

This online retailer is popular, business is booming and daily transactions are on the increase. Their success leads to slower batch times. Experts are called in. The Elite Team from LCS Technologies joins the retailer’s database team in an effort to enhance performance. There is no time or money to re-architect the application and database, so standard performance methods are applied. The team does all the right things: SQL optimization and database tuning. And it works—for a while.

Then the black Friday comes and that night a batch job that is supposed to take 10 hours takes 22 and the system rolls back. Business analysts, sales and marketing teams are waiting for previous day’s reports. But the reports are not available. Business activity stops. The quiet is eerie and deadly to a retailer that counts on the holidays for more than half its yearly sales.

The AHA Moment
The retailer’s team and LCS’s elite technical team can’t increase system performance using standard tools. There is no known solution. It is time to rethink the situation.

The solution was elegant, simple and totally unconventional. It involved converting the application from single-threaded to multi-threaded. Here’s how it worked.

With minimal changes to the application, the LCS team was able to extract the core business logic from the system. Think of it as open heart surgery for a damaged database.

Once the core logic was extracted, the team was able to run the code through its database Xccelerator, a framework that enables code to run in parallel processes. The process is not without its perils. Because of the limited time available, even standard testing is eliminated. Instead, the team opts for auditing to protect against errors.

The Happy Ending
The database Xccelerator enables a DBA to take a single-threaded database application and make it multi-threaded while keeping the original code 100% safe. It is the equivalent of taking a single lane road and turning it into a 16-lane freeway overnight.

Using The LCS database Xccelerator process, a batch job that took 22 hours now takes a little as two hours. The retailer catches up with its business reports in two days and business activity returns to as normal as it gets for a global retailer at Christmas time.

The bonus was the retailer’s database team is able to use the Xccelerator process on all their other batch jobs, making it a very happy holiday season indeed.

The Journey Continues
Batch process acceleration is just one of the many ways LCS’s database Xccelerator is being used by their Oracle-based clients. Another client, a major telecom company, is using the Xccelerator to scale a real-time pattern analysis tool. A government agency is using it for database conversion to make data conversions from legacy systems to Oracle-based systems as much as 10X faster as standard tools. When used with Exadata, the performance increases are even more substantial.

Another advantage is that the process does not require any new hardware or software purchases. While products like the LCS database Xccelerator exist, they are expensive. LCS’ solution is native to Oracle. The process is easy for a DBA to learn and LCS offers mentoring to ensure the knowledge transfer is complete.

LCS’s Elite Technical Team has a simple philosophy: Lead with Innovation and empower the customer to maximize their infrastructure and make their team more efficient so that they become the elite team in their own company.

For more information or to receive a 1:1 consultation, please contact LCS at info@lcs-technologies-inc.com.

Agency: CA Department of Justice
Summary: Criminal Justice Information System Redesign

PROBLEM: The California Department of Justice needed to modernize its existing database architecture from legacy systems to new a distributed systems environment. This required the migration of nine CJIS applications from the legacy Unisys/COBOL environment to the new CJIS Open System Environment of Oracle/Sun/Solaris.

SOLUTION: LCS provided the application design, development, conversion, documentation, and implementation for the migration of nine CJIS applications from the legacy Unisys/COBOL environment to the new CJIS Open System Environment of Oracle/Sun/Solaris. These applications are responsible for processing message-based requests from the law enforcement community in California (which are submitted through the CLETS telecommunications network) and returning the response from the DOJ CJIS database via the CJIS Control middleware.

RESULTS: Six applications have been successfully deployed to production: Firearms Eligibility (FEAF), California Restraining and Protective Orders (CARPOS), Automated Firearms (AFS), Supervised Release (SRF), Wanted Persons (WPS), Stolen Vehicles and Boats (SVS/ABS). LCS is currently developing three additional applications: Missing and Unidentified Persons (MUPS), Automated Property System (APS) and Mental Health Firearms Prohibition System (MHFPS). These are real-time, mission-critical message-based applications, used by over 50,000 law enforcement users to verify the identity and background of individuals (when, for example, making a traffic stop).

Agency: California Prison Health Care Services
Summary: Clinical Data Repository

PROBLEM: California Prison Health Care Services (CPHCS) needed to address a number of Information Technology (IT) projects to achieve the Receiver’s efforts in raising the level of health care of patient-inmates to constitutional standards. These projects included: Clinical Data Repository (CDR), Health Care Scheduling System (HCSS), Mental Health Tracking System (MHTS), and Central Fill Pharmacy.

SOLUTION: LCS is responsible for development and implementation of clinical forms within CPHCS’ Clinical Data Repository (CDR). CDR is a system that provides a core set of services and functionality that lay the foundation of an Electronic Medical Record (EMR). LCS consultants are assisting CPHCS program and IT staff with development of clinical forms using Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite, Oracle 10g and 11g, Oracle Fusion Middleware Suite, and Oracle Healthcare Transaction Base (HTB). The solution incorporates Orion Portal, Initiate EMPI, Oracle HTB and Oracle Fusion Middleware technologies including Oracle Database 10g and 11g.

RESULTS: CDR was released to six institutions as a pilot. Improvements based on user feedback are currently being developed and performance enhancements are being made prior to full production release.

Agency: CalPERS
Summary: Major PeopleSoft Upgrade to Overhaul Existing CalPERS systems

PROBLEM: The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) needed to upgrade its existing PeopleSoft Human Resources Management System (HRMS) system (Version 8.9) to PeopleSoft Human Capital Management (HCM) 9.1.

SOLUTION: The contract calls for LCS to provide extensive consulting to CalPERS along with PeopleSoft HCM software, UPK – Time & Labor, and Application Solution Center (ASC) Services LCS’ upgrade efforts will also include project management, analysis, design, testing, training, change management, implementation, and closeout activities. The LCS-led team is working with both the agency’s business and technical teams; specifically the CalPERS Human Resources Services Division (HRSD) and the ITSB PeopleSoft Human Resources technical team.

RESULTS: The CalPERS Upgrade is scheduled to be delivered on time and on budget.

Agency: CalPERS
Summary: PeopleSoft Supplier Contract Management (SCM) v9.1

PROBLEM: CalPERS’ goals were to achieve a 50 percent reduction in cycle times with standardize contract processes, reduced time-to-contract, and drive contract compliance while leveraging its existing PeopleSoft Investment. CalPERS needed to implement a solution with a team who would work in partnership with CalPERS to plan and coordinate technical requirements, design, development, implementation and knowledge transfer.

SOLUTION: LCS served CalPERS as a “one stop shop” for all its Oracle needs to support this implementation including contract management and oversight. LCS was responsible for the sale of the SCM licenses and support, the hosting of the technology environment by Oracle, as well as the implementation of the Supplier Contract Management application for one of the largest investment funds in the world. Oracle products used included Oracle 11G, PeopleSoft SCM v9.1

RESULTS: The SCM module was successfully implemented for CalPERS.

FACT SHEET

Founded: 2006
Location: Sacramento, CA
Description: LCS Technologies of Sacramento, CA is a leading information services provider offering a single source for all your Oracle software, service and training needs. LCS has a simple philosophy: help our customers make the right connections to achieve successful and measurable business results. LCS leads with innovation to empower our customers to maximize their infrastructure and make their team more efficient and effective.

Major Milestones:
2005 The Idea – “We can do this!”
2006 Incubation period – LCS Incorporated
2007 Start-up – Two employees, Two customers
2008 First mission critical project awarded
2009 Oracle Partner status
2010 First profitable year – 15 employees
2011 Sales director on board
2011 INC 500 Rank 90

Executive Team:
Stéphane Côme (co-founder)
President, Chief Executive Officer
Stéphane Côme is the co-founder and visionary behind LCS Technologies. During his 19 years as a System Architect and Oracle Database Tuning Expert for Oracle, Stéphane discovered that the root of most design and performance issues was not technology. It was the inability of technical teams to work efficiently and effectively together. He founded LCS Technologies to assemble the best human and technical teams possible to guide customers toward the successful implementation of their IT projects. Developing and connecting elite technical teams that can work together to solve customer problems first fulfills Stéphane’s vision. This is the essence of LCS.

Steve Simonetto (co-founder)
Chief Operating Officer
Steve Simonetto has more than 25 years of experience in software development, project management, consulting, and business management. Recognizing the need for a more customer focused approach to software-related consulting, Steve co-founded LCS to provide high value, premium technology services. As COO of LCS, Steve’s commitment to quality delivery and high customer satisfaction enabled the company to double revenues each year over the past three years. At Oracle Corporation he directed the Public Sector consulting business for fifteen western states, including California. Steve has served as Executive Sponsor for numerous major software engagements. Outside the work environment, Steve enjoys bicycling, golfing, camping, and snow skiing.

Chris Wilson
Director of Sales
Chris Wilson has more than 12 years of experience in strategic planning, business development, and account management. At Oracle Corporation, Chris was the State and Local West Regional Consulting Account Manager responsible for Oracle Application and Technology business development, service delivery, and staff management. During his successful tenure with Oracle, Chris developed and implemented strategic business plans leading to substantial revenue, profit growth, and client satisfaction. On the weekends, Chris enjoys spending time with his family; camping, riding ATVs, and hosting family barbecues.

Number of Employees: 16

Master Contracts Awarded
State of California Multiple Award Schedule (CMAS) – 3-06-70-2379A
State of California Master Services Agreement (MSA) – 5-10-70-58
State of California CalPERS Spring Fed Pool for IT Services – 2010-5835
State of California Statewide License Program (SLP) – Oracle – SLP-09-70-0100A
State of California Statewide License Program (SLP) – Curam – SLP-09-70-0100B

Number of Clients: 16

Sample Client List
Oracle
Fortune 500 Clothing Retailer
California Department of Justice
California Prision Health Care Services
California Public Employees’ Retirement System
California Commission on Teacher Credentialing
San Francisco Police Department
Los Angeles Dept. of Water and Power
Irvine Ranch Water District
County of Kings, California

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