History

Our company traces its genesis back almost 26 years to 1981 when Jim Brandl was hired as the IT manager for the Weitz Corporation, a Des Moines company who was most notable as a major national building contractor. The very first person he hired was a student intern named Steve Sikkink, who is now our Chief Operating Officer. Long term relationships are certainly one key to our success. In 1993, the Weitz family made the decision to sell their holdings to employees. Steve and Jim had the chance to purchase the IT department and set it up as a free standing company along with two other Weitz Corporation spin–offs, Life Care Services, Inc., and the Weitz Company, Inc. On April 1, 1994 Information Technology Group was founded with nine employees and two partners who were also our only customers.

By 2000, the company had grown to over 25 employees and was working with more and more customers. We changed our name to Alliance Technologies to better describe the way we chose to conduct business; as an alliance between partners. The next year the company also moved to larger office space in Capitol Square. By the end of 2002, Alliance became totally employee owned by exercising the agreements to re–purchase the stock held by our two partner companies. In 2003, Alliance merged with Mike Lang's company Modern Solutions Inc. This merger helped Alliance grow and round out our service offerings by adding staffing solutions to our base of hardware and software solutions. In October 2006, Alliance continued our growth by purchasing the assets of Computility a Des Moines subscription computing provider and software developer. This acquisition added 50+ customers and 14 additional employees.

Today Alliance is completely employee owned by 20 shareholders. We have more than 70 employees and over 300 nation–wide customers. We strive every day to fulfill our stated mission of adding value for our customers by providing comprehensive IT solutions and expertise.