Tenant Profiles - June 2011
Applied Vocational Services
AVS has provides vocational consultation services to persons connected with disability litigation. AVS initially worked with the Social Security Administration (SSA) and has expanded its market to now provide disability-specific litigation support to attorneys who specialize in Workers’ Compensation, Personal Injury, Family Law and Social Security disability cases.
Capital Development Board
http://www.cdb.state.il.us/default.shtml
The Capital Development Board is the construction management arm of Illinois’ state government. As stated on its website “CDB oversees the design and construction of new elementary and high schools, college and university facilities, public safety centers, museums and historic sites, state recreation areas, health centers, office buildings and prisons. In addition, CDB is responsible for annual repair and renovation programs at more than 8,400 state-owned properties, as well as the removal of environmental hazards and the upgrading of facilities to meet accessibility standards.”
CarbonChem, LLC
CarbonChem LLC is a start-up business. Most of its initial efforts will be related to laboratory use in the development and possible production of intermediates and other products for Pharmaceutical companies.
Community Health & Emergency Service, Inc. (CHESI)
CHESI, Inc. is a non-profit corporation operating a community health center and several satellite clinics. CHESI began in 1976 and incorporated in 1981. CHESI currently employs over 130 individuals and provides a wide range of services for the uninsured and under-insured residents of Alexander, Pulaski, Hardin, Pope, Saline, and Jackson Counties and the surrounding communities. The SIRP houses the CHESI central administration, data management, finance, and research departments.
Enki Technology, Inc.
Enki Technology, Inc. is a Research and Development firm surrounding solar panel technology.
Illinois Century Network (ICN)
The Illinois Century network is a statewide educational intranet providing constituents with network consulting, assists participating institutions with the provisioning of networking hardware and connectivity, monitors constituent connections and works with local telecommunications providers to promptly resolve outages.
Liaison Technology
Liaison delivers global integration and data managed services on premises or in the cloud. This includes business to business managed services, MDM, and data integration services for large and mid-market enterprises. As the sophistication of Business-to-Business (B2B) technologies and services has increased and Application-to-Application (A2A) or Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) has reached maturity, the functional gaps between these traditional integration silos is narrowing. This shift in the business IT landscape is causing companies to contemplate a technology-refresh, or in some cases a strategy-refresh, when it comes to A2A and B2B services. Liaison is focused on technology and service-based solutions that lead to full outsourcing of data and systems integration functions. The company has concentrated research and development efforts on the stringent requirements of Global 1000 companies.
Mr. Admin
http://www.mradminonline.com/mra/Default.aspx
MrAdmin empowers clients by providing computer and network services tailored to meet the requirements of small to medium sized businesses in Carbondale, Marion, Carterville, Murphysboro, DuQuoin and the greater Southern Illinois area. They partner with organizations to offer efficient, effective, competitive business computer and network solutions using the latest technologies from Microsoft, Cisco, Symantec, Dell and a host of other vendors.
Nanoaqueonics
Nanoaqueonics is developing an innovative patent-pending technology for surface coatings. These formulations can be used on different surfaces such as plastics, metals, ceramics, glass, textiles, and composites to precisely tailor their interactions with environmental factors such as heat, water, UV, light, and mechanical forces.
Olivia’s Vintage
http://www.oliviasvintageguitars.com/
Olivia’s Vintage is a small internet-based business which began by specializing in specific types of vintage musical instrument accessories. Each year since then has shown significant growth and expansion into a large scale of vintage musical instruments and accessories. Olivia’s Vintage provides the services of locating rare and hard to find guitars and guitar accessories as well as offering a diverse selection of vintage musical instruments (mostly guitars) for collectors, investors, and players.
Rover Enterprises, LLC
Rover Enterprises, more commonly known as RoverCard, is a mobile marketing company started by three university students in the summer of 2009. Text messaging “deal of the day” to their hundreds of clients provides instant, paperless coupons. Additionally, merchants have standing discounts for those RoverCard members. See www.rovercard.com for additional information.
SIU Carbondale Office of Economic and Regional Development
The Office of Economic and Regional Development (OERD) at Southern Illinois University Carbondale is your regional gateway to a myriad of resources. The collective knowledge and resources herein are ready to assist businesses and start-up entrepreneurs with everything from creating a business plan to attracting equity investments. Many of the technical assistance programs in OERD are a part of the statewide Illinois Entrepreneurship Network.