Cost-Effective Solutions
COST-EFFECTIVE SOLUTIONS was established as a part-time venture in 1974 by Bruce Grant, an ex-IBMer. It became a full-time business in late 1983, and was incorporated in 1989. Although still specializing in IBM mainframe Systems Programming (z/OS, OS/390, MVS), COST-EFFECTIVE SOLUTIONS Inc. has since expanded into
- Project Management and Data Center Management
- Information Security
- Network Design, Configuration, and Implementation (WAN and LAN),
- Small Business Technical and Accounting consulting,
- Website design, upgrades, and troubleshooting
- Digital Telephone System installation and configuration.
== company motto/description: “Solving business problems with technology”
Previous clients:
- New United Motors Manufacturing Inc. (NUMMI), Fremont, CA
- Visa USA, San Mateo, CA
- Pacific Gas & Electric Company, San Francisco (twice)
- The Gap, Inc., San Bruno & Rocklin, CA
- Pacific Stock Exchange, San Francisco
- Behring Diagnostics Inc., San Jose & Fremont, CA
- Roche Biosciences Inc., Palo Alto, CA
- Syva Co., Palo Alto & San Jose, CA
- Syntex (USA) Inc., Palo Alto, CA (five times)
- [an unamed, $multi-billion, financial institution, S.F. Bay Area (non-disclosure still in effect)]
- Calif. State Automobile Assn. Inter-Insurance Bureau, San Francisco (twice)
- DeltaNet,Inc., San Francisco
- Bank of the West, Santa Clara, CA
- USS Posco Industries, Pittsburg, CA
- IBM Professional Services Division, Oakland, CA
- Wells Fargo Bank, Private Banking Group, San Francisco
- Charles Schwab & Co., San Francisco
- Amdahl Corp., Sunnyvale, CA
- Viacom Cable Corp., Pleasanton, CA
- Enigma Logic Inc., Concord, CA (twice)
- TDS Healthcare Systems, Santa Clara, CA
- Fujitsu Microelectronics, Inc., Santa Clara, CA
- HBO & Co., Foster City, CA
- General Electric Corp., San Jose, CA
- Blue Cross of Northern Calif., Oakland, CA
- Computer Resources Group, Systems Support Division, San Francisco
- Tesseract Corp., San Francisco
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