Peningo Systems selected to provide Functional expertise for JDA Demand and JDA Fulfillment

Posted on February 1, 2011 by Edward Pellon

(Peningo Systems is a provider of JDA Professional Services)

Peningo Systems has recently been selected to provide JDA (Manugistics) Functional expertise for JDA Demand and JDA Fulfillment to support a major Implementation for a leading grocery store chain.

Peningo Systems will be assiting the JDA implementation by provide expertise in the implementation, configuratation and testing Damand and Fulfillment modules.

While many of the Professional Service organizations look to optimize their profits by reducing the cost of labor, many times these organizations cut their resources with the expertise and seniority needed for successful implementations, in lieu of less experienced and cheaper resources. Though the cost of labor has decreased for the Professional Services, many times their rates increase to the client. Many of the end clients are not aware of this, and assume that going to a Software Vendor’s Professional Service organization will yield the best available resources for their project.

For these reasons above, the quality of services from these Professional Services Organizations has declined drastically. The founders of Peningo Systems have thrived for years in providing Consulting Services with the Senior Level Experts at rates that are below the rates of the Software Vendor’s Professional Services Organizations with their sub-par to mediocre talent.

We at Peningo Systems always insure that we provide the end client with the best available resources within their respective areas of expertise. This delivery of services is at rates that below the rates of the Software Vendor’s Professional Services organizations that utilize resources that that are not as experienced and seasoned as the Peningo Systems Consultant.

If you are an “End Client” looking for IT Consulting Service providers to support your Applications, Peningo Systems provides Consultants with expertise in many areas including:

To see Peningo Systems areas of expertise, please go to the Peningo Technical Areas page or go to the Peningo JDA Consultants page.

If you wish to review resumes of Peningo JDA Resources, please click on the links below:

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Peningo Systems selected to provide JDA Software Consulting and Professional Services

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Edward Pellon

(Peningo Systems is a provider of JDA Professional Services)

Peningo Systems has recently been selected to provide JDA (Manugistics) Master Planning and Fulfillment Implementation and Support Services to major pharmaceutical company.

Peningo Systems will be assiting the JDA implementation by provide expertise in the implementation and configuratation of the Master Planning and Fulfillment modules for the client’s upgrade from v6.x to v7.4.2 Fulfillment and Master Planning. This includes the management of the rationalization of business processes and functionality across the new functionality found in Master Planning and Fulfillment v7.4.2.

While many of the Professional Service organizations look to optimize their profits by reducing the cost of labor, many times these organizations cut their resources with the expertise and seniority needed for successful implementations, in lieu of less experienced and cheaper resources. Though the cost of labor has decreased for the Professional Services, many times their rates increase to the client. Many of the end clients are not aware of this, and assume that going to a Software Vendor’s Professional Service organization will yield the best available resources for their project.

For these reasons above, the quality of services from these Professional Services Organizations has declined drastically. The founders of Peningo Systems have thrived for years in providing Consulting Services with the Senior Level Experts at rates that are below the rates of the Software Vendor’s Professional Services Organizations with their sub-par to mediocre talent.

We at Peningo Systems always insure that we provide the end client with the best available resources within their respective areas of expertise. This delivery of services is at rates that below the rates of the Software Vendor’s Professional Services organizations that utilize resources that that are not as experienced and seasoned as the Peningo Systems Consultant.

If you are an “End Client” looking for IT Consulting Service providers to support your Applications, Peningo Systems provides Consultants with expertise in many areas including:

To see Peningo Systems areas of expertise, please go to the Peningo Technical Areas page or go to the Peningo JDA Consultants page.

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Peningo Systems Selected to Provide WebSphere Portal Architectural, Implementation, Development and Support Services

Posted on August 4, 2009 by Edward Pellon

Peningo Systems has recently been selected to provide WebSphere Portal Architectural, Development, Implementation and Support Services to Federal Government contractor.


Peningo Systems will be addressing architectural and implementation issues that are related to upgrading to WebSphere Portal 6.1 for the client.

 

While many of the Professional Service organizations look to optimize their profits by reducing the cost of labor, many times these organizations cut their resources with the expertise and seniority needed for successful implementations, in lieu of less experienced and cheaper resources. Though the cost of labor has decreased for the Professional Services, many times their rates increase to the client. Many of the end clients are not aware of this, and assume that going to a Software Vendor’s Professional Service organization will yield the best available resources for their project.

 

For these reasons above, the quality of services from these Professional Services Organizations has declined drastically. The founders of Peningo Systems have thrived for years in providing Consulting Services with the Senior Level Experts at rates that are below the rates of the Software Vendor’s Professional Services Organizations with their sub-par to mediocre talent.

 

We at Peningo Systems always insure that we provide the end client with the best available resources within their respective areas of expertise. This delivery of services is at rates that below the rates of the Software Vendor’s Professional Services organizations that utilize resources that that are not as experienced and seasoned as the Peningo Systems Consultant.

If you are an “End Client” looking for IT Consulting Service providers to support your Applications, Peningo Systems provides Consultants with expertise in many areas including:

To see Peningo Systems areas of expertise, please go to the Peningo Technical Areas page or go to the Peningo WebSphere Consultants page.

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Peningo Systems has been Selected to Provide Tivoli Access Manager Consultants for a Professional Services Organization

Posted on June 29, 2009 by Edward Pellon

 

Peningo Systems has recently been selected to provide Tivoli Access Manager Consultants to one of the largest IT Organizations in Saudi Arabia. Peningo Systems will be providing TAM Consultants to assist their client’s Professional Services in implementation, upgrade planning  and  technical support of Tivoli Access Manager.

 

We at Peningo Systems always insure that we provide the end client with the best available resources within their respective areas of expertise. These deliveries of services are at rates that below the rates of the Software Vendor’s Professional Services organizations that utilize resources that that are not as experienced and seasoned as the Peningo Systems Consultant.

If you are an “End Client” looking for IT Consulting Service providers to support your Applications, Peningo Systems provides Consultants with expertise in many areas including:

To see Peningo Systems areas of expertise, please go to the Peningo Technical Areas page or go to the Peningo Tivoli Access Manager Consultants page.

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Deployment of Tivoli Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign-On

Posted on May 30, 2009 by Edward Pellon

[This article is sponsored by Peningo Systems, Inc., a provider of IBM Tivoli Consulting and Implementation Services on a nationwide basis. For more information on Peningo Systems, please go to the Peningo Tivoli Access Manager Consultants page. ]

Peningo Systmem Tivoli ConsultingIBM has recently release a Redbook publication “Deployment Guide Series: IBM Tivoli Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign-On 8.0”.  This book introduces IBM Tivoli Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign-On 8.0, which provides single sign-on to many applications without a lengthy and complex implementation effort.

This book introduces IBM Tivoli Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign-On 8.0 (TAM E-SSO), which provides single sign-on to many applications without a lengthy and complex implementation effort. Whether you are deploying strong authentication, implementing an enterprise-wide identity management initiative, or simply focusing on the sign-on challenges of a specific group of users, this solution can deliver the efficiencies and security that come with a well-crafted and comprehensive single sign-on solution.

We at Peningo Systems recommend this Redbook as a valuable resource to security officers, administrators, and architects who want to understand and implement an identity management solution in a medium scale environment.

IBM Tivoli Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign-On Highlights:

IBM Tivoli Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign-On automates sign-on and access to your enterprise applications.

Eliminate the need to remember and manage user names and passwords with this single sign-on software from Tivoli.

  • Simplify, strengthen and track access to Microsoft Windows, Web, Java, mainframe and teletype applications, over all major network access points with this single sign-on solution.
  • Enhance security by reducing poor end-user password behavior and reduce the number of password reset calls to your service desk.
  • Take advantage of comprehensive session management of kiosk machines to improve security
  • Enhance security with a wide choice of strong authentication factors.
  • Use centralized audit and reporting capabilities to facilitate compliance with privacy and security regulations.
  • Enable end-to-end identity and access management by integrating the centralized identity management functions of IBM Tivoli Identity Manager with enterprise single sign-on, password management software and access automation
  • Operating systems supported: Windows

TAM E-SSO relieves password headaches with a proven single sign-on solution across all network access points. The complexity and number of logons employees must manage on a daily basis are increasing, resulting in frustration and lost productivity. In most organizations, employees must remember between 5 and 30 passwords and are required to change them every 30 days. The time wasted entering, changing, writing down, forgetting and resetting passwords represents a significant loss in productivity and a significant cost of IT help-desk operations. With IBM Tivoli Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign-On—the market-leading enterprise single sign-on solution—employees authenticate once, and the software then detects and automates all password-related events for the employee, including:

  • Logon.
  • Password selection.
  • Password change.
  • Password reset.
  • Logoff.

If you wish to download this Redbook, please go to the following link:

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/pdfs/sg247350.pdf

About Peningo Systems:

Peningo Systems and it founders have been involved in IT Consulting for over 30 years. Peningo Systems provides IT Consultants at the Professional Service level on a nationwide basis supporting many areas including:

To see Peningo Systems areas of expertise, please go to the Peningo Technical Areas page or go to the Peningo Tivoli Access Manager Consultants page.

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Peningo Systems Selected to Provide Cisco Unified Communication Manager – CallManager VOIP Systems Development and Implementation Services

Posted on April 11, 2009 by Edward Pellon

Peningo Systems has recently been selected to provide Software development services for a Cisco CallManager / Cisco Unified Communications Manager based VOIP application.

Peningo Systems will be providing Cisco CallManager / Cisco Unified Communications Manager VOIP / JTAPI (Java Telephony API) expertise to deploy the VOIP application. Peningo Systems will also be extending features for of the VOIP system, as well as, provide System and Stress Testing. These services will be provided by a team of Senior VOIP Consultants with expertise in Cisco Unified Communications Manager  – CallManager Architecture and Implementation, JTAPI development, Java / J2EE, JBOSS and WebSphere Portal.

While many of the Professional Service organizations look to optimize their profits by reducing the cost of labor, many times these organizations cut their resources with the expertise and seniority needed for successful implementations, in lieu of less experienced and cheaper resources. Though the cost of labor has decreased for the Professional Services, many times their rates increase to the client. Many of the end clients are not aware of this, and assume that going to a Software Vendor’s Professional Service organization will yield the best available resources for their project.

For these reasons above, the quality of services from these Professional Services Organizations has declined drastically. The founders of Peningo Systems have thrived for years in providing Consulting Services with the Senior Level Experts at rates that are below the rates of the Software Vendor’s Professional Services Organizations with their sub-par to mediocre talent.

We at Peningo Systems always insure that we provide the end client with the best available resources within their respective areas of expertise. These deliveries of services are at rates that below the rates of the Software Vendor’s Professional Services organizations that utilize resources that that are not as experienced and seasoned as the Peningo Systems Consultant.

If you are an “End Client” looking for IT Consulting Service providers to support your Applications, Peningo Systems provides Consultants with expertise in many areas including:

To see Peningo Systems areas of expertise, please go to the Peningo Technical Areas page or go to the Peningo Cisco Unified Communications Manager Consultants page.

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Peningo Systems has been Selected to Provide Tivoli Storage Manager Implementation and Support Services

Posted on April 10, 2009 by Edward Pellon

Peningo Systems has recently been selected to provide Tivoli Storage Manager Implementation, upgrade and Technical Support Services to one of the largest Credit Unions in Ohio.

Peningo Systems will be providing TSM implementation , upgrade planning and Technical Support Consulting Services. These services will be provided by a team of Senior Consultants with expertise in Tivoli Storage Manager Architecture and Implementation. The level of the TSM expertise found in these Peningo Systems Consultants, arguably make theses TSM Resources the best available TSM resources found in the country.

While many of the Professional Service organizations look to optimize their profits by reducing the cost of labor, many times these organizations cut their resources with the expertise and seniority needed for successful implementations, in lieu of less experienced and cheaper resources. Though the cost of labor has decreased for the Professional Services, many times their rates increase to the client. Many of the end clients are not aware of this, and assume that going to a Software Vendor’s Professional Service organization will yield the best available resources for their project.

For these reasons above, the quality of services from these Professional Services Organizations has declined drastically. The founders of Peningo Systems have thrived for years in providing Consulting Services with the Senior Level Experts at rates that are below the rates of the Software Vendor’s Professional Services Organizations with their sub-par to mediocre talent.

We at Peningo Systems always insure that we provide the end client with the best available resources within their respective areas of expertise. These deliveries of services are at rates that below the rates of the Software Vendor’s Professional Services organizations that utilize resources that that are not as experienced and seasoned as the Peningo Systems Consultant.

If you are an “End Client” looking for IT Consulting Service providers to support your Applications, Peningo Systems provides Consultants with expertise in many areas including:

To see Peningo Systems areas of expertise, please go to the Peningo Technical Areas page or go to the Peningo Tivoli Storage Manager Consultants page.

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Maximo Asset Management Essentials – An implementation Guide

Posted on March 24, 2009 by Edward Pellon

[This article is sponsored by Peningo Systems, Inc., a provider of IBM Maximo Consulting and Implementation Services on a nationwide basis. For more information on Peningo Systems, please go to the Peningo Tivoli Maximo Consultants page. ]

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IBM has recently release a Redbook publication “Maximo Asset Management Essentials V7.1 Implementer’s Guide”. This guide to implementing Maximo Asset Management Essentials provides general product information and covers the planning, installation, and initial configuration processes.

 

Within the IBM Maximo Asset Management product family, Essentials is an ideal Asset Management Solution for smaller organizations that require a subset of the extensive range of features in the IBM Maximo Asset Management product. Essentials enables smaller organizations and departments to organize, track, and manage their asset and work management processes, and to implement a maintenance regimen based on industry leading technology and best practices.

 

We at Peningo Systems recommend this Redbook to any Asset Management Consultant who will be involved in the implementation of Maximo Asset Management Essentials.

 

 

About IBM Tivoli Maximo Asset Management Essentials:

 

 

IBM Maximo Asset Management Essentials is an asset management system that provides asset management, maintenance management, inventory management, and purchasing capabilities that help corporations maximize productivity and increase the life of assets.

 

This solution is targeted toward small-to-medium businesses that do not have multiple sites and simply need a subset of the core functionality of Maximo Asset Management. The enterprise edition of Maximo Asset Management has been a leader in enterprise asset management for many years. IBM Maximo is the only solution to have been recognized in the EAM Leader’s Quadrant 11 times since 1998.

 

Smaller businesses can benefit from the core functionality of Maximo Asset Management Essentials and do not need an enterprise-level solution for asset management. Thus, Maximo Asset Management Essentials is a lighter, less complex version of Maximo Asset Management V7.1. The differences in functionality are discussed in subsequent sections of this book.

 

Maximo enables companies to manage assets by providing information and real-time data, thereby enabling the creation of a strategy for maintenance management through information-based decision making capabilities and predicting the impact on productivity of asset downtime for all categories of assets.

 

If you wish to download this Redbook, please go to the following link:

 

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg247645.pdf

 

About Peningo Systems:

Peningo Systems and it founders have been involved in IT Consulting for over 30 years. Peningo Systems provides IT Consultants at the Professional Service level on a nationwide basis supporting many areas including:

To see Peningo Systems areas of expertise, please go to the Peningo Technical Areas page or go to the Peningo Tivoli Maximo Consultants page.

 

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Hyperion Security and Provisioning Best Practices – Hyperion System 9 Shared Services

Posted on March 19, 2009 by Edward Pellon

[This article is sponsored by Peningo Systems, Inc., a provider of Hyperion Consulting Services on a nationwide basis. For more information on Peningo Systems, please go to the Peningo Hyperion Consultants page ]

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Oracle has recently  release a white paper titled “Security and Provisioning Best Practices”.  This whitepaper provides strategies and tips on setting up the security environment for Hyperion System 9 products. It presents a checklist to help you configure external user directories and a list of best practices to ensure good performance.  We at Peningo Systems strongly recommend this “White Paper” for any Hyperion Consultant with a strong knowledge of configuring User directories who will be involved in the implementation of the security environment for Hyperion System 9 products by configuring user directories.

 

If you wish to review this white paper, please review the links below:

 

http://peningoblog.com/downloads/hyp_provisioning.pdf

 

To see Peningo Systems areas of expertise, please go to the Peningo Technical Areas page or go to the If you are an “End Client” looking for a Hyperion Consulting Service provider to support your Hyperion Applications, Peningo Systems provides Consultants with Hyperion implementation expertise. For more information on Peningo Systems Hyperion Consultant support, please go to “The Peningo Hyperion Consultants” page.

Aside from Hyperion Consulting, Peningo Systems provided Consulting expertise in many areas including:

To see Peningo Systems areas of expertise, please go to the Peningo Technical Areas page or go to the The Peningo Hyperion Consultants.

 

 

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Scalability and Remedy Action Request System

Posted on March 18, 2009 by Edward Pellon

[This article is sponsored by Peningo Systems, Inc., a provider of BMC Remedy  Consulting Services on a nationwide basis. For more information on Peningo Systems, please go to the Peningo Remedy  Consultants page ]

 

BMC as recently released a White Paper titled “Scalability and Remedy Action Request System” which discusses how BMC Remedy Action Request System (AR System) can scale within an enterprise environment and how, by combining additional hardware resources with some of the scaling features of BMC Remedy AR System, you can create a truly worldwide enterprise application. We at Peningo Systems recommend this White Paper to any Remedy Consultant that is involved in a Remedy Action Request System implementation.

 

BMC Remedy AR System has been designed to scale to the limits of its central processing unit (CPU), memory, and disk sub-system configurations. This paper focuses on those features that can help make BMC Remedy AR System scale as application demand, or breadth of applications, increases in an organization. It presents adjustments that can be made from a hardware perspective to help make the system scale, as well as features built into BMC Remedy AR System to allow it to scale with system hardware.

 

BMC Remedy AR System has been designed to make it easy to adapt and scale to the limitsof hardware resources. With features such as Server Groups, Load Balancing, BMC Remedy Distributed Server Option, and multiple database support, BMC Remedy AR System is able to scale with your worldwide system resources. As a result, it will never be considered the cause of a system degradation. No matter how many resources are given to a particular implementation, if the system is not tuned to allow the software and hardware to best utilize each other’s resources, it will never be able to perform at its highest levels. BMC Remedy AR System will adjust to any hardware configuration and best utilize the resources to which it has been assigned.

 

To view this White Paper please click the following link:

http://peningoblog.com/bmc/downloads/bmc_remedy_ars_scalability.pdf

If you are an “End Client” looking for IT Consulting Service providers to support your Applications, Peningo Systems provides Consultants with expertise in many areas including:

To see Peningo Systems areas of expertise, please go to the Peningo Technical Areas page or go to the Peningo Remedy  Consultants page .

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Peningo Systems Selected to Provide WebSphere Commerce Enterprise Implementation and Support Services

Posted on March 15, 2009 by Edward Pellon


Peningo Systems has recently been selected to provide WebSphere Commerce Enterprise Implementation and Support Services to one of the largest Motorcycle dealerships in United States.

 

Peningo Systems will be implementing B2B and B2C sites, as well as, launch an international B2C site, all utilizing WebSphere Commerce Enterprise Edition. Peningo Systems will implement these sites with a team of Senior Consultants with expertise in WebSphere Commerce implementation, development and system administration.   The level of WebSphere Commerce expertise of these Peningo Systems consultants is arguably the best available resources in the country.

 

While many of the Professional Service organizations look to optimize their profits by reducing the cost of labor, many times these organizations cut their resources with the expertise and seniority needed for successful implementations, in lieu of less experienced and cheaper resources. Though the cost of labor has decreased for the Professional Services, many times their rates increase to the client. Many of the end clients are not aware of this, and assume that going to a Software Vendor’s Professional Service organization will yield the best available resources for their project.

 

For these reasons above, the quality of services from these Professional Services Organizations has declined drastically. The founders of Peningo Systems have thrived for years in providing Consulting Services with the Senior Level Experts at rates that are below the rates of the Software Vendor’s Professional Services Organizations with their sub-par to mediocre talent.

 

We at Peningo Systems always insure that we provide the end client with the best available resources within their respective areas of expertise. This delivery of services are at rates that below the rates of the Software Vendor’s Professional Services organizations that utilize resources that that are not as experienced and seasoned as the Peningo Systems Consultant.

 

 

If you are an “End Client” looking for IT Consulting Service providers to support your Applications, Peningo Systems provides Consultants with expertise in many areas including:

To see Peningo Systems areas of expertise, please go to the Peningo Technical Areas page or go to the Peningo WebSphere Consultants page.

 

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An Overview to Hyperion System 9 Security and User Management

Posted on March 15, 2009 by Edward Pellon

[This article is sponsored by Peningo Systems, Inc., a provider of Hyperion Consulting Services on a nationwide basis. For more information on Peningo Systems, please go to the Peningo Hyperion Consultants page ]

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Oracle has recently  release a white paper titled “Introduction to Hyperion System 9 Security and User Management”. This paper provides an overview of the Hyperion® System™ 9 security model. It also explains, in general terms, how Hyperion System 9 manages users.  We at Peningo Systems strongly recommend this “White Paper” for any Hyperion Consultant that will be involved Security and User Management of Hyperion System 9. 

 One of the key design objective for Hyperion System 9 was to make the software easy to use, not only for business users, but for administrators as well. Part of this effort was building a common security layer spanning all modules of Hyperion System 9, accessed through a single interface—the Hyperion System 9 Shared Services™ User Management Console™.  The implementation of an overarching Hyperion System 9 security model is an important component in meeting this objective. Business users are issued a single user id and password that will grant them access to any or all of the applications they need within Hyperion System 9. Administrators are able to leverage their organization’s existing security repository, and manage all Hyperion System 9 users from one interface.

If you wish to review this white paper, please review the links below:

 

http://peningoblog.com/downloads/hyperion_Security_wp.pdf

 

If you are an “End Client” looking for a Hyperion Consulting Service provider to support your Hyperion Applications, Peningo Systems provides Consultants with Hyperion implementation expertise. For more information on Peningo Systems Hyperion Consultant support, please go to “The Peningo Hyperion Consultants” page.

Aside from Hyperion Consulting, Peningo Systems provided Consulting expertise in many areas including:

To see Peningo Systems areas of expertise, please go to the Peningo Technical Areas page or go to the The Peningo Hyperion Consultants.

 

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Integrating Barcode Scanning with BMC Remedy Asset Management

Posted on February 16, 2009 by Edward Pellon


[This article is sponsored by Peningo Systems, Inc., a provider of BMC Remedy  Consulting Services on a nationwide basis. For more information on Peningo Systems, please go to the Peningo Remedy  Consultants page ]

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For most organizations today, there is in place some sort of IT Asset Management systems and/or policies. The key to an effective Asset Management implementation is the accuracy of the Asset Data that is inputted into the CMDB (Configuration Management Database).  Many Asset Management systems rely exclusively on Auto-discovery as the method to identify assets. The problem with this is that many assets may not be in the network and will not be included into the CMDB.

The accuracy of an organization’s CMDB is truly become a daunting task.  There are many non-networked assets of value that need to be included into an organization CMDB for Asset Management to be effective. These non-networked assets may include, PDAs, cell phones, Blackberry phones, notebook / laptop computers, scanners, printers, supplies, spare parts, as well as, mobile computing resources that are used by telecommuting employees. Many of these items above fall outside of the auto-discovery reach, thus are not included in the CMDB.

Since non-discoverable and mobile assets can be over 20% of an organization’s total asset population, a regular physical inventory is required to ensure the integrity of the CMDB. This is extremely labor intensive and prone to human error. For an effective Asset Management system to be in place, Auto-discovery tools are not enough. A successful asset management process must include all assets, not just those connected to a network, especially the mobile computing assets.

Barcode scanning provides a reliable method of ensuring database integrity, especially among mobile assets and assets that are not easily discoverable. Today, barcodes are on just about everything manufactured and are used for asset tracking and identification in most businesses. Bar-coding should be used whenever there is a need to accurately identify or track something.  With barcode scanning an organization can receive or verify inventory by scanning the applicable asset barcode and physically entering the location into the barcode scanner. Then inventory, location, and client data can be uploaded to store and synchronize with the CMDB for automatic inventory and asset reconciliation. Communication with the mobile barcode scanners is achieved via wireless local area networks, or by direct connection to the network via Scanner Cradles. The use of barcode scanning integrated into an organization Asset Management Systems will reduce the time required to verify and reconcile inventory.


Once the barcode scanning has been integrated into an organization’s CMDB, after the intial scanning effort is done, the CMDB could be 100% accurate. In order for the CMDB to remain accurate, a Barcode Strategy must be in place. Strategies may include an annual wall to wall inventory, to monthly inventory checks with new and out of service items, to daily scans of all new assets, with decommissioned asset being removed from the CMDB.

Peningo Systems Consultants have designed solutions and integrated custom barcode scanning systems with BMC Remedy Asset Management systems. Should your organization be looking to improve your existing Asset Management Systems with Barcode Scanning, please consider Peningo Systems as a resource for your Remedy Asset Management  / Barcode Scanning system integration. Peningo Systems has the resources with the expertise in integrating barcode scanning with Asset Management, as well as, expertise in developing Barcode Scanning policies for continued accuracy of a CMDB.

If you are looking to implement a Best Practice approach for Asset Management and ITIL Configuration Management, please click the link for a white paper published by BMC. This is an excellent resource for any IT Manager looking to improve their Asset Management and Configuration Management procedures:    

BMC® Best Practice Process Flows for Asset Management and ITIL Configuration Management

Below is a link to an article published by BMC in “Viewpoint, Focus on CMDB”

Barcode Scanning and the Physical Model

If you are an “End Client” looking for IT Consulting Service providers to support your Applications, Peningo Systems provides Consultants with expertise in many areas including:

To see Peningo Systems areas of expertise, please go to the Peningo Technical Areas page or go to the Peningo Remedy  Consultants page .

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Storage Management Concepts with Tivoli Storage Manager

Posted on December 29, 2008 by Edward Pellon

[This article is sponsored by Peningo Systems, Inc., a provider of Tivoli Consulting Services on a nationwide basis. For more information on Peningo Systems, please go to the  Peningo Tivoli Consultants page.  or to the Peningo Tivoli Storage Manager Consultants page]

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IBM has released the Redbook, “IBM Tivoli Storage Management Concepts”.  The book introduces storage management software by explaining the concepts, architecture, and systems management features of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager and showing available complementary products. It will help you design solutions to protect data holdings from losses ranging from those caused by user error to complete site disasters. This easy-to-follow guide gives a broad understanding of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager software, the key technologies to know, and the solutions available to protect your business. It offers a broad understanding of how IBM Tivoli Storage Manager will work in heterogeneous environments including Windows, UNIX/Linux, OS/400, and z/OS platforms, and with mission-critical applications such as DB/2, Oracle, Lotus Domino, Exchange, SAP, and many more.

We at Peningo Systems strongly recommend this Redbook for any Storage Consultant / Storage Architect who are involved in the evaluation of a Storage Management solution.

 

The Table of Contents of this Redbook is as follows:

 

Part 1. Storage management concepts

Chapter 1. Introduction to IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
Chapter 2. Business requirements
Chapter 3. Architectural concepts
Chapter 4. Planning concepts

Part 2. Client architecture

Chapter 5. Client data movement methods
Chapter 6. Backup-archive client
Chapter 7. API client
Chapter 8. HSM solutions

Part 3. Server architecture

Chapter 9. Policy management
Chapter 10. Scheduling
Chapter 11. Data storage
Chapter 12. Managing users and security levels
Chapter 13. Licensing
Chapter 14. Enterprise Management
Chapter 15. High availability clustering
Chapter 16. Disaster Recovery Manager
Chapter 17. Reporting

Part 4. Complementary products

Chapter 18. IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files
Chapter 19. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Databases
Chapter 20. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail
Chapter 21. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager solutions for mySAP
Chapter 22. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Applications
Chapter 23. Complementary products

Part 5. Appendixes

Appendix A. Planning and sizing worksheets

 

If you wish to download this Redbook you can to the following link:

 

IBM Tivoli Storage Management Concepts

 

If you wish to view the IBM Resource link for this Redbook, please go to the flowing link:

 

Click here to view the Redbook Resource page

 

If you wish to purchase a hard copy of this Redbook, please go to the following link:

 

Click here to Purchase this RedBook

If you are an “End Client” looking for IT Consulting Service providers to support your Applications, Peningo Systems provides Consultants with expertise in many areas including:

To see Peningo Systems areas of expertise, please go to the Peningo Technical Areas page or go to the Peningo Tivoli Consultants page.

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SAP Consulting – An Introduction to SAP NetWeaver

Posted on December 22, 2008 by Edward Pellon

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NetWeaver is SAP’s integrated technology platform and is the technical foundation for all SAP applications since the SAP Business Suite. SAP NetWeaver is marketed as a service-oriented application and integration platform. SAP NetWeaver provides the development and runtime environment for SAP applications and can be used for custom development and integration with other applications and systems. SAP NetWeaver is built using open standards and industry de facto standards and can be extended with, and interoperate with, technologies such as Microsoft .NET, Sun Java EE, and IBM WebSphere.

SAP NetWeaver’s release is considered as a strategic move by SAP for driving enterprises to run their business on a single, integrated platform that includes both applications and technology. Industry analysts refer to this type of integrated platform offering as an “applistructure” (applications + infrastructure). It is widely held that this approach is driven by industry’s need to lower IT costs through an enterprise architecture that is at once (1) more flexible; (2) better integrated with applications; (3) built on open standards to ensure future interoperability and broad integration; and, (4) provided by a vendor that is financially viable for the long term.

SAP is fostering relationships with system integrators and independent software vendors, many of the latter becoming “Powered by SAP NetWeaver”.

SAP NetWeaver is part of SAP’s plan to transition to a more open, service-oriented architecture and to deliver the technical foundation of its applications on a single, integrated platform and common release cycle.

NetWeaver is essentially the integrated stack of SAP technology products. The SAP Web Application Server (sometimes referred to as WebAS) is the runtime environment for the SAP applications — all of the mySAP Business Suite solutions (SRM, CRM SCM, PLM, ERP) run on SAP WebAS.

The core products that make up SAP NetWeaver include:

·         SAP NetWeaver Application Server – SAP NetWeaver Application server is a component of the NetWeaver solution which works as a web application server to SAP solutions. From the SAP point of view the Web AS is the foundation on which most of their product range runs.

·         SAP NetWeaver Process Integration (PI) - SAP NetWeaver Process Integration (SAP NetWeaver PI), based on SAP NetWeaver Exchange Infrastructure (SAP NetWeaver XI), is SAP’s platform for process integration using the exchange of XML messages. SAP Exchange Infrastructure (SAP XI) is SAP’s enterprise application integration (EAI) software, a component of the NetWeaver product group used to facilitate the exchange of information among a company’s internal software and systems and those of external parties. Like other NetWeaver components, SAP XI is compatible with software products of other companies.

·         SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Portal (EP) – SAP Enterprise Portal (EP, aka. SAP Netweaver Portal) offers users role-specific, Web-based and secure access to all relevant information, applications and services. Employees only need a desktop and a Web Browser, and can begin work once they have been authenticated in the portal. SAP Enterprise Portal contains the NetWeaver components Portal, Knowledge Management, and Collaboration.

  • SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management (MDM) – SAP Master Data Management (SAP MDM) is a component of SAP’s NetWeaver product group and is used as a platform to consolidate, cleanse and synchronize a single version of the truth for master data within a heterogeneous application landscape. It has the ability to distribute internally and externally to SAP and non-SAP applications. SAP MDM is a key enabler of SAP Enterprise Service-Oriented Architecture. Standard system architecture would consist of a single central MDM server connected to client systems through SAP Exchange Infrastructure using XML documents, although connectivity without SAP XI can also be achieved.
  • SAP NetWeaver Mobile - SAP NetWeaver Mobile is SAP’s, a component of the NetWeaver product group used mobilizing business processes. Like other NetWeaver components, SAP NetWeaver Mobile is compatible with software products of other companies.
  • SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence – SAP Business Information Warehouse BY SAP AG (SAP BW) is the name of the Business Intelligence, analytical, reporting and Data Warehousing (DW) solution which is one of the major enterprise software applications produced by SAP AG. It was originally named SAP BIW, (Business Information Warehouse), but is now known as “SAP NetWeaver BI”.  SAP BW consists among other things of components for data management (Data Warehousing Workbench), extensive data modeling capabilities, an embedded analytical engine, a suite of rich front-end analytical tools referred to as Business Explorer (BEx), and operational tools used for importing the most current transactional data into the system.
  • SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment (CE) - SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment (CE) is a product of SAP AG that is intended to develop “composites”, which means applications that are built through the use of already existing SOA services. The product includes SAP NetWeaver Application Server and SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio with additional tools for the development of service based applications.


SAP has also teamed with hardware vendors like HP, IBM, Fujitsu-Siemens, and Sun to deliver appliances (i.e., hardware + software) to simplify and enhance the deployment of NetWeaver components. Examples of these appliances include:

  • BI Accelerator
  • Enterprise Search

Development tools for SAP Netweaver includes:

  • ABAP Workbench (SE80) - ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming, originally Allgemeiner Berichts-Aufbereitungs-Prozessor = general report creation processor) is a high level programming language created by the German software company SAP. It is currently positioned, alongside the more recently introduced Java, as the language for programming SAP’s Web Application Server, part of its NetWeaver platform for building business applications. Its syntax is somewhat similar to COBOL.
  • SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio (NWDS) based on Eclipse for most of the Java part of the technology (Web Dynpro for Java, JEE, Java Dictionary, Portal Applications etc.) – The SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for most of the Java part of SAP technology, mainly building business web applications, but also creating SAP Enterprise Portal projects and SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe. The official abbreviation Developer Studio is used seldom whereas NWDS is common, but unofficial. The Developer Studio is based on Eclipse, contains several plug-ins and provides a range of toolsets for SAP technology
  • SAP Netweaver Development Infrastructure (NWDI) - The SAP NetWeaver Development Infrastructure (short: NWDI) combines the characteristics and advantages of local development environments – as usually provided in a Java environment – with a server-based development landscape that centrally provides a consistent development environment to development teams and supports the software development through the entire lifecycle of a product. The Developer Infrastructure mimics the functionality of ABAP Change and Transport System (CTS). The aim is to control deployment of components in the system landscape in a standardized manner. NWDI can be used to import Business Packages from SAP and enables development teams to modify standard applications. SAP NWDI is also known as SAP JDI (Java Development Infrastructure).
  • Visual Composer - Visual Composer is SAP’s graphical software modeling tool. This web-based application enables business process experts and developers to quickly create business application components, without coding.Visual Composer produces applications in a declarative form, thereby enabling completely code-free execution mode for multiple runtime environments. It provides full application lifecycle support by maintaining the connection between an application and its model throughout its lifecycle. Visual Composer is designed with an open architecture, which enables developers to extend its design-time environment and modeling language, as well as to integrate external data services.
  • Web Dynpro (WD) is a proprietary web application user interface technology developed by SAP AG and exists in a Java (Web Dynpro for Java, WDJ or WD4J) and an ABAP (Web Dynpro ABAP, WDA) flavor. Both have in general the same functionality, but usually one flavor is improved after the other, so temporary one flavor is more advanced than the other. Hence, the decision for one of the two flavors shall be based on organizational and business circumstances, but not on functionality.

IT Practicies with SAP NetWeaver

With the SAP NetWeaver platform, your organization can implement crucial IT practices in a flexible, step-by-step approach at low cost. You can address your immediate IT needs first and, since the platform components are tightly integrated, you can expand your practice projects over time within a sustainable cost structure.

SAP NetWeaver enables the following IT practices. For each practice, SAP NetWeaver supports a variety of key IT activities – all of which are easy to perform using the platform’s integrated components.

  • User productivity enablement – Help users and groups improve their productivity through enhanced collaboration, optimized knowledge management, and personalized access to critical applications and data.
  • Data unification – Consolidate, rationalize, synchronize, and manage all master data for improved business processes.
  • Business information management – Increase the visibility, reach, and usefulness of structured and unstructured enterprise data.
  • Business event management – Ensure that business events from multiple systems are distributed to the appropriate decision makers in the context of the relevant business processes.
  • End-to-end process integration – Make disparate applications and systems work together consistently to perform business processes.
  • Custom development – Rapidly create new enterprise-scale applications that drive your company’s differential advantage.
  • Unified life-cycle management – Automate application management processes and optimize all facets of an application’s life cycle.
  • Application governance and security management – Maintain an appropriate level of security and quality in your intellectual property and information assets.
  • Consolidation – Deploy a consolidated technology platform with the ability to allocate computing power according to changing business needs.
  • Service-oriented architecture design and deployment – Consolidate and standardize your basic processes and leverage existing investments to compose new, distinctive business processes.
SAP has put together a report, “IT Practices Overview”, which helps organizations explore how you can tap into SAP NetWeaver to solve business problems.

Click here to view the IT Practices Overview  Report

In  case study, learn how Nordzucker AG improved communication and productivity with SAP NetWeaver Portal.  Nordzucker AG is the second-largest sugar producer in the European Union (EU). With sugar production of approximately 1.9 million tons and 3,300 employees, Nordzucker generated revenues of approximately €1.2 billion in the 2004–2005 fiscal year). 

Click here to view the SAP Case Study.

If you are an “End Client” looking for to retain an SAP Consultant / SAP NetWeaver Consultant, please click here to contract Peningo Systems. If you are looking for IT Consulting Service providers to support your multi-vendor Applications, Peningo Systems provides Consultants with expertise in many areas including:

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Peningo Systems Selected to Provide Information Architecture and Human Computer Interaction Consulting Services

Posted on December 15, 2008 by Edward Pellon

The Peningo Opinion Blog – Rye, New York – Peningo Systems has recently been selected to provide an Information Architect with expertise Human Computer Interaction Design and Heuristics evaluation to support an established sporting goods web site to improve site performance, increase potential sales and improve overall usability. 

While pricing will always be a factor in the selection process by the “End Clients”, Peningo Systems was selected to provide Human Computer Interaction Design and Heuristics evaluation Consulting Services base on the combination of price and high level of quality and expertise in the Consultants that will be providing the services.

For many companies who rely heavily on the performance of their e-commerce web site, it’s very important that the web site design and layout have been reviewed by a trained Information Architect with Human Computer Interaction (HCI) training and expertise. Simple things like color schemes and layout for one type of web site clientele, may not work for another site clientele.  The Information Architect with expertise in HCI will help guide the web site designer in creating a site that would have the best usability for their specific clientele.   

If you are an “End Client” looking for a Consulting Service provider to support your Applications, Peningo Systems provides Consultants with expertise in many areas including:

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Using IBM Federated Identity Manager in a Services-Oriented Environment

Posted on December 15, 2008 by Edward Pellon

[This article is sponsored by Peningo Systems, Inc., a provider of Tivoli Consulting Services on a nationwide basis. For more information on Peningo Systems, please go to the  Peningo Tivoli Consultants page. ]

                                                      

A White Paper has been released by The Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc. title “Services-Oriented Architecture and Federated Identity Management” which addresses the need that SOA has for Federated Identity Management (FIM). This paper also addresses how the needs for Federated Identity Management can be addressed with IBM Federated Identity Manager.  IBM Tivoli FIM can act as a federated identity middleware bridge between external business partners and SOA security domains. In this role, Tivoli FIM, centralizes operations, enables rapid user provisioning, identity propagation, customizes business rules, and acts as a hub for token mediation, identity mapping, logging and reporting.

 

 

We at Peningo Systems strongly recommend this White Paper for any Tivoli Security Consultant / Security Architect who are involved the decision process of selecting and deploying a Federated Identity Management solution in an SOA environment.

 

The Table of Contents of this White Paper is as follows:

 

 

If you wish to download this White Paper you can to the following link:

 

Services-Oriented Architecture and Federated Identity Management

 

If you are an “End Client” looking for IT Consulting Service providers to support your Applications, Peningo Systems provides Consultants with expertise in many areas including:

To see Peningo Systems areas of expertise, please go to the Peningo Technical Areas page or go to the Peningo Tivoli Consultants page.

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Identity Management implementation with IBM Tivoli Identity Manager

Posted on December 14, 2008 by Edward Pellon

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IBM has recently released the Redbook, “Identity Management Design Guide with IBM Tivoli Identity Manager ”.  This IBM Redbook provides a methodology for designing an Identity Management solution with IBM Tivoli Identity Manager 4.6. Starting from the high-level, organizational viewpoint IBM shows how to define user registration and maintenance processes using the self-registration and self-care interfaces as well as the delegated administration capabilities.

 

Identity Management is the concept of providing a unifying interface to manage all aspects related to individuals and their interactions with the business. It is the process that enables business initiatives by efficiently managing the user lifecycle (including identity/resource provisioning for people (users)), and by integrating into the required business processes. Identity management encompasses all the data and processes related to the representation of an individual involved in electronic transactions.

 

We at Peningo Systems strongly recommend this Redbook for any Tivoli Security Consultant / Security Architect who are involved in deploying an Identity Management solution using IBM Tivoli Identity Manager.

 

The Table of Contents of this Redbook is as follows:

 

Part 1. Architecture and design


Chapter 1. Business context for Identity and Credential Management
Chapter 2. Architecting Identity and Credential Management Solution
Chapter 3. Identity Manager component structure
Chapter 4. Detailed component design
Chapter 5. Operational solution design
Chapter 6. Tivoli Access Manager integration

Part 2. Customer environment


Chapter 7. Tivoli Austin Airlines, Inc.
Chapter 8. Identity Management design
Chapter 9. Technical implementation: Phase I
Chapter 10. Technical implementation: Phase II
Chapter 11. Technical implementation: Phase III
Chapter 12. Technical implementation: Phase IV

Part 3. Appendixes

Appendix A. Corporate policy and standards
Appendix B. Organization chart design

 

If you wish to download this Redbook you can to the following link:

 

Identity Management Design Guide using IBM Tivoli Identity Manager

 

If you wish to view the IBM Resource link for this Redbook, please go to the flowing link:

 

Click here to view the Redbook Resource page

 

If you wish to purchase a hard copy of this Redbook, please go to the following link:

 

Click here to Purchase this RedBook

If you are an “End Client” looking for IT Consulting Service providers to support your Applications, Peningo Systems provides Consultants with expertise in many areas including:

To see Peningo Systems areas of expertise, please go to the Peningo Technical Areas page or go to the Peningo Tivoli Consultants page.

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A guide for deploying IBM Tivoli Identity Manager 5.0

Posted on December 5, 2008 by Edward Pellon

[This article is sponsored by Peningo Systems, Inc., a provider of Tivoli Consulting Services on a nationwide basis. For more information on Peningo Systems, please go to the  Peningo Tivoli Consultants page. ]

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IBM has recently released the Redbook, “Deployment Guide Series: IBM Tivoli Identity Manager 5.0”.  This IBM Redbook takes a step-by-step approach to implementing an identity management solution based on IBM Tivoli Identity Manager v5.0. Part 1 introduces the general business context for identity management in general and discusses a typical deployment approach for an identity management project. Part 2 takes you through an example company profile with existing business policies and guidelines and builds an identity management solution design for this particular environment.

 

We at Peningo Systems strongly recommend this Redbook for any Tivoli Security Consultant / Security Architect who are involved in deploying IBM Tivoli Identity Manager 5.0.

 

This book consists of 2 parts:

 

Part 1. Planning and deploying
Chapter 1. Business context for Identity and Credential Management
Chapter 2. Planning for customer engagement

Part 2. Customer environment
Chapter 3. Company profile
Chapter 4. Solution design
Chapter 5. Installing the components
Chapter 6. Configuring Identity Manager
Chapter 7. Identifying initial tasks

Appendix A. Troubleshooting
Appendix B. Rapid Installer Option
Appendix C. Import/export
Appendix D. Self-service
Appendix E. Statement of work

 

If you wish to download this Redbook you can to the following link:

 

Deployment Guide Series: IBM Tivoli Identity Manager 5.0

 

If you wish to view the IBM Resource link for this Redbook, please go to the flowing link:

 

Click here to view the Redbook Resource page

If you are an “End Client” looking for IT Consulting Service providers to support your Applications, Peningo Systems provides Consultants with expertise in many areas including:

To see Peningo Systems areas of expertise, please go to the Peningo Technical Areas page or go to the Peningo Tivoli Consultants page.

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Big Blue Cloud Computing with IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager (TPM)

Posted on December 2, 2008 by Edward Pellon

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The newest version of IBM’s Tivoli Provisioning Manager (TPM) helps clients reduce manual steps to better automate the changing demands for IT resources. This is a key to IBM’s version of cloud computing, which is called Blue Cloud. The technologies developed as part of this initiative enable clients to build large-scale, distributed, globally accessible datacenters.

 

As a foundation for datacenter automation, TPM plays an important role in helping IT organizations manage power consumption by switching servers to standby mode when not in use, which saves energy, and automatically restores them to active mode when needed.

 

Blue Cloud is based on an updated version of IBM’s Tivoli Provisioning Manager product that includes new automation features that remove much of the manual graft in data center management.

 

TPM is used to deploy, configure and manage data center IT infrastructure including software applications, virtualization, storage, network devices, routers and firewalls.

IBM is positioning TPM at the forefront of its “Blue Cloud” cloud computing initiative. Cloud computing refers to a new type of distributed IT architecture that pools computer resources together rather than managing individual PCs or servers.

 

TPM dynamically provisions and allocates resources to compensate for workload fluctuations in changing business environments. It’s these fluctuations that strain IT resources while other systems run at less efficiently. In concept this is a problem cloud computing can resolve.

 

The idea is that users of the Blue Cloud need only be concerned with computing services requested, and not the underlying resources that are being accessed. Cloud Computing increases efficiencies of systems resources because it ensures that underutilized systems aren’t sitting idle. It also removes the IT administrator burden of installing and setting up software manually.

 

From the IBM website, I was able to get the following information regarding the newest version of TPM:

 

TPM 5.1.1 includes a variety of enhancements to expand the capabilities and benefits of automating common datacenter tasks while providing interoperability to support diverse IT environments and varying levels of IT maturity. The new capabilities help simplify software installation and improve distribution, monitor IT resources across an enterprise, and create reusable automation packages to perform complex tasks that can be used again later.

 

Specifically, TPM automates the discovery, deployment, configuration and management of operating systems, patches, middleware, and applications on physical and virtual servers. It can manage virtualization technologies, SAN- and NAS-based storage resources, and network devices acting as routers, switches, firewalls and load balancers. TPM also allows a company to automate its own datacenter procedures and processes either by modifying automation packages or creating new packages that match a company’s best practices.

 

TPM lowers the cost of managing infrastructure resources by automating tasks to execute change in the enterprise. Provisioning, maintaining and re-purposing IT resources is made easier, while systems are made more secure and stable through software and security configuration compliance and remediation, freeing up resources to focus on business issues and innovation.

 

Specific new enhancements include:

 

  • Web Replay — Web Replay works by enabling experts to share knowledge with others. With Web Replay, a user can “record” the mouse clicks, data insertion and other processes involved in any complex task. Afterwards, any user with the appropriate access can run the recorded scenario. Operations that may require a series of screen interactions can be condensed down to a single push of a button. Consequently, experts on a subject can develop and record the actions needed to execute very complex tasks. These “recordings” can then be used and altered as needed by others. This ensures that tasks are executed correctly and completely.

 

  • Cross-platform patch support — TPM helps customers automate many steps involved in compliance efforts. For example, the software gives customers an integrated way to manage patches on Windows, Linux, Solaris and AIX. This helps staff be more efficient and avoid errors.

 

  • TADDM integration — TPM 5.1.1 delivers improved integration with the Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager (TADDM). TADDM provides complete visibility into application complexity by automatically creating and maintaining application infrastructure maps. The information can be used to improve compliance and remediation, speed up problem solving, and simplify day-to-day resource management.

 

  • Dynamic Content Delivery — TPM Dynamic Content Delivery enables the efficient delivery of large data payloads such as high-resolution video, computer-aided design data and online learning content across an enterprise. It decreases hardware and administrative costs associated with application software delivery and life cycle management, and provides high-performance, optimized delivery of emergency fixes or complete software suites.

 

  • Streamlined installation — A user friendly installation wizard lets customers install the entire package with minimal user interaction, getting them up and running with TPM in just a few hours.

 

 

If you are an “End Client” looking for a Consulting Service provider to support your Applications, Peningo Systems provides Consultants with expertise in many areas including:

 

 

To see Peningo Systems areas of expertise, please go to the Peningo Technical Areas page.

 

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Best Practices to implement the VMware Update Manager – VUM

Posted on November 12, 2008 by Edward Pellon

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VMware has released a White Paper titled “VMware Update Manager Performance and Best Practices”. VMware Update Manager (VUM) is a component of VMware Infrastructure that automates patches and upgrades of ESX hosts as well as Windows and Linux virtual machines. The White Paper provides information on VUM 1.0 host deployment, latency, resource consumption, guest OS tuning, high-latency networks, and the impact of on-access virus scanning. Also this White Paper provides performance tips to help customers tune the system for better performance. We at Peningo Systems strongly recommend this “White Paper” for any VMware Consultant, VMware Architect or IT Executive who are involved in the deployment and implementation of the VMware Update Manager..

This study covers the following topics:

  • Benchmarking Methodology
  • VUM Server Host Deployment
  • Latency Overview
  • Resource Consumption Matrix
  • Guest Operating System Tuning
  • Network Latencies
  • On-Access Virus Scanning
  • Conclusion
  • References

If you wish to view this white paper, please click the link below:

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vum_1.0_performance.pdf

If you are an “End Client” looking for a VMware Consulting Service provider to support your Applications, Peningo Systems provides Consultants with expertise in many areas including:

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Implemention of SAP CRM Without Compromise

Posted on November 4, 2008 by Edward Pellon

This article is sponsored by Peningo Systems, Inc., a provider of SAP Consulting Services on a nationwide basis. For more information on Peningo Systems, please go to the Peningo SAP Consultants page.

 
SAP has release a white paper “CRM Without Compromise – A Strategy for Profitable Growth” that describes the concept of  elucidating how organizations can maximize their results by taking a more structured, holistic approach to CRM across the enterprise to gain a competitive advantage and promote sustainable, profitable growth.  We at Peningo Systems strongly recommend this “White Paper” for any SAP Consultant / SAP Architect or IT Executive who are involved in the planning of an SAP CRM implementation.

 

Investments in customer relationship management (CRM) applications have produced a broad spectrum of results. Some companies report amazing outcomes, such as dramatic increases in revenue and boosts in customer satisfaction along with significant savings in operating costs. For others, such investments have delivered only limited benefits or proved disappointing.

 

While implementing CRM, many organizations have lost sight of their customers. They focus on efficiency gains in specific areas like sales force automation (SFA) instead of looking at the bigger picture – from a customer perspective. They fail to become truly customer centric because they rely on point solutions with little or no integration – solutions that are not aligned with the organization’s long-term strategy and provide only a limited view of the customer. They focus on single channels and rarely achieve true multichannel coverage, resulting in bad customer experiences. They either compromise on functionality or try to achieve too much at one time and end up with a complex, expensive implementation with hardly any return on investment. Organizations often just automate existing bad processes instead of redesigning their customer-facing operations based on best practices. No wonder customer satisfaction is near an all-time low in many industries. It’s time to refocus on what CRM really is about – the customer – to achieve the results CRM has promised to deliver. In order to be successful, organizations must approach CRM without compromise.

 

Focusing primarily on bottom-line costs and departmental goals limits the top-line potential of CRM investments. The benefits of CRM can be much greater if more companies take CRM to the next level by designing their CRM strategy for future ambitions instead of just implementing software to support current capabilities.

 

This white paper describes the concept of “CRM without compromise,” elucidating how organizations can maximize their results by taking a more structured, holistic approach to CRM across the enterprise to gain a competitive advantage and promote sustainable, profitable growth.

 

This white paper by SAP will help enlighten the SAP Professionals who are implementing SAP CRM in a Best Practice approach to address a CRM implementation.

The following is the Table of Contents:

 

  • The CRM Paradox
  • A Customer-Centric Business Strategy
    • Customers Define Your Business
    • A Strategic Perspective on CRM
  • Strategic Business Challenges
    • Driving New Growth
    • Operational Excellence Redefined
    • Competitive Agility
  • The Path to CRM Success
    • Evolution of CRM
    • Customer-Centric Ecosystem
  • A Strategic Framework for CRM
    • A Framework to Outsmart and Outgrow Your Competition
    • Capitalizing on Customer Insight
    • Balancing Frontline Efficiency and Effectiveness
    • Aligning Marketing, Sales, and Service with the Customer in Mind
    • Managing Customer Experience Across Touch Points
    • Guiding Customers to the Right Channel
    • Beyond the Touch Point: Connecting Front Office and Back Office
    • Creating a Customer-Driven Value Network
    • Technology Framework for Adaptability and Integration
    • Managing Performance Improvement
    • Creating a CRM Culture – Because Employees Matter
    • CRM Deployment Options: Making the Right Choice
  • A Catalyst for Business Transformation

 

If you wish to view this white paper, please click the link below:

Click here to download “CRM Without Compromise – A Strategy for Profitable Growth”

If you are an “End Client” looking for a Consulting Service provider to support your Applications, Peningo Systems provides Consultants with expertise in many areas including:

To see Peningo Systems areas of expertise, please go to the Peningo Technical Areas page.

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VMware – Recommendations For Aligning VMFS Partitions

Posted on October 30, 2008 by Edward Pellon

[This article is sponsored by Peningo Systems, Inc., a provider of SAP Consulting Services on a nationwide basis. For more information on Peningo Systems, please go to the Peningo VMware Consultants page ]

VMware has released a White Paper titled “Recommendations For Aligning VMFS Partitions”. The White Paper provides decision makers the information on partition alignment, a known issue in physical file systems, and its remedy. The goal of the testing reported in this paper was to validate the assumption that unaligned partitions also impose a penalty when the partition is a VMware Virtual Machine File System (VMware VMFS) partition.

This paper lists a summary of the results of our testing, recommendations for VMware VMFS partition alignment, and the steps needed to create aligned VMware VMFS partitions. It covers the following topics:

• Executive Summary on page 1

• Recommendations on page 2

• Instructions for VMware VMFS Partition Alignment Using fdisk on page 2

• Instructions for Guest File System Alignment on page 3

• Caveats on page 5

• Background on page 5

• Performance Results on page 8

• Conclusion on page 10

• References on page 10

If you wish to view this white paper, please click the link below:

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/esx3_partition_align.pdf

If you are an “End Client” looking for a VMware Consulting Service provider to support your Applications, Peningo Systems provides Consultants with expertise in many areas including:

To see Peningo Systems areas of expertise, please go to the Peningo Technical Areas page.

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Planning for an SAP ERP 6.0 Upgrade

Posted on October 21, 2008 by Edward Pellon

[This article is sponsored by Peningo Systems, Inc., a provider of SAP Consulting Services on a nationwide basis. For more information on Peningo Systems, please go to the Peningo SAP Consultants page.

SAP LogoSAP has released a White Paper titled “How to Plan for an SAP® ERP 6.0 Upgrade”. The White Paper provides decision makers the information they need to evaluate, plan, and perform an upgrade to the SAP® ERP 6.0 application. It also introduces the tools and services SAP offers its customers during the transition to this new enterprise software.

Through extensive experience with customer upgrades, SAP has learned how important it is to safeguard production systems for your mission-critical activities – which is why SAP ERP 6.0 strongly supports system requirements for stability and availability while at the same time offering the high degree of adaptability and flexibility you need for business process innovation.

We at Peningo Systems strongly recommend this “White Paper” for any SAP Consultant / SAP Architect or IT Executive who are involved in the planning of an SAP ERP Upgrade.

The Contents of this White Paper Consists of:

  1. Why Customers Are Choosing SAP ERP 6.0
  2. Upgrade Scenarios
  3. Technical Upgrade.
  4. Functional Upgrade.
  5. Strategic Business Improvement Upgrade.
  6. Best Practices During an Upgrade Project
  7. Planning an Upgrade.
  8. Handling Modification .
  9. Simplifying the Testing Process.
  10. Additional Tools, Preparations .
  11. Building the SAP ERP 6.0 Landscape.
  12. What SAP Customers Are Saying About the Upgrade.

If you wish to view this white paper, please click the link below:

Click here to download “How to Plan for an SAP ERP 6.0 Upgrade”

If you are an “End Client” looking for a SAP Consulting Service provider to support your Applications, Peningo Systems provides Consultants with expertise in many areas including:

To see Peningo Systems areas of expertise, please go to the Peningo Technical Areas page.

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Peningo Systems Selected to Provide WebSphere Portal Development and Support Consulting Services

Posted on October 18, 2008 by Edward Pellon

The Peningo Opinion Blog – Rye, New York – Peningo Systems has recently been selected to provide WebSphere Portal Consulting and Development Services to support a prototype development effort of a Portlet utilizing WebSphere Portal for a public sector client.

While pricing will always be a factor in the selection process by the “End Clients”, Peningo Systems was selected to provide WebSphere Portal Development and Consulting Services base on the combination of price and high level of quality and expertise in the Consultants that will be providing the services. The selection of Peningo System is an example of successful bypass of these Prestigious Names in IT Consulting and Professional Services, which Peningo often refer to as “The Prestigious One”.

If you are an “End Client” looking for a Consulting Service provider to support your Applications, Peningo Systems provides Consultants with expertise in many areas including:

To see Peningo Systems areas of expertise, please go to the Peningo Technical Areas page.

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Peningo Systems selected to provide Tivoli Provisioning Manager Consulting Services

Posted on October 18, 2008 by Edward Pellon

The Peningo Opinion Blog – Rye, New York – Peningo Systems has recently been selected to provide Tivoli Provisioning Manager Consulting and Training Services to a leading ERP Software Development firm. Peningo systems has provided Tivoli Consulting services for over fifteen years.

While pricing will always be a factor in the selection process by the “End Clients”, Peningo Systems was selected to provide Tivoli Provisioning Manager Consulting and Training Services services base on the combination of price and high level of quality and expertise in the Consultants that will be providing the services. The selection of Peningo System is an example of successful bypass of these Prestigious Names in IT Consulting and Professional Services, which Peningo often refer to as “The Prestigious One”.

Peningo will provide the Tivoli Provisioning Manager Consulting and Training Services with a Senior Consultant with expertise in Tivoli Provisioning Manager (TPM) implementation.

If you are an “End Client” looking for a Consulting Service provider to support your Applications, Peningo Systems provides Consultants with expertise in many areas including:

To see Peningo Systems areas of expertise, please go to the Peningo Technical Areas page.

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Hyperion System 9 Performance and Capacity Planning on IBM AIX

Posted on August 20, 2008 by Edward Pellon

[This article is sponsored by Peningo Systems, Inc., a provider of Hyperion Consulting Services on a nationwide basis. For more information on Peningo Systems, please go to the Peningo Hyperion Consultants page ]

Hyperion has released a White Paper titled “Hyperion System™ 9 BI+™ Release 9.3 Performance and Capacity Planning on IBM® AIX”. We at Peningo Systems strongly recommend this “White Paper” for any Hyperion Consultant that will be involved in the initial planning of a Hyperion® System™ 9 BI+™ implementation on IBM AIX.

This “White Paper” provides guidelines for capacity planning and performance improvement, and describes how to use the capacity planning data gathered during Hyperion testing. Use this document as a high-level guide for determining how to distribute BI+ services, and for guidelines on computer configuration and sizing.

This “White Paper” focuses on the performance of Hyperion System 9 BI+ Interactive Reporting™, Hyperion System 9 BI+ Production Reporting™, and Hyperion System 9 BI+ Web Analysis™ on IBM AIX servers. Tuning of database and third-party Web servers is out of this document’s scope.

The Hyperion Consultant should follow the configuration suggestions presented in this “White Paper” to avoid potential bottlenecks and ensure an efficient BI+ implementation that achieves optimal performance.

Readers are cautioned that many factors affect system capacity. Consequently, your BI+ implementation may require subsequent fine-tuning to optimize the configuration.

To download this White Paper, please click the link below:

Hyperion System™ 9 BI+™ Release 9.3 Performance and Capacity Planning on IBM® AIX White Paper

If you are an “End Client” looking for a Hyperion Consulting Service provider to support your Hyperion Applications, Peningo Systems provides Consultants with Hyperion implementation expertise. For more information on Peningo Systems Hyperion Consultant support, please go to “The Peningo Hyperion Consultants” page.

Aside from Hyperion Consulting, Peningo Systems provides Consulting expertise in many areas including:

WebSphere Portal

WebSphere Commerce

WebSphere Eclipse Development

WebSphere MQ

System Security Architecture

Tivoli Access Manager

Tivoli Identity Manager

DB2 – UDB,

SAP,

Remedy

Peregrine / HP Openview AssetCenter and ServiceCenter

J2EE based systems architecture and development.

To see Peningo Systems areas of expertise, please go to the Peningo Technical Areas page .

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Security Handbook for WebSphere Application Server

Posted on August 18, 2008 by Edward Pellon

[This article is sponsored by Peningo Systems, Inc., a provider of WebSphere Consulting Services on a nationwide basis. For more information on Peningo Systems, please go to the Peningo WebSphere Consultants page ]

IBM has released a Redbook titled “IBM WebSphere Application Server V6.1 Security Handbook”, which is part of the IBM WebSphere V6.1 series. The Redbook focuses on security and security-related topics and provides technical details to design and implement secure solutions with WebSphere.

We at Peningo Systems strongly recommend this RedBook for any WebSphere Consultant / WebSphere Architect / WebSphere Developer who are involved in designing, developing, and deploying secure e-business applications using IBM WebSphere Application Server V6.1.

This Book Consists of 4 Parts:

  • Part 1 discusses security for the application server and its components, including enterprise applications. Note that global security has now become known as administrative security and application security. You find essential information on how to secure Web and EJB applications and how to develop a Java client using security.
  • Part 2 introduces additional components from the enterprise environment and discusses security beyond the application server.
  • External components include third-party security servers, messaging clients and servers, and database servers.
  • Part 3 is a short introduction to development environment security. Here you can read about guidelines and best practices that are applicable to a secure development environment.
  • Part 4 provides additional information related to chapters in the previous parts.

The following is the Table of Contents for this Redbook Draft:

  • Part 1. Application server security
    Chapter 1. Introduction
    Chapter 2. Configuring the user registry
    Chapter 3. Administrative security
    Chapter 4. SSL administration
    Chapter 5. JAAS for authentication in WebSphere Application Server
    Chapter 6. Application security
    Chapter 7. Securing a Web application
    Chapter 8. Securing an EJB application
    Chapter 9. Client security
    Chapter 10. Securing the service integration bus
  • Part 2. Extending security beyond the Application Server
    Chapter 11. Security attribute propagation
    Chapter 12. Securing a WebSphere application using Tivoli Access Manager
    Chapter 13. Trust Association Interceptors and third party software integration
    Chapter 14. Externalizing authorization with JACC
    Chapter 15. Web services security
    Chapter 16. Securing access to WebSphere MQ
    Chapter 17. J2EE Connector security
    Chapter 18. Securing the database connection
  • Part 3. Development environment
    Chapter 19. Development environment security
  • Appendix A. Additional configurations
    Appendix B. Additional material

To view and download the RedBook Draft in PDF, please go to the link below:

The IBM WebSphere Application Server V6.1 Security Handbook

If you are an “End Client” looking for a WebSphere Consulting Service provider to support your WebSphere Applications, Peningo Systems provides Consultants with expertise in many areas including:

WebSphere Portal

WebSphere Commerce

WebSphere Eclipse Development

WebSphere MQ

System Security Architecture

Tivoli Access Manager

Tivoli Identity Manager

DB2 – UDB,

SAP,

Remedy

Peregrine / HP Openview AssetCenter and ServiceCenter

J2EE based systems architecture and development.

To see Peningo Systems areas of expertise, please go to the Peningo Technical Areas page or go to the Peningo WebSphere Consultants page.

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Developing Portlets using JSR 168 and WebSphere Portal V5.1, a Best Practice Approach

Posted on July 7, 2008 by Edward Pellon

[This article is sponsored by Peningo Systems, Inc., a provider of WebSphere Consulting and Staffing Services on a nationwide basis. For more information on Peningo Systems, please go to the Peningo WebSphere Consultants page ]

IBM has release an article “Best practices for developing portlets using JSR 168 and WebSphere Portal V5.1”. As more and more firms are employing the JRS 168 Portlets standards, this article is an invaluable resource for the WebSphere Portal Developer. This article will provide the developer with a Best Practices approach to portlets development to conform to the JRS 168 standards while utilizing the WebSphere Portlet infrastructure. The best use of this article is as a checklist during design and code reviews to help promote consistent and quality Portlet implementations.

To view the article, please click the link below:

ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/dw/wes/pdf/0403_hepper-JSR168_BestPractices-V5.1.0.1.pdf

To learn more regarding JSR 168, please go to the following link:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/library/techarticles/0312_hepper/hepper.html

If you are an “End Client” looking for a WebSphere Portal developer provider to support your Portal Applications, Peningo Systems provides Consultants with expertise in many areas including:

WebSphere Portal

WebSphere Commerce

WebSphere Eclipse Development

WebSphere MQ

Tivoli Identity Manager

Tivoli Access Manager

System Security Architecture

DB2 – UDB,

SAP,

Remedy

Peregrine / HP Openview AssetCenter and ServiceCenter

J2EE based systems architecture and development.

To see Peningo Systems areas of expertise, please go to the Peningo Technical Areas page or go to the Peningo WebSphere Consultants page.

To see Peningo’s other Blogs please go to

Peningo’s Blog

The Peningo Opinion Blog

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Tivoli Federated Identity Manger for Federated Identity Management and Web Services Security

Posted on May 25, 2008 by Edward Pellon

[This article is sponsored by Peningo Systems, Inc., a provider of Tivoli Consulting and Staffing Services on a nationwide basis. For more information on Peningo Systems, please go to the Peningo Tivoli Identity Manager Consultants page ]

IBM has release a RedBook Draft titled “Federated Identity Management and Web Services Security with IBM Tivoli Security Solutions. We at Peningo Systems strongly recommend this RedBook for any Tivoli Security Consultant, as well as, any security officers, administrators and architects who are considering implementing and deploying Federated Identity Management solution, or wish to understand and implement Web Services security and Federated Identity Management.

Federated Identity Management for many businesses is essential as it enable companies to optimally pursue business automation goals that best align with their business model, IT policies, security and privacy goals and requirements. For companies that have not implemented a Federated Identity Management solution, they have is no way in today’s world to trust identities belonging to their partners, suppliers, contracts and their outsourcers. This lack of trust means companies end-up creating online identities (and passwords) for all users. This approach is very costly, inefficient, and creates user frustration with multiple accounts and registrations for each Web Site. Federation is the set of business and technology agreements as well as policies that enable companies to optimally pursue business automation goals that best align with their business model, IT policies, security and privacy goals and requirements.

This book takes a close look at the trust infrastructure over which business federations are implemented. This RedBook covers important aspects of utilizing the Tivoli integrated Identity management architecture in order to build and deploy the Tivoli Federated Identity Management and Web Services Security components, which consist of Tivoli Federated Identity Manager, IBM WebSphere Application Server, and the IBM Integrated Solutions Console.

The following is the Table of Contents for this RedBook

Part 1. Architecture and design

Chapter 1. Business context for identity federation
Chapter 2. Architecting an identity federation
Chapter 3. Tivoli Federated Identity Manager architecture
Chapter 4. Deploying Tivoli Federated Identity Manager
Chapter 5. Integrating with IBM identity management offerings

Part 2. Customer environment

Chapter 6. Overview
Chapter 7. Use case 1 – SAML/JITP
Chapter 8. Use case 2 – WS-Federation
Chapter 9. Use case 3 – Liberty
Chapter 10. Use case 4 – Web services security management

Part 3. Appendixes

Appendix A. Configuring Access Manager WebSEAL and Web plug-in
Appendix B. Identity mapping rules
Appendix C. Keys and certificates
Appendix D. WS-Security deployment descriptors

To view and download the RedBook Draft in PDF, please go to the link below:

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg246394.pdf

If you are an “End Client” looking for a Tivoli Consulting Service provider to support your Tivoli Applications, Peningo Systems provides Consultants with expertise in many areas including:

Tivoli Identity Manager

Tivoli Access Manager

WebSphere Portal

WebSphere Commerce

WebSphere Eclipse Development

WebSphere MQ

System Security Architecture

DB2 – UDB,

SAP,

Remedy

Peregrine / HP Openview AssetCenter and ServiceCenter

J2EE based systems architecture and development.

To see Peningo Systems areas of expertise, please go to the Peningo Technical Areas page or go to the Peningo Tivoli Consultants page.

To see Peningo’s other Blogs please go to

Peningo’s Blog

The Peningo Opinion Blog

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Customizing Websphere Portal Express for Small Business

Posted on April 4, 2008 by Edward Pellon

[This article is sponsored by Peningo Systems, Inc., a provider of WebSphere Consulting Services on a nationwide basis. For more information on Peningo Systems, please go to the Peningo WebSphere Consultants page ]

For small to medium size companies who are considering implementing a Portal Solution for their Enterprise, IBM WebSphere Portal Express is an excellent entry Portal Solution. WebSphere Portal Express is designed for organizations of under 1000 users or departments within larger organizations. WebSphere Portal Express helps organizations and teams with collaboration, document management / sharing documents, deployment and maintenance of Web sites, instant messaging, accessing applications & content, and personnel with in the organization.

IBM has recently release a Redpaper Draft titled “IBM WebSphere Portal Express – Customizing Portal Express for Small to Medium Business. For companies considering a Portal Solution, I would recommend to review this Redpaper Draft to learn more on what is entailed in Implementing and Customizing WebSphere Portal Express for your Organization before making any commitments.

To view the Redpaper Draft in PDF, please go to the link below:

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/pdfs/redp4316.pdf

If you are an “End Client” looking for a WebSphere Consulting Service provider to support your WebSphere Applications, Peningo Systems provides Consultants with expertise in many areas including:

WebSphere Portal

WebSphere Commerce

WebSphere Eclipse Development

WebSphere MQ

System Security Architecture

Tivoli Access Manager

Tivoli Identity Manager

DB2 – UDB,

SAP,

Remedy

Peregrine / HP Openview AssetCenter and ServiceCenter

J2EE based systems architecture and development.

To see Peningo Systems areas of expertise, please go to the Peningo Technical Areas page or go to the Peningo WebSphere Consultants page.

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Hyperion System 9 Planning – Migrating Hyperion Pillar Users

Posted on March 4, 2008 by Edward Pellon

[This article is sponsored by Peningo Systems, Inc., a provider of Hyperion Consulting Services on a nationwide basis. For more information on Peningo Systems, please go to the Peningo Hyperion Consultants page ]

Hyperion has released a White Paper titled “Migrating to Hyperion System 9 Planning”. We at Peningo Systems strongly recommend this “White Paper” for any Hyperion Consultant that will be involved in the initial planning and implementation of Hyperion System 9 Planning, as well as, the migration from Hyperion Pillar to Hyperion System 9 Planning.

Companies need an efficient, collaborative, and accurate planning and budgeting process to deliver a significant and sustainable competitive advantage. The cornerstone to successful implementation of collaboratively executing planning and budgeting enterprise wide to by selecting the right enterprise Planning and Budgeting Software tools. For years Hyperion Pillar software was the proven budgeting application of choice by many IT Managers. Hyperion Pillar provided managers with the ability to perform a wide range of activities, including cost center and activity-based budgeting, project and capital planning, sales forecasting, compensation planning, reporting and analysis.

With the release of Hyperion System 9 Planning, the folks at Hyperion are encouraging Pillar user to migrate to the new Hyperion System 9 Planning. Hyperion System 9 Planning meets the cycle of business forecasting, budgeting, and planning functions, and for Hyperion Pillar users, Hyperion System 9 Planning is their next-generation planning solution. Hyperion released the “White Paper” titled “Migrating to Hyperion System 9 Planning” with the Pillar users in mind.

Hyperion System 9 Planning facilitates this more frequent, continuous adjustment of budget allocation by providing automated and Web-based workflows. As Hyperion System 9 Planning uses a Web-based architecture, planners can simply access shared planning databases and documents with their Web browsers.

If you are a Pillar user or considering a Planning and Budgeting tool for your business, for more information on Hyperion System 9 Planning, please review the links below:

If you are an “End Client” looking for a Hyperion Consulting Service provider to support your Hyperion Applications, Peningo Systems provides Consultants with Hyperion implementation expertise. For more information on Peningo Systems Hyperion Consultant support, please go to “The Peningo Hyperion Consultants” page.

Aside from Hyperion Consulting, Peningo Systems provided Consulting expertise in many areas including:

J2EE based systems architecture and development.

To see Peningo Systems areas of expertise, please go to the Peningo Technical Areas page or go to the Peningo WebSphere Consultants page.

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Configuring WebSphere Portal to use Tivoli Access Manager

Posted on March 3, 2008 by Edward Pellon

The “IBM WebSphere Portal Tivoli Access Manager Configuration Wizard” is an application that assists Portal Administrators through the task of configuring WebSphere Portal to use Tivoli Access Manager. With this tool, the WebSphere Portal Administrator can automate the following:

  • Setup the Trust Association Interceptor (TAI) in WebSphere Application Server
  • Configuring the WebSEAL junction (TCP or SSL options)
  • Setup the Tivoli Access Manager (TAM) Credential Vault adapter
  • Configure the Tivoli Access Manager for Authorization, or Externalization of Portal roles
  • Configure the JAAS login modules
  • Provide Backups to the files that are modified during the configuration

The IBM Developer Works is a great web site that offers a wealth of information regarding IBM Application information, troubleshooting issues, tutorials, etc.. To see more details regarding implementing the IBM WebSphere Portal Tivoli Access Manager Configuration Wizard, please go to the following link at IBM:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/zones/portal/catalog/doc/1wp10004g/

If you are an “End Client” looking for WebSphere Consulting Service providers to support your WebSphere Applications, Peningo Systems provides Consultants with expertise in many areas including:

To see Peningo Systems areas of expertise, please go to the Peningo Technical Areas page or go to the Peningo Websphere Consultants page.

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A New Strategy For End Clients looking to hire IT Consultants

Posted on October 1, 2007 by Edward Pellon

In the IT industry, as presently constituted, on the one hand we have the “End” client (The final recipient of the IT services) and in the other hand, the Contractor and its Cartels of IT provider of servicesWe recommend that the “End” clients adopt a different strategy other than to become victims to the “Prestigious Ones” the name given by us to those organization that are trying to Monopolized the IT industry to maximize their profits.
This Strategy consist in using Peningo System approach of joining forces with the Consultant and the “End” Client and contracting among ourselves, by-passing the Prestigious ones and their excessive greed and Mark-ups which have lead to presenting only candidates that fit the Mark-up structure, disregarding the other talent that specifically are the ones that could satisfy the End Client’s needs which will never be presented because of their higher rates. By eliminating the “Prestigious Ones” from the process, additional margin becomes available that could go to pay for the resource and at the same time provide savings to the End Client.
Additional reasons for adopting such Strategy by the End Client are:

  • Client controls systems projects that support the client’s successful business plan.

At Peningo, we expect the client to control all systems decisions, as we feel that those
decisions may impact the client’s “Business Plan”. Systems contributions by Peningo Members should be limited to the development, enhancement and implementation of the systems that will deliver a client’s proven successful “Business Plan” intact.

There is a tendency on the part of the “Prestigious Ones” to try to control and influence the client’s “Business Plan” in order to be able to use their “package solutions”. This efforts results in priority being given to systems solutions than to the client’s “Business Plan”.

We have experience salvaging situations created by the “Prestigious Ones” in their
attempts to influence the client’s “Business Plan” in order to use the “standard solution” which results in totally inadequate business solution. Again we re-state our view that systems decisions should be totally in the hands of client personnel and all systems must bow to the needs of the client’s “Business Plan”


The “Bench” Systems

The “Prestigious Ones” maintain consultants between assignments on the “Bench”
waiting for allocation to a project. We at Peningo feel that the “Bench” system is totally wrong for the following reasons:

When a client states a requirement, there is an economic incentive, on the part of the ”Prestigious Ones” to use “imperfect” matches to the client’s requirement in order to reduce the bench idle resources ,which are on their payroll, and are not billable to any client. That is how the “Prestigious Ones” finds themselves offering “Oranges” when the client’s needs requires “Apples”

We have experienced replacing such mismatched resources presented by the “Prestigious Ones” and bringing the client back into harmony by delivering excellent matches to the client’s requirement. In addition consultants are extremely unhappy to be placed on a “Bench” even when they continue to receive their pay.
We approach every client requirement without any limitations except to seek a very close match that has the pertinent skills at an expert level. As we do not support the “Bench” systems we are able to bring upon the client’s needs the best solution available in the Market at that point in time. Our consultants are compensated adequately so that should a situation developed of a gap between assignments the consultants may use their free time as they wish. It is our experience that those that have dedicated their careers to consulting prefer this method best, as they do not like to be mismatched, resulting in personal failures at the assignment.

One single hourly rate

The “Prestigious Ones” when a resource home base is away from the client they offer the resource on an hourly billing rate plus expenses. Such practices lead to extensive overhead costs in the part of the consultant, the client and the “Prestigious Ones”.
Peningo’s approach is to offer our consultant at a single hourly rate. When the Peningo consultant home base is remote to the client we would have quoted the single hourly rate as all inclusive (no expenses to be added). The client for all purposes may consider all Peningo resources as local. It is up to the consultants to decide if they want to commute on a weekly basis or relocate in close proximity to the client’s site for the duration of the assignment. It is our experience that the consultant and the client prefer this method and for Peningo, facilitate the inclusion of a nation wide pool of resources to respond to clients requests.

Markups


It is in the nature of the “Prestigious Ones” to function with extremely high overheads that leads to the need for large Markups. As the consultants wants their earnings increased the “Prestigious Ones” finds themselves in the need to go “off shore” for resources that may fit their Markups requirements, with the consequent negative effect on quality of service.
By eliminating the “Prestigious Ones” Peningo will be able to share the savings with the consultant and the client. The client benefits by having a business formula that rewards the consultant, making it possible to retain the most accomplish resources available while receiving a substantial cost reduction.
If you wish to pursue this matter further please contact Peningo Systems Inc.


About Peningo Systems:

Peningo Systems supports and provides Consultants with expertise in many areas including:

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Myth About Consulting Jobs Versus Permanent Jobs in an H1-B – Outsourcing Market

Posted on August 27, 2007 by Edward Pellon

In an effort to reduce costs of fielding consultants the Major IT Consulting organizations, which we refer as “The Prestigious Ones”, offer “Permanent Employment” with “Benefits” which comes with a low salary.

Anyone offering “Permanent Employment with Benefits” for consulting assignments is taking the consultant for a ride. The reality is that consulting assignments have a beginning and an end. For these reasons the ultimate Clients are willing to pay a substantial premium over the cost of their own employees. When the assignment is over, the Consulting organizations will make every effort to have the employee transferred to another assignment, but such propositions are not based on certainty but in the hope that the exploitation may be able to continue. When this fails, the Consultant finds themselves dismissed.
Every Consultant should expect premium compensation in their hourly rate instead of salary (salary employees work many overtime hours without compensation) and that hourly rate should include an amount taking into consideration the costs of self provided benefits, the fact that there are gaps in moving from one assignment to another and that there should be a premium for the difficult life (family wise) of a consultant that needs to travel away from home. To settle for less means that someone is exploiting the Consultant as the organization will keep the premium for his/her sacrifices.
It is important for the Consultant to pay for their own “Benefits” as when they move to the next assignment it might not be with the same organization that provided the previous assignment. By doing this the Consultant expand its Market and make it possible to achieve substantial earnings in keeping with the effort.
To make things worse the “Prestigious Ones” are attempting to replace the USA based Consultant by outsourcing offshore work which services the USA based clients.

Blown Offshore to Mysore
Obviously this is tax evasion as the offshore resources do not pay any Federal, State, Social Security or Medicare and the organization hiring do not have to match the Social Security and Medicare taxes as if the work was performed by a USA based person.
We founded Peningo Systems to combat this problem of multiple layers of markups that ends up in between consultant and the end client.
Peningo Systems solution to this problem is to bypass these “Offshore Outsourcers” and with the support of Peningo Systems Inc, contract directly between the Consultant and the End Client, thus, eliminating these ”Prestigious Ones” excessive Mark-ups and allowing for increased compensation for the Consultant while lowering the costs for the End Client.

With the Outsourcing IT Jobs OffShore and/or using employees who are H1-B Visa or L-1 Visa holders, many times the cost of “Services” to the “End Client” is slightly effected. Between huge markups by some of the Larger Outsourcers and/or the combination of multiple layers of subcontractors involved in providing the IT Services with their respective markups, the cost to the “End Client” is still high. All the Offshoring of IT jobs and hiring of H-1Bs & L-1 Visa holders offers is higher profit margins for the Outsourcers…….WHILE PROVIDING LOWER QUALITY OF SERVICE TO THE END CLIENT!!! It is very true the old saying that Power corrupts and that Absolute Power absolutely corrupts. It is time for the Consultant and the End Client to bypass these “Prestigious Ones” which every day are looking more like ruffians and knaves.

To All Americans:

If you wish to voice your opinion, you are welcome in commenting to this post. If you wish to voice your opinion to a greater authority….Congress and/or your State Representatives, please go to the Peningo Advocacy Assistance Page.

Peningo Systems supports and provides Consultants with expertise in many areas including:

To see Peningo Systems areas of expertise, please go to the Peningo Technical Areas.

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Peningo Systems Selected to Provide WebSphere Commerce Development and Support Consulting Services

Posted on August 2, 2007 by Edward Pellon

The Peningo Opinion Blog – Rye, New York – Peningo Systems has recently been selected to provide WebSphere Commerce Development and Support Consulting Services to a leading NASDAQ Bioscience Research firm.

Seeing the Light with Peningo Systems While pricing will always be a factor in the selection process by the “End Clients”, Peningo Systems was selected to provide WebSphere Commerce Development and Support services base on the combination of price and high level of quality and expertise in the Consultants that will be providing the services. The selection of Peningo System is an example of successful bypass of these Prestigious Names in IT Consulting and Professional Services, which Peningo often refer to as “The Prestigious One”.

Peningo will provide the WebSphere Commerce Development and Support services with a team of Senior Consultants with expertise in WebSphere Commerce development and system administration, based here in the U.S.A. . This level of Seniority and Expertise is rare to find when an “End Client” pays top dollar, utilizing the services from one of the Prestigious Names in IT Consulting and Professional Services.

The reasons these Senior level Experts are hard to retain when using one of the Prestigious Names in IT Consulting and Professional Services, is that their “Excessive Profit Margins” would NOT allow for these Senior Level Experts to be compensated properly. As a result, many of the Senior Consultants and experts in their respective technical fields chose to be employed elsewhere and are NOT available via one of the Prestigious Names in IT Consulting and Professional Services. To fulfill the Services to the “End Clients”, these “Prestigious Ones” look to retain resources who are:

  • Paid and command a lower salary. Many of these individuals are not Senior Level Consultants or Technical Experts.
  • On H1-B or L-1 Visa. Many times these Visa based Consultants are used because they are cheaper than Americans and Permanent Residents. As a result, the quality level of such candidates is suspect.
  • Resources located Offshore on the other side of the globe to provide the “WebSphere Consulting Services”.

For these reasons above, the quality of services from these “Prestigious Ones” has declined drastically. The founders of Peningo Systems has thrived for years in providing Consulting Services with the Senior Level Experts at rates that are below the rates of the “Prestigious Ones” with their sub-par to mediocre talent.

Aside from WebSphere Commerce, Peningo Systems supports and provides Consultants with expertise in many areas including, WebSphere Portal, WebSphere Eclipse Development, WebSphere Architecture, System Security Architecture, Identity Management, Access Management, Tivoli Access Manager and Tivoli Identity Manager, DB2 – UDB, SAP, Remedy, Peregrine / HP Openview AssetCenter and ServiceCenter, and J2EE based systems architecture and development. To see Peningo Systems areas of expertise, please go to the Peningo Technical Areas page.

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Peningo Systems Selected to Provide WebSphere Commerce Development and Support Consulting Services

Posted on July 22, 2007 by Edward Pellon

The Peningo Opinion Blog – Rye, New York – Peningo Systems has recently been selected to provide WebSphere Commerce Development and Support Consulting Services to a leading NASDAQ Bioscience Research firm.

Seeing the Light with Peningo Systems While pricing will always be a factor in the selection process by the “End Clients”, Peningo Systems was selected to provide WebSphere Commerce Development and Support services base on the combination of price and high level of quality and expertise in the Consultants that will be providing the services. The selection of Peningo System is an example of successful bypass of these Prestigious Names in IT Consulting and Professional Services, which Peningo often refer to as “The Prestigious One”.

Peningo will provide the WebSphere Commerce Development and Support services with a team of Senior Consultants with expertise in WebSphere Commerce development and system administration, based here in the U.S.A. . This level of Seniority and Expertise is rare to find when an “End Client” pays top dollar, utilizing the services from one of the Prestigious Names in IT Consulting and Professional Services.

The reasons these Senior level Experts are hard to retain when using one of the Prestigious Names in IT Consulting and Professional Services, is that their “Excessive Profit Margins” would NOT allow for these Senior Level Experts to be compensated properly. As a result, many of the Senior Consultants and experts in their respective technical fields chose to be employed elsewhere and are NOT available via one of the Prestigious Names in IT Consulting and Professional Services. To fulfill the Services to the “End Clients”, these “Prestigious Ones” look to retain resources who are:

  • Paid and command a lower salary. Many of these individuals are not Senior Level Consultants or Technical Experts.
  • On H1-B or L-1 Visa. Many times these Visa based Consultants are used because they are cheaper than Americans and Permanent Residents. As a result, the quality level of such candidates is suspect.
  • Resources located Offshore on the other side of the globe to provide the “WebSphere Consulting Services”.

For these reasons above, the quality of services from these “Prestigious Ones” has declined drastically. The founders of Peningo Systems has thrived for years in providing Consulting Services with the Senior Level Experts at rates that are below the rates of the “Prestigious Ones” with their sub-par to mediocre talent.

Aside from WebSphere Commerce, Peningo Systems supports and provides Consultants with expertise in many areas including, WebSphere Portal, WebSphere Eclipse Development, WebSphere Architecture, System Security Architecture, Identity Management, Access Management, Tivoli Access Manager and Tivoli Identity Manager, DB2 – UDB, SAP, Remedy, Peregrine / HP Openview AssetCenter and ServiceCenter, and J2EE based systems architecture and development. To see Peningo Systems areas of expertise, please go to the Peningo Technical Areas page.

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Lou Dobbs – Must Address the IT Industry’s “Perfect Storm” – The L-1 Visa combined with the OffShoring of IT Jobs

Posted on July 10, 2007 by Edward Pellon

Unfortunately, in the mass media today, there are very few who see and are willing to report on the injustice, abuses and corruption that is behind the motivation of the movement to Outsource IT jobs Offshore. Lou Dobbs is one of the few that for years, has stood out of the crowd, defending the Middle Class of America.

Recently, an immigration law firm posted a video of their techniques to avoid hiring Americans, thus skirting the intent of the law, in order to bring in foreign workers on H1-B. The abuses of the H1-B Visa program has been going for years, and is just another dimension on this attack on the Middle Class of America. In the video below, Lou Dobbs takes on the H1-B issue:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fx–jNQYNgA[/youtube]

While the H1-B abuses are real and truly harm opportunity for Americans, I would like for Lou Dobbs to open his eyes to another dimension that is more dangerous to the American Middle class, and that is the use and abuse of the L-1 Visa program. In my opinion the “Prefect Storm” that is currently attacking the IT Industry is the combination of the L-1 Visa and Outsourcing IT Jobs Offshore.

I have been in the business of providing IT Consultants for 20 years, so I have seen it all. One of the outrages is that a Foreign Corporation who is one of the largest Outsourcers of IT Jobs Offshore in year 2006 had approximately 4000 H-1B Visas and approximately 4000 L-1 Visas, for a total of 8000 new Visas in the USA for just year 2006. The majority of these Visas went to workers from India. While the H-1B Video shows clear abuse in terms of avoiding the “Intent” of the Law, the abuses in the L-1 Program, in my opinion, are more rampant than you’ll find in the H1-B program.

I am planning on requesting an Amendment to be added to the Immigration bill. I feel that my proposal should become America’s Proposal. I would like to have the Amendment referred to as the “H1-B and L-1 Visa Social Security and Medicare Recovery Amendment”.

In order to bring some equity back to the American tax paying workers, we at Peningo Systems would like to propose the following as the “H1-B and L-1 Visa Social Security and Medicare Recovery Amendment”:

- Any company that hires an H1-B or an L-1 Visa to work in the United States must pay a tax that is equal to 100% of the “Employer and Employee” portion of the Social Security and Medicare tax. This is important, since it takes away one of the “MAIN” incentives to fire an “AMERICAN WORKER” and replace them with an H1-B or L-1 Visa based worker. As it is, some of the H1-Bs, L-1s and their respective employers could be EXEMPT FROM PAYING SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE TAX! Also, many companies pay the employees on these Visas far less than an American, resulting in a lower tax overhead for the companies. Also by placing 100% of the FICA obligations on the company, even if the Visa holder is being paid less than the Americans, it gives some insurance that the hiring of such individuals is not strictly based on “Cost of Labor”. This Proposal is also very important, since it addresses an issue that is near and dear to every American, and that is, supporting Social Security.

- To combat the abuse of low pay to the H1-B and L-1 Visa holder, which results in the under cutting of the American based worker, which is a violation of the letter of the law, the Federal government must come up with a “Up To Date” Salary survey that would accurately reflect what an American actually would get in the free market place. Then the H1-B or L-1 Visa holder MUST be paid in the UPPER 10% of the Salary range…that’s right…. the H1-B or L-1 MUST be paid in the UPPER 10% of the Salary range. This would insure that H1-B and L-1s are treated, in terms of cost, the same as an American and that the H1-B and L-1 Visa holder is truly a talent that is needed! Also, to combat the “Tax Evasion” aspect of these programs, by paying the Visa Holder in the upper range of the Salary Survey, the “Tax” base that the Employee is being paid at would be in par with what Americans pay. Let’s remember the “Spirit” of these Visa programs is to bring talent that cannot be found in the USA marketplace. If this is truly the case, then in the free market, these individuals should command a higher salary than Americans, since they are “SO SPECIAL”. Unfortunately, they only special quality most of these Visa holders have over Americans is that they “ARE CHEAPER” than Americans.

If we implement these 2 proposals, then the H-1B and L-1 would compete with an American based worker on the merits of his/her abilities and not solely based on the fact that the H1-B’s or L-1’s resume looks good and the H1-B or L-1 is 10s of thousands of dollars cheaper than the American.

This is a fair way to bring equity back into the US as well as protect our Tax Base from these Tax Evading scheme of hiring foreign workers and avoid paying for Social Security and Medicare tax.

With the Outsourcing IT Jobs OffShore and/or using employees who are H1-B Visa or L-1 Visa holders, many times the cost of “Services” to the “End Client” is slightly effected. Between huge markups by some of the Larger Outsourcers and/or the combination of multiple layers of subcontractors involved in providing the IT Services with their respective markups, the cost to the “End Client” is still high. All the Offshoring of IT jobs and hiring of H-1Bs & L-1 Visa holders offers is higher profit margins for the Outsourcers…….WHILE PROVIDING LOWER QUALITY OF SERVICE TO THE END CLIENT!!! It is very true the old saying that Power corrupts and that Absolute Power absolutely corrupts. It is time for the Consultant and the End Client to bypass these “Prestigious Ones” which every day are looking more like ruffians and knaves.

We founded Peningo Systems to combat this problem of multiple layers of markups that ends up in between consultant and the end client.

Peningo’s solution to this problem is to bypass these “Offshore Outsourcers” and with the support of Peningo Systems Inc, contract directly between the Consultant and the End Client, thus, eliminating these ”Prestigious Ones” excessive Mark-ups and allowing for increased compensation for the Consultant while lowering the costs for the End Client.

Lou Dobbs is a hero, since he is one of the few who is willing to stand up a fight for the American worker. I think to complete the coverage of this circle of this attack on America, Lou Dobbs needs to focus on the IT Industry’s “Perfect Storm”, the combination of the L-1 Visa Program with Outsourcing IT Jobs Offshore and its effect on taking opportunity away from America and cheating every American.

If you wish to voice your opinion, you are welcome in commenting to this post. If you wish to voice your opinion to a greater authority….Congress and/or your State Representatives, please go to the Peningo Advocacy Assistance Page

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