2004 Fast 50
15: Ventera Corp.
| Location: | McLean, Va. |
| Annual growth rate: | 110.2546% |
| 2003 Revenue: | 4,114,597 |
| 2002 Revenue: | 2,356,713 |
| 2001 Revenue: | 662,367 |
| 2000 Revenue: | 385,692 |
| 1999 Revenue: | 210,545 |
| Leadership: | Robert M. Acosta |
| Number of employees: | 41 |
| Website: | www.ventera.com |
| Lines of business: | IT strategy, process reengineering, complex information systems solutions, program and project management |
| Major customers: | Agriculture Department, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Labor Department, Commodities Futures Trading Commission, Securities and Exchange Commission |
| Major contracts/projects: | Ventera''s largest project is a complex multi-year effort to modernize a core information system for the Agriculture Department''s Food and Nutrition Service. Under the contract, Ventera is helping replace a mainframe system with a J2EE web-enabled solution, including data migration and training for a mission critical enterprise level system. |