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What can you learn from our experiences? . Muthu Arumugham Vice President, Technology E-Z Data, Inc. Great ideas are contagious Discussion Forum Format and not a monologue…. Agenda . Platform support for SmartOffice 6.0 Hosting Services Update Conversion Services Group
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What can you learn from our experiences? Muthu Arumugham Vice President, Technology E-Z Data, Inc
Great ideas are contagious Discussion Forum Format and not a monologue…
Agenda • Platform support for SmartOffice 6.0 • Hosting Services Update • Conversion Services Group • Security Advisory Council • Integrations
SmartOffice 6.0 Technical Specification • J2EE 1.4 based application and J2EE 1.4 requires • Servlet 2.4 and above • EJB 2.1 and above • JSP 2.0 and above • JDK 1.5 and above • Client side requirement • HTML 4.0 • CSS 1.0 • JavaScript 5.5 • XML Process 3.0 • Client side platform support • Window 2000 and above • IE 6.0 and above
SmartOffice 6.0 Platform Support • App Servers • Websphere 6.1 and above • Weblogic 9.1 and above • Tomcat 5.5 and above • Oracle • 10gR2 and above • Dropping support for 9i and 8i • DB2 • 8.3 and above • Dropping support for 7.x
Hosting Services Update After four years …. • First retail customer in Mar 2003 • After four years… • 4,000+ retail users • 1,000+ small businesses • 99.8% uptime for the last 24 months • Proactive monitoring with SmartMonitor • Corporate Customers (partial list) • Ameriprise Financials (four different systems) • Wachovia Insurance Services • HSBC Insurance Services • NFP (a.k.a Partners Financial) • CPS – a BGA
Hosting Services • What can you learn from our experience • Best practices of monitoring • Best practices of DR/BCP • Best practices of maintenance • Team of 35+ people dedicated for hosting operations • System Administrators • Database Administrators • Network Administrators • Security Administrators • J2EE/Tomcat Administrators • 24x7 NOC analysts
Hosting Services • How can you take advantage of our hosting services?
Conversion Services Group (CSG) • A new service group within E-Z Data to perform end to end data conversions • CDS • Act • Goldmine • Based on best practices of converting 4,000+ SOO users and corporate implementations • How can you take advantage of CSG’s services? • E-Z Data resources (e.g. Raju) are available here to help you
Security Roadmap • Proactive and Periodic Auditing • Policies, Procedures and Processes audits • Ethical Hacking • Vulnerability Threat Assessment (VTA) • Penetration Testing
Security Advisory Council (SAC) • 1 year term • Membership • 4 from corporate clients • 2 practitioners from the security industry • Let us learn from each other’s experience • Great opportunity for networking of like minded people • One meeting per quarter • No more than 2 hours of commitment every month
Integration Options • SmartIntegrator • Launching third-party and homegrown web/windows applications • Event-based data push from SmartOffice • On-demand update of SmartOffice data • Pulling/pushing data from integration middleware (e.g. MQ Series) • DataXchange Enterprise • Synchronizing large volumes of legacy or third-party data on a daily/weekly basis • Leads distribution • Synchronizing user/hierarchy data between LDAP and SmartOffice • DataXchange Online • Timely updates of pending cases, appointments, contracts, licenses • Distribution of inforce policy values
SmartIntegrator • A very mature and proven integration strategy • Pre-packaged integrations with 3rd party applications • Custom integrations • Empower your developers with • SmartIntegrator Training • SmartIntegrator JumpStart Package
Web Services and SOA • SmartIntegrator is a data access layer • Objects and Properties • CRUD methods • WSDL for Data Services and Business Services • Reshuffling the code to expose reusable components as “services”. Examples, • Send Form letter as email • Check activity conflict • Get Duplicate Contacts
What can you learn from our experiences? Muthu Arumugham Vice President, Technology E-Z Data, Inc