Alcoa Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wilmington, NC-

Billion Dollar Company Turns to NeoNexus to Rescue Failing Software Project

Alcoa, the world’s leading producer and manager of primary aluminum, fabricated aluminum and alumina facilities, faced a problem that occurs all too often: a failing IT project. Alcoa has a corporate meeting in late August where Senior Management reviews project status. An eastern US division of the company had been building a new software system that is to be discussed with Senior Management. Alcoa had hired a company to develop this software; however, the other vendors’ application was in shambles and nowhere near completion, leaving them with little time to find someone else. Alcoa approached NeoNexus Corporation on June 14 to see if NeoNexus could rescue the application and complete it, all in time for the August presentation. NeoNexus was able to not only accept the work, but produced an outstanding application to present at the meeting with time to spare. Alcoa manager Robert Prezbindowski named NeoNexus President, Kent Milholland the “Yoda” of the database world.

“We didn’t have time to build a new one from scratch” said Milholland, “so we cleaned up the mess in the existing software and finished it.”

This application is to be used by one division, but if senior management likes what it sees, there are plans to roll the application out across the corporation and migrate it to a web based system. The software helps Alcoa identify applicable environmental regulations at Alcoa’s operating facilities. It also establishes calendar dates where reports and audits are due for issues like storm water, solid waste, and clean air. The users will consist of both Alcoa employees and vendors. A lot of the compliance work that corporate America does is reactive, and Alcoa is trying to shift to a more proactive approach using tools like this software.

“We added a personal touch to the software” said Kent Milholland. “The Alcoa manager has a family history tracing back to the Civil War, and he had an image of a famous land seizure in the Kansas/Missouri area. One of his ancestors lost land in the seizure, so we added the image as the background image for the software. The Alcoa manager was quite pleased.”

The application produced for Alcoa is just one of NeoNexus’ services. A web technology firm with offices in Wilmington, NC and Charleston, WV, NeoNexus specializes in building data management systems for business to business (B2B) applications, Smartphone software, and web design. To learn more, visit wp.proj or contact Kim Kuzan at (910) 297-1617.