Saratoga Announces Sole Vendor Status with Fidelity Information Services

(December 16,2008)

Saratoga Financial Systems is pleased to announce that we have reached agreement with Fidelity Information Services to assume the role of sole partner for supplying supplemental mainframe resources to their U.S. customer base. 

Moving forward, this relationship means that when FIS Professional Services can’t provide enough resources to respond to client staffing demands, Saratoga will be the sole point of contact to supply candidates for those positions.  This strategic initiative enables Saratoga to provide you with many more opportunities in the FIS customer base in the months and years ahead.

“Fidelity  is excited about this enhanced relationship with Saratoga Financial Systems.  Saratoga has been a strategic source for highly skilled Systematics mainframe third-party resources for over 20 years, supplementing Fidelity’s Professional Services organization.  Their experience with Fidelity’s mainframe product suite and methodologies has proven invaluable to numerous Fidelity projects.  By establishing Saratoga as Fidelity’s single source for providing third-party mainframe services, we will be better positioned to support our client needs within the competitive contractor market.”, said John Amatangelo, Executive Vice President for Enterprise Banking Solutions at Fidelity.  John announced this exclusive partnership to his management team on Tuesday, 11/25/08, and we are working together to begin implementation immediately.

While the Fidelity announcement is reason enough for optimism as we enter 2009, Saratoga’s recent establishment of a direct sales organization is another significant step in creating additional opportunities for skilled resources like you.  This organization expansion, will enable us to begin selling our services directly to Fidelity software clients, a market we have not aggressively pursued in the past.   Additionally, it is our intent to look for opportunities to expand Saratoga’s services beyond the traditional Systematics product set. 

As a result of these new initiatives, the Saratoga pipeline for 2009 is already very active.  Accordingly, we are expecting to grow our resource pool significantly over the next several months.  As you are probably aware, Saratoga offers some of the best benefits and compensation packages in the industry, including a generous consultant referral bonus program for Saratoga placement of referred resources.  Details on this program and other Saratoga benefits are available by contacting Myra Helms at 704-888-8660, or mhelms@saratogafinancial.com. 

2009 promises to be an exciting year at Saratoga, with more opportunities available than ever before.  If you haven’t done so recently, now would be a good time to send your updated resume to Myra Helms at the email address indicated above. 

Steve Horton Joins Saratoga Staff

(November 6, 2008)

Saratoga announces that Steve Horton has joined its management staff as Director of Sales.

Horton has recently held positions of Sales Director and Regional Operations Manager at Fidelity National Information Services.  His responsibilities included sales to new and existing clients as well as executive client relationship manager for multiple outsourcing and software clients.

With over 20 years of IT sales and operations experience in the top 150 U.S. banks, Horton will be responsible for developing and executing Saratoga’s direct sales initiative.

Saratoga Financial Systems Consultant Recruitment Program

(Revised July, 2008)

The Consultant Recruitment Program is designed to reward SFS employees for recruiting information systems professionals to add to our quality and growing workforce.  We appreciate all of your efforts in this area, and want to remind you of this program as you take new assignments and network with your peers.The program guidelines are:

• After receipt of the individual’s resume, completion of telephone interviews, and reference checking, qualified recruits are placed on active status and added to our database.
  
• Recruits may be individuals with or without Systematics Software experience.
  
• A cash bonus of $1,500 is payable through two installments:
  
• a) Following the recruit’s placement on his/her first assignment, and after the first 45 days on assignment, the recruiting employee will receive a check of $1,000.00 (less federal and state taxes if applicable); and 
  
•  b) after the recruit works an additional 90 days on assignment through SFS during the same twelve month timeframe, the recruiting employee will receive the remaining $500.00 of the bonus.

  For questions about the program, or to make referrals, contact  Myra Helms  at

(704) 888-8660 or e-mail: mhelms@saratogafinancial.com.  I look forward to hearing from you.

Please use the Employee Recruitment Bonus Form found on www.mybenergy.com when referring employees.