As Consultants, We Answer a Lot of Questions. These Answers Will Help You Understand Us Better

Midwave is unique because we provide both advisory and integration services under one roof.  In so doing, we are equipped to help clients navigate from identification of business issue to IT architecture to integration to operations.  Such full service empowers clients to hold Midwave accountable for business impact whereas parsing such services across multiple vendors leaves clients responsible for the end result.

Midwave’s staff of 130 people in the Twin Cities makes us one of the largest consultancies in this market.  This provides not only breadth of capability, but also a deep well of competency to ensure flexibility, resiliency, and extremely deep capability in niche technical domains.

Midwave operates very differently from an IT flexible staffing firm. Staffing companies operate under the model of selling a service, then scouring their database for candidates that meet the description. They will generally employ that individual as a contractor, making no long term commitments to the individual outside of a specific billable engagement.

The intent is to sell an individual into the company, and have them stay for an extended period of time. They will work exclusively under the direction of the client and will generally not arrive with any specific context or intellectual property outside of their individual expertise.

Midwave is entirely different. Our consultants are W-2 employees. They have worked within teams of other Midwave employees, have access to all of Midwave’s intellectual property, know how to access niche expertise throughout the rest of the organization, and are ingrained in the Midwave quality ethic.

When our people operate at your office, they are only there to see a specific project through to completion rather than trying to extend their stay beyond your intent. And as employees, they are likely to remain accessible to our clients months or years down the road as they need help.

Most of our hiring is the result of references from employees, clients, and partners. Because we have a strong reputation for employing some of the industry’s best and brightest, we are often sought out by top talent from other companies.  We also employ a full time recruiter to help us find the rarified talent we expect.

We retain top talent by working on exciting projects. For the reasons described earlier, we generally have access to some of the most exciting IT initiatives in the market. This helps us attract and retain leading talent.  Our culture of empowerment and collaboration makes Midwave an attractive organization for self-motivated, innovative consultants.

If you're interested in a career with Midwave, please see our current open jobs.

We believe strongly in associating with the best companies for each technology segment we serve. Rather than building a business that provides anything to anybody, we are focused on delivering the best services associated with the best products required by our clients.

Each of our partners is very selective of the companies they invite into their top channel programs. We have had to demonstrate tremendous technical, sales, and process competence in order to secure these relationships.

We maintain the highest level of consultant certification allowed by each of our vendor partners. And, we have proven our dedication by earning advanced partnership levels with every one of our partners. We believe in the companies we work with.

Midwave’s consulting falls primarily into two tracks:

First, we have assessments, planning and architecture across IT management subject areas. These break down into business continuity planning, disaster recovery, security, information management, and service management.

The subject areas change over time with market influences. For example, security associated with regulations and risk management or data center optimization.  Also, the need to do more with less, which results in platform consolidation, virtualization and more. 

The second area falls under Projects and Program Management – in other words, sound justification and definition of effort.  We help clarify the “why” of your project and extend the ownership of the initiative beyond the people that run the data center.

Midwave practices break down into three major areas:

• IT Strategy which includes Best Practices, Cost Take Out, Risk Management, Speed to Delivery and more…
• Operations which includes such services as Compliance and Audit, Information Security and Sourcing…
• And Technology including DBMS, Microsoft Exchange, Identity Management, Servers and Operating Systems, SOA/BPEL, Storage and Voice, Video & Data

Our core service competencies are spread across several areas including Shared Services, Security, Integration, Data Centers, Application Services, Advanced IP and Advisory Services.

As a full service IT firm, Midwave has strived to cover the depth and breadth of IT service requirements of all organizations that require outside aid or intervention. Perhaps you should talk to a Midwave representative to learn more about how our service competencies can help your firm. Please fill out our Rapid Response form or call us at (952) 297-5900

Our consultants have years of experience in senior leadership. We have employees that have lived and performed in these jobs for years with real world experience.

We maintain the highest level of consultant certification allowed by each of our vendor partners. And, we have proven our dedication by earning advanced partnership levels with every one of our partners.

Our certifications include:

• CISSP (Certified Information Security Systems Professional)
• MCSE
• CCIE (Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert)
• ITIL certification