AST Corporation (Applications Software Technology LLC) is an Oracle systems integrator headquartered in Naperville, Illinois, founded in 1995 by former Oracle employees. The firm specializes in Oracle Cloud Applications and Oracle on-premise solutions for the public sector, higher education, K-12 school districts, county and municipal governments, federal agencies, utilities, and not-for-profit organizations. AST has delivered more than 600 Oracle Cloud projects and has been recognized as Oracle Cloud Applications Partner of the Year for Public Sector and Higher Education. The company is credited with delivering the first public sector implementation of Oracle Cloud ERP, the first public sector implementation of Oracle Cloud HCM, the first public sector implementation of Oracle Budgeting Cloud, and the first public sector implementation of Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB). Service offerings span Oracle Cloud ERP, HCM, SCM, EPM, Oracle Analytics, middleware and integration, Oracle CX, master data management, and managed services. AST also operates a U.S. State and Local Government practice and a K-12 ERP Cloud practice with pre-configured templates aligned to public-sector accounting and budgeting requirements. AST became part of IBM Consulting via IBM's acquisition of Oracle implementation specialist firms; the firm continues to operate as an Oracle Cloud Applications integrator within the IBM Consulting Oracle practice.