A Successful Case Study in the Benefits of Strategic Partnerships: The DCSBDC and AtWork Systems
For more than 30 years, the DCSBDC has supported entrepreneurs in starting, financing, growing and maintaining their businesses. The DCSBDC also provides consulting, training, and provides its clients with the tools to understand and implement best business practices, achieve profitability and sustainable growth.
AtWork Systems is a Herndon, Virginia based software development company, with decades of experience working for federal, state and local government. When Carl Brown, the Executive Director of the DCSBDC and Ronald Lewis, CEO of AtWork Systems connected, they realized that they had the opportunity to offer significant benefits to both of their client bases.
Ronald, and his team developed OneLynk as a configurable and scalable business operating platform that digitizes and optimizes processes while providing just-in-time business intelligence for decision making. OneLynk contains a suite of easily configurable web applications for automating and monitoring business transactions, including human capital management, finance, timekeeping and expense management, procurement, contracts and project management,payroll services and more.
As the Executive Director of the DCSBDC, which works directly with hundreds of entrepreneurs a year, many of which are entering or growing in the Federal Government contracting space, Carl Brown recognizes that many of these entrepreneurs face significant risks, including non-compliance with Federal regulations, inability to scale, loss of revenue, and lack of automation of key business processes that hinders their growth. With cybersecurity becoming an integrated part of every business, there were opportunities through a strategic partnership with AtWorks’ OneLynk, a Shared Services Online (SSO) solution that offers a suite of cloud-based software products that provide a comprehensive shared services back-office ecosystem to small and medium-size professional service firms, such as, professional services firms or government contractors.
“We have developed a set of technologies that support this notion of the virtual workforce for the gig economy built on an enterprise workflow platform. It ties together your supplier community so you can have employees, consultants, contractors all engaged in one organization. Then we have completely digitized the back office,” Ronald Lewis
Carl Brown is ecstatic about the potential benefits to the small business that come to the DCSBDC. “Many of these businesses need additional technology-based resources to help them stay on the competitive edge, automate business decisions and streamline workflow with multiple partners.”
This partnershipoffers a great case study in how businesses can partner to enhance offerings to their clients.You can learn more about the DCSBDC at www.dcsbdc.org and more about AtWork Systems at www.atworksys.com.
About the DC SBDC: The DC SBDC program is a public/private partnership with the U.S. Small Business Administration, and Howard University. Howard University is the Lead center, Anacostia Economic Development Corporation (AEDC) is a full-service sub-center, and the Greater Washington Urban League is a full-service sub-center. Additionally, the DC SBDC has strategic partnerships with the DC Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs (DCRA), District of Columbia Chamber of Commerce and American University, Washington College of Law. The DC SBDC provides the same level of confidential, no cost counseling at its strategic partner locations.
For more than 30 years, the DC SBDC has supported individuals in starting, financing, growing and maintaining their businesses. The DC SBDC also provides consulting, training, and provides its clients with the tools to understand and implement best business practices, achieve profitability and sustainable growth. The economic impact of the DC SBDC is astounding. From 2013 to 2017 in the District of Columbia alone, the DC SBDC has serviced close to 1600 clients, created 2,188 jobs, and helped its clients received $20,935,089 in loans. The DC SBDC also hosts a weekly hour-long radio show, “The Small Business Report” on Sirius XM Channel 141, every Thursday at 3:00 p.m.
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