N2 Services Inc.

1. N2 Services Inc. Strategic Vision N2 Services Inc.

2. About us • N2 services is founded by a group of highly accomplished Enterprise Architects, consultants and project managers. • The team is hand-picked based on our core-competencies and the business needs we wanted to serve as part of our Strategic vision • We pride ourselves in keeping abreast with the latest technologies and standards and keeping our technology visions in-line with the current developments N2 Services Inc.

3. We are not…. • We are not sales guys trying to market our consulting firm • We will not try to sell a specific product or promote a specific vendor or technology • We will not commit to tasks that we cant accomplish. If we run into this issues, we will let the clients know and even recommend any potential alternatives or partners. N2 Services Inc.

4. Our Service Methodology • N2 Services operates as “Implementation Partners” to the clients it services. Our Architects, developers and Project Managers are selected by the clients at the initiation of the project. Once they are selected; this core team will be “committed” to the clients for their project needs until the clients agree to release them. • Our Business methodology is to provide partners for your project; not just consultants N2 Services Inc.

5. Service Methodology (contd.) • Our Architects design reference architectures for various project environments and document the best practices for a given project • Our Project Managers follow best practices in Project Management to help your project succeed in the most effective manner N2 Services Inc.

6. Methodology departments • We have identified a core-set of technology departments as part of our effort to identify target areas for our software services. These departments can also be considered “challenges” or “problem spaces” that organizations frequently come across • These methodology departments continue to evolve as we expand and progress. This effort is do exactly that; identify challenges and opportunities that are consistent with our architectural vision and core competencies. N2 Services Inc.

7. Methodology departments (contd.) • Once the methodology departments are identified our core-team works on – • Identifying challenges and constraints within that area • Identifying best practices within that area • Identifying industry leaders (Vendors, Service providers) within that area • Design reference architectures that can be implemented to solve the challenges and problems within the area N2 Services Inc.

8. Methodology departments Identified till now • ERP Implementation Strategies • Data Conversion Strategies • Enterprise Application Integration Strategies • Middleware Technologies • Identity Management Strategies • Project Management Strategies and approaches • Change Control processes • Testing and Deployment Strategies and Best practices • Software development Strategies N2 Services Inc.

9. Typical ERP Implementation project challenges • Most corporations (even ERP vendors) don’t fully comprehend the complexities involved with an ERP System implementation. They generally understand it to be a re-engineering of data, system and database. So they generally focus on Data conversion, Systems and database infrastructure N2 Services Inc.

10. Typical ERP Challenges • Because of concentrating fully on conversion of data and system efforts; the project staff is strapped and blind-sided with the following major side effects • Lack of software development and design knowledge of the application programmers (since they were focused on conversion) • Lack of Applications Development methodology and architecture for design of custom applications, interfaces and ERP enhancements N2 Services Inc.

11. ERP Challenges • No Enterprise Application Integration or Identity Management Strategy. Results in maintenance of many interfaces with similar goals; but programming style (some times completely different approaches and programming languages). • Poor or not well thought out reporting architecture and report development architecture (performance problems, inefficient coding techniques). N2 Services Inc.

12. Problem summary • A typical ERP implementation addresses the data and systems conversion; but fails to address the important needs of the applications staff for continuing to support the ERP system after the project • If there is no consistent blue print for application development it makes it very difficult for developers to continue to do their job in the new environment. This in turn results in poor coding techniques and practices N2 Services Inc.

13. N2 Services’ ERP Implementation Strategy • N2 Services uses proven methodology to help our customers implement ERP systems effectively. Our ERP Implementation strategy doesn’t solely focus on the conversion effort (to convert data from the legacy system to the ERP system) but also focuses on the need for Enterprise Application Integration and Software Development methodologies. • N2 Services also focuses on proven best practices for Project Management and Business Intelligence. N2 Services Inc.

14. ERP Implementation • A typical N2 reference architecture for ERP Implementation comprises of the following critical components • Enterprise Application Integration • Data Conversion • Project Management • Middleware technologies • Reporting • Software Development Methodology • Database Administration Support • Systems Administration Support N2 Services Inc.