DARK STAR

Boutique Consulting firms specialize in a particular problem area (or related areas) as opposed to the "big box" consulting companies that take a more generalized approach to consulting. One such firm in the Toronto area is Dark Star Data Systems. Dark Star was formed from an earlier company ("the Advanced Technology Transfer Group") to provide software development services to Microsoft during the Y2K frenzy. Dark Star took a completely different approach to the problem by employing highly advanced artificial intelligence methods to hunt for and automatically repair Y2K issues in Microsoft applications. This was completely unique... Today, Dark Star provides architectural and decision support services. As the IT world has shifted to a buy versus build approach, the areas of concentration more often only include Business Architecture, Data Architecture, Security Architecture and Technology Architecture (even though application architecture and "in the trenches" commercial software..