Geniant LLC provides information technology consulting services. It offers technology strategy, enterprise architecture, application development and integration, and server and desktop design and lifecycle management services. The company offers an information technology framework that consists of enterprise gateway, application infrastructure, and technical infrastructure layers. Its enterprise gateway layer creates interactions between people and processes, by designing interfaces that are adaptive for users based on their needs, goals, context, and privileges; application infrastructure layer delivers service oriented architecture assessments, application development, application integration, and legacy migration services; and technical infrastructure layer consists of the hardware and software that enables the development and deployment of applications. Geniant serves financial services, oil and gas, healthcare, retail, professional services, manufacturing, travel and hospitality, consumer goods, government, education, transportation, technology, telecommunications, construction, and non-profit industries, as well as independent software vendors. The company was founded in 1998 and is based in Dallas, Texas with additional offices in Washington D.C., Virginia; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Houston, Texas; Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Kansas City, Kansas. As of July 9, 2007, Geniant LLC is a subsidiary of EMC Corporation.