SOA-n-BPM For Small-to-Medium Businesses

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Get Un-Limited Hosting along with Incredible Marketing Tools and Systems, saving you a pile of cash every single month!
 
Here is what is included with your Hosting account:

• Hosting of UNLIMITED Web Sites with Monitoring Software
• Video Conferencing
• Video Producing Software - create-n-publish in a number of readily available templates
• UNLIMITED Responders
  
• Lead-Capture and Prospecting Systems
• ... much, much more ...
  

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Solutions for the Oil and Gas Industry ...

P2 Energy Solutions, the leading provider of business software, map data and enterprise services to the oil and gas industry, announces Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. has implemented Enterprise Upstream to handle its joint venture accounting. ... more info ... http://bit.ly/G7st0

Unified Communications ...

Real time collaboration is a critical feature in today's workplace!

With business now being conducted globally, you need fast and secure global communications to improve your business efficiency, reduce your costs and increase your customer satisfaction.

Enhance communications and pocket the $aving$

To preview a Demo:
http://www.computants.org/Viewlet_PW_CollabWrkpl.htm

More Info:
1.519.702.0311 / 44.20.3014.4113 / 91.9220.537.569

Innovative Solutions for Business ...

Solutions that make businesses flexible, resilient and leaders in today’s global economy----- leading them on a journey to productivity, profitability and competitive advantage!


Information On Demand is a strategy that addresses the CEO's number one pain point — unlocking and extracting value from information to globalize and integrate their business processes and become more innovative. This strategy focuses on:

• Getting the right information to the right people at the right time.
• Addressing the need to integrate information horizontally.
• Integrating, analyzing, and optimizing heterogeneous types and sources of business information throughout its lifecycle to manage risk and create new business insight.

Today’s business challenges
Today’s manufacturers have never been under more pressure. Competition is global, customers are fickle and demanding, and financial markets are unforgiving.

The answer? Repeatedly delivering the right product at the right time and at the right price. However, achieving this is far from easy. Successfully balancing increasing product and process complexity with rising performance and quality requirements is a challenge.

These pressures are forcing fundamental changes in the way companies are structured and in the way they conduct business. The result is a new global business model based on cooperation, competition and the transformation of manufacturing industries into collaborative communities working within, and beyond, company boundaries.

The product development differentiator
It is estimated that 80 percent of product costs are determined early in the product lifecycle, leading many companies to look for ways to front-load product development decisions to help meet time-to-market, quality and cost issues.

Maintenance costs are also escalating as product complexity increases. The amplified effect of decisions made during the product development process on downstream business metrics means that ‘building in’ quality during the early stages has never been more important. Real-time collaboration, appropriate simulation tools and a significant reduction in the number of physical prototypes through virtual prototyping are key initiatives in this regard

IT can be done, for more info contact:

phone: 1.519.702.0311 web: http://www.computants.org

"Doing IT all by yourself isn't always EASY ...."

Entrepreneurs are usually "do-it-your-selfers"!

A story about "Kristen", a "do-it-yourselfer"! Her success in operating an alternative fashion clothing boutique has led her to open a second store.

Her business relies on repeat-customers, because of which she keeps extensive information on her customers - their styles and buying preferences. To bring in new business, she uses the web as a showcase - to spark interest, drive foot traffic to the store, and phone calls for more information.

But the technological challenges are daunting (to say the least)! She needs:

• an email system that will allow staff to communicate with clients.
• a website that is always live
• customer information that is available, up-to-date and secure.
• and with the new store opening soon - enable the two sites to share purchase and inventory information.

As with many small business owners, "Kristen" operates on a very tight budget, and she cannot afford the hassle and expense of a complex IT solution or a staff to manage it.

An affordable solution exists - it does not overwhelm or restrict. This solution includes:

• email and calendaring tools that help keep a business connected with clients and keep track of schedules
• office productivity tools that enable creation and management of inventory, invoices, and other documents / spreadsheets necessary to run the business
• an integrated disk-based backup system that helps protect data
• a two-minute disaster recovery that helps retrieve data, in case of accidental deletion
• an integrated anti-virus, anti-spam, and firewall that help stop unsolicited email
• a Virtual Private Network (VPN) that connects multiple locations, thereby enabling access to information, regardless of a person's location

More information:

1.519.702.0311 / 44.20.3014.4113 / 91.9220.537.569
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Why do Projects Fail???

Projects, across the globe, fail and waste million$ of dollar$ due to poor requirements definition – this brings into focus the role of a Business Analyst and competencies necessary.

How can  a Business Analyst - or anybody for that matter, be expected to perform when their required competencies have not been established?

Put very simply: A Business Analyst acts as a translator / liaison between the customer/end-user and the IT group (attempting to fulfill needs).

According to International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA – http://www.iiba.com/ ), BAs are “responsible for identifying the business needs of their clients and stake-holders, to determine solutions to business problems – they elicit, analyze, validate and document business-organizational-operational requirements.”

For organizations to be successful, there are two sets of competencies that have to be clearly defined:

Firstly, there are competencies that are common to most jobs/positions – they identify behaviors required, for example, communication and collaboration skills. All participants / employees should possess these skills/competencies, and be able to contribute to the success of the organization.

Second, there are those competencies that address success for a certain job. These functional competencies identify an individual’s ability to perform a set of activities based on their job!

Competency consists of three components:

• Knowledge (what is required to be done / achieved?)
  
• Skill (how is it to be achieved?)
  
• Ability (how much can be done / achieved?)
  

Competencies that a Business Analyst should possess are:

• Eliciting Requirements: Requirements can be conditions, functionality, products or services for internal or external use - needed by a user or client to solve a business problem or achieve a business activity, and they are tied to the needs of business, rather than the constraints imposed by technology. This means that the business analyst’s job has more to do with identifying the desired results than the actions or resources required to reach these results—that’s someone else’s job. The purpose of gathering requirements is to provide an understanding of the problem or opportunity before trying to propose the solution.
  
• Creating the Business Requirements Document (BRD): It is an exhaustive written study of all facets of regulatory, business, user, functional or non-functional requirements and provides insight into both the As-Is and To-Be states of the business area.
  
• Structured Analysis: is the art of Modeling. It is used to support and enhance text-based requirements, help identify and validate requirements, document & communicate requirements and, finally organize information into coherent ideas. Common models include business, process, data and workflow.
  
• Object-oriented Analysis is the clear understanding of both process and data modeling techniques, including functional decomposition. It involves identifying the as-is, then developing activity diagrams, and finally designing to-be end-result – done in consultation business-users and technical personnel.
  
• Testing involves validation whether requirements have been met – develop test-scripts, plans, scenarios, based on as-is as well as to-be models. Should be done in iterative stages to ensure that, by following the requirements, the desired deliverables will be met.

Testing lines of code, GUI (usage and appeal), speed and functionality – is another level. There are two methods that fall into this category:

• Black Box Testing is essentially the “checks and balances”. Herein, the item is not visible, only objectives of the business are validated for, for example, time required to fill in a report, that report being approved/rejected, and fulfillment --- would be tested for.
  
• Glass Box Testing is “looking under the hood”. In case of an IT-project, this would mean assessing the design, code and architecture.
  

• End-user Support involves the participation of the BA in the training of the end-user, along with the Training-team. This helps the end-user and Training-team to fully understand business requirement and create appropriate manuals and reference material.
  
• IT Fluency goes a long way in translating business-requirements that can be understood by the “techies”.
  
• Business Process Re-Engineering is the phase in which BAs flesh-out problems, AND identify opportunities. BPR uses a variety of modeling techniques in order to look at the bigger picture, BUT still think tactically!
  

Banks should Innovate their way out of this Crisis!

Core banking systems need to change ... from monolithic systems to service-oriented modules! This can, and should be done iteratively.

A more cost-effective and flexible infrastructure enables faster transaction processing and improved integration of business processes.

There are number of assets available that help reduce risks and speed-up the development process.

Transforming these systems helps achieve results, by:

• Reducing time-to-market --- quicker revenue generation
  
• Reducing redundancy & simplifying processes, increases efficiency and reduces costs
  
• Creating a flexible infrastructure that improves one's capacity to adapt to change
  

Business Flexibility ... need of the hour ...

Today's global conditions warrants that businesses should be flexible and able to respond to the ever-changing regulations, set by government and other authorities .....

IBM WebSphere Business Modeler is a software tool that provides modeling, simulation and collaboration capabilities that:

• Enables you to achieve regulatory compliance with less time and expense through well-documented, auditable processes
• Simulates process changes, and assesses impacts on costs, resource utilization and cycle times prior to deployment
• Helps reduce risk by simulating market changes against current process models
• Improves your company’s scorecard by defining KPIs
• Enables you to more effectively deploy valuable skills to the areas where they’re best used

Create and maintain business processes that accurately reflect your organization’s business strategy.

Current business processes may be inflexible and dis-connected from other departments (within the organization), OR from supplier, customers, partners!

Mergers and acquisitions also result in many redundant processes — affecting operating efficiency, productivity and the organization's bottom-line.

Optimizing business processes helps an organization reduce costs. An important step, in this direction, is implementing Business Process Management (BPM), through a Service oriented Architecture (SOA).

begin this process today, contact info:

• dscf(at)computants.org
• 1.519.702.0311 / +44.20.3014.4113 / +91.9220.537.569
• http://www.computants.org/

Processes Integration .....

..... Manual, paper-intensive processes are prone to errors ..... and are time-consuming

----- most often leading to failures.

Today's cusotmers want fast, convenient and innovative products and services - cumbersome processes prevent organizations from attracting and / or maintaining customer-loyalty!

We deliver an integrated solution that improves efficiency and drives down costs, with components that can be easily integrated into your existing environment - fast! Let us help you automate and streamline your processes .....

Contact us today:

• Processes Integration - click here for more info .....
• 519.702.0311 / +44.20.3014.4113 / +91.9220.537.569
• dscf(at)computants(dot)org

All in One....

An all-in-one solution designed with your business in mind .....

Gain piece of mind that your data is protected

• Continuous data protection with frequent, automated disk backups

• Schedule backups as often as every 15 minutes

A disaster recovery plan if the unexpected occurs

• Recover lost information and system settings in minutes—without an IT staff

• Store backup drives off-site and ensure recovery, even from fire, theft or system

destruction

Communicate and collaborate - email, calendars, and contacts

• Send and receive email, schedule meetings, and manage contacts

• Choice of Lotus Notes, Microsoft® Outlook™ or web-based email interfaces

A proactive approach to network security

• Integrated firewall safeguards your network from unauthorized intrusions

• Anti-virus protection monitors and cleanses network files of suspicious content

• Anti-spam protection filters unwanted email, saving you time and storage space

Freedom from the high cost of proprietary office productivity software

• Create, edit and share documents, presentations and spreadsheets with the included Lotus Symphony office productivity suite

• Take advantage of fully featured and easy to use productivity tools

• Import, edit, and save a variety of other file formats including Microsoft Office files

Centrally manage files and printers across your business

• Share files across your network, regardless of system type (PCs, Macs, etc.)

• Create central directories that improve employee access to information

• Set-up, share and manage printers from a single location

Stay connected - in the office, at home, and on the go

• Virtual Private Network enables anywhere, anytime access for mobile employees

• Share information between branch offices

Automated system updates and proven reliability

• Full operating system (OS) updates in minutes

• Reduces the aggravation of continual OS patch management

• Reliable Linux-based system keeps your systems up and running--continuously

..... more information, click here .....

Change is the only CONSTANT .....

yes, Change is the only CONSTANT!

And only those creatures - businesses included, that can recognize and adapt to change, WILL lead the others, through crisis and turmoil, into the goodness of the here/there-after!

One might have a Strategy and a Vision(ssssssssss) ---- knowing exactly where they are, what they want to do, and where they are going, BUT .....

..... what happens when a CRISIS strikes - economic, or terror, or nature!

One can only guesstimate losses - money, people, etc., etc., etc., ....

We all live in a "market", with the ultimate aim being that of promoting each-self, over another --- and this brings in a cost-factor (monies, blood-sweat-n-tears)

----- these COSTS have to be borne to overcome competition, threats (to self / livelihood)

------- resulting in individuals / businesses formulating STRATEGIES

--------- complete, with Mission & Vision statements .....

Resulting in like-minded individuals / businesses "coming together" to scratch each other's backs ..... these relationships have to align with the sole purpose of "beating the competion"!

... more to come ..... CHANGE is .....