What we do?
The next revolution in information technology is migration to what has been labeled as “The Third Platform”. Following the revolution that was brought about by the introduction of mainframe technology (first platform) and the movement to distributed computing (second platform), the third platform is the convergence and mutual reinforcement of four interdependent trends: social interaction, mobility, cloud, and information (i.e. “Big Data?”).
Platform 3 Solutions has robust capability that enables organizations to transform their current legacy and distributed technology platforms to this third platform. Our services include:
Portfolio Rationalization and Platform Modernization Consulting
Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Consulting
How we do it?
Portfolio Rationalization and Platform Modernization Consulting
1. How do you cut costs, reduce complexities, and by bringing your business to the Third Platform?
The convergene of cloud, mobile computing, social
media and Big Data are transforming businesses across the globe. Platform 3 Solutions provides comprehensive consulting to perform portfolio assessment, portfolio rationalization and portfolio modernization that will help your business move to the next level of transformation. Platform 3 Solutions provides the following services:
1. Portfolio level technology and functional assessment
2. Development of technology rationalization and modernization strategy.
3. Development of emerging technologies conversion and implementation strategy – this includes cloud and mobile enablement assessment.
4. Development of implementation road maps
including identification of functional and interface dependencies,
5. Cost/benefit analysis as well as return on
investment assessment for rationalization and modernization programs
Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Consulting
1. Do you have an overall archival strategy for your company’s data? Is the strategy current and is it being followed?
2. Is the data within your information systems being archived on a schedule that meets legal and
regulatory requirements?
3. Is your archived data being stored on the most inexpensive media possible?
4. Is archived data being purged consistent with company policy?
5. Does the lack of effective archival management cause performance issues for your applications? Enterprise content can be managed to drive specific business value, operational efficiencies and future business objectives. Typically organizations develop IT systems, system architecture and data architecture for current business needs. As business grows, the IT
systems lacks flexibility to maintain active data and content effectively. This results in performance and stability issues and an ongoing increase in operational costs. Platform 3 Solutions provides consulting services to develop and implement a comprehensive content management strategy based on our customer’s business needs.
Our consulting services include:
2. Alignment of long-term business growth and scalability requirements
3. Establishment of corporate information governance, architecture and security
4. Focused strategies for the management of structured and unstructured data
5. Identification and leverage of leading ECM products and tools
6. Implementation of ongoing archival solutions to minimize application performance and stability issues and reduce ongoing operational costs
Application Decommissioning Services
1. Is the decommissioning of your applications proceeding according to plan?
2. Do you need to maintain systems (infrastructure, products, applications) and subject matter expertise to support decommissioned applications?
3. Do your decommissioned applications support all regulatory and legal compliance requirements? 4. Is your overall company approach for
decommissioning the most effective and efficient? 5. Could your company benefit from a capability that
allows you to shut down your legacy applications completely while still meeting all legal, regulatory and business needs during the runout period?
Many companies are faced with changing technology landscape in the marketplace to accommodate emerging platform 3 technologies such as cloud and mobile and
this demands modernization of their existing platform or decommissioning of their legacy platform of
applications.
Platform 3 Solutions provides an application
decommissioning service that delivers a comprehensive solution. Our solution includes working with business partners and IT stakeholders to develop a
decommissioning roadmap and an implementation plan includingdelivery of functional and data migration
services from source application to target application. Platform 3 Solutions also develops and implements capabilities to perform business runout functions
accommodating any business dependency requirements, customer service, legal and audit requirements.
Platform 3 Solutions ensures performance of data
archival by leveraging market leading products such as EMC’s InfoArchive and developing custom solutions to meet customer requirements. In addition, the
establishment of process and procedures for accelerated decommissioning of applications and facilitation of
hardware decommissioning drives a faster time to
market for new products with significant operational cost savings.
We understand that every customer’s decommissioning requirements are different and we work closely with our customers to develop solutions.
decommissioning as it ensures that the data is safely stored and can be accessed in reduced cost storage while the more expensive legacy systems can be decommissioned and the resources supporting the legacy systems repurposed for more strategic efforts. This is also the most complex step as we have to ensure that the data is transferred in an immutable fashion
while all referential integrity is maintained and there is no data loss during the transformation. We also have to consider the type of data archival and the cost
associated with the archival during the retention period.
PRODUCTS AND PLAFTFORMS WE SUPPORT
Syncplicity: Mobile and external access to high value
files.
1. Sync any folder or desktop
2. Include and exclude sub folders
3. Automatic version control as files are saved
4. Native clients for Windows, Mac, iOS, Android and Windows 8
5. Online file browser with version history
Documentum Platform: Organize, control, and access
vital enterprise content.
Documentum Services for SAP: Archive SAP data and integrate advanced content and process management into SAP business applications.
My Documentum: Empower information access through familiar applications to leverage enterprise content management services.
Documentum D2: Gain quick access to information of all types and expose the full range of Documentum
services.
Captiva
Transform paper from a liability into a business
advantage by converting your paper, faxes, and other content into application-ready information.
Documentum xCP:
xCP is a flexible development platform for automating complex, information-intensive processes to drive better business decisions.
PRODUCTIVITY: xCP increases productivity and
reduces cycle times for high-volume, people-driven processes by placing all relevant information at the user’s fingertips.
INTELLIGENCE: xCP harnesses information from any source, including Big Data, mobile and cloud. xCP provides real-time visibility, content analytics, and business insight.
AGILITY: xCP provides a simple, scalable technology for rapid, repeatable application development and
deployment of cloud-ready solutions that can be adapted as you and your customer’s needs evolve.
InfoArchive
InfoArchive: a unified enterprise archiving platform that stores related structured data and unstructured content in a single, consolidated repository. This product enables corporations to preserve the value of enterprise
information in a single, easily accessible, unified repository.
FLEXIBLE, UNIFIED ARCHIVE - InfoArchive ingests structured data and unstructured content in a single, unified archive, providing a holistic view of related information.
ARCHIVE FOR COMPLIANCE - Gain a long-term, compliant archive, meeting retention requirements and ensuring auditability, defensibility, and easy accessibility when needed.
COST REDUCTIONS - Leverage cost savings in infrastructure, administration, and operations by archiving static and valuable information. Achieve even more significant cost savings by using
InfoArchive to decommission legacy applications.
InfoArchive key features
1. Archives structured and unstructured data from all legacy systems.
2. Live and decommissioned data archived in XML making it future proof and vendor/application neutral. The data is never changed. It is
archived in InfoArchive and is structured
exactly the same as in the legacy application. Once archived in InfoArchive, our clients no longer require third party or application knowledge to retrieve the data for legal, regulatory or business purposes.
3. Our solution includes a high-performance,
scalable and native XML platform that supports a flexible data model. We can archive data from any source: DB2, Oracle, SQL and even flat file systems such as VSAM
4. InfoArchive also contains a framework that enables rapid application development. 5. InfoArchive can be customized easily to suit
any application and reporting requirements. 6. Our solution supports legal holds and
retentions
7. Our solution protects the chain of custody for compliance and legal requirements
