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Overview Conquest Systems is a privately held, small, disadvantaged, minority-owned software products and business-solutions company. Conquest Systems was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Washington, DC. Products and Services Conquest Systems’ core technology and services reside in software engineering offering both products and services. The excellence of our capabilities is hallmarked by maintaining our independently rated SEI SW-CMM® Level 3 rating. The independent, SEI-based rating indicates that Conquest Systems’ software management and engineering processes are documented, standardized, integrated, and repeatable. Our ability to achieve our ratings at a rate significantly faster than the industry average is a direct indicator of: 1) the experience of our management and development staff; 2) our commitment to quality and continuous improvement; and 3) the maturity of our software development methodology. Conquest Systems is the developer and vendor of WebCEO®, an online, enterprise business intelligence application that provides enterprise information to the decision-maker where and when it’s needed. WebCEO is a pure JAVA, web-based application that can display data from multiple disparate data sources using geographic/map, line chart, columnar, and/or tabular formats. WebCEO allows users to monitor and analyze numeric data sets (i.e., business performance metrics, logistics/supply chain indicators, economic indicators, environmental data, program management performance and demographics) from any database with a JDBC interface. Conquest Systems is also the developer and vendor of Data-Planet™, the Internet’s foremost single source of publicly-interesting data. Data-Planet is the first data exploration and analysis tool of its kind located exclusively on the World Wide Web. Data-Planet provides its subscribers with the best tools and information resources on the Internet, customized to the particular needs of each subscriber. Conquest Systems, Inc. has extensive experience supporting numerous business application design and development contracts. Our corporate experience includes large projects dealing with such technical areas as enterprise architecture, data communications, and web-enabled databases. Our past experience also includes projects dealing with business areas such as: Sales and Marketing, Human Resources, Finance, Operations, and Mail Sorting and Delivery. History It started as an idea: a company designed for the professional technical expert, delivering solutions of the highest in quality, by the best employees. In 1986, Richard Landry graduated from Valparaiso University and knew his destiny lay in entrepreneurship.& He knew that to consistently produce exceptional technical work, the best and the brightest needed to be hired and retained. They would be experts filled with intellectual energy and they would be unafraid of bending and molding technology to their advantage – requiring the balance of science and business.  He pictured a company where the corporate spirit would be challenging and fun, where the employees had a voice and innovation would be the norm. Most of all, employees would enjoy coming to work, have an opportunity to broaden their skills, and make a real contribution to the success of the company, but also have a stake in what they built. Armed with his vision, ideas and plans, Richard ventured out to make them a reality. He gained experience in small and large consulting firms to prepare himself for the excitement and challenges of running a business. In 1989, Richard developed, produced, marketed and sold a commercial software game “Bid Whist Pro” to raise the capital he would need to jump-start his business.   Advertised through the Chicago Tribune, the Associated Press, and Emerge magazine, the intuitive game armed Landry with enough money to begin building his company. In 1989 Conquest Systems was born and in 1992 he acquired his first client, the U.S. Postal Service. A one man shop back then; he established the infrastructure that would ultimately support the future growth of his company.