08.04.09
Posted in IT Consulting, WebSphere, WebSphere Consulting, WebSphere Portal at 4:32 pm 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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08.18.08
Posted in IBM Tivoli, Offshoring, Tivoli, Tivoli Access Manager, Tivoli Consulting, WebSphere, WebSphere Commerce, WebSphere Consulting, WebSphere Portal at 11:57 am 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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07.07.08
Posted in IT Outsourcing, Offshoring, Tivoli, Tivoli Consulting, WebSphere, WebSphere Commerce, WebSphere Consulting, WebSphere Portal at 5:19 pm 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:
To learn more regarding JSR 168, please go to the following link:
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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04.04.08
Posted in Offshoring, WebSphere, WebSphere Consulting, WebSphere Portal, outsourcing at 12:23 pm 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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03.03.08
Posted in IBM Tivoli, IT Outsourcing, Offshoring, Tivoli, Tivoli Access Manager, Tivoli Consulting, WebSphere, WebSphere Consulting, WebSphere Portal at 1:06 pm 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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08.27.07
Posted in Contract Direct to the End Client, H1-B Visa, H1B, IBM Tivoli, IT Outsourcing, Intellectual Property, L1 Visa, OffShoring Jobs is Tax Evasion, Offshoring, Offshoring Intellectual Property, Outsource the Outsourcers, Outsourcing Intellectual Property, Software Copyright, Software Intellectual Property, Tivoli, Tivoli Access Manager, Tivoli Identity Manager, WebSphere, WebSphere Commerce, WebSphere Consulting, WebSphere Portal, outsourcing at 9:20 pm 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.
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:
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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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08.02.07
Posted in Contract Direct to the End Client, H1-B Visa, H1B, IBM Tivoli, IT Outsourcing, Intellectual Property, L1 Visa, Offshoring, Offshoring Intellectual Property, Outsource the Outsourcers, Outsourcing Intellectual Property, Peningo News, Software Copyright, Software Intellectual Property, Software Rights, The Monopoly Game Applied To The IT Industry, Tivoli, Tivoli Access Manager, Tivoli Identity Manager, WebSphere, WebSphere Commerce, WebSphere Consulting, WebSphere Portal, outsourcing at 12:10 pm 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.
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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07.22.07
Posted in Contract Direct to the End Client, H1-B Visa, H1B, IBM Tivoli, L1 Visa, Offshoring, Offshoring Intellectual Property, Outsource the Outsourcers, Outsourcing Intellectual Property, Software Rights, The Monopoly Game Applied To The IT Industry, Tivoli, Tivoli Access Manager, Tivoli Identity Manager, WebSphere, WebSphere Commerce, WebSphere Consulting, WebSphere Portal, outsourcing at 10:54 am 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.
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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