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Sensors & Robotics

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Fostered by developments in microelectronics, and artificial intelligence, the fields of sensors and robotics are exploding.  Sensors — some on a nano scale — are capable of detecting an increasing variety of phenomena and making sense of them.   And this sensing ability provides robotics the ever-increasing fine tuning necessary to conduct a broadening array of precision activities.

Rocky Mountain Technical Marketing, Inc. (RMTM) provides specialized expertise in the specific areas of sensors and robotics.  From leading the design of a robotic factory for demilitarization of the wide range of products in the US chemical arsenal in the 1970s to design of vision systems for autonomous vehicles, RMTM has demonstrated expertise in this exploding technology sector.

RMTM sensors and robotics services include the following:

 

Vision systems

 

Automated factories

Surveillance systems

Object Identification

Force Protection

LIDAR systems

Wireless power options

Strategic Sourcing

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Direct marketing consultant Dick Benson is attributed with saying that you should do only what you do best in-house, and outsource the rest.  There is certainly valuable insight in this remark, but it masks the complexities of outsourcing.  Whether outsourcing IT, manufacturing, a help desk, or payroll processing; whether outsourcing to a firm down the street, across the globe, or in the “cloud;” finding the right partner and structuring an agreement that meets an enterprise’s objectives six months from now includes a wealth of issues.

Service providers know the issues; they do this all day long.  Service seekers are frequently unaware of what they don’t know and have yet to consider.  Too often they find themselves surprised and disappointed that something they took for granted is not included in the service they signed up for.  To be successful, it is helpful for them to have a guide who understands the lay of the land:  to help them ask the right questions — of themselves and of their prospective providers.

Rocky Mountain Technical Marketing, Inc. (RMTM) provides strategic sourcing support across a wide range of services including:

  • IT and Security Outsourcing
  • Cloud Sourcing (public, private, hybrid)
  • Customized Business Process Outsourcing.

RMTM strategic sourcing services include the following:

 

Procurement Strategy

  • Provide clients a framework for determining the best mix of sourcing strategies (insourcing/outsourcing) to meet business objectives
  • Assist in determining vendors to be targeted to provide desired services

 

Technical Requirements Elicitation

  • Use proven processes to elicit all critical requirements
  • Provide clear documentation of requirements to support an RFP

 

Terms and Conditions Specification

  • Ensure non-technical requirements (e.g., performance guaranties, data ownership, regulatory compliance, and manageability) are   incorporated   into an RFP and eventual contract.

 

RFP Development

 Proposal Evaluation

  • Develop evaluation criteria
  • Craft scoring system

 

 Vendor Negotiation

Vendor negotiation

Business Startup Support

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Most new entrepreneurs who chose to start a business don’t know what they don’t know.  They have a brilliant idea for a product or service which fills a need in the marketplace.  They often have technical skills, but don’t appreciate the importance of management.  They don’t know how to raise capital.   They don’t appreciate the value of a business plan,  and they don’t know how to build one.  And they don’t know how to protect the intellectual property at the heart of their innovative approach.

Rocky Mountain Technical Marketing, Inc. (RMTM) provides startup businesses of all sizes with the targeted strategic discipline to raise financing and launch successful operations.  We have helped startups to raise hundreds of millions of dollars in first-round financing and developed business processes to effectively execute the business plan.

RMTM business startup support services include the following:

 

Business Plan Development

  • Build comprehensive business plans that demonstrate value and credibility to all prospective stakeholders (e.g., financiers, executives, board, staff, the press)

 

Intellectual Property (IP) Assessment

  • Evaluate client patents, trade secrets, copyrights to determine criticality to business
  • Conceive extended applications/markets for existing client IP
  • Assess competitive work-arounds that pose a threat to client IP

 

Intellectual Property Protection Strategy

  • Assist in design of IP protection strategy (e.g., legal protection, first-to-market) to exert/maintain competitive advantage

 

Implementation of programmatic discipline

  • Define key performance measurements
  • Define organizational requirements
  • Design business structure
  • Design high-level business processes
  • Design business process management strategy

 

 

Bulk Contract Evaluator

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Law firms – especially those with an active merger and acquisition practice – frequently find themselves tasked with analyzing large number of similar documents looking for critical information.  When a retailer client purchases a competitor, they may inherit hundreds or thousands of new leases.  Which ones are about to expire?  Which ones are non-standard?  Which ones have a particular term or condition?

Rocky Mountain Technical Marketing, Inc. (RMTM) has developed a solution to evaluating large number of contracts to discover salient characteristics of interest to the client.  In the lease example cited above, the bulk contract evaluator can rapidly review each lease and classify those leases set to terminate within 60 days, those that have standard terms (e.g., triple net), those over/under a particular size range, etc., saving hundreds of hours of expensive attorney time.  The same approach can be applied to a wide array of documents of a similar type, such as service contracts, non-disclosure agreements, powers of attorney.

 

?-Funds™

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One of the more popular groups of products in the new world of financial services is leveraged index products.  These products offer investors the unique opportunity to achieve leveraged returns on diversified portfolios of assets without running the risk of margin calls.  But, almost all current product offerings suffer from a pernicious problem:  their value declines in volatile markets, regardless of the whether the market trend is up, down, or sideways.  This includes mutual funds, Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), Exchanged Traded Notes (ETNs), closed-end funds, hedge funds, and private wealth funds.  Regardless of the implementation, most current alternatives typically suffer from tracking error because of  “path dependence.”

?-Funds™ solves this problem.  ?-Funds™offer the benefits of leveraged returns on index products (e.g., S&P 500, gold price, treasury bill rates) that are path “independent.”  A ?-Fund™ investment can be held over unlimited lengths of time without incurring a tracking error penalty.

?-Funds™ are a patented technology that fund sponsors can offer to their clients that provide predictable results — regardless of the path of the market.  And because they are patented, fund sponsors can attain product exclusivity in their particular market.

A detailed description of ?-Funds™ can be found here.

 

 

Business Process Management

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Does your enterprise measure up to the competition?  Many enterprises do not even know how they measure up.  And discovering that there is room for improvement, they don’t know what is required to boost their efficiency and effectiveness.   Often, they don’t really know the details of how things are being done today – the baseline state upon which any subsequent improvement is likely to be built.  And once they decide on changes, how do they get the buy-in to ensure their effective implementation?

Rocky Mountain Technical Marketing, Inc. (RMTM) provides end-to-end business process support.  We assist clients develop processes that are implementable and sustainable and include the ongoing monitoring and management to measure their effectiveness.

RMTM business process management services include the following:

 

Process Design

 

Process Optimization

Process Automation

  • Business Process Management tool selection
  • Automation implementation

Software Package Selection

  • Map current business processes
  • Specify business process requirements that must be addressed by candidate packages
  • Provide gap analysis between business process requirements and candidate packages
  • Provide integration of business processes with selected package

Change Management

  • Organizational change management
  • Technical change management
  • Communications planning

Business Process Monitoring/Management

  • Create measurements to demonstrate success
  • Design management information system to facilitate management of business processes
  • Design-in continuous improvement feedback loop

 

 

Security, Privacy & Identity

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Security, Privacy and Identity are all under increasing attack as the world becomes a more connected place.  The internet has galvanized massive changes in the way people, enterprises, and information interact, unleashing an explosion of benefits to all parties.  But this explosion has a dark side.  It enables fraud and espionage on a scale undreamed of thirty years ago, exposing our private lives, and compromising our fundamental identities.

Secure Identity Consulting (a division of Rocky Mountain Technical Marketing, Inc.) provides a wide range of services relating to information security, privacy, and identity.  Our experience includes:

  • Managing the design of security solutions for remediating Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) infecting global enterprises.
  • Developing multi-level security systems to support both classified and unclassified material.
  • Conceiving the original trust framework meta-model.
  • Designing user-centric solutions for the transfer of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) among third parties.

Secure Identity Consulting services include the following:

Security

Security Policy Development
Security Process & Procedures Development
Security Process Validation
Security Compliance Reviews
Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) Remediation Strategy
Continuing Operations (COOP)/Disaster Recovery Strategy
Continuing Operations (COOP) /Disaster Recovery Process Development/Testing

Privacy

Privacy Policy Development
Privacy Process & Procedures Development
Privacy Process Validation
Privacy Compliance Reviews
Implementation
Secure transfer of Personally Identifiable Information (PII)

Identity and Access Management (IAM)

IAM Strategy Development
IAM Implementation and Process Guidance
IAM Federation Planning

Trust Frameworks

Trust Framework architecture
Trust Framework development
Trust Framework meta-model specification

US Government HSPD-12 compliant credentialing systems

HSPD-12 Solution Design
HSPD-12 Policy Development
HSPD-12 Process & Procedures Development
HSPD-12 Certification & Accreditation Support

 Disaster Collaboration and Communications

Secure Identity Consulting develops solutions to support collaboration and communications in remote areas suffering from either Natural   Disasters or Political/Military Conflicts.  Our solutions provide secure local collaboration via cell phone and wireless LAN, with uplink capabilities to either local infrastructure (if it is secure) or secure satellite link.  The low-power systems include their own power options when local power is not available.  They are portable and low-profile to minimize discovery by adversaries.

 Remote Communications/Collaboration Concept of Operations (CONOPS) Development
 Remote Communications/Collaboration Platform Development

Bulk Contract Evaluator

Uncategorized

Law firms – especially those with an active merger and acquisition practice – frequently find themselves tasked with analyzing large number of similar documents looking for critical information.  When a retailer client purchases a competitor, they may inherit hundreds or thousands of new leases.  Which ones are about to expire?  Which ones are non-standard?  Which ones have a particular term or condition?

Rocky Mountain Technical Marketing, Inc. (RMTM) has developed a solution to evaluating large number of contracts to discover salient characteristics of interest to the client.  In the lease example cited above, the bulk contract evaluator can rapidly review each lease and classify those leases set to terminate within 60 days, those that have standard terms (e.g., triple net), those over/under a particular size range, etc., saving hundreds of hours of expensive attorney time.  The same approach can be applied to a wide array of documents of a similar type, such as service contracts, non-disclosure agreements, powers of attorney.

Privacy Policy Analyzer

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Are you customers frustrated by being frequently asked to agree to web-site terms of use and privacy policies that they don’t have the patience to read, the expertise to understand, or the ability to change?

Rocky Mountain Technical Marketing, Inc. (RMTM) has developed a privacy policy analyzer that leverages artificial intelligence to compare a vendor privacy policy (or web-site terms-of-use contract) to a user’s acceptability criteria and highlight the exceptions.

RMTM offers the privacy policy analyzer as a value-added feature to be added to existing products or services, such as end-point security software publishers or internet service provers (ISPs),  to address their customer’s concerns about how their personal information is being exploited.  Including the tool in a present product or service offering offers unique differentiation from competitors in fields where differentiation is hard to find.

 

?-Funds™

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One of the more popular groups of products in the new world of financial services is leveraged index products.  These products offer investors the unique opportunity to achieve leveraged returns on diversified portfolios of assets without running the risk of margin calls.  But, almost all current product offerings suffer from a pernicious problem:  their value declines in volatile markets, regardless of the whether the market trend is up, down, or sideways.  This includes mutual funds, Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), Exchanged Traded Notes (ETNs), closed-end funds, hedge funds, and private wealth funds.  Regardless of the implementation, most current alternatives typically suffer from tracking error because of  “path dependence.”

?-Funds™ solves this problem.  ?-Funds™offer the benefits of leveraged returns on index products (e.g., S&P 500, gold price, treasury bill rates) that are path “independent.”  A ?-Fund™ investment can be held over unlimited lengths of time without incurring a tracking error penalty.

?-Funds™ are a patented technology that fund sponsors can offer to their clients that provide predictable results — regardless of the path of the market.  And because they are patented, fund sponsors can attain product exclusivity in their particular market.

A detailed description of ?-Fund™    technology is provided here.