Company Performance Metrics
Bruce Grant: President & CTO
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
