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Trianz can help you maximize your business potential with scalable, resilient cloud computing. Our cloud consulting team has helped organizations minimize costs and maximize return on investment through a careful optimization of their cloud infrastructure and applications. We focus on a cloud-first approach, leveraging the value of cloud-native software and hardware solutions to help our clients realize the most value from their digital transformations.

Analytics

ENTERPRISE DATA MANAGEMENT AND REPORTING PROGRAM FOR A MEDICAL CENTER

Medical Center Seeks Strategic Planning Support for an Enterprise Data Management and Reporting Program A non-profit medical center sought help for the strategic planning and implementation of an Enterprise Data Management (EDW) platform, along with supplementary analytics and reporting functionality. The medical center’s previous data warehouse (DW) and analytics reporting solutions were not fit for purpose, leading to multiple challenges in generating insight and accessing data. Challenges With Data and Analytics for the Medical Center The existing reporting and analytics environment had numerous limitations due to the age of the underlying infrastructure and software packages. The medical center needed a complete redesign of its data warehousing (DW) and business intelligence (BI) tools. It also required a brand-new enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution to be installed, coordinated alongside DW and BI installations. Finally, EPIC CarePATH is a specialist solution that needed to be integrated with Oracle cloud infrastructure. What Was the Medical Center Looking to Achieve? By replacing the aging data warehouse and business intelligence solutions, the medical center would gain more throughput with analytics and reporting. The old solution was bottlenecked, forcing employees to wait for insight while the data warehouse environment responded to queries. Newer business intelligence tools opened an avenue for more targeted insight and greater value extraction from existing datasets. This would help guide business decisions, allowing the non-profit meet business objectives. Technology Components Used by the Medical Center on Oracle After consultation and implementation, the medical center leveraged the following technology components: Oracle DB was used as a healthcare database solution due to schema-agnostic storage support, allowing for diverse and differing datasets in a centralized repository. Business Objects allowed the medical center to store and comprehensively tag all types of assets, such as insurance policy documents, medical records, and purchase orders within the Oracle DB environment. It also supports object relations to expedite database querying and data-matching. Clarity was enabled to facilitate bi-directional e-commerce integration on both Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) cloud platforms and on-premises environments. EPIC CarePATH was used to integrate and streamline modern healthcare workflows with cross-data-source querying. SAP Crystal Reports was the reporting solution of choice as it supported the offloading of data processing workloads to remote datacenters whenever usage peaked, with real-time report generation and sharing. How Did Trianz Implement These Technologies for the Medical Center Client? Trianz worked closely with the medical center’s IT team to plan, strategize, and manage the data and analytics for the digital transformation project. This included devising a work plan, determining business and technical requirements with iterative release scheduling, the provisioning of ETL pipelines, and data application architecting. The workforce was educated on best-of-breed data warehousing tools and architectures, while developing techniques to move forward with an enterprise strategy and implementation plan. Trianz defined specific requirements for the data warehouse information system, data architecture, and technical database operations. A range of database types were integrated as part of the data warehousing platform, including conceptual, logical, and physical. A high-level redesign of extract-transform-load processes in and out of the data warehouse environment brought efficiency and reliability improvements to data procedures and any reliant programs. Business Objects was upgraded to XI R2 for its latest features and security improvements. Finally, a User Group and Advisory Board were created to assist with the implementation and roll-out of the enterprise data warehouse across all departments. Transformational Effects and Business Impacts After the digital transformation, the medical center experienced tangible real-world benefits. User self-service was enabled, directly tackling growing database support requirements across the business. Company adherence with HIPAA regulations was streamlined thanks to governance frameworks built into the data warehouse ruleset, essentially automating data governance. Standardized reporting templates and data visualization capabilities enhanced insight generation across all modalities. Online paperless reporting reduced the medical center’s carbon footprint and paper usage, while improving usability and shareability with other employees. Custom reports were reduced with pre-defined and approved templates taking their place. These report templates are contained within a catalog for ease of access. Data bandwidth, response times, and data integrity were improved thanks to faster processing times, lower I/O latency, and more stringent validation both in-transit and at-rest for data packets. Experience the Trianz Difference Trianz enables digital transformations through effective strategies and excellence in execution. Collaborating with business and technology leaders, we help formulate and execute operational strategies to achieve intended business outcomes by bringing the best of consulting, technology experiences and execution models. Powered by knowledge, research, and perspectives, we enable clients to transform their business ecosystems and achieve superior performance by leveraging infrastructure, cloud, analytics, digital and security paradigms. Reach out or get in touch to learn more. ×

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Cloud, Analytics

CENTRALIZED ENTERPRISE DATA REPOSITORY FOR A PACKAGING AND SHIPPING SUPPLIES PROVIDER

Accelerating Business Efficiency with a Centralized Enterprise Data Repository Trianz was approached by a packaging and shipping supplies provider based in North America. The client wanted to combine siloed data repositories into a single-source-of-truth (SSOT) to promote data integrity, validity, and accuracy. Business Challenges for the Shipping Supplies Provider with Data Management The client was dealing with data siloes across the business, meaning there was no SSOT to derive insight from. This created inconsistency between departments as they used analytics and business intelligence (BI) tools to generate insights, leading to inaccurate insights that negatively impacted business decision-making. To resolve this, the client needed a new centralized enterprise data repository that combines these siloed datasets into a SSOT. This would improve capabilities around data validity, verification, and integrity monitoring, leading to more accurate data and more accurate insight from analytics and BI tools. Technology Components Selected for the Shipping Client by Trianz After a comprehensive assessment of the shipping client’s IT infrastructure and services, Trianz selected the following technology components: Informatica was chosen as an end-to-end data operations platform for data engineering, integration, governance, and quality assurance processes. SQL Server was used as a relational database management system (RDBMS), chosen for integrations and live connector optimizations with PowerBI. Lastly, PowerBI was chosen as a Microsoft ecosystem solution for BI operations, including analytics, dataset unification, visualizations, and more. How Trianz Helped the Shipping Supplier to Build a SSOT and Transform Analytics and BI Operations Our data experts started with asset discovery and analysis to formulate an end-to-end picture of business IT systems and services. This helped with the identification of appropriate technology components, ensuring compatibility and integrability. From here, Trianz took control of data operations and systematically optimized the architecture for high availability, accuracy, and validity. The target was operational availability 24 hours a day, 7 days a week as part of a 99.9% uptime service level agreement. Next, existing data models were simplified to assist with downstream analysis. These models could then be used across the business to generate insights with greater efficiency. Trianz collaborated with the client’s IT department to standardize business IT applications and services, and transform IT and data governance frameworks. This would prevent unauthorized data access and improve data security as the same rules could now be applied holistically. Finally, Trianz worked within Informatica to centralize structured datasets on SQL Server. This included the configuration of optimized data connectors between SQL Server and PowerBI to streamline analytics and BI data operations. Transformational Effects After Building a New SSOT for the Shipping Client Now, the client could generate holistic, 360-degree analytical overviews of various business operations to derive insight for use in business decisions. This improved the quality of decisions, directly impacting the top and bottom line. Statutory reporting timescales were shortened significantly, improving awareness across the business in relation to mandatory government information-sharing requirements. Data availability was greatly improved alongside workforce trust in the validity and accuracy of datasets. This meant the business had access to quality data sources with sharp turnaround times when submitting queries. Experience the Trianz Difference Trianz enables digital transformations through effective strategies and excellence in execution. Collaborating with business and technology leaders, we help formulate and execute operational strategies to achieve intended business outcomes by bringing the best of consulting, technology expertise, and execution models. Powered by knowledge, research, and experience, we enable clients to transform their business ecosystems and achieve superior performance by leveraging infrastructure, cloud, analytics, digital, and security paradigms. Reach out to get in touch or learn more.

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Infrastructure

TRANSFORMING BUSINESS AND IT OPERATIONS

Transforming Business and IT Operations via Large-Scale Public Cloud Migration Trianz was approached by a Fortune 500 global insurance company that sought to migrate the majority of its business applications and infrastructure workloads to the public cloud. Business Challenges for the Fortune 500 Insurer in Process and Data Orchestration The client was using inconsistent manual processes to input data, and this data was spread across numerous siloed data repositories at the department-level, and more widely across country borders. With data spread across multiple platforms and geographies, manual collation and reconciliation led to inconsistency in datasets, reducing the accuracy and validity of real-time revenue and profitability insights. Technology Components Selected by Trianz for the Fortune 500 Insurance Company After close collaboration with stakeholders and business departments, Trianz decided on the following technology components: Informatica PowerCenter was chosen as a scalable, high-performance solution for data integration and data lifecycle management. IBM PureData System for Analytics (PDA) was chosen as an advanced data warehousing and analytics operations solution. Qlik was chosen as a visualized data analytics solution to enable the creation of interactive, visually represented reports and dashboards. Aginity works as a data catalog for analytics workflows, enabling the reuse of SQL code to return tried-and-tested query results faster. IBM Cognos Framework Manager was chosen to create collective business models using metadata derived from various singular data sources. Cognos Active Reports was chosen to supplement business intelligence workflows with interactive reports containing data insights. How Trianz Helped the Fortune 500 Insurer to Eliminate Manual Processes and Transform Visibility Trianz started by identifying business use cases, as well as assessing the complexity and value of migration to the cloud for each use case. Next, our data experts defined a conceptual cloud architecture that would meet business and IT objectives on the AWS cloud. Then, migration prioritization took place, ensuring low-effort and high-value migration milestones were prioritized first for a faster return on investment. After this, data analysis took place to generate profiles for each geographic area and line of business. During this process, workshops took place to facilitate decisions and agreements on common definitions between business department stakeholders and select digital champions. Finally, a proof of concept was developed for two specific, high-priority countries. After validating the concept, it was then expanded to ten other countries. Transformational Effects After Eliminating Manual Processes and Improving Data Visibility Trianz finalized the project with a roadmap established around business use-cases and incremental development work on AWS. The client would use this as guidance to maintain and upgrade the platform in the future. A return-on-investment model was also created for the global enterprise data warehouse in IBM PDA. By eliminating manual processes, the client mitigated data quality risks proactively to improve the value of its datasets. Business definitions established in Aginity guided operations across countries and departments, promoting analytical consistency. Finally, business users were now able to analyze and unearth insights on revenue and profitability in congruence, regardless of country or department—a critical milestone in the project. Experience the Trianz Difference Trianz enables digital transformations through effective strategies and excellence in execution. Collaborating with business and technology leaders, we help formulate and execute operational strategies to achieve intended business outcomes by bringing the best of consulting, technology expertise, and execution models. Powered by knowledge, research, and experience, we enable clients to transform their business ecosystems and achieve superior performance by leveraging infrastructure, cloud, analytics, digital, and security paradigms. Reach out to get in touch or learn more.

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Cloud

ALFRESCO DEPLOYMENT ON THE AWS CLOUD

Alfresco Deployment on the AWS Cloud for a Fortune 100 Insurance Company Trianz was approached by a Fortune 100 insurance company looking for help with its Alfresco documentation management platform. It was seeking to migrate Alfresco from an on-premises environment to the AWS cloud to simplify documentation management, collaboration, auditing, and compliance. Business Challenges for the Fortune 100 Insurer with Documentation, Collaboration, and Compliance As the Alfresco deployment was on-premises, the client was struggling with performance bottlenecks and scalability limitations. As a recourse, the insurance client wanted to migrate to the AWS cloud. The AWS cloud environment would need to be flexible and agile to accommodate the client’s documentation management and enterprise collaboration requirements. Technology Components Chosen for the Insurance Company by Trianz After assessing the current-state and future requirements for the insurance client, Trianz decided on the following technology components: AWS Cloud was the cloud service platform (CSP) of choice, with broad and varied features across compute, data, networking, and cybersecurity. Red Hat Enterprise Linux was the operating system (OS) of choice, as it allowed for unmatched flexibility and agility thanks to the customizability and modularity of the Linux kernel. Alfresco was already selected as a content management system (CMS) to connect, manage, and secure important enterprise documentation. MySQL was chosen as a relational database management system (RDBMS) thanks to its querying performance and response times. Elastic Bamboo was adopted to expedite run builds using compute resources on the AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). The Java programming language was used as it is a critical dependency for Alfresco. SharePoint was selected as an intranet and content collaboration solution to share and host internal documentation. BMC Remedy was selected to orchestrate all IT service management processes and principles on the new AWS cloud architecture. How Trianz Helped the Fortune 100 Insurance Company to Deploy Alfresco on AWS Trianz started by analyzing the servers required for the new Alfresco content repository. These analyses were revisited at the development, quality assurance, staging, and production phases to ensure we adhered to the project roadmap. Alfresco itself was upgraded from version 4.2 to version 5.0.3, before existing content was migrated to the new Amazon EC2 architecture. Next, Alfresco was reconfigured and optimized around the new EC2 architecture to enhance performance and scalability. Application integration using Web Service APIs came next, enhancing support across all lines of business for applications and third-party systems. Finally, a two-week evaluation period took place to ensure the live environment met expectations and fulfilled all project milestones. This included a Hypercare support phase, and knowledge transfer to the client’s enterprise content management (ECM) support team and personnel. Transformational Effects For the Fortune 100 Insurer After Migrating Alfresco to the AWS Cloud After migrating Alfresco to the AWS cloud, the insurance client reduced costs significantly while also enhancing its regulatory and legal compliance capabilities. The cost savings came thanks to the economical nature of public cloud infrastructure, using compute nodes and pay-as-you-go billing models. File sharing and collaboration was streamlined as existing business and IT services used Alfresco as a centralized ECM system. By upgrading Alfresco, valuable new documentation management capabilities were enabled with version 5.0.3. Task management and workflow management frameworks were redeveloped to drive consistency and efficiency across all lines of business. The IT department now has complete control over security and data access thanks to AWS role-based access control (RBAC) policies on EC2. The insurance company also had flexibility as it could choose between Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) or private AWS instances, depending on future requirements. The most impactful transformation was around metadata and full-text search functionality, allowing employees across the business to drill deeper into datasets and form more comprehensive insights. Experience the Trianz Difference Trianz enables digital transformations through effective strategies and excellence in execution. Collaborating with business and technology leaders, we help formulate and execute operational strategies to achieve intended business outcomes by bringing the best of consulting, technology expertise, and execution models. Powered by knowledge, research, and experience, we enable clients to transform their business ecosystems and achieve superior performance by leveraging infrastructure, cloud, analytics, digital, and security paradigms. Reach out to get in touch or learn more.

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Analytics

FLEXIBLE ANALYTICS IN TABLEAU FOR LOGISTICS CLIENT

Real Estate Logistics Company Seeks Dynamic Visualized Analytical Dashboards Trianz was approached by a real estate logistics client that needed assistance with visualized analytics. The client needed dynamic visualized analytical dashboards to replace an aging 100+ page PDF document that had become more of a hinderance than a help. Business Challenges for the Real Estate Logistics Company The client was storing earnings preparations in a 100+ page PDF document, which every employee and stakeholder had access to. This meant answers to questions were not readily available during public presentations. The real estate logistics company needed to replace this PDF solution with a flexible and adaptable data visualization analytics platform. This would enable faster queries compared to the PDF document and lower the barrier of entry to analysis thanks to visual dashboards and charts. Technology Components Selected by Trianz After consulting with the real estate client, Trianz decided on the following technology components: Tableau was selected as an analytical reporting and visualization tool. This would allow stakeholders and employees to take structured data, visualize it, and share insights with colleagues. AWS Virtual Cloud Servers were chosen to provide virtual machines in the cloud that could be interfaced with using Denodo, acting as compute nodes for analytical querying workflows. Snowflake was chosen as a data warehousing and data lake solution. Denodo Virtualization technology enabled data abstraction, integration, and virtualization in partnership with AWS Virtual Cloud Servers using Snowflake as a data repository. How Trianz Helped the Real Estate Logistics Client to Enable Visualized Analytics in Tableau Trianz started by condensing the 100+ page PDF source file into a 3-tab dynamic analytics dashboard. This allowed teams to evaluate multiple metrics across multiple dimensions, geographies, and timeframes, greatly improving the depth and breadth of generated insights. Next, operating parameters were established to enable employees to create dynamic dashboards that can move vertically through data hierarchies. Data availability was greatly improved using Snowflake, easily surpassing the previous PDF solution. Transformational Effects After Replacing PDFs with Tableau Visualizations After adopting Tableau and Snowflake, the real estate logistics company’s stakeholder team could generate more valuable insights around company performance, competitor trends, and product flow through the delivery pipeline. The field sales team had new access to a remote-friendly PowerBI solution, enabling mobile visualization dashboards that helped sales personnel to monitor key performance indicators relating to call activity. Experience the Trianz Difference Trianz enables digital transformations through effective strategies and excellence in execution. Collaborating with business and technology leaders, we help formulate and execute operational strategies to achieve intended business outcomes by bringing the best of consulting, technology expertise, and execution models. Powered by knowledge, research, and experience, we enable clients to transform their business ecosystems and achieve superior performance by leveraging infrastructure, cloud, analytics, digital, and security paradigms. Reach out to get in touch or learn more.

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Digital Apps

CENTRALIZED CRM FOR LIFE INSURANCE PROVIDER

Partner Centric Sales Driven with Centralized CRM Trianz was tasked with helping a Fortune 100 life insurance provider that works with individuals and families of all income levels and backgrounds. They are predominantly an asset management firm, helping individuals and families manage their asset portfolios. Challenges for the Life Insurance Provider in Sales Operations The life insurer had multiple sales channels operating simultaneously, including third-party distribution and agency sales & services channels. Due to this complexity, the system was struggling to process workloads consistently and efficiently. The life insurance provider needed a single, centralized platform to manage all sales goals and daily targets. With multiple source systems, converging these environments would be difficult due to the customized extract-transform-load (ETL) processes it uses — in addition to the 900+ end users heavily reliant on this service-system across the entire business group. Technology Components Trianz identified and implemented the following technology components to help the Fortune 100 life insurer reach its IT objectives: Salesforce.com (SFDC) is the sales operations platform of choice, enabling customer relationship management (CRM), sales orchestration and subscriptions, marketing automation, sales and customer analytics, and custom app hosting or development. Informatica is an enterprise cloud data management platform powered by artificial intelligence. It was chosen as a centralized data warehousing solution, with stringent data governance and risk management, automated data discovery and preparation, large-scale analytics using serverless compute, and centralized 360-degree elucidation of business data operations. Data Interfaces were created specifically for Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and Representational State Transfer (REST) request fulfillment. This was particularly useful for data integration and orchestration between Salesforce and Informatica. How Trianz Helped the Life Insurer to Enable Digitalized Sales Operations and End-to-End Data Orchestration Due to the scale of the project, our data experts identified digital champions across the business to assist with development and project support. This coincided with key stakeholder meetings to garner support for the sales and data digital transformation project. Next, a scalable team structure was established. Knowledge assets across all sales processes were documented and centralized in a knowledge base. A new dedicated team was onboarded with the help of our data and sales experts, educating personnel to use the new system with competence and confidence. A governance model was established to protect data security and comply with regulations like PCI-DSS and GDPR — an essential measure considering the 900+ end users on the platform. The engagement model was transformed to accommodate the new technologies, adhere with service level agreements (SLAs) and prioritize support for business-critical customers. Finally, a distributed support team was deployed to enable 18-hour, 6-day per week customer support globally. Transformational Effects with SFDC and Informatica The new system offered predictable delivery and continuous engagement with potential customers: a key target for the digital transformation project. This greatly improved platform adoption for the life insurance company. As the new system was future-proofed in terms of both technicality and capability, multiple business departments were confident to adopt and utilize the new system in their daily operations. Rather than custom solutions, Trianz stuck to an out-of-box-experience (OOBE) in Salesforce and Informatica. This meant the business could rely on the new platform’s long-term existing functionality, rather than perpetuating a cycle of redevelopment and troubleshooting with custom solutions. Experience the Trianz Difference Trianz enables digital transformations through effective strategies and excellence in execution. Collaborating with business and technology leaders, we help formulate and execute operational strategies to achieve intended business outcomes by bringing the best of consulting, technology expertise, and execution models. Powered by knowledge, research, and experience, we enable clients to transform their business ecosystems and achieve superior performance by leveraging infrastructure, cloud, analytics, digital, and security paradigms. Reach out to get in touch or learn more.

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Infrastructure

INFRASTRUCTURE ANALYTICS AND AIOPS ON BMC CLOUD

Business Service Health Monitoring and Event Correlation to Minimize MTTR Trianz worked with a global insurance provider to enhance its infrastructure analytics and AI-powered remediation capabilities in the cloud. The insurance provider delivers services and products to individuals, families, and corporate customers worldwide. Challenges for the Insurance Provider with Cloud Visibility The insurance provider was struggling with excessive mean-times-to-repair (MTTR) incidents on its network. Gaining visibility into business service health and co-dependent services was difficult, and manual thresholds and rule-based alerts were not fit for purpose. This led to event noise and inefficient IT operations management (ITOM). The client used a diverse multi-cloud architecture but lacked cross-cloud insight, leading to a lack of infrastructure visibility. Trianz was enlisted to build an IT Operations (ITOps) platform with intelligent monitoring algorithms, which would reduce the client’s service incident levels using data-driven analytics and AI remediation playbooks. This would bridge the current multi-cloud canyon, centralizing monitoring for the entire IT network and reducing the mean-time-to-detect (MTTD) incidents through better data correlation. Technology Components Trianz worked with the insurance provider to implement the following technology components: BMC Cloud was used to orchestrate the insurance provider’s multi-cloud IT environment. This included cross-cloud spooling of IT resources, ingesting and centralizing monitoring data, cost management, dependency mapping, inventory management, as well as independent software vendor (ISV) relationship and licensing management. Splunk ITSI was included to enable IT Service Intelligence (ITSI) for the insurance provider. This solution enabled end-to-end service visibility and streamlined incident resolution using real-time event correlation, automated incident prioritization, predictive analytics, and other ITSM orchestration tools. How Trianz Helped the Insurance Provider to Enable Multi-Cloud Analytics and Insight on BMC with Splunk Trianz started by conducting workshops across all business departments, helping key stakeholders to understand the present IT challenges and the plan-of-action to remediate using BMC and Splunk. From here, our infrastructure experts prototyped a solution using the requested technology components before seeking feedback from the insurance provider. After approval, the system was developed further. Sample operations data was collected across numerous monitoring solutions to develop correlation policies for event de-duplication. This eventually constituted a custom algorithm for incident and event correlation, developed in-house by Trianz for the insurance provider’s specific business context. Next, Splunk ITSI was integrated with the BMC multi-cloud platform to enable the collection and analysis of event and incident data, removing IT silos in the process. Visualized dashboards in Splunk enabled customizable monitoring and alerting, accessible by employees on device, or deployable to TV displays for greater IT awareness. Finally, the completed system was stress-tested to demonstrate the final incident prediction model, which uses historical events and trends to proactively predict IT incidents. Transformational Effects The insurance provider experienced tangible transformational effects after adopting the new BMC Splunk platform. To start, root cause analysis (RCA) was greatly simplified and much more efficient. This enabled the insurance provider to quickly and competently remediate IT problems using AI, analytics, and system log data. Anomaly detection acted as a safety net for un-predictable IT events, while the proactive incident remediation algorithm automated a large percentage of incident response workflows. This freed up time for the IT department without sacrificing IT service quality. A centralized, consolidated view of critical key performance indicators (KPIs), server metrics and business service health metrics led to greater awareness, faster incident responses, and a better understanding of the correlation between service health and underlying systems. Historical trends, patterns, and problem areas were tracked and archived, acting as a fuel source for the custom machine learning algorithm to perform incident remediation and event correlation. Experience the Trianz Difference Trianz enables digital transformations through effective strategies and excellence in execution. Collaborating with business and technology leaders, we help formulate and execute operational strategies to achieve intended business outcomes by bringing the best of consulting, technology expertise, and execution models. Powered by knowledge, research, and experience, we enable clients to transform their business ecosystems and achieve superior performance by leveraging infrastructure, cloud, analytics, digital, and security paradigms. Reach out to get in touch or learn more.

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Infrastructure

MANAGED SERVICES FOR IT OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

Managed Services for IT Operations Management Trianz was enlisted to help a global insurance company that provides products and services to individuals, families, and corporate customers worldwide. The client needed a managed service that involved handing off management responsibility to a third party, as well as develop an IT operations management (ITOM) toolset digital transformation. Business Challenges The insurer was experiencing trouble with its IT service desk ticketing software, leading to backlogged work requests stretching back to 2014. IT Service Management (ITSM) and IT Operations Management(ITOM) operated independently, creating data silos that reduced agility and awareness. This led to complications when staff performed manual incident resolution workflows, with inaccurate insight leading to inconsistencies when applying a fix. Coupled with the scale and frequency of manual tasks within the business, this opened up a significant risk for human error. Technology Components Trianz consulted with the insurance company and decided upon the following technology components: Citrix Intelligent Traffic Management (ITM) was proposed to optimize inbound and outbound network traffic using real-time data analytics, applicable across web apps, digital software applications, content delivery networks (CDNs), and similar platforms. Tivoli Netcool or OMNIbus was chosen as a service level management (SLM) system. It provides real-time, centralized monitoring of multi and hybrid-cloud networks, feeding relevant data back to helpdesk systems, databases, and remote systems. The end-state enables automatic response triggers to incidents and events on the network and monitors the adherence to proposed service level agreements (SLAs). IPSoft was selected as an autonomic, cognitive solutions platform. IPSoft automates IT and related business processes using conversational AI, which is ideal for external customer queries and internal knowledge sharing with employees. BMC Helix ITSM(previously BMC Remedy) was chosen as an industry-leading, next-gen service management platform that upholds and evolves best-practice ITSM principles aligned with business requirements. How Trianz Helped the Insurance Company to Reduce Human Error, Eliminate ITSM/ITOM Data Silos, and Digitally Transform the IT Service Desk Trianz started by running workshops across all business departments, cultivating the understanding of present IT challenges among key stakeholders. Our infrastructure experts then developed a prototype environment using Citrix ITM, Netcool, IPSoft, and BMC Helix. This established a centralized event management system, providing a single source of truth for AI when executing automated ITSM and ITOM workflows. Data and insight correlation policies were developed and tested so the insurance company could de-duplicate events and reduce event noise fatigue among service personnel. IPSoft was integrated with the event management system to enable remediation playbooks and automated incident resolution. This process involves the creation of Scope of Work (SOP) documents, and configuration of automation scripts aligned with business workflows. The final step was validating the automation script parameters and generated outputs, ensuring everything aligned with the insurer’s expectations. Transformational Effects for the Insurance Provider After Enabling Automation After implementing the new system, the insurance company experienced tangible benefits. First, incident remediation timescales were significantly improved using IPSoft automation playbooks, improving mean-time-to-remediation (MTTR) metrics. This indirectly supported SLM and the upholding of SLA agreements. The prevalence of human error was significantly lowered, namely due to consistent and repeatable automation playbooks through IPSoft. This meant the workforce had more time to focus on high-value tasks, rather than low-level workflows. End-customer confidence levels soared exponentially due to improvements in service quality and reliability, driving business growth and supporting revenues. IT service desk backlogs were reduced by 91% with the support of auto-remediation AI over a five-month period. Staff well-being improved with this change thanks to lower workloads. Finally, around 90% of SLA metrics and reports were automated to simplify management and reduce human error. Overall, this meant that 50% of business-wide reporting needs were met through the new system. Experience the Trianz Difference Trianz enables digital transformations through effective strategies and excellence in execution. Collaborating with business and technology leaders, we help formulate and execute operational strategies to achieve intended business outcomes by bringing the best of consulting, technology expertise, and execution models. Powered by knowledge, research, and experience, we enable clients to transform their business ecosystems and achieve superior performance by leveraging infrastructure, cloud, analytics, digital, and security paradigms. Reach out to get in touch or learn more.

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Cloud

A CASE STUDY IN LARGE INFRASTRUCTURE MIGRATION TO AWS

Helping a Global Software Giant Subsidiary Migrate from Public Cloud to AWS Trianz was approached by a global software giant subsidiary for assistance in migrating from the public cloud to AWS. This client provides innovative software products that can be hosted either on-premises or in the cloud. Challenges for the Software Giant Subsidiary in Infrastructure Scaling and Security The client was struggling to scale its cloud infrastructure in an efficient and reliable manner. This coincided with problems hosting in a multi-tenant environment, where cloud instance separation and data governance workflows was difficult. The software giant subsidiary lacked a central security management system and inherited the deployed architecture without sufficient documentation to understand its inner workings. Technology Components Introduced by Trianz for the Software Giant Subsidiary To start, Trianz performed a top-down assessment of the client’s infrastructure environment before introducing the following technology components: CloudTrail was used for monitoring audit trails. Identity Access Management was used to govern applications and data with role-based access controls. Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) enabled private, isolated cloud instances to improve multi-tenant orchestration within its software platform. Network Security Groups were added to govern firewall operations. Elastic Compute 2 was used to elastically auto-scale compute workloads, ensuring resource availability at peak utilization and cost savings during quieter periods. Elastic Load Balancing was adopted to distribute incoming application network requests and balance workloads across EC2, containers, and other network resources. The existing Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform was replaced with Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). This included a migration from virtual-machine-based MySQL to the AWS Relational Database Service for MySQL. Network Address Translation workloads were redirected to the AWS NAT Gateway. Object-based storage was offloaded to the AWS Simple Storage Service. AWS CloudWatch was the monitoring and alerting solution of choice. How Trianz Helped the Subsidiary to Scale and Secure its Software Platform By using PaaS, Trianz could quickly develop and implement a scalable, architecture-based deployment for the software subsidiary. Multiple availability zones were added to distribute network traffic and get closer to the edge, reducing latency and increasing bandwidth throughput. A centralized and dedicated VPC environment was created to host multi-tenant shared services, eliminating the previous cloud instance separation and data governance challenges. Each application type was provisioned its own VPC to improve reliability, stability, and predictability. This coincided with a complete redevelopment of the application stack by the application team at Trianz. Transformational Effects with the New PaaS Software Environment for the Software Subsidiary Omni-channel commerce operations were successfully migrated from the previous public cloud architecture to AWS. AWS enabled elastic auto-scaling on a per-service level, greatly improving granularity of control for the software subsidiary. A new Central Security Management solution plugged security holes and compliance problems at the infrastructure level. The PaaS adoption resulted in new service level agreements (SLAs) that offloaded the IT operations management burden from the software subsidiary to AWS, thus reducing workloads. This new solution was fault-tolerant and highly available thanks to these new SLAs, greatly improving the quality of application service delivery over the web. Trianz conducted workshops to educate stakeholders and the workforce on operational best practices. Finally, a full library of documentation was written and supplied to the software subsidiary, ensuring clarity and technical understanding in the years to come. Experience the Trianz Difference Trianz enables digital transformations through effective strategies and excellence in execution. Collaborating with business and technology leaders, we help formulate and execute operational strategies to achieve intended business outcomes by bringing the best of consulting, technology expertise, and execution models. Powered by knowledge, research, and experience, we enable clients to transform their business ecosystems and achieve superior performance by leveraging infrastructure, cloud, analytics, digital, and security paradigms. Reach out to get in touch or learn more.

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Infrastructure

HARNESSING SOFTWARE ASSET MANAGEMENT EFFECTIVELY TO ITS FULL POTENTIAL

Helping a Logistics Provider Harness Software Asset Management Trianz was approached by a logistics services provider needing help with software asset management. This client was seeking to utilize its asset management function at full efficiency, while adopting new software compliance frameworks and industry best practices as it transitioned to a Software Asset Management (SAM) platform. Challenges for the Logistics Company in Asset Management The logistics company handled hundreds of thousands of assets per day in its delivery network. Tracking, checking in, and reporting lost payloads was difficult, and finding information on ownership and asset handling was slow and inefficient due to outdated systems. The logistics company needed a SAM solution to reduce manual data input workloads, improve data accessibility for drivers performing fieldwork, and adopt more robust data security and governance processes. Technology Components Curated by Trianz for the Logistics Provider After consulting with the logistics firm, Trianz identified a number of solutions that would help it meet project objectives: ServiceNow was chosen as an end-to-end solution for IT service management (ITSM) and IT operations management. The platform can orchestrate IT resources, obfuscate interactions between services through a centralized accessibility layer, and automate numerous workflows to simplify work for employees. Business DNA (BDNA) Discover is a software and hardware asset identification platform that uses agentless technologies to perform horizontal and vertical network discovery workflows. Level 1 can identify hardware and software assets, with Level 2 revealing asset metadata, and Level 3 offering application identification in runtime environments. How Trianz Helped the Logistics Provider to Develop a SAM Platform To start, Trianz developed and implemented asset and configuration management best-practice frameworks for the logistics provider. This is a form of process engineering. Next, a solution architecture was built. This involved the design, development, and implementation of ServiceNow CMDB and ServiceNow Asset Management tools, with data pipeline creation to centralize all configuration item and asset datasets in ServiceNow. The IT Infrastructure Library framework was adopted to manage processes around configuration management. This eliminated gaps in existing processes to improve overall service management efficiency by 25%. Consultation and thought leadership with key stakeholders communicated the importance of compliance frameworks and industry best practices. Our data experts also guided stakeholders in transforming their individual departments’ processes and workflows to align with new policies and frameworks. New, repeatable processes and workflows were developed to reduce administrative overhead. Overall visibility into ITSM was greatly improved as configuration items and contractual information were readily available in a centralized location. Transformational Effects for the Logistics Provider With SAM Custom parameters were replaced with standardized parameters in alignment with the ServiceNow out-of-box-experience. This reduced the number of configuration variables, streamlining configuration item lifecycle management. All critical-priority hardware and software assets were identified with comprehensive metadata by integrating ServiceNow with BDNA Discover. Reporting frameworks were established to help the organization identify software contract data, including license volumes, licensing permissions, and license compliance versus runtime. The new SAM platform was proactive rather than reactive, helping the logistics provider to plan ahead and foresee challenges and trends. Trianz conducted ongoing workshops to help elevate understanding among stakeholders and the workforce on software or hardware asset management best practices. Experience the Trianz Difference Trianz enables digital transformations through effective strategies and excellence in execution. Collaborating with business and technology leaders, we help formulate and execute operational strategies to achieve intended business outcomes by bringing the best of consulting, technology expertise, and execution models. Powered by knowledge, research, and experience, we enable clients to transform their business ecosystems and achieve superior performance by leveraging infrastructure, cloud, analytics, digital, and security paradigms. Reach out to get in touch or learn more.

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Analytics

DATA VIRTUALIZATION USING DENODO

Data Virtualization Using Denodo for Multi-National Logistics and Real Estate Client Trianz teamed up with a multi-national logistics and real estate investment company to modernize its data warehousing platform. The aim was to help the client scale and cater to growing business needs, enabled by on-demand virtual data models in Denodo. Challenges for the Logistics and Real Estate Company in Data Operations The client had numerous business departments which needed reliable, real-time access to datasets. Data sources were diverse and varied, complicating any attempts to integrate data and form a single-source-of-truth. This logistics and real estate company wanted a quick turnaround on development, and for the new solution to eliminate the need for excess data replication and extract-transform-load processes. They also wanted a self-service option to further reduce workloads for data and IT personnel. Technology Components Identified by Our Experts After assessing the current state of its infrastructure and project requirements, Trianz and the client agreed on the following technology components: Denodo is a data virtualization platform that provides agile, high-performance data integration and abstraction services with zero data replication as-standard. Snowflake is a cloud data warehousing and data lake platform that supports pay-as-you-go (PAYG) billing and high-throughput raw data processing. AWS Lambda is a serverless platform for compute operations that runs software processes with zero provisioning for a minimal IT operations management (ITOM) burden. Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services (IICS) is a cloud data integration service that supports synchronization, replication, and the mass ingestion of datasets. Tableau was chosen as a data visualization and business intelligence platform, creating more valuable insights by converting raw data into visual dashboards and scorecards. How Trianz Helped the Logistics and Real Estate Client Meet its Data Objectives There were three primary pillars to the approach taken by our data experts. First is the Canonical Building Blocks Model. This constituted the building of a reusable, consistent, and governed accessibility layer using the Denodo Logical Data Warehouse, Data Catalog, Embedded Metadata and Row-level Security. Second is a Data Science Toolkit. Denodo uses a microservices architecture—this allowed our experts to develop HTTP data inputs and data API outputs, alongside data caching parameters. As a toolkit, the client could use this in the future to develop on-demand data analytics models. The third and final pillar is the Pipeline-based Deployment Model. We used Terraform to automate data ingestion and loading, building CI/CD pipelines to connect back to Snowflake and AWS Lambda. Denodo Config Backup was adopted to reduce routine downtime, enable effective configuration management, and streamline disaster recovery operations. Transformational Effects for the Logistics and Real Estate Client with Denodo Virtualized building blocks in Denodo were targeted to well-documented business areas for faster analysis, insight generation and return on investment. Other business areas included as definitions were established. On-demand data models reduced initiation times for analytics projects, reducing the time needed to generate insight. This also helped with the development of API-based models and faster go-to-market. CI/CD pipelines streamlined data orchestration for the client. The end-state was one-click data deployment in Denodo with streamlined upgrade processes, a centralized configuration management database (CMDB), and auto-scaling of data and compute resources in Snowflake and AWS Lambda. Experience the Trianz Difference Trianz enables digital transformations through effective strategies and excellence in execution. Collaborating with business and technology leaders, we help formulate and execute operational strategies to achieve intended business outcomes by bringing the best of consulting, technology expertise, and execution models. Powered by knowledge, research, and experience, we enable clients to transform their business ecosystems and achieve superior performance by leveraging infrastructure, cloud, analytics, digital, and security paradigms. Reach out to get in touch or learn more.

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Digital Apps

24/7 APPLICATION AVAILABILITY FOR P&C INSURANCE PROVIDER

Enabling 24/7 Application Availability for a Property and Casualty (P&C) Insurance Provider Trianz was asked to manage a corporate application suite for a property and casualty insurance services provider. The client’s Enterprise Technology Services (ETS) needed a digital transformation to enable 24/7 availability and reliably high-performance despite a high number of globally distributed internal stakeholders and external users. Challenges for the P&C Insurance Provider in Request Management and System Stability The client was encountering system stability challenges that required constant software updates. This resulted in persistent downtime as applications were taken offline for updates. There was no standardized approach to request management, leading to complicated user requests with excessive follow-up communication. Responsibility for upstream and downstream systems was stakeholder-dependent rather than documented and divided among the workforce. Stakeholder unavailability meant this people-dependent approach was unsustainable. Frequent system errors, outages, and failures led to unavailability, unreliability, and poor quality of digital service delivery. Technology Components Recommended by Trianz for the P&C Insurance Provider Trianz worked closely with the P&C insurance provider to identify suitable technology components: An existing 50+ enterprise applications and 15+ technology solutions were active on the corporate IT network. These applications and technologies needed reconfiguring and integration to achieve reliable 24/7 operations. Java, Mainframe Modernization, Oracle Human Resources, Informatica, Documentum Captiva, UNIX, and Linux were major technology areas to adapt and adopt. How Trianz Enabled 24/7 Application Availability for the P&C Insurance Company To start, Trianz created virtual processes to enable enterprise-wide workflow automation. A full assessment of existing technologies and applications allowed our application performance management experts to systematically identify and develop targeted improvements. This included a high number of permanent fixes, improving on earlier recurrent temporary fixes. For problems that could not be immediately resolved, repeatable workarounds were identified and modelled to improve customer satisfaction when requesting support. The new technology platforms were integrated with the ETS. This included Informatica to streamline enterprise cloud data management, and OpenText Documentum to centralize and create a single-source-of-truth for corporate content assets. A metric-driven framework was developed to accurately measure successes and failures in real time on the ETS. Finally, iterative functions were added to promote competency in regular tasks. Transformational Effects for the P&C Insurance Provider with 24/7 Application Availability The client was pleased that total cost of ownership for the ETS was significantly reduced. Customer satisfaction rose considerably due to better system uptime, service level optimization, and faster incident resolution times. Customer experience was also streamlined as a result. Incident resolution playbooks improved clarity and consistency in remediation efforts, both automated and manually executed by IT personnel. Generally, processes were simplified to improve service maturity and impact while minimizing process overhead on the ETS. Experience the Trianz Difference Trianz enables digital transformations through effective strategies and excellence in execution. Collaborating with business and technology leaders, we help formulate and execute operational strategies to achieve intended business outcomes by bringing the best of consulting, technology expertise, and execution models. Powered by knowledge, research, and experience, we enable clients to transform their business ecosystems and achieve superior performance by leveraging infrastructure, cloud, analytics, digital, and security paradigms. Reach out to get in touch or learn more.

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Analytics

CUSTOMER ANALYTICS WITH OBIEE FOR FORTUNE 500 COMPANY

Developing Customer Analytics to Integrate with an Existing Data Warehouse A Fortune 500 storage and software systems company approached Trianz for help with customer analytics. It was looking to develop an Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE)-based analytics platform for reporting and business intelligence (BI), and to integrate this system with its existing data warehousing platform. Challenges for the Fortune 500 Storage and Software Company in IT Operations Management The client had an existing decision support system (DSS) and data mart to use when generating reports. It was facing challenges in analyzing incident information and generating timely insight to guide remediation and troubleshooting. This coincided with a reactive approach to incident resolution. Early root cause analysis was impossible due to a lack of monitoring, leading to storage device failures and dissatisfied clients. This failure was of critical concern among senior executives, as systems were malfunctioning with too much latency between acknowledgement and remediation. Technology Components Procured by Trianz for the Fortune 500 Storage and Software Company This Fortune 500 project consisted of one main technology component to be configured by Trianz: OBIEE is a business intelligence reporting and dashboarding tool. It allows users to generate detailed reports across diverse datasets, with ad-hoc analyses and querying for real-time business intelligence. It also orchestrates ingestion, storage, and analysis of data. How Trianz Helped the Fortune 500 Company to Digitally Transform Business Intelligence Processes Trianz started by developing comprehensive monitoring dashboards and scorecards. This helped to visualize problematic patterns, assisting with root cause analysis. Our data experts then enabled an enterprise-wide ad-hoc analytics service using existing technology components and OBIEE. This meant users in all departments could slice and dice using pivot tables in an interactive manner, offloading ad-hoc reporting from the IT department and data teams. Next, Trianz designed new incident reporting workflows. This improved upon existing incident management analytics reports by adding statistical functions that can identify server storage problems in real time. It also supplies a possible resolution, guiding IT support personnel in their remediation efforts. Automated rules were established to send reports and alerts to relevant key stakeholders. Finally, data throughput and reliability was greatly improved, allowing the Fortune 500 company to render larger amounts of data simultaneously when visualizing insights. Transformational Effects After Trianz Helped the Fortune 500 Company Adopt OBIEE Thanks to Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, the Fortune 500 company could get faster data insights and make better business decisions. This was due to real-time data access, slice-and-dice reporting capabilities, and streamlined data operations orchestration. With these new capabilities, the client can identify problems faster with accurate root cause analyses and real-time alerts. Significant improvements were also realized with its Customer Satisfaction Survey (CSAT) results, attracting new business orders and revenues for the Fortune 500 firm. Key stakeholders across the business now had access to real-time, comprehensive business intelligence reports delivered via dashboards and scorecards. Experience the Trianz Difference Trianz enables digital transformations through effective strategies and excellence in execution. Collaborating with business and technology leaders, we help formulate and execute operational strategies to achieve intended business outcomes by bringing the best of consulting, technology expertise, and execution models. Powered by knowledge, research, and experience, we enable clients to transform their business ecosystems and achieve superior performance by leveraging infrastructure, cloud, analytics, digital, and security paradigms. Reach out to get in touch or learn more.

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Digital Apps

A WEB-BASED CASH LOGISTICS DEVELOPMENT CASE STUDY

Web-Based Cash Logistics Development for a Cash Logistics Company Trianz was enlisted to help an armored car transport, ATM servicing, currency and coin processing company with its business IT applications and cybersecurity. Specifically, our custom development experts built a centralized web-based cash logistics system to streamline data management workflows for the client. Challenges for the Cash Logistics Company in Data Management The cash logistics company was encountering problems with data management, data retrieval, and database operating costs. It was leveraging an end-to-end solution called oneSystem but the solution was not meeting business requirements. As a replacement, the client wanted a centralized data management system that all business departments could use simultaneously. New Technology Components for the Cash Logistics Company Trianz worked to implement these technology components for the cash logistics company: .NET Framework was used in tandem with C# (C-sharp) to develop the web application within the ASP.NET framework. This included .NET Framework Data Providers to interface with the database solution. Oracle Database 10g was the database solution of choice. It supports enterprise grid computing, offering the cash logistics company great flexibility and cost reductions compared to other database solutions. How Trianz Helped the Cash Logistics Company to Build a Centralized Data Management System Our data experts started with software development, creating a web-based cash logistics system using the .NET Framework and C# under the ASP.NET web application development framework. This enabled the creation of dynamic real-time services for data ingestion and retrieval. Data itself was loaded into Oracle Database 10g, an enterprise grid computing solution that offers superior flexibility and cost-savings when running web applications. It creates large modular storage pools in the cloud, distributing data with a focus on throughput, latency, and cost reductions. Trianz started with a waterfall development approach, developing a plan of action and sticking to it. From here, our data experts observed that the scope of work was wider than planned, which led them to shift to an agile development methodology. In a span of two years of development, Trianz presented a production-ready version of the product to the cash logistics company. During this time, our experts also trained system users. The project was finalized with a dedicated Offshore Development Center. Its purpose was to orchestrate engagement with development and delivery teams, and the logistics company itself. Transformational Effects with the New Data Management System and Oracle After project completion, the client possessed automated cash logistics information processing on Oracle 10g. It could manage data operations using the ASP.NET web application from anywhere with an internet connection. Sensitive account details for the client’s customers and partners were protected by new data governance policies and encryption both in-transit and at-rest. Further protection was enabled with Role-Based Access Controls, preventing unauthorized access to datasets. In summary, the client’s aging system from 2004 was replaced by Trianz, who became its Technology Partner of choice. This ongoing partnership means development work continues to maintain and improve upon the data management system, via our data experts. Experience the Trianz Difference Trianz enables digital transformations through effective strategies and excellence in execution. Collaborating with business and technology leaders, we help formulate and execute operational strategies to achieve intended business outcomes by bringing the best of consulting, technology expertise, and execution models. Powered by knowledge, research, and experience, we enable clients to transform their business ecosystems and achieve superior performance by leveraging infrastructure, cloud, analytics, digital, and security paradigms. Reach out to get in touch or learn more.

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Cloud

CLOUD HOSTING WITH AUTO-SCALING AND AUTO-REMEDIATION

Airfare Consolidation Company Seeks Cloud Hosting Upgrades Trianz worked with a global airfare consolidation services company in response to growing technical, performance, and reliability problems on its cloud services platform. The customer experience (CX) was suffering as service availability faltered, and the company had expended much time and capital fighting recurring IT fires. Challenges for the Airfare Consolidation Company Stemmed from Cloud Hosting The airfare consolidation services company's current cloud hosting platform suffered from a lack of scalability. Since demand peaks led to server overutilization and resource scarcity, customer demand fluctuated wildly on its cloud platform. The result for customers was slow, sluggish, or unavailable services. To troubleshoot the issues, the company needed to map and document its entire application suite. Unfortunately, it lacked knowledge of the intricacies of its network and architecture, making it difficult to identify and remediate the root cause of service problems. The company required a digital transformation that introduced 24x7 elastic auto-scaling or resource provisioning in response to demand and monitoring to keep scaling costs under control. They also needed alerts whenever auto-scaling was activated, to monitor and proactively plan for peaks in demand.   Technology Components Used on AWS Hosting Platform With help from the Trianz cloud experts, the company decided on the following technology components: Windows Server was used, as the cloud platform relied on .NET and Microsoft SQL to operate. .NET Framework enabled application interoperability in the cloud for developers, working cross-platform and on an open-source basis. MS SQL was used for its compatibility with .NET and Windows, functioning as a database solution for the airfare cloud application. Application Load Balancers were implemented in the cloud environment to monitor for and remediate peaks in service demand. Application Caching Engines were used to reduce bandwidth and processing requirements by serving pre-loaded data to users from edge data centers. Web Application Firewalls were implemented to monitor and protect the network against HTTP and HTTPS traffic, along with RESTful requests and other traffic. A Content Delivery Network was built to store and serve audio, image, and video assets to users with greater efficiency and response times than the previous solution. Enterprise DNS Services were configured to map application server IP addresses, redirect traffic to the old platform, and ensure full accessibility for users. A Virtual Private Network was configured to encrypt data in transit between the cloud servers and platform users, alongside improving cybersecurity for employees working remotely. Audit Logs were configured and activated to ensure all changes were monitored, tracked, and held to account. Airfare Platform Development and Implementation with Trianz Using the above solutions, Trianz cloud experts began with an assessment of platform requirements and how much processing capacity was needed to ensure a smooth and reliable operation of the airfare platform. Trianz measured this using application performance management (APM) tools, which drilled down at the process level to identify CPU, RAM, and storage utilization metrics. The Trianz cloud experts then deployed a new architecture on AWS as the client's platform of choice. Here, network design took place to allow access through firewalls, DNS subnet masks, and the overarching VPN service used for security. This included routing for the caching engines and load balancers, both of which increased response times and overall availability. Finally, a monitoring system was implemented that operates 24x7 and sends real-time alerts to IT personnel in reference to outages, bottlenecks, security risks, and overspend with the airfare application platform. Transformational Effects and Impact After implementation, the airfare services platform was capable of auto-scaling and auto-remediation in response to peaks and troughs in network demand. The entire platform was benchmarked and stress-tested to analyze performance under load and ensure auto-scaling worked effectively. Multiple layers were created within the platform, each with its own auto-scaling ruleset for more granular control and greater cost savings. After the infrastructure was in place, the Trianz experts made detailed documentation to guide the airfare company’s IT team in the future. This included how to set up the cloud infrastructure, blueprints for ease of deployment, and how to configure various service integrations required by the platform. Today, the airfare company has a resilient digital-first platform that can auto-scale to meet demand. Cybersecurity was improved with a VPN and firewall services. Caching, load balancing, and content delivery networks improved performance and response times for users, enhancing the overall customer experience (CX). Future development or configuration work on the cloud platform, both internally and externally, can now be tracked thanks to audit logs tied to specific user accounts on AWS. Experience the Trianz Difference Trianz enables digital transformations through effective strategies and excellence in execution. Collaborating with business and technology leaders, we help formulate and execute operational strategies to achieve intended business outcomes by bringing the best of consulting, technology expertise, and execution models. Powered by knowledge, research, and experience, we enable clients to transform their business ecosystems and achieve superior performance by leveraging infrastructure, cloud, analytics, digital, and security paradigms. Reach out to get in touch or learn more. */

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CLOUD AUTOMATION, SECURITY AND MANAGED SERVICES FOR A SOFTWARE COMPANY

ServiceMax Seeks to Rearchitect its AWS Environment With a need to implement a cloud automation solution to streamline digital processes and workflows, ServiceMax — a global leader in field service management software — was looking to re-architect, configure, and manage its field service management platform. What was ServiceMax Looking to Achieve? ServiceMax uses the AWS cloud platform to process work orders via its Software-as-a-Service solution. With more than 1 million work orders processed per month, and 300,000+ technicians working across the globe to manage 150+ million customer devices, their goal was to elevate cloud performance, security, and availability within the ServiceMax SaaS platform. In addition, they sought to identify more suitable cloud-service candidates that align with business requirements on the AWS cloud. Challenges for ServiceMax on the AWS Cloud ServiceMax was seeking a partner to assist with building a highly resilient, scalable, and secure infrastructure on AWS, coupled with minimal downtime and data governance. The new platform needed to support script automation, as ServiceMax encountered manual processing errors that reduced productivity and data accuracy. ServiceMax was also threatened by recurring downtime on its network, requiring enhanced network performance through agile applications that could handle dynamic bandwidth needs and network topology changes. To achieve these goals, Trianz experts completed an initial assessment of existing IT capabilities with ServiceMax to explore the possibilities of executing a time-bound, object-oriented, proof-of-concept-based deployment on AWS. After approval, Trianz experts reduced operational costs by identifying a low-cost solution on AWS that targeted high-bandwidth application environments. Technology Components Used by ServiceMax on AWS After consultation and implementation, the ServiceMax platform was underpinned by the following AWS components: Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) for secure, private local area networks in the cloud Amazon Route 53 for domain name server (DNS) routing and management within the AWS ecosystem Amazon CloudFront for global edge-caching and edge-serving of media through a content delivery network (CDN) Elastic Load Balancing for adaptive processing and resource allocation as platform demand rises and falls Amazon EC2 (with AutoScaling) for fully automated, scalable compute nodes AWS Lambda for serverless compute without provisioning or managing servers Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) for low-cost cloud storage, archiving, and disaster recovery backups Elastic Block Store (EBS) for storing and managing data in blocks within relational database management systems (RDBMS) AWS Identity Access Management (IAM) to control user account access to sensitive datasets and software, along with two-factor authentication (2FA) support Amazon GuardDuty to continuously monitor for AWS account or compute workload threats using heuristic threat scanning Amazon Inspector to automate security and compliance assessments for business applications running on AWS AWS Secrets Manager to store and govern access to secret hashes, salts, and passwords used when accessing sensitive applications, services, and IT resources AWS WAF and Shield to monitor HTTP and HTTPS requests forwarded to Amazon services, acting as a web firewall AWS CloudFormation to generate and manage Infrastructure-as-Code templates for AWS and third-party services AWS CloudTrail to monitor governance, compliance, audits, and risk for specific AWS user accounts AWS CloudWatch to collect and centralize application and infrastructure monitoring data for a 360-degree holistic cloud network overview AWS Config to assess, audit, and evaluate AWS resource configurations Trianz also implemented Sumologic, Qualys, OpenVPN, Wazuh, AVI, Bro & Suricata, HashiCorp Terraform, GitHub, Jenkins, Newrelic, and Jumpcloud to further enhance the platform with cloud-based automation, machine learning, and advanced security capabilities. How the Trianz Approach Upgraded ServiceMax’s IT Infrastructure The Trianz experts followed a roadmap to reinvent the ServiceMax IT infrastructure network and deliver on project objectives. It started with a complete redesign of the infrastructure environment, in alignment with AWS best practices using Infrastructure-as-a-Code. Terraform modules were deployed across the new infrastructure environment to enable full scaling support. A hub-spoke architecture allowed for centralized connectivity between virtual networks (or spokes) acting as a central zone for ingress and egress traffic. Trianz introduced ServiceMax IT personnel to security best practices, including boundary defense, CIS hardening, endpoint security, credential management, multi-factor authentication, monitoring, auditing, logging, certificate and key management, and vulnerability management. A “blue-green” approach was used to gradually transition users to the latest web application version — it was implemented using Terraform and Jenkins continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.Finally, Jumpcloud was used for all eligible services as a single sign-on (SSO) solution. How Trianz Helped ServiceMax Realize Their Business Goals After successfully executing its re-architecture with Trianz, ServiceMax’s platform performance increased noticeably with improved efficiency and high availability, leading to less wasted spend and better customer experiences. Application rollouts were streamlined, reducing workloads for IT developers through automation. ServiceMax can redeploy IT assets in record time thanks to Infrastructure-as-Code templates and Jenkins CI/CD pipelines. Operating costs for the ServiceMax SaaS platform were also greatly reduced, and service level agreements (SLAs) improved while meeting customer security requirements. The Transformational Effects and Impact Downtime was reduced by up to 80% due to the “blue-green” approach used with Terraform and Jenkins. The time to spin-up new applications PoPs was reduced from one month to one week. Security standards were greatly improved, enabling ServiceMax to pass internal and external audits with ease. Finally, the IT department has reduced the number of false alarms on the IT network. Now, using advanced alert monitoring, threats are automatically remediated using common anomaly resolution playbooks. Experience the Trianz Difference Trianz enables digital transformations through effective strategies and excellence in execution. Collaborating with business and technology leaders, we help formulate and execute operational strategies to achieve intended business outcomes by bringing the best of consulting, technology experiences and execution models. 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Cloud, Analytics

CENTRALIZED ENTERPRISE DATA REPOSITORY FOR A PACKAGING AND SHIPPING SUPPLIES PROVIDER

Accelerating Business Efficiency with a Centralized Enterprise Data Repository Trianz was approached by a packaging and shipping supplies provider based in North America. The client wanted to combine siloed data repositories into a single-source-of-truth (SSOT) to promote data integrity, validity, and accuracy. Business Challenges for the Shipping Supplies Provider with Data Management The client was dealing with data siloes across the business, meaning there was no SSOT to derive insight from. This created inconsistency between departments as they used analytics and business intelligence (BI) tools to generate insights, leading to inaccurate insights that negatively impacted business decision-making. To resolve this, the client needed a new centralized enterprise data repository that combines these siloed datasets into a SSOT. This would improve capabilities around data validity, verification, and integrity monitoring, leading to more accurate data and more accurate insight from analytics and BI tools. Technology Components Selected for the Shipping Client by Trianz After a comprehensive assessment of the shipping client’s IT infrastructure and services, Trianz selected the following technology components: Informatica was chosen as an end-to-end data operations platform for data engineering, integration, governance, and quality assurance processes. SQL Server was used as a relational database management system (RDBMS), chosen for integrations and live connector optimizations with PowerBI. Lastly, PowerBI was chosen as a Microsoft ecosystem solution for BI operations, including analytics, dataset unification, visualizations, and more. How Trianz Helped the Shipping Supplier to Build a SSOT and Transform Analytics and BI Operations Our data experts started with asset discovery and analysis to formulate an end-to-end picture of business IT systems and services. This helped with the identification of appropriate technology components, ensuring compatibility and integrability. From here, Trianz took control of data operations and systematically optimized the architecture for high availability, accuracy, and validity. The target was operational availability 24 hours a day, 7 days a week as part of a 99.9% uptime service level agreement. Next, existing data models were simplified to assist with downstream analysis. These models could then be used across the business to generate insights with greater efficiency. Trianz collaborated with the client’s IT department to standardize business IT applications and services, and transform IT and data governance frameworks. This would prevent unauthorized data access and improve data security as the same rules could now be applied holistically. Finally, Trianz worked within Informatica to centralize structured datasets on SQL Server. This included the configuration of optimized data connectors between SQL Server and PowerBI to streamline analytics and BI data operations. Transformational Effects After Building a New SSOT for the Shipping Client Now, the client could generate holistic, 360-degree analytical overviews of various business operations to derive insight for use in business decisions. This improved the quality of decisions, directly impacting the top and bottom line. Statutory reporting timescales were shortened significantly, improving awareness across the business in relation to mandatory government information-sharing requirements. Data availability was greatly improved alongside workforce trust in the validity and accuracy of datasets. This meant the business had access to quality data sources with sharp turnaround times when submitting queries. Experience the Trianz Difference Trianz enables digital transformations through effective strategies and excellence in execution. Collaborating with business and technology leaders, we help formulate and execute operational strategies to achieve intended business outcomes by bringing the best of consulting, technology expertise, and execution models. Powered by knowledge, research, and experience, we enable clients to transform their business ecosystems and achieve superior performance by leveraging infrastructure, cloud, analytics, digital, and security paradigms. Reach out to get in touch or learn more.

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ALFRESCO DEPLOYMENT ON THE AWS CLOUD

Alfresco Deployment on the AWS Cloud for a Fortune 100 Insurance Company Trianz was approached by a Fortune 100 insurance company looking for help with its Alfresco documentation management platform. It was seeking to migrate Alfresco from an on-premises environment to the AWS cloud to simplify documentation management, collaboration, auditing, and compliance. Business Challenges for the Fortune 100 Insurer with Documentation, Collaboration, and Compliance As the Alfresco deployment was on-premises, the client was struggling with performance bottlenecks and scalability limitations. As a recourse, the insurance client wanted to migrate to the AWS cloud. The AWS cloud environment would need to be flexible and agile to accommodate the client’s documentation management and enterprise collaboration requirements. Technology Components Chosen for the Insurance Company by Trianz After assessing the current-state and future requirements for the insurance client, Trianz decided on the following technology components: AWS Cloud was the cloud service platform (CSP) of choice, with broad and varied features across compute, data, networking, and cybersecurity. Red Hat Enterprise Linux was the operating system (OS) of choice, as it allowed for unmatched flexibility and agility thanks to the customizability and modularity of the Linux kernel. Alfresco was already selected as a content management system (CMS) to connect, manage, and secure important enterprise documentation. MySQL was chosen as a relational database management system (RDBMS) thanks to its querying performance and response times. Elastic Bamboo was adopted to expedite run builds using compute resources on the AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). The Java programming language was used as it is a critical dependency for Alfresco. SharePoint was selected as an intranet and content collaboration solution to share and host internal documentation. BMC Remedy was selected to orchestrate all IT service management processes and principles on the new AWS cloud architecture. How Trianz Helped the Fortune 100 Insurance Company to Deploy Alfresco on AWS Trianz started by analyzing the servers required for the new Alfresco content repository. These analyses were revisited at the development, quality assurance, staging, and production phases to ensure we adhered to the project roadmap. Alfresco itself was upgraded from version 4.2 to version 5.0.3, before existing content was migrated to the new Amazon EC2 architecture. Next, Alfresco was reconfigured and optimized around the new EC2 architecture to enhance performance and scalability. Application integration using Web Service APIs came next, enhancing support across all lines of business for applications and third-party systems. Finally, a two-week evaluation period took place to ensure the live environment met expectations and fulfilled all project milestones. This included a Hypercare support phase, and knowledge transfer to the client’s enterprise content management (ECM) support team and personnel. Transformational Effects For the Fortune 100 Insurer After Migrating Alfresco to the AWS Cloud After migrating Alfresco to the AWS cloud, the insurance client reduced costs significantly while also enhancing its regulatory and legal compliance capabilities. The cost savings came thanks to the economical nature of public cloud infrastructure, using compute nodes and pay-as-you-go billing models. File sharing and collaboration was streamlined as existing business and IT services used Alfresco as a centralized ECM system. By upgrading Alfresco, valuable new documentation management capabilities were enabled with version 5.0.3. Task management and workflow management frameworks were redeveloped to drive consistency and efficiency across all lines of business. The IT department now has complete control over security and data access thanks to AWS role-based access control (RBAC) policies on EC2. The insurance company also had flexibility as it could choose between Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) or private AWS instances, depending on future requirements. The most impactful transformation was around metadata and full-text search functionality, allowing employees across the business to drill deeper into datasets and form more comprehensive insights. Experience the Trianz Difference Trianz enables digital transformations through effective strategies and excellence in execution. Collaborating with business and technology leaders, we help formulate and execute operational strategies to achieve intended business outcomes by bringing the best of consulting, technology expertise, and execution models. Powered by knowledge, research, and experience, we enable clients to transform their business ecosystems and achieve superior performance by leveraging infrastructure, cloud, analytics, digital, and security paradigms. Reach out to get in touch or learn more.

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A CASE STUDY IN LARGE INFRASTRUCTURE MIGRATION TO AWS

Helping a Global Software Giant Subsidiary Migrate from Public Cloud to AWS Trianz was approached by a global software giant subsidiary for assistance in migrating from the public cloud to AWS. This client provides innovative software products that can be hosted either on-premises or in the cloud. Challenges for the Software Giant Subsidiary in Infrastructure Scaling and Security The client was struggling to scale its cloud infrastructure in an efficient and reliable manner. This coincided with problems hosting in a multi-tenant environment, where cloud instance separation and data governance workflows was difficult. The software giant subsidiary lacked a central security management system and inherited the deployed architecture without sufficient documentation to understand its inner workings. Technology Components Introduced by Trianz for the Software Giant Subsidiary To start, Trianz performed a top-down assessment of the client’s infrastructure environment before introducing the following technology components: CloudTrail was used for monitoring audit trails. Identity Access Management was used to govern applications and data with role-based access controls. Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) enabled private, isolated cloud instances to improve multi-tenant orchestration within its software platform. Network Security Groups were added to govern firewall operations. Elastic Compute 2 was used to elastically auto-scale compute workloads, ensuring resource availability at peak utilization and cost savings during quieter periods. Elastic Load Balancing was adopted to distribute incoming application network requests and balance workloads across EC2, containers, and other network resources. The existing Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform was replaced with Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). This included a migration from virtual-machine-based MySQL to the AWS Relational Database Service for MySQL. Network Address Translation workloads were redirected to the AWS NAT Gateway. Object-based storage was offloaded to the AWS Simple Storage Service. AWS CloudWatch was the monitoring and alerting solution of choice. How Trianz Helped the Subsidiary to Scale and Secure its Software Platform By using PaaS, Trianz could quickly develop and implement a scalable, architecture-based deployment for the software subsidiary. Multiple availability zones were added to distribute network traffic and get closer to the edge, reducing latency and increasing bandwidth throughput. A centralized and dedicated VPC environment was created to host multi-tenant shared services, eliminating the previous cloud instance separation and data governance challenges. Each application type was provisioned its own VPC to improve reliability, stability, and predictability. This coincided with a complete redevelopment of the application stack by the application team at Trianz. Transformational Effects with the New PaaS Software Environment for the Software Subsidiary Omni-channel commerce operations were successfully migrated from the previous public cloud architecture to AWS. AWS enabled elastic auto-scaling on a per-service level, greatly improving granularity of control for the software subsidiary. A new Central Security Management solution plugged security holes and compliance problems at the infrastructure level. The PaaS adoption resulted in new service level agreements (SLAs) that offloaded the IT operations management burden from the software subsidiary to AWS, thus reducing workloads. This new solution was fault-tolerant and highly available thanks to these new SLAs, greatly improving the quality of application service delivery over the web. Trianz conducted workshops to educate stakeholders and the workforce on operational best practices. Finally, a full library of documentation was written and supplied to the software subsidiary, ensuring clarity and technical understanding in the years to come. Experience the Trianz Difference Trianz enables digital transformations through effective strategies and excellence in execution. Collaborating with business and technology leaders, we help formulate and execute operational strategies to achieve intended business outcomes by bringing the best of consulting, technology expertise, and execution models. Powered by knowledge, research, and experience, we enable clients to transform their business ecosystems and achieve superior performance by leveraging infrastructure, cloud, analytics, digital, and security paradigms. Reach out to get in touch or learn more.

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CLOUD HOSTING WITH AUTO-SCALING AND AUTO-REMEDIATION

Airfare Consolidation Company Seeks Cloud Hosting Upgrades Trianz worked with a global airfare consolidation services company in response to growing technical, performance, and reliability problems on its cloud services platform. The customer experience (CX) was suffering as service availability faltered, and the company had expended much time and capital fighting recurring IT fires. Challenges for the Airfare Consolidation Company Stemmed from Cloud Hosting The airfare consolidation services company's current cloud hosting platform suffered from a lack of scalability. Since demand peaks led to server overutilization and resource scarcity, customer demand fluctuated wildly on its cloud platform. The result for customers was slow, sluggish, or unavailable services. To troubleshoot the issues, the company needed to map and document its entire application suite. Unfortunately, it lacked knowledge of the intricacies of its network and architecture, making it difficult to identify and remediate the root cause of service problems. The company required a digital transformation that introduced 24x7 elastic auto-scaling or resource provisioning in response to demand and monitoring to keep scaling costs under control. They also needed alerts whenever auto-scaling was activated, to monitor and proactively plan for peaks in demand.   Technology Components Used on AWS Hosting Platform With help from the Trianz cloud experts, the company decided on the following technology components: Windows Server was used, as the cloud platform relied on .NET and Microsoft SQL to operate. .NET Framework enabled application interoperability in the cloud for developers, working cross-platform and on an open-source basis. MS SQL was used for its compatibility with .NET and Windows, functioning as a database solution for the airfare cloud application. Application Load Balancers were implemented in the cloud environment to monitor for and remediate peaks in service demand. Application Caching Engines were used to reduce bandwidth and processing requirements by serving pre-loaded data to users from edge data centers. Web Application Firewalls were implemented to monitor and protect the network against HTTP and HTTPS traffic, along with RESTful requests and other traffic. A Content Delivery Network was built to store and serve audio, image, and video assets to users with greater efficiency and response times than the previous solution. Enterprise DNS Services were configured to map application server IP addresses, redirect traffic to the old platform, and ensure full accessibility for users. A Virtual Private Network was configured to encrypt data in transit between the cloud servers and platform users, alongside improving cybersecurity for employees working remotely. Audit Logs were configured and activated to ensure all changes were monitored, tracked, and held to account. Airfare Platform Development and Implementation with Trianz Using the above solutions, Trianz cloud experts began with an assessment of platform requirements and how much processing capacity was needed to ensure a smooth and reliable operation of the airfare platform. Trianz measured this using application performance management (APM) tools, which drilled down at the process level to identify CPU, RAM, and storage utilization metrics. The Trianz cloud experts then deployed a new architecture on AWS as the client's platform of choice. Here, network design took place to allow access through firewalls, DNS subnet masks, and the overarching VPN service used for security. This included routing for the caching engines and load balancers, both of which increased response times and overall availability. Finally, a monitoring system was implemented that operates 24x7 and sends real-time alerts to IT personnel in reference to outages, bottlenecks, security risks, and overspend with the airfare application platform. Transformational Effects and Impact After implementation, the airfare services platform was capable of auto-scaling and auto-remediation in response to peaks and troughs in network demand. The entire platform was benchmarked and stress-tested to analyze performance under load and ensure auto-scaling worked effectively. Multiple layers were created within the platform, each with its own auto-scaling ruleset for more granular control and greater cost savings. After the infrastructure was in place, the Trianz experts made detailed documentation to guide the airfare company’s IT team in the future. This included how to set up the cloud infrastructure, blueprints for ease of deployment, and how to configure various service integrations required by the platform. Today, the airfare company has a resilient digital-first platform that can auto-scale to meet demand. Cybersecurity was improved with a VPN and firewall services. Caching, load balancing, and content delivery networks improved performance and response times for users, enhancing the overall customer experience (CX). Future development or configuration work on the cloud platform, both internally and externally, can now be tracked thanks to audit logs tied to specific user accounts on AWS. Experience the Trianz Difference Trianz enables digital transformations through effective strategies and excellence in execution. Collaborating with business and technology leaders, we help formulate and execute operational strategies to achieve intended business outcomes by bringing the best of consulting, technology expertise, and execution models. Powered by knowledge, research, and experience, we enable clients to transform their business ecosystems and achieve superior performance by leveraging infrastructure, cloud, analytics, digital, and security paradigms. Reach out to get in touch or learn more. */

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CLOUD COMPLIANCE FOR HEALTHCARE START-UP

Healthcare Startup Seeks a HIPAA-Compliant IT Environment on AWS With stringent regulations governing its industry, a US-based healthcare startup needed assistance in architecting a HIPAA-compliant IT infrastructure environment. Alongside HIPAA compliance, the startup needed a better way to protect sensitive personal health information (PHI) after experiencing problems with its previous systems. What Was the Healthcare Startup Looking to Achieve? The healthcare startup wanted the AWS cloud platform to host and orchestrate its digital services. This infrastructure needed to support full audit trails, HIPAA regulatory frameworks, resolve security holes from the previous architecture with PHI, and be executed in a cost-sensitive manner. Challenges for the Healthcare Startup on the AWS Cloud These sweeping changes would help the healthcare startup adhere to HIPAA regulations, avoiding fines and reputational damage. Audit trails would provide clear breadcrumbs for changes on the network, improving accountability and awareness of infrastructure activities. Finally, protecting PHI with more stringent security measures would mitigate any potential data breaches in the future. Trianz began by assessing the current state of the client’s architecture. Here, our experts could identify misconfigured modules, insecure security rules, and fast-track the digital transformation process for the startup by recommending AWS services. Technology Components Used by the Healthcare Startup on AWS After consultation, the healthcare startup had a new IT infrastructure environment on AWS consisting of the following technology components: Amazon Relational Database System (RDBS) for encrypted structured database storage to improve PHI data management and subsequent security procedures AWS CloudTrail for cloud audit trail monitoring using application programming interface (API) logs, with a goal of improving accountability and root cause identification Amazon Virtual Private Cloud Security Groups were used to shape and monitor network traffic using internet protocol (IP) whitelisting rules, which was necessary to ingest wearable and health device data using encryption Secure Socket Layer (SSL) Certificates were used to implement hypertext transfer protocol secure (HTTPS) rather than the non-secure HTTP, again bolstering cybersecurity and PHI protection for HIPAA compliance How the Trianz Approach Upgraded the Healthcare Startup’s IT Infrastructure The Trianz experts devised a comprehensive roadmap for this digital transformation project. The healthcare startup’s existing services and data were backed up before being migrated to the new infrastructure environment. This helped to prevent service outages and subsequent customer dissatisfaction during the migration process. Existing PHI and pharmaceutical data were imported to the new Amazon RDS system, enabling cloud database storage and the associated accessibility and cost-saving improvements. Trianz also developed an ingestion system for wearables and personal health monitoring devices, taking Real-World Data (RWD) direct from the source to the database with full encryption. Trianz also created an interface for medical practitioners to upload patient data on a day-by-day basis. Finally, analytics and reporting were implemented using dedicated compute resources on AWS as the system went fully live. The Transformational Effect and Impacts After this digital transformation, the healthcare startup had greater control over its PHI data in Amazon RDS. Additional security with user accounts and overarching data governance policies on AWS helped streamline governance and regulatory workflows. Full audit trails increased accountability and assisted with the root cause remediation of problems. Overall, the result was a faster and more secure healthcare PHI data storage solution for the healthcare startup, enabling greater integration and access across digital services used by the business. This greatly improved business agility and enabled new innovative digital-first health initiatives. Experience the Trianz Difference Trianz enables digital transformations through effective strategies and excellence in execution. Collaborating with business and technology leaders, we help formulate and execute operational strategies to achieve intended business outcomes by bringing the best of consulting, technology expertise, and execution models. Powered by knowledge, research, and experience, we enable clients to transform their business ecosystems and achieve superior performance by leveraging infrastructure, cloud, analytics, digital, and security paradigms. Reach out to get in touch or learn more.

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AWS OPERATIONAL DATA STORE: A CASE STUDY

A Fortune 100 P&C Insurer Uses AWS ODS for Efficient Operations Challenge Continuous innovation in insurance analytics enables many P&C insurers to improve their plans for customer-centricity, telematics, and claim management efficiency. However, P&C insurers often struggle with leveraging enterprise-level data due to inaccessible data formats or a lack of trust in the underlying data quality and semantics. A Fortune 100 P&C insurer in the US, who we will call WesternShores, needed a next-gen operational data store (ODS). The company’s leaders found it challenging to manage operations efficiently with slow development life cycles, limited data processing capability, and heavy dependence on IT. They were looking for low-cost infrastructure and analytics solutions as they migrated their existing applications to event-based architecture. Knowing there was a better way, they set out to deploy an intelligent, state-of-the-art ODS and analytics solution. Our Approach To foster greater trust among stakeholders, WesternShores collaborated with Trianz to start user research through a focused questionnaire and conducted executive interviews and workshops to uncover key issues and gather data points. To suggest a smarter analytics solution, WesternShores needed to know the costs of a big data platform on the cloud to make the right choice. They were already using Hadoop-as-a-Service (HDaaS) as an alternative to on-premises Hadoop deployments; however, due to a lack of skilled resources, were struggling to use it to its full advantage. After evaluating their existing analytics landscape and infrastructure and analyzing data points, we suggested deploying Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. We leveraged our proprietary total cost of ownership (TCO) calculator to compare their HDaaS with Hortonworks Data Platform deployed on AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to estimate the total cost of ownership (TCO). We also defined a roadmap to deploy the HDP on the cloud. Considering all the internal and external factors, we proposed three storage options to WesternShores in the Hadoop deployment architectures on AWS: Simple Storage Service (S3) - Amazon Simple Storage Service or Amazon S3 can store vast numbers of backups or user files, which are readily available when needed. There are no resource procurement cycles or investments upfront, which means they can keep their data safe from errors, failures, and threats. WesternShores can easily hold their content and media files in S3, which may be served efficiently from AWS CloudFront. Plus, S3 can easily create a data lake to hold raw data in its native format and then use machine learning tools, query-in-place, and analytics to draw insights. Elastic Block Store (EBS) - Amazon’s block-level storage solution, where they can keep the data on the AWS EBS servers even when the EC2 instances are shut down. EBS offers them high availability and low-latency performance within the selected availability zone, allowing them to easily scale storage capacity at a low subscription-based pricing model. AWS EC2 instance store - An AWS instance store is a temporary storage type located on disks that are physically attached to a host machine. Out of the three instance store volumes, we suggested Ephemeral storage to WesternShores. Also known as virtual devices, this was suitable for low-latency storage. Transformational Effects Our ODS best practices and implementations for building an ODS - AWS’ next-gen Hadoop-based platform - resulted in accurate, real time estimates for WesternShores’s TCO in the first year. They also benefitted from our cost projections of operational data storage, resulting in a better performance. Experience the Trianz Difference Trianz enables digital transformations through effective strategies and excellence in execution. Collaborating with business and technology leaders, we help formulate and execute operational strategies to achieve intended business outcomes by bringing the best of consulting, technology experiences and execution models. Powered by knowledge, research, and perspectives, we enable clients to transform their business ecosystems and achieve superior performance by leveraging infrastructure, cloud, analytics, digital, and security paradigms. Reach out to learn more.

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CLOUD SECURITY POSTURE MANAGEMENT

Trillium Targets Secure, Compliant Cloud Infrastructure With cloud computing rapidly phasing out legacy and on-premise applications and infrastructure, one of the leading payment services and mobile payment gateway providers in the Middle East/North Africa (MENA) region – we’ll call them Trillium – recognized the need for a secure, fully compliant hybrid cloud environment for their e-wallet application. This application, that required lifting and shifting into the cloud, would serve all of Trillium’s e-wallet users in the Egypt area, with a full data migration that needed to be conducted within the short span of a year. Because Trillium had an existing relationship with Trianz, they turned to us to handle the e-wallet application’s platform migration, rearchitecting, and data governance. Addressing Cloud Challenges In June 2018, Trillium was looking to ensure that their cloud platform was up to standard, with a customized architecture to handle their approximately 300 vendor management systems (VMS) and appliances, as well as the more than 300,000 transactions made through the app in a day. This was especially important considering that these applications were financial inclusion products used by a large segment of Egypt’s population lacking access to full-scale banking services, as well as by small businesses. In addition to this, Trillium needed to establish multiple front-end and back-end connectivity for the customers and for failover, while also having an environment that was compliant and secure according to PCI, SOC, and ISO 27001 regulatory standards, at all times. Trillium required a thorough cloud security posture management (CSPM) process to help them detect misconfigurations, encryptions and inappropriate permissions, while also ascertaining regulatory policy compliance, monitoring suspicious activities, and enabling real-time protection for the cloud. The Trianz Approach to CSPM As an enterprise with considerable experience in the areas of cloud security and CSPM, Trianz partnered with Trillium to revamp their hybrid cloud environment. Our cloud experts sat down with the Trillium team to conduct a thorough cloud security posture audit. This included discovering how and where their resources were being consumed, investigating the types of transactions that occurred on each resource, and identifying who accessed them. A Secure Pathway To Data Access Copyright © 2021 Trianz When the teams were able to procure this information and identify Trillium’s cloud security needs, the Trianz consultants leveraged Azure Security Center, Key Store, and Defender – as well as other technologies like Sophos and Checkpoint – to monitor data access activities and configure alerts that would detect suspicious behavior. With these alerts, Trillium’s hybrid cloud system would be able to automatically detect anomalies, firewall rules changes, and IP address ranges. Coupled with these upgrades, Trianz also worked with the client to perform a thorough assessment of their cloud platform misconfigurations. Now armed with a deep understanding of the issues at play, the Trianz team was able to resolve Trillium’s key cloud platform misconfigurations in such a way that they achieved 100% in Azure’s Security Benchmark, as well as hitting their regulatory compliance targets. The Technical Takeaways Along with helping Trillium obtain their goal of being fully adherent to SOC, ISO 27001, PCI, and DSS data governance policies, Trianz was able to maintain their cloud environment misconfiguration-free, along with generating regulatory reports whenever requested. Furthermore, our team was able to protect the cloud platform from data leakage by automatically blocking downloads to their infrastructure, as well as rejecting uploads of any malicious files. This was a clear step forward in terms of Trillium’s data security. Impacts to the Business Through our engagement with Trillium, we were also able to help them realize several impactful changes to their business. As a result of the increased security and higher data quality, the accuracy of insights improved, as did customer relations. Higher regulatory compliance further strengthened the company’s reputation, while simultaneously lowering incident rates and consequently, the resources and hours wasted on resolutions as well. This would also guarantee smooth, uninterrupted service delivery to customers. The hybrid cloud environment’s scalability meant that the e-wallet platform went gradually from being able to handle 300,000 transactions daily to 3 million, allowing them to onboard even more customers – whether private individuals or small businesses. All this, while remaining fully secure. Furthermore, Trillium needed their data to be fully migrated and secured in the new cloud environment within the span of a year (i.e. by July 2019). By partnering with Trianz, they were able to achieve this goal and avoid the significant financial penalties that would come with a delay. The Transformational Effects By bringing their application platform and data from a legacy warehouse into a hybrid cloud environment that met their business needs and global regulatory compliance standards, Trianz was able to help Trillium become more a more cloud-native, customer-focused, and digitally empowered organization overall. The Trianz Difference Trianz enables digital transformations through effective strategies and excellence in execution. Collaborating with business and technology leaders, we help formulate and execute operational strategies to achieve intended business outcomes by bringing the best of consulting, technology experiences and execution models. Powered by knowledge, research, and perspectives, we enable clients to transform their business ecosystems and achieve superior performance by leveraging infrastructure, cloud, analytics, digital, and security paradigms. Reach out to get in touch or learn more.

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MIGRATED PAYMENT GATEWAY APPLICATION TO CLOUD FOLLOWED BY MULTI-YEAR MANAGED SERVICES SUPPORT

Hosting, Monitoring and Support of a Large Payment Gateway A global fintech that manages millions of payments and credit and debit card transactions needed a partner to host, monitor and enhance their large payment gateway application, critical to their overall market penetration strategy. Business Challenge The client needed a reliable partner to host, monitor and enhance their large payment gateway application for the ME market. The firm was looking for the right partnership to support, enhance and deploy market specific programs that are critical to ensure business is not impacted and succeed beyond the transition period. Technology Components Microsoft Azure, EDB Postgres,  Payment Gateway, Splunk, Dynatrace, Vormetric, Thales HSMs, RSA SecureID and Netscaler The Approach Client partnered with Trianz to manage all aspects of MPG starting from hosting and infra & application monitoring to support and enhancements. Designed the right infrastructure solution architecture, migration strategy, rapid stabilization strategy and established the stakeholder communications. Devised Business as a Service Managed services framework that encapsulates the core capabilities required to ensure that the payment gateway application is transitioned/managed/enhanced to support current and future needs of the market. The payment gateway host on Azure followed the security, data and access requirements. Also, the architecture and design was provided based on the security requirement. SLAs and support processes aligned based on type of cloud services utilization and the format (IaaS, PaaS) of services. Transformational Effects End-to-end support for L1 / L2 activities, integrated support and incident to resolution workflow. Broader categories of production support activities across application stacks and improved security. Supports automation, optimization, agile product development and continuous improvement.

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CLOUD ENVIRONMENT

Migrating from On-prem data center to AWS An Indian financial services firm was facing challenges due to infrastructure unavailability and non-readiness, escalating maintenance costs and inconsistencies in its dataset processing environment. Business Challenge The client needed a private cloud environment that would address its problems of infrastructure unavailability and non-readiness, rising maintenance costs, inconsistencies in dataset processing environment, multiple business applications and stakeholders, and last but not the least, large volumes of to-be-processed data. Technology Components OpenStack Havana Approach Trianz was instrumental in rendering the following solutions/ services to the client: Architectural design and monitoring implementation Openstack Havana-based implementation Custom high-density hardware Low power and cooling footprint Self-provisioning interface for users Project-based quotas for compute and resource allocation Custom OS flavors End-to-end monitoring and ticketing solution Transformational Effects Increased capacity available on-demand Reduced incidents as well as operating, maintenance and support costs Minimized timelines for new instances Improved efficiency

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MICRO-SERVICES MIGRATION FROM ON-PREMISE TO AWS CLOUD

The client is a leading provider of prepaid debit cards for personal and commercial use. The products are designed to be used as tools for people without a traditional bank account or who prefer to use alternative financial services. The client was looking to migrate their micro-services from on-prem to AWS Cloud with the help of the latest technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and other required AWS automation.The Client engaged Trianz to containerize the Microservices on AWS. THE BUSINESS CHALLENGE The client needed to build a dependable, robust and secure technology infrastructure for: Migrating the micro-services from on-prem to the cloud (AWS) Containerizing the micro-services and using Kubernetes as a container orchestration system for automating deployments, scaling and management of containerized application TECHNOLOGY COMPONENTS AWS AWS IAM Amazon VPC Amazon EC2 Amazon EC2 Elastic Load Balancing Amazon S3 Amazon EBS Amazon Route53 Amazon CloudFront Amazon CloudWatch Amazon AWS Config AWS Lambda AWS EKS AWS ECS Other Platforms: Splunk, HashiCorp Terraform, Python 2.x 3.x,  GitHub, Jenkins, Inspec Testing THE APPROACH Trianz adopted the following implementation approach in a phased manner: Understanding the existing infrastructure Migrating prospect services for Dev/QA environments from on-prem to the cloud (AWS) Containerizing the micro-services and deploying them using Kubernetes clusters built from the scratch Configuring Jenkins pipelines to build and deploy to micro-services on Kubernetes cluster TRANSFORMATIONAL EFFECTS Facilitated on-demand supply of the necessary infrastructure for Dev/QA teams to develop and test the scenarios. Users can run a Jenkins pipeline to build or deploy a micro-service, deploy the resources like S3 buckets, SNS, SQS, Lambdas, or deploy a fully functioning EKS (Kubernetes) cluster. Users can easily create, update or delete the existing infrastructure within minutes with the help of Terraform automation. Better performance with improved efficiency.

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CLOUD APP

Designing and Deploying a Secure B2C Public Cloud Platform One of the leading mobile apps based gifting merchants wanted its services to be compliant with PCI-DSS for users to make the purchases confidently using their credit cards. Business Challenge The challenge was to design, build and deploy a mobile application with stringent security features for both Android and iOS platforms that are PCI-DSS compliant. Technology Components Application level de/encryption – AWS KMS Encrypted database table data – AWS RDS Application and host level logging – ELK Stack File Finger printing – OSSEC Security Incident Management (SIM)/ Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) – OSSEC Cloud API logging – AWS CloudTrail Cloud infrastructure change audit trail – AWS Config Alert notification – AWS Simple Notification Service IP whitelisting – AWS VPC Security Group Layer 7 – Web Application Firewall Host-level firewalls – IP tables Patch management – Spacewalk Vulnerability assessment – VAPT (OpenVAS + Nessus) Data in Transit encryption HTTPS – SSL Certificates Approach Designed and deployed the cloud environment leveraging several Amazon Web Services (AWS) security services alongside multiple open source solutions to achieve PCI compliance. Engaged Business and Technology teams of the client – from initial audit to multiple re-audits. Implemented a complete CI/ CD pipeline to ensure that a blue green deployment can be achieved. Completed the engagement end-to-end from design to go-live in 16 weeks. Enforced a targeted approach for the public cloud deployment due to the nature of the platform. Transformational Effects AWS services that are PCI compliant are used to set up infrastructure. Application as well as its environment are PCI-certified. Created a secure application that can be trusted by customers to use their credit cards.

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CLOUD DEPLOYMENT

Supporting Alfresco Deployment on AWS cloud A Fortune 100 insurance company was facing challenges with its Alfresco implementation and needed to migrate the existing environment to Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud to enable easy document management, collaboration and support audits and compliance inquiries requirements. Business Challenge The client needed a flexible and agile AWS Cloud environment for its Alfresco implementation that improves document management and enterprise collaboration. Technology Components AWS Cloud, RHEL, Alfresco, MySQL, Elastic Bamboo, Java, SharePoint, BMC Remedy Approach Analyzed servers needed for the new Alfresco content repository at development, QA, staging and production phases. Migrated the content from Alfresco 4.2 to Alfresco 5.0.3 version on Amazon EC2 as per client’s priorities. Enhanced Alfresco internals for performance and scalability to support the migrated content types Provided application integration (Web Services APIs) support for LOB applications and third party systems. Provided two weeks of post go-live (Hypercare) support per phase and knowledge transfer to the client’s enterprise content management (ECM) support team. Transformational Effects Provided a low-cost cloud solution which complies with regulations, acts and mandates Enabled easy file sharing and collaboration Equipped the client’s systems with powerful document management features Developed and streamlined task management and workflow Provided complete IT control of security and access Provided choice of full SaaS or private AWS instance Enabled powerful metadata and full-text search features

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VIRTUAL ASSISTANCE

24/7, Real-Time Virtual Assistance for Direct Resolution of Simple Questions & Fewer Tickets An international pharmaceutical company engaged in the research and development, production, marketing, and sale of drugs for the treatment of disorders in the central nervous system was looking for a real-time virtual assistant. Business Challenge New staff, particularly those operating remotely, were facing issues in accessing company resources and in getting a quick response to simple questions. The client’s international ticketing system had high overheads and was facing challenges in routing issues quickly & properly. Approach Developed a virtual assistant leveraging Microsoft Azure services: Bot Service, Q&A Maker, and LUIS (Language Understanding Intelligent Service) Accessible via cross-platform web browser with mobile-first interface ready for use in the field. Transformational Effects Real-time 24/7 access to a conversational knowledge base. A foundational platform for employees that helps them reach automated resources and current information. Automated responses to simple questions resulted in fewer tickets. Helps remote employees stay connected and engaged to Headquarters.

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CLOUD COLLABORATION

Building a collaborative workforce through robust infrastructure An education-focused, non-profit organization needed to enable collaboration among its diverse workforce of educationalists, teachers, social workers and operations staff from remote locations by leveraging technology. Business Challenge The client needed to facilitate collaboration across its rank and file – especially in remote locations – to be able to expand its presence across the country, while strengthening its workforce count. Technology Components Oracle PeopleSoft & AWS Approach Validated and finalized the cloud strategy for Oracle PeopleSoft implementation with the client. Led the assessment of the application stack for readiness. Discussed the assessed data with two cloud service providers and mapped infrastructure to services offered by these providers. The process involved mapping attributes such as: Operating systems comprised of Windows and Red Hat Linux Oracle Technology Stack Database services relying on Oracle, RDS options Notification systems based on standard SMTP services, email systems, and other push notifications Licensing models for a pay-as-you-go approach Followed up the assessment for selecting the right cloud platform with a roadmap development for a full-scale implementation including architecting a pioneering Amazon Web Services (AWS) solution, planning the project and driving the implementation cycle. Transformational Effects Scaled up infrastructure fuelling business growth for the client. Reduced execution efforts significantly due to the inherent nature of the cloud.

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ENTERPRISE DATA MANAGEMENT AND REPORTING PROGRAM FOR A MEDICAL CENTER

Medical Center Seeks Strategic Planning Support for an Enterprise Data Management and Reporting Program A non-profit medical center sought help for the strategic planning and implementation of an Enterprise Data Management (EDW) platform, along with supplementary analytics and reporting functionality. The medical center’s previous data warehouse (DW) and analytics reporting solutions were not fit for purpose, leading to multiple challenges in generating insight and accessing data. Challenges With Data and Analytics for the Medical Center The existing reporting and analytics environment had numerous limitations due to the age of the underlying infrastructure and software packages. The medical center needed a complete redesign of its data warehousing (DW) and business intelligence (BI) tools. It also required a brand-new enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution to be installed, coordinated alongside DW and BI installations. Finally, EPIC CarePATH is a specialist solution that needed to be integrated with Oracle cloud infrastructure. What Was the Medical Center Looking to Achieve? By replacing the aging data warehouse and business intelligence solutions, the medical center would gain more throughput with analytics and reporting. The old solution was bottlenecked, forcing employees to wait for insight while the data warehouse environment responded to queries. Newer business intelligence tools opened an avenue for more targeted insight and greater value extraction from existing datasets. This would help guide business decisions, allowing the non-profit meet business objectives. Technology Components Used by the Medical Center on Oracle After consultation and implementation, the medical center leveraged the following technology components: Oracle DB was used as a healthcare database solution due to schema-agnostic storage support, allowing for diverse and differing datasets in a centralized repository. Business Objects allowed the medical center to store and comprehensively tag all types of assets, such as insurance policy documents, medical records, and purchase orders within the Oracle DB environment. It also supports object relations to expedite database querying and data-matching. Clarity was enabled to facilitate bi-directional e-commerce integration on both Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) cloud platforms and on-premises environments. EPIC CarePATH was used to integrate and streamline modern healthcare workflows with cross-data-source querying. SAP Crystal Reports was the reporting solution of choice as it supported the offloading of data processing workloads to remote datacenters whenever usage peaked, with real-time report generation and sharing. How Did Trianz Implement These Technologies for the Medical Center Client? Trianz worked closely with the medical center’s IT team to plan, strategize, and manage the data and analytics for the digital transformation project. This included devising a work plan, determining business and technical requirements with iterative release scheduling, the provisioning of ETL pipelines, and data application architecting. The workforce was educated on best-of-breed data warehousing tools and architectures, while developing techniques to move forward with an enterprise strategy and implementation plan. Trianz defined specific requirements for the data warehouse information system, data architecture, and technical database operations. A range of database types were integrated as part of the data warehousing platform, including conceptual, logical, and physical. A high-level redesign of extract-transform-load processes in and out of the data warehouse environment brought efficiency and reliability improvements to data procedures and any reliant programs. Business Objects was upgraded to XI R2 for its latest features and security improvements. Finally, a User Group and Advisory Board were created to assist with the implementation and roll-out of the enterprise data warehouse across all departments. Transformational Effects and Business Impacts After the digital transformation, the medical center experienced tangible real-world benefits. User self-service was enabled, directly tackling growing database support requirements across the business. Company adherence with HIPAA regulations was streamlined thanks to governance frameworks built into the data warehouse ruleset, essentially automating data governance. Standardized reporting templates and data visualization capabilities enhanced insight generation across all modalities. Online paperless reporting reduced the medical center’s carbon footprint and paper usage, while improving usability and shareability with other employees. Custom reports were reduced with pre-defined and approved templates taking their place. These report templates are contained within a catalog for ease of access. Data bandwidth, response times, and data integrity were improved thanks to faster processing times, lower I/O latency, and more stringent validation both in-transit and at-rest for data packets. Experience the Trianz Difference Trianz enables digital transformations through effective strategies and excellence in execution. Collaborating with business and technology leaders, we help formulate and execute operational strategies to achieve intended business outcomes by bringing the best of consulting, technology experiences and execution models. Powered by knowledge, research, and perspectives, we enable clients to transform their business ecosystems and achieve superior performance by leveraging infrastructure, cloud, analytics, digital and security paradigms. Reach out or get in touch to learn more. ×

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Cloud, Analytics

CENTRALIZED ENTERPRISE DATA REPOSITORY FOR A PACKAGING AND SHIPPING SUPPLIES PROVIDER

Accelerating Business Efficiency with a Centralized Enterprise Data Repository Trianz was approached by a packaging and shipping supplies provider based in North America. The client wanted to combine siloed data repositories into a single-source-of-truth (SSOT) to promote data integrity, validity, and accuracy. Business Challenges for the Shipping Supplies Provider with Data Management The client was dealing with data siloes across the business, meaning there was no SSOT to derive insight from. This created inconsistency between departments as they used analytics and business intelligence (BI) tools to generate insights, leading to inaccurate insights that negatively impacted business decision-making. To resolve this, the client needed a new centralized enterprise data repository that combines these siloed datasets into a SSOT. This would improve capabilities around data validity, verification, and integrity monitoring, leading to more accurate data and more accurate insight from analytics and BI tools. Technology Components Selected for the Shipping Client by Trianz After a comprehensive assessment of the shipping client’s IT infrastructure and services, Trianz selected the following technology components: Informatica was chosen as an end-to-end data operations platform for data engineering, integration, governance, and quality assurance processes. SQL Server was used as a relational database management system (RDBMS), chosen for integrations and live connector optimizations with PowerBI. Lastly, PowerBI was chosen as a Microsoft ecosystem solution for BI operations, including analytics, dataset unification, visualizations, and more. How Trianz Helped the Shipping Supplier to Build a SSOT and Transform Analytics and BI Operations Our data experts started with asset discovery and analysis to formulate an end-to-end picture of business IT systems and services. This helped with the identification of appropriate technology components, ensuring compatibility and integrability. From here, Trianz took control of data operations and systematically optimized the architecture for high availability, accuracy, and validity. The target was operational availability 24 hours a day, 7 days a week as part of a 99.9% uptime service level agreement. Next, existing data models were simplified to assist with downstream analysis. These models could then be used across the business to generate insights with greater efficiency. Trianz collaborated with the client’s IT department to standardize business IT applications and services, and transform IT and data governance frameworks. This would prevent unauthorized data access and improve data security as the same rules could now be applied holistically. Finally, Trianz worked within Informatica to centralize structured datasets on SQL Server. This included the configuration of optimized data connectors between SQL Server and PowerBI to streamline analytics and BI data operations. Transformational Effects After Building a New SSOT for the Shipping Client Now, the client could generate holistic, 360-degree analytical overviews of various business operations to derive insight for use in business decisions. This improved the quality of decisions, directly impacting the top and bottom line. Statutory reporting timescales were shortened significantly, improving awareness across the business in relation to mandatory government information-sharing requirements. Data availability was greatly improved alongside workforce trust in the validity and accuracy of datasets. This meant the business had access to quality data sources with sharp turnaround times when submitting queries. Experience the Trianz Difference Trianz enables digital transformations through effective strategies and excellence in execution. Collaborating with business and technology leaders, we help formulate and execute operational strategies to achieve intended business outcomes by bringing the best of consulting, technology expertise, and execution models. Powered by knowledge, research, and experience, we enable clients to transform their business ecosystems and achieve superior performance by leveraging infrastructure, cloud, analytics, digital, and security paradigms. Reach out to get in touch or learn more.

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FLEXIBLE ANALYTICS IN TABLEAU FOR LOGISTICS CLIENT

Real Estate Logistics Company Seeks Dynamic Visualized Analytical Dashboards Trianz was approached by a real estate logistics client that needed assistance with visualized analytics. The client needed dynamic visualized analytical dashboards to replace an aging 100+ page PDF document that had become more of a hinderance than a help. Business Challenges for the Real Estate Logistics Company The client was storing earnings preparations in a 100+ page PDF document, which every employee and stakeholder had access to. This meant answers to questions were not readily available during public presentations. The real estate logistics company needed to replace this PDF solution with a flexible and adaptable data visualization analytics platform. This would enable faster queries compared to the PDF document and lower the barrier of entry to analysis thanks to visual dashboards and charts. Technology Components Selected by Trianz After consulting with the real estate client, Trianz decided on the following technology components: Tableau was selected as an analytical reporting and visualization tool. This would allow stakeholders and employees to take structured data, visualize it, and share insights with colleagues. AWS Virtual Cloud Servers were chosen to provide virtual machines in the cloud that could be interfaced with using Denodo, acting as compute nodes for analytical querying workflows. Snowflake was chosen as a data warehousing and data lake solution. Denodo Virtualization technology enabled data abstraction, integration, and virtualization in partnership with AWS Virtual Cloud Servers using Snowflake as a data repository. How Trianz Helped the Real Estate Logistics Client to Enable Visualized Analytics in Tableau Trianz started by condensing the 100+ page PDF source file into a 3-tab dynamic analytics dashboard. This allowed teams to evaluate multiple metrics across multiple dimensions, geographies, and timeframes, greatly improving the depth and breadth of generated insights. Next, operating parameters were established to enable employees to create dynamic dashboards that can move vertically through data hierarchies. Data availability was greatly improved using Snowflake, easily surpassing the previous PDF solution. Transformational Effects After Replacing PDFs with Tableau Visualizations After adopting Tableau and Snowflake, the real estate logistics company’s stakeholder team could generate more valuable insights around company performance, competitor trends, and product flow through the delivery pipeline. The field sales team had new access to a remote-friendly PowerBI solution, enabling mobile visualization dashboards that helped sales personnel to monitor key performance indicators relating to call activity. Experience the Trianz Difference Trianz enables digital transformations through effective strategies and excellence in execution. Collaborating with business and technology leaders, we help formulate and execute operational strategies to achieve intended business outcomes by bringing the best of consulting, technology expertise, and execution models. Powered by knowledge, research, and experience, we enable clients to transform their business ecosystems and achieve superior performance by leveraging infrastructure, cloud, analytics, digital, and security paradigms. Reach out to get in touch or learn more.

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DATA VIRTUALIZATION USING DENODO

Data Virtualization Using Denodo for Multi-National Logistics and Real Estate Client Trianz teamed up with a multi-national logistics and real estate investment company to modernize its data warehousing platform. The aim was to help the client scale and cater to growing business needs, enabled by on-demand virtual data models in Denodo. Challenges for the Logistics and Real Estate Company in Data Operations The client had numerous business departments which needed reliable, real-time access to datasets. Data sources were diverse and varied, complicating any attempts to integrate data and form a single-source-of-truth. This logistics and real estate company wanted a quick turnaround on development, and for the new solution to eliminate the need for excess data replication and extract-transform-load processes. They also wanted a self-service option to further reduce workloads for data and IT personnel. Technology Components Identified by Our Experts After assessing the current state of its infrastructure and project requirements, Trianz and the client agreed on the following technology components: Denodo is a data virtualization platform that provides agile, high-performance data integration and abstraction services with zero data replication as-standard. Snowflake is a cloud data warehousing and data lake platform that supports pay-as-you-go (PAYG) billing and high-throughput raw data processing. AWS Lambda is a serverless platform for compute operations that runs software processes with zero provisioning for a minimal IT operations management (ITOM) burden. Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services (IICS) is a cloud data integration service that supports synchronization, replication, and the mass ingestion of datasets. Tableau was chosen as a data visualization and business intelligence platform, creating more valuable insights by converting raw data into visual dashboards and scorecards. How Trianz Helped the Logistics and Real Estate Client Meet its Data Objectives There were three primary pillars to the approach taken by our data experts. First is the Canonical Building Blocks Model. This constituted the building of a reusable, consistent, and governed accessibility layer using the Denodo Logical Data Warehouse, Data Catalog, Embedded Metadata and Row-level Security. Second is a Data Science Toolkit. Denodo uses a microservices architecture—this allowed our experts to develop HTTP data inputs and data API outputs, alongside data caching parameters. As a toolkit, the client could use this in the future to develop on-demand data analytics models. The third and final pillar is the Pipeline-based Deployment Model. We used Terraform to automate data ingestion and loading, building CI/CD pipelines to connect back to Snowflake and AWS Lambda. Denodo Config Backup was adopted to reduce routine downtime, enable effective configuration management, and streamline disaster recovery operations. Transformational Effects for the Logistics and Real Estate Client with Denodo Virtualized building blocks in Denodo were targeted to well-documented business areas for faster analysis, insight generation and return on investment. Other business areas included as definitions were established. On-demand data models reduced initiation times for analytics projects, reducing the time needed to generate insight. This also helped with the development of API-based models and faster go-to-market. CI/CD pipelines streamlined data orchestration for the client. The end-state was one-click data deployment in Denodo with streamlined upgrade processes, a centralized configuration management database (CMDB), and auto-scaling of data and compute resources in Snowflake and AWS Lambda. Experience the Trianz Difference Trianz enables digital transformations through effective strategies and excellence in execution. Collaborating with business and technology leaders, we help formulate and execute operational strategies to achieve intended business outcomes by bringing the best of consulting, technology expertise, and execution models. Powered by knowledge, research, and experience, we enable clients to transform their business ecosystems and achieve superior performance by leveraging infrastructure, cloud, analytics, digital, and security paradigms. Reach out to get in touch or learn more.

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CUSTOMER ANALYTICS WITH OBIEE FOR FORTUNE 500 COMPANY

Developing Customer Analytics to Integrate with an Existing Data Warehouse A Fortune 500 storage and software systems company approached Trianz for help with customer analytics. It was looking to develop an Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE)-based analytics platform for reporting and business intelligence (BI), and to integrate this system with its existing data warehousing platform. Challenges for the Fortune 500 Storage and Software Company in IT Operations Management The client had an existing decision support system (DSS) and data mart to use when generating reports. It was facing challenges in analyzing incident information and generating timely insight to guide remediation and troubleshooting. This coincided with a reactive approach to incident resolution. Early root cause analysis was impossible due to a lack of monitoring, leading to storage device failures and dissatisfied clients. This failure was of critical concern among senior executives, as systems were malfunctioning with too much latency between acknowledgement and remediation. Technology Components Procured by Trianz for the Fortune 500 Storage and Software Company This Fortune 500 project consisted of one main technology component to be configured by Trianz: OBIEE is a business intelligence reporting and dashboarding tool. It allows users to generate detailed reports across diverse datasets, with ad-hoc analyses and querying for real-time business intelligence. It also orchestrates ingestion, storage, and analysis of data. How Trianz Helped the Fortune 500 Company to Digitally Transform Business Intelligence Processes Trianz started by developing comprehensive monitoring dashboards and scorecards. This helped to visualize problematic patterns, assisting with root cause analysis. Our data experts then enabled an enterprise-wide ad-hoc analytics service using existing technology components and OBIEE. This meant users in all departments could slice and dice using pivot tables in an interactive manner, offloading ad-hoc reporting from the IT department and data teams. Next, Trianz designed new incident reporting workflows. This improved upon existing incident management analytics reports by adding statistical functions that can identify server storage problems in real time. It also supplies a possible resolution, guiding IT support personnel in their remediation efforts. Automated rules were established to send reports and alerts to relevant key stakeholders. Finally, data throughput and reliability was greatly improved, allowing the Fortune 500 company to render larger amounts of data simultaneously when visualizing insights. Transformational Effects After Trianz Helped the Fortune 500 Company Adopt OBIEE Thanks to Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, the Fortune 500 company could get faster data insights and make better business decisions. This was due to real-time data access, slice-and-dice reporting capabilities, and streamlined data operations orchestration. With these new capabilities, the client can identify problems faster with accurate root cause analyses and real-time alerts. Significant improvements were also realized with its Customer Satisfaction Survey (CSAT) results, attracting new business orders and revenues for the Fortune 500 firm. Key stakeholders across the business now had access to real-time, comprehensive business intelligence reports delivered via dashboards and scorecards. Experience the Trianz Difference Trianz enables digital transformations through effective strategies and excellence in execution. Collaborating with business and technology leaders, we help formulate and execute operational strategies to achieve intended business outcomes by bringing the best of consulting, technology expertise, and execution models. Powered by knowledge, research, and experience, we enable clients to transform their business ecosystems and achieve superior performance by leveraging infrastructure, cloud, analytics, digital, and security paradigms. Reach out to get in touch or learn more.

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HEALTHCARE PROVIDER SEEKS BI OPTIMIZATION

Healthcare Solutions Provider Seeks Data Warehouse Optimization and Development of Customer-Facing BI Application A leading healthcare solutions provider needed to overhaul its existing data warehousing solution in preparation for a new customer-facing business intelligence application. This would entail replacing a legacy data warehousing environment with modern technologies to support business-wide digital transformation initiatives. What Was the Healthcare Provider Looking to Achieve? The provider wanted to give customers and clients more access to data insights to enhance its service portfolio. Data visualizations and personal health insights delivered via business intelligence software would make their health offerings digital-first, giving them an edge in an increasingly competitive healthcare solutions market. Data Warehousing Challenges for the Healthcare Provider The legacy database environment was unable to support the healthcare provider’s desired business intelligence solution. This was caused by a lack of support for modern data processing workflows, where the provider encountered significant performance problems as it developed and deployed new services on their legacy architecture. Technology Solutions Implemented Trianz worked closely with the healthcare solutions provider to implement the following technologies on the Oracle cloud: Oracle Database 10g was used as an enterprise grid computing database solution, offering greater flexibility and cost-savings compared to other database types for the healthcare solutions provider. Informatica was used to format and structure raw healthcare data ready for analysis on the new business intelligence (BI) application platform. IBM Cognos Analytics was used as a web-based modelling and dashboard solution, integrating with the custom BI application to deliver personal data insights to customers. This included reporting, analytics, scorecarding, and event monitoring. java was the programming language of choice for the custom BI application, as the healthcare solutions provider was using Oracle DB and JavaScript Object Notations (JSON). Perl is a high-level programming language used alongside Java to interface with the Oracle database and integrate the custom business intelligence (BI) application. UNIX Scripts were defined, saved, and used as Oracle DB 10g that was operating on a Linux-based platform. This allowed for automation and interfacing with the database and custom BI application, with script execution using Perl and Java. How the Trianz Approach Transformed the Healthcare Provider’s Data Warehouse and Custom BI Application Trianz BI experts completely redesigned the backend data factory after a comprehensive initial assessment. The objective was to facilitate daily record processing from hospitals across the US, storing these records in a centralized repository for use with the custom BI application. Trianz assessed the performance and optimization status of the environment, and shared estimates on projected productivity, efficiency, and cost improvements with the healthcare solutions provider. This illustrated the value to stakeholders, catalyzing support for the digital transformation to be implemented. There were critical issues that required resolution. Our experts compiled reports detailing the current problems, steps to rectify said problems, and projected returns on investment (ROI). This guided a systematic approach to fine-tuning the database. The biggest bottlenecks were prioritized for maximum benefit in minimal time, resulting in tangible improvements mere moments into the digital transformation process. From here, in-depth query tuning for Oracle database 10g took place, including routing and optimization for data sharing with Informatica. Implementation and optimization of a new storage area network (SAN) along with backup facilities ensured exceptional performance with minimal risk of data loss. The Trianz experts also defined optimization rules for use in the long-term, maintaining the health of the data warehouse with de-duplication, purging, and data-matching routines. Finally, the custom business intelligence (BI) application was developed and deployed using Cognos, Java, and Perl. The Trianz experts took full ownership — from planning and design through development and execution. Transformational Effects and Impacts After working with Trianz, the healthcare solutions provider had a new data warehouse environment and a custom-built business intelligence platform for use by customers. This new solution drove significant brand recognition and awareness, ultimately reaching thousands of users. Experience the Trianz Difference Trianz enables digital transformations through effective strategies and excellence in execution. Collaborating with business and technology leaders, we help formulate and execute operational strategies to achieve intended business outcomes by bringing the best of consulting, technology expertise, and execution models. Powered by knowledge, research, and experience, we enable clients to transform their business ecosystems and achieve superior performance by leveraging infrastructure, cloud, analytics, digital, and security paradigms. Reach out to get in touch or learn more.

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AWS OPERATIONAL DATA STORE: A CASE STUDY

A Fortune 100 P&C Insurer Uses AWS ODS for Efficient Operations Challenge Continuous innovation in insurance analytics enables many P&C insurers to improve their plans for customer-centricity, telematics, and claim management efficiency. However, P&C insurers often struggle with leveraging enterprise-level data due to inaccessible data formats or a lack of trust in the underlying data quality and semantics. A Fortune 100 P&C insurer in the US, who we will call WesternShores, needed a next-gen operational data store (ODS). The company’s leaders found it challenging to manage operations efficiently with slow development life cycles, limited data processing capability, and heavy dependence on IT. They were looking for low-cost infrastructure and analytics solutions as they migrated their existing applications to event-based architecture. Knowing there was a better way, they set out to deploy an intelligent, state-of-the-art ODS and analytics solution. Our Approach To foster greater trust among stakeholders, WesternShores collaborated with Trianz to start user research through a focused questionnaire and conducted executive interviews and workshops to uncover key issues and gather data points. To suggest a smarter analytics solution, WesternShores needed to know the costs of a big data platform on the cloud to make the right choice. They were already using Hadoop-as-a-Service (HDaaS) as an alternative to on-premises Hadoop deployments; however, due to a lack of skilled resources, were struggling to use it to its full advantage. After evaluating their existing analytics landscape and infrastructure and analyzing data points, we suggested deploying Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. We leveraged our proprietary total cost of ownership (TCO) calculator to compare their HDaaS with Hortonworks Data Platform deployed on AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to estimate the total cost of ownership (TCO). We also defined a roadmap to deploy the HDP on the cloud. Considering all the internal and external factors, we proposed three storage options to WesternShores in the Hadoop deployment architectures on AWS: Simple Storage Service (S3) - Amazon Simple Storage Service or Amazon S3 can store vast numbers of backups or user files, which are readily available when needed. There are no resource procurement cycles or investments upfront, which means they can keep their data safe from errors, failures, and threats. WesternShores can easily hold their content and media files in S3, which may be served efficiently from AWS CloudFront. Plus, S3 can easily create a data lake to hold raw data in its native format and then use machine learning tools, query-in-place, and analytics to draw insights. Elastic Block Store (EBS) - Amazon’s block-level storage solution, where they can keep the data on the AWS EBS servers even when the EC2 instances are shut down. EBS offers them high availability and low-latency performance within the selected availability zone, allowing them to easily scale storage capacity at a low subscription-based pricing model. AWS EC2 instance store - An AWS instance store is a temporary storage type located on disks that are physically attached to a host machine. Out of the three instance store volumes, we suggested Ephemeral storage to WesternShores. Also known as virtual devices, this was suitable for low-latency storage. Transformational Effects Our ODS best practices and implementations for building an ODS - AWS’ next-gen Hadoop-based platform - resulted in accurate, real time estimates for WesternShores’s TCO in the first year. They also benefitted from our cost projections of operational data storage, resulting in a better performance. Experience the Trianz Difference Trianz enables digital transformations through effective strategies and excellence in execution. Collaborating with business and technology leaders, we help formulate and execute operational strategies to achieve intended business outcomes by bringing the best of consulting, technology experiences and execution models. Powered by knowledge, research, and perspectives, we enable clients to transform their business ecosystems and achieve superior performance by leveraging infrastructure, cloud, analytics, digital, and security paradigms. Reach out to learn more.

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IMPLEMENTING A MICROSERVICES-POWERED, MULTIPLATFORM REPORT ENGAGEMENT APPLICATION

Trasers Seeks to Provide Clients with Interactive and Collaborative Experiences in Real-Time With a need to develop a comprehensive digital reporting platform, Trasers, one of the world’s most extensive research services dedicated to the field of digital transformation decision support, was looking to provide a digitally immersive, interactive, and collaborative report viewing experience for its clients. What Was Trasers Looking to Achieve? The research firm required an immersive, digitally advanced multiplatform state-of-the-art report engagement and report viewing platform to support its growing client base and meet increasing demand. To achieve these goals, Trasers was interested in building a secure, AI-enabled chatbot application that would interact with its users when accessing and purchasing research reports. In addition, this application would enable users to request custom research requirements aligned to the report topics found on the Trasers platform. The multiplatform aimed to help Trasers achieve a highly secure and scalable solution while providing more significant user contribution via survey participation, offline connectivity, real-time reporting, and smoother search functions. To strategically implement the appropriate solutions, the company partnered with AWS and Trianz’s team of analytics experts to build a microservices architecture for faster automation, scalability, and availability. How the Trianz Approach Upgraded Trasers’ Solutions Architecture Trianz’s consultants sat down with Trasers’ leadership to understand their unique business needs and challenges before collaborating with the AWS product team on the ideal solution. Then, after conducting workshops with business and IT stakeholders, Trianz deployed an Amazon S3 intelligent data lake and BDM-MDM suite, which integrated various data sources to produce the Trasers reports. Trasers Solution Architecture Trianz then identified survey and customer analytics solutions to create a set of reusable custom visualizations that could integrate into an open architecture. Once the identified processes were approved, Trianz’s team of analytics experts seamlessly synchronized the implementation of Checkbox, Qlik Sense, SPSS, and Alfresco to offer Trasers consistent, visually appealing, and differentiated reporting services. Ubercart was implemented along with the cloud-based conversational AI service, LUIS chatbot, to support several payment gateways. This increased the performance of the core application and enabled custom machine-learning intelligence to predict overall meaning and pull out relevant, detailed information for customer orders and technical support. Finally, after the application was deployed on AWS cloud, Trasers web, mobile, and desktop apps were validated against security vulnerabilities using Nessus Professional 8.0 and Burp suite. Trasers Deployment Architecture — AWS Cloud How Trianz Helped Trasers Realize Their Business Goals Trasers’ engagement with Trianz enabled them to leverage an intuitive, user-friendly, and smooth report reading experience. With advanced search functionalities, clients were provided with faster insights into multiple industries and business functions on a digitally immersive platform. They also achieved their key goal of enabling users to interact securely with their reporting services through an AI chatbot and connect with the Trasers user community to get responses from fellow community users. As Trasers also engaged with Trianz and AWS as a managed service provider, the team delivered a platform that allowed users to interact with reports and perform multiple functions in real-time. In addition, users can now access interactive reports in online and offline modes where their actions are synced up the moment they establish connectivity. The Transformational Effects and Impact With the new microservices-based architecture, the client realized a spike in productivity due to the inherent features like content negotiation, authentication, scaffolding code, and other methods to provide more efficient connections. This enabled Trasers to prioritize accelerating its search for new ways to serve customers better, focusing on continuous improvement. Thanks to the omnichannel access and streamlined checkout process, user experience improved, interactions became seamless and secure, and Trasers general audience and user base increased. Experience the Trianz Difference Trianz enables digital transformations through effective strategies and excellence in execution. Collaborating with business and technology leaders, we help formulate and execute operational strategies to achieve intended business outcomes by bringing the best of consulting, technology expertise, and execution models. Powered by knowledge, research, and perspectives, we enable clients to transform their business ecosystems and achieve superior performance by leveraging infrastructure, cloud, analytics, digital, and security paradigms. Reach out to get in touch or learn more. ×

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SHOPPER 360ᴼ

Customer Dashboard Experience A global payments and technology company partnered with Trianz to digitize its clients’ access to data with a set of business intelligence dashboards and data monetization framework. Business Challenge Create a data monetization solution targeting sales & marketing divisions of global retail merchants (B2B solution), with insights on shopping trends and customer behaviors, by leveraging the card transactions data. Implement a cutting-edge tool within an aggressive timeline, while still supporting flexibility of experience, platform and technology. Technology Components Hadoop, HDFS, Hbase, HIVE, FLUME, Pentaho, Oracle The Approach Clearly established team responsibilities and development processes Adopted an agile development methodology spanning the global workforce Ensured development of application framework and to-be-extended services Closely monitored alignment with customer needs Assessed application quality and readiness for release Obtained management buyin, conduct communications for release Transformational Effects Enhanced engagement with merchants, providing better access to their data and insights Instilled software development best practices, especially with dual-shore development models Support for multiple business models and geographic locations with the help of configurations

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CUSTOMER MDM

Customer Master Data Management makes Big Impact A global pharmaceutical enterprise needed a master data management solution to cleanse and standardize information from different sources to better serve its sales operations and internal HQ processes, as well as feed external pharmaceutical partners based on co-promotion arrangements Business Challenge The client needed a master data management architecture to standardize, cleanse, and merge more than 20 data sources into a “single version of the truth.” Also, there was a need for automation to consolidate data and integrate processes, eliminate overlapping processes, and govern business rules and metrics. Technology Components SQL Server 2012 Enterprise Database, SQL Server MDS, DQS, SSIS, SSRS, QlikView 11, Jitterbit 5, Salesforce.com (Veeva) and Melissa Data. Approach Trianz team studied the client’s existing MDM processes to determine what could be improved or added to better support business functions in the following areas: customer identification, field change request processing, incentive compensation processes, sales force alignment, roster management, forecast integration, sales goal tracking, product roll-up, market basket definition, market research, and external data vendor integration. Trianz then developed the organization’s data warehouse foundation and business intelligence solution using the new MDM solution as one of the key sources of information. The second part of the approach included integrating MDM bi-directionally to downstream systems including Veeva (Salesforce.com), and governing the data through its entire lifecycle, from inception or definition to consumption. Because the firm follows strict compliance guidelines and government regulations tied to doctor and patient privacy, Trianz facilitated the establishment of a strict governance framework ensuring that all necessary parties were able to approve rules and definitions before roll-out. Finally, Trianz added a data warehouse and several interactive dashboards that feed from the MDM solution to help management stakeholders and sales teams become more strategic and effective. It also implemented all keys systems based on an aggressive schedule build around a product approval and launch. Transformational Effects Reduced the implementation costs by leveraging existing technologies and eliminated the need for expensive software solutions. Created a single master data source used to feed all areas of the business, fed from over 20+ internal and external feeds Complied with partnership agreements by generating accurate data feeds required to be shared with pharmaceutical partners. Reduced manual processes by 90%+. Enabled regulatory compliance with centralized data with full source lineage. Built a best-in-class architectural foundation that can be scaled to meet the growing needs of the organization. Instilled confidence in the sales force by providing easily accessible dashboards that provide the trusted information at the right time.

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LEGACY REPORT MIGRATION

Assessment & Roadmap for Enhanced BI Environment A major league baseball team wanted to reduce their enterprise reporting costs while increasing the data availability to their analysts. The client was also looking to lower the entry barrier for their data scientists. Business Challenge High costs associated with enterprise reporting in software fees, entry barrier for stakeholders to access data outside of canned reports, and a need for high volume delivery of reports. Technology Components ORACLE Database, Looker Approach Reviewed the OBIEE reporting environment with the client and identified reports to migrate from OBIEE to Looker, reducing the number of reports as well as maintenance costs Documented and reviewed all reports to be migrated Created Looker Looks, Dashboard, and LookML required to recreate the OBIEE environment Worked with the client to determine the Data Story and identify requests from analysts and other stakeholders Transformational Effects BI environment has now become a centerpiece of analysis and a core function of their operational workflows Freed up key resources who could focus on high value tasks Enhanced reporting with visualizations Created First Executive Dashboards, providing aggregated daily insights for executives Provided a platform for data scientists, salesmen, and analysts to integrate data directly into their workstream, increasing efficiency and decreasing time to insight and action

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PHARMACEUTICAL ANALYTICS

Enabling Healthcare Analytics in the Cloud An emerging pharmaceutical company needed a technology partner who could provide integrated reporting on the field activity from Salesforce CRM, the prescribing activity in their healthcare market, as well as the state of formulary and claim trends. Business Challenge Trianz has developed a repeatable framework to enable data integration of pharmaceutical sales data sources into a business intelligence solution that puts information at the fingertips of executives and sales teams. Technology Components Reporting: Microsoft Power BI Infrastructure: Microsoft Azure Infrastructure (IaaS) – Virtual Machines, Network, Storage, Backup & Recovery Data Storage: Microsoft SQL Server Approach Trianz developed a BI/DW solution built on Microsoft Azure and SQL Server backbone to bring together various data sources, provide a master data repository to reconcile operational reference data, and deliver reports and dashboards via Power BI. Transformational Effects The solution offered the leadership an insight into company performance, competitor trends, and the flow of product through the delivery pipeline. The field sales team has access to a suite of mobile-enabled dashboards in Power BI where they can view physician prescribing behavior trends and monitor their own call activity KPIs.

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Analytics

TERADATA TO SNOWFLAKE MIGRATION

The client is an American multinational technology conglomerate that develops, manufactures and sells networking hardware, software, telecommunications equipment and other high-technology services and products. To utilize a new Database Technology, the client needed to migrate the Teradata code in their Business Objects Instance to the Snowflake platform. Business Challenge Owing to the licensing cost, performance issues and an overall mandate to migrate to the cloud, the client was in the middle of a migration of Teradata code to Snowflake platform. To ensure that the business was able to utilize the new database environment, the Teradata specific SQL syntax within the Business Objects environment had to be converted to Snowflake and reintegrated into the Business Objects Environment. Scope of POC Five Web-Intelligence Reports 1 Business Objects Universe Timeline: One month Teradata to Snowflake SemanticLayer Conversion The Approach The Trianz team, consisting of two Snowflake data engineers and one Business Objects Architect, thoroughly analyzed and documented the client’s Business Objects requirements, design and business processes needed to successfully implement the migration. Utilizing Proprietary Code, we extracted the SQL code from the Business Objects Universe, translated it with our custom-designed Evove software solution and then reinserted it into the Business Objects Universe. SQL Syntax proved to be programmatically successful by converting 90% of the tables, with only 10% manual conversions. The conversion was tested by running the WebI reports against the new Snowflake environment to ensure that (a) the reports run successfully and (b) the data match. In the live environment, Trianz was able to successfully run all the reports and match the data at the expected rate. Transformational Effects As a result, above 75% of Business Object instances were programmatically converted to Snowflake. Evove was able to automate the conversion of over 95% of derived tables, with only 6 tables converted manually. Not only was Trianz able to provide initial results on 40% of the reports within the first week, but they were able to complete the migration within a month. Trianz was also able to identify 6 to 7 tables that could be optimized for further Snowflake usage. This process would normally take 2 – 3 months to complete manually, and the solution can be scaled to do 5 to 6 universes within the same time frame, due to the programmatic nature of our application. Universe Business Objects Count Converted Programmatically 460 Converted Manually 219 No Conversion Needed ~300 Total ~1900 Derived Tables Count Converted Programmatically 100 Converted Manually 6     Total 106 Break-down of Programmatic Errors Resolved after compiler fix Manually fixed items Underlying database items No issue items 245 219 35 30

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Analytics

STRATEGY, DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ENTERPRISE DATA WAREHOUSE AND BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE ENVIRONMENT

A reputed university in the US looking for a new series of computing systems to replace its legacy environment. It needed to develop best practice solutions and strategies to provide timely and accurate access to information to track and manage registration, financial aid, grades, grants, purchases, and staff compensation. The Business Challenge The university required analytical capabilities and skills to facilitate information access, reporting, analysis and distribution and replace its legacy environment that used a set of paper reports from siloed legacy systems that were often untimely and contained conflicting data. Technology Components Oracle, BusinessObjects, Cognos and Informatica. The Approach Trianz was engaged by the university to develop the overall strategy of the future business intelligence environment, plan the rollout of the program and assist the university staff with the development, testing, training and implementation of the solution. Trianz worked with the management of the university to determine a top-down business strategy that was then decomposed into the business, data, technical, application, organization and process requirements. Trianz assisted the university in selecting the proper toolsets, trained staff on BI/ DW best practices and drove the development while mentoring the staff through implementation. Transformational Effects Assisted the university in developing their governance, processes and organization while implementing the Business Intelligence solution serving several hundred users and 70,000 students executing thousands of queries in the areas of registration, operations, financial analysis and planning.

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Analytics

SCALABLE ANALYTICS PLATFORM ON CLOUD

An analytics platform that will scale with data growth A major financial services corporation’s principal business is to process payments between the banks of merchants and the card issuing banks or credit unions, which leverage the brand’s debit or credit services. As part of the financial inclusion initiatives globally, the client in partnership with financial institutions, governments & NGO’s, is leveraging its core digital technologies to advance agriculture, transform informal to formal financial distribution channels and increase the reach of health service by providing visibility into the overall value chain. The client needed an analytics platform that will scale with data growth from identified sources, handle data ingestions processes, transform data, and continue to ingest new data sources to develop new program level KPI’s & generate insights on how each program is performing. Business Challenge Existing analytics process is not robust and scalable, and is time-consuming. Nil or inconsistent view of data / insights; prone to manual errors. Existing platform can’t support the growing external reporting needs and the user community with program maturity. Dependent on the merchants & banks to share the information systems. Tools and Technology Stack Data LakeStore SQL DW Data Factory V2 SQL Server Databricks Power BI Python R .NET ANGULARJs Visual Studio Team Services Approach Data & ETL: Move the data from on-prem using ADF V2 to Azure Data Lake Store and perform the ETL operations using Azure Data Lake Analytics using U-SQL & SQL Stored procedures. Perform the data orchestration leveraging the ADF V2 & load to SQL DW. Visualization: Rewrite the canned reports using Power BI User Portal : A user portal is developed using MS.Net and Angular.js to render the power Bi reports and display the KPIs based on the user role access Data Science : Data scientists provided with the capability of leveraging Azure Databricks service to perform advanced analytics & ad-hoc querying Security :Leveraged Azure AD service with Service Principal MFA and authorization maintained in DevOps: Leverage MS VSTS to create a CI/CD pipeline to achieve end-to-end automated build and deployment Monitoring:Use Azure monitoring service to monitor the service and infrastructure health and availability Transformational Effects Data Lake with Azure Analytics was unique and instrumental in engaging business upfront & throughout the solution. End-to-end automated deployment process leveraging DevOps increased the frequency of the data availability to the business. Also, the platform provided robust environment scalability with better performance results. Comprehensive data security framework by leveraging cloud based encryption techniques helped secure the PII and other sensitive data. Actionable insights from data were generated using PowerBI with different user access roles.

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Digital Apps

CENTRALIZED CRM FOR LIFE INSURANCE PROVIDER

Partner Centric Sales Driven with Centralized CRM Trianz was tasked with helping a Fortune 100 life insurance provider that works with individuals and families of all income levels and backgrounds. They are predominantly an asset management firm, helping individuals and families manage their asset portfolios. Challenges for the Life Insurance Provider in Sales Operations The life insurer had multiple sales channels operating simultaneously, including third-party distribution and agency sales & services channels. Due to this complexity, the system was struggling to process workloads consistently and efficiently. The life insurance provider needed a single, centralized platform to manage all sales goals and daily targets. With multiple source systems, converging these environments would be difficult due to the customized extract-transform-load (ETL) processes it uses — in addition to the 900+ end users heavily reliant on this service-system across the entire business group. Technology Components Trianz identified and implemented the following technology components to help the Fortune 100 life insurer reach its IT objectives: Salesforce.com (SFDC) is the sales operations platform of choice, enabling customer relationship management (CRM), sales orchestration and subscriptions, marketing automation, sales and customer analytics, and custom app hosting or development. Informatica is an enterprise cloud data management platform powered by artificial intelligence. It was chosen as a centralized data warehousing solution, with stringent data governance and risk management, automated data discovery and preparation, large-scale analytics using serverless compute, and centralized 360-degree elucidation of business data operations. Data Interfaces were created specifically for Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and Representational State Transfer (REST) request fulfillment. This was particularly useful for data integration and orchestration between Salesforce and Informatica. How Trianz Helped the Life Insurer to Enable Digitalized Sales Operations and End-to-End Data Orchestration Due to the scale of the project, our data experts identified digital champions across the business to assist with development and project support. This coincided with key stakeholder meetings to garner support for the sales and data digital transformation project. Next, a scalable team structure was established. Knowledge assets across all sales processes were documented and centralized in a knowledge base. A new dedicated team was onboarded with the help of our data and sales experts, educating personnel to use the new system with competence and confidence. A governance model was established to protect data security and comply with regulations like PCI-DSS and GDPR — an essential measure considering the 900+ end users on the platform. The engagement model was transformed to accommodate the new technologies, adhere with service level agreements (SLAs) and prioritize support for business-critical customers. Finally, a distributed support team was deployed to enable 18-hour, 6-day per week customer support globally. Transformational Effects with SFDC and Informatica The new system offered predictable delivery and continuous engagement with potential customers: a key target for the digital transformation project. This greatly improved platform adoption for the life insurance company. As the new system was future-proofed in terms of both technicality and capability, multiple business departments were confident to adopt and utilize the new system in their daily operations. Rather than custom solutions, Trianz stuck to an out-of-box-experience (OOBE) in Salesforce and Informatica. This meant the business could rely on the new platform’s long-term existing functionality, rather than perpetuating a cycle of redevelopment and troubleshooting with custom solutions. Experience the Trianz Difference Trianz enables digital transformations through effective strategies and excellence in execution. Collaborating with business and technology leaders, we help formulate and execute operational strategies to achieve intended business outcomes by bringing the best of consulting, technology expertise, and execution models. Powered by knowledge, research, and experience, we enable clients to transform their business ecosystems and achieve superior performance by leveraging infrastructure, cloud, analytics, digital, and security paradigms. Reach out to get in touch or learn more.

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Digital Apps

24/7 APPLICATION AVAILABILITY FOR P&C INSURANCE PROVIDER

Enabling 24/7 Application Availability for a Property and Casualty (P&C) Insurance Provider Trianz was asked to manage a corporate application suite for a property and casualty insurance services provider. The client’s Enterprise Technology Services (ETS) needed a digital transformation to enable 24/7 availability and reliably high-performance despite a high number of globally distributed internal stakeholders and external users. Challenges for the P&C Insurance Provider in Request Management and System Stability The client was encountering system stability challenges that required constant software updates. This resulted in persistent downtime as applications were taken offline for updates. There was no standardized approach to request management, leading to complicated user requests with excessive follow-up communication. Responsibility for upstream and downstream systems was stakeholder-dependent rather than documented and divided among the workforce. Stakeholder unavailability meant this people-dependent approach was unsustainable. Frequent system errors, outages, and failures led to unavailability, unreliability, and poor quality of digital service delivery. Technology Components Recommended by Trianz for the P&C Insurance Provider Trianz worked closely with the P&C insurance provider to identify suitable technology components: An existing 50+ enterprise applications and 15+ technology solutions were active on the corporate IT network. These applications and technologies needed reconfiguring and integration to achieve reliable 24/7 operations. Java, Mainframe Modernization, Oracle Human Resources, Informatica, Documentum Captiva, UNIX, and Linux were major technology areas to adapt and adopt. How Trianz Enabled 24/7 Application Availability for the P&C Insurance Company To start, Trianz created virtual processes to enable enterprise-wide workflow automation. A full assessment of existing technologies and applications allowed our application performance management experts to systematically identify and develop targeted improvements. This included a high number of permanent fixes, improving on earlier recurrent temporary fixes. For problems that could not be immediately resolved, repeatable workarounds were identified and modelled to improve customer satisfaction when requesting support. The new technology platforms were integrated with the ETS. This included Informatica to streamline enterprise cloud data management, and OpenText Documentum to centralize and create a single-source-of-truth for corporate content assets. A metric-driven framework was developed to accurately measure successes and failures in real time on the ETS. Finally, iterative functions were added to promote competency in regular tasks. Transformational Effects for the P&C Insurance Provider with 24/7 Application Availability The client was pleased that total cost of ownership for the ETS was significantly reduced. Customer satisfaction rose considerably due to better system uptime, service level optimization, and faster incident resolution times. Customer experience was also streamlined as a result. Incident resolution playbooks improved clarity and consistency in remediation efforts, both automated and manually executed by IT personnel. Generally, processes were simplified to improve service maturity and impact while minimizing process overhead on the ETS. Experience the Trianz Difference Trianz enables digital transformations through effective strategies and excellence in execution. Collaborating with business and technology leaders, we help formulate and execute operational strategies to achieve intended business outcomes by bringing the best of consulting, technology expertise, and execution models. Powered by knowledge, research, and experience, we enable clients to transform their business ecosystems and achieve superior performance by leveraging infrastructure, cloud, analytics, digital, and security paradigms. Reach out to get in touch or learn more.

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Digital Apps

A WEB-BASED CASH LOGISTICS DEVELOPMENT CASE STUDY

Web-Based Cash Logistics Development for a Cash Logistics Company Trianz was enlisted to help an armored car transport, ATM servicing, currency and coin processing company with its business IT applications and cybersecurity. Specifically, our custom development experts built a centralized web-based cash logistics system to streamline data management workflows for the client. Challenges for the Cash Logistics Company in Data Management The cash logistics company was encountering problems with data management, data retrieval, and database operating costs. It was leveraging an end-to-end solution called oneSystem but the solution was not meeting business requirements. As a replacement, the client wanted a centralized data management system that all business departments could use simultaneously. New Technology Components for the Cash Logistics Company Trianz worked to implement these technology components for the cash logistics company: .NET Framework was used in tandem with C# (C-sharp) to develop the web application within the ASP.NET framework. This included .NET Framework Data Providers to interface with the database solution. Oracle Database 10g was the database solution of choice. It supports enterprise grid computing, offering the cash logistics company great flexibility and cost reductions compared to other database solutions. How Trianz Helped the Cash Logistics Company to Build a Centralized Data Management System Our data experts started with software development, creating a web-based cash logistics system using the .NET Framework and C# under the ASP.NET web application development framework. This enabled the creation of dynamic real-time services for data ingestion and retrieval. Data itself was loaded into Oracle Database 10g, an enterprise grid computing solution that offers superior flexibility and cost-savings when running web applications. It creates large modular storage pools in the cloud, distributing data with a focus on throughput, latency, and cost reductions. Trianz started with a waterfall development approach, developing a plan of action and sticking to it. From here, our data experts observed that the scope of work was wider than planned, which led them to shift to an agile development methodology. In a span of two years of development, Trianz presented a production-ready version of the product to the cash logistics company. During this time, our experts also trained system users. The project was finalized with a dedicated Offshore Development Center. Its purpose was to orchestrate engagement with development and delivery teams, and the logistics company itself. Transformational Effects with the New Data Management System and Oracle After project completion, the client possessed automated cash logistics information processing on Oracle 10g. It could manage data operations using the ASP.NET web application from anywhere with an internet connection. Sensitive account details for the client’s customers and partners were protected by new data governance policies and encryption both in-transit and at-rest. Further protection was enabled with Role-Based Access Controls, preventing unauthorized access to datasets. In summary, the client’s aging system from 2004 was replaced by Trianz, who became its Technology Partner of choice. This ongoing partnership means development work continues to maintain and improve upon the data management system, via our data experts. Experience the Trianz Difference Trianz enables digital transformations through effective strategies and excellence in execution. Collaborating with business and technology leaders, we help formulate and execute operational strategies to achieve intended business outcomes by bringing the best of consulting, technology expertise, and execution models. Powered by knowledge, research, and experience, we enable clients to transform their business ecosystems and achieve superior performance by leveraging infrastructure, cloud, analytics, digital, and security paradigms. Reach out to get in touch or learn more.

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Digital Apps

AUTOMATION CENTRAL FOR HEALTHCARE INSURANCE PROVIDER

Healthcare Insurance Provider Seeks to Develop a Center of Excellence for Robotic Process Automation A leading healthcare insurance provider in the U.S. was looking to develop a Center of Excellence for their existing Robotic Process Automation (RPA). Their intention was to drive consistent results across digital IT applications and services using automation rules, thereby reducing IT support workloads. What Was the Healthcare Insurer Looking to Achieve? The RPA Center of Excellence sought to resolve issues with automation playbook rules for greater consistency and accuracy. The playbooks would lead to greater efficiency and productivity within the confines of pre-defined automation rulesets, helping the healthcare insurer process more tasks daily. Challenges for the Healthcare Insurer’s RPA Center of Excellence The healthcare insurance company used an unfocused robotic process automation (RPA) process to drive multiple efforts across different business departments. Automation playbook rules were not standardized, resulting in unfocused and detrimental workflow executions, with little consistency between departments. The result was a great deal of manual work after automation had taken place, negating the benefits of RPA itself. Technology Components Used for the RPA Center of Excellence Trianz explored the following technology components to determine the best solution for the healthcare insurer client: Varying Robotic Process Automation Solutions were assessed for congruence with the healthcare insurer’s automation objectives, including players like BluePrism, Automation Anywhere, and UIPath. Everything on its cloud network needed to interface with the RPA solution, enabling centralized automation orchestration. Application Technology Automation was configured to enable direct connections from web users to the server mainframe, specifically including .NET and Java technologies used for its digital insurance services. How the Trianz Approach Upgraded the Healthcare Insurer’s RPA Capabilities Trianz RPA experts started by identifying high-priority automation pathways that would have the most significant business impact. This involved engagement across all business modalities, determining the insurer's return on investment (ROI) with internal Trianz calculators. Trianz established best practices and client-specific scenarios for different business contexts to streamline operations and configure and test continuous deployment capabilities. As part of the RPA Center of Excellence, an outreach service was established to share knowledge and enhance the adoption of RPA across all business areas. This also provided a centralized body to govern automation playbook rules, driving greater consistency. Transformational Effects and Impacts After implementation, the healthcare insurance provider had a Center of Excellence for Robotic Process Automation (RPA). This allowed them to research and develop new approaches well into the future, innovating on automation with a dedicated and centralized repository for relevant data and playbooks. The healthcare insurer increased its bot deployment numbers to scale and grow its operations using the Center of Excellence for RPA, increasing productivity and throughput. Finally, the solution helped the healthcare insurer experience zero business disruptions or delivery gaps after adopting a centralized approach to automation. This is because tried-and-tested scenarios were already saved, providing a solid foundation to adapt and test new automation rules with full compliance and security protection. Experience the Trianz Difference Trianz enables digital transformations through effective strategies and excellence in execution. Collaborating with business and technology leaders, we help formulate and execute operational strategies to achieve intended business outcomes by bringing the best of consulting, technology expertise, and execution models. Powered by knowledge, research, and experience, we enable clients to transform their business ecosystems and achieve superior performance by leveraging infrastructure, cloud, analytics, digital, and security paradigms. Reach out to get in touch or learn more.

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Analytics, Digital Apps

IMPLEMENTING A MICROSERVICES-POWERED, MULTIPLATFORM REPORT ENGAGEMENT APPLICATION

Trasers Seeks to Provide Clients with Interactive and Collaborative Experiences in Real-Time With a need to develop a comprehensive digital reporting platform, Trasers, one of the world’s most extensive research services dedicated to the field of digital transformation decision support, was looking to provide a digitally immersive, interactive, and collaborative report viewing experience for its clients. What Was Trasers Looking to Achieve? The research firm required an immersive, digitally advanced multiplatform state-of-the-art report engagement and report viewing platform to support its growing client base and meet increasing demand. To achieve these goals, Trasers was interested in building a secure, AI-enabled chatbot application that would interact with its users when accessing and purchasing research reports. In addition, this application would enable users to request custom research requirements aligned to the report topics found on the Trasers platform. The multiplatform aimed to help Trasers achieve a highly secure and scalable solution while providing more significant user contribution via survey participation, offline connectivity, real-time reporting, and smoother search functions. To strategically implement the appropriate solutions, the company partnered with AWS and Trianz’s team of analytics experts to build a microservices architecture for faster automation, scalability, and availability. How the Trianz Approach Upgraded Trasers’ Solutions Architecture Trianz’s consultants sat down with Trasers’ leadership to understand their unique business needs and challenges before collaborating with the AWS product team on the ideal solution. Then, after conducting workshops with business and IT stakeholders, Trianz deployed an Amazon S3 intelligent data lake and BDM-MDM suite, which integrated various data sources to produce the Trasers reports. Trasers Solution Architecture Trianz then identified survey and customer analytics solutions to create a set of reusable custom visualizations that could integrate into an open architecture. Once the identified processes were approved, Trianz’s team of analytics experts seamlessly synchronized the implementation of Checkbox, Qlik Sense, SPSS, and Alfresco to offer Trasers consistent, visually appealing, and differentiated reporting services. Ubercart was implemented along with the cloud-based conversational AI service, LUIS chatbot, to support several payment gateways. This increased the performance of the core application and enabled custom machine-learning intelligence to predict overall meaning and pull out relevant, detailed information for customer orders and technical support. Finally, after the application was deployed on AWS cloud, Trasers web, mobile, and desktop apps were validated against security vulnerabilities using Nessus Professional 8.0 and Burp suite. Trasers Deployment Architecture — AWS Cloud How Trianz Helped Trasers Realize Their Business Goals Trasers’ engagement with Trianz enabled them to leverage an intuitive, user-friendly, and smooth report reading experience. With advanced search functionalities, clients were provided with faster insights into multiple industries and business functions on a digitally immersive platform. They also achieved their key goal of enabling users to interact securely with their reporting services through an AI chatbot and connect with the Trasers user community to get responses from fellow community users. As Trasers also engaged with Trianz and AWS as a managed service provider, the team delivered a platform that allowed users to interact with reports and perform multiple functions in real-time. In addition, users can now access interactive reports in online and offline modes where their actions are synced up the moment they establish connectivity. The Transformational Effects and Impact With the new microservices-based architecture, the client realized a spike in productivity due to the inherent features like content negotiation, authentication, scaffolding code, and other methods to provide more efficient connections. This enabled Trasers to prioritize accelerating its search for new ways to serve customers better, focusing on continuous improvement. Thanks to the omnichannel access and streamlined checkout process, user experience improved, interactions became seamless and secure, and Trasers general audience and user base increased. Experience the Trianz Difference Trianz enables digital transformations through effective strategies and excellence in execution. Collaborating with business and technology leaders, we help formulate and execute operational strategies to achieve intended business outcomes by bringing the best of consulting, technology expertise, and execution models. Powered by knowledge, research, and perspectives, we enable clients to transform their business ecosystems and achieve superior performance by leveraging infrastructure, cloud, analytics, digital, and security paradigms. Reach out to get in touch or learn more. ×

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Digital Apps, Cybersecurity

ENRICHED AND SECURED USER EXPERIENCE

A global leader in the security and protection industry was interested in digitizing their B2B customer interactions to improve their customer experience, increase revenue, and reduce the cost of both, infrastructure maintenance and administration. By not having an intuitive system in place, the company’s customers were experiencing inconsistent interactions and turning to other sources. The client partnered with us to build self-service portals and region-specific marketing sites. A responsive design allowed the company to provide a seamless user experience and further integrate their content management system. A user management system and SSO with multi-factor authentication was enabled to secure access across devices and locations. We also facilitated infrastructure sizing, consolidation and hosting for multiple countries with seamless monitoring, logging, and reporting. Finally, analytics were employed to track customers, interactions, and marketing metrics while improving overall Customer Experience. The Business Challenge Customers around the globe were experiencing inconsistencies on the client’s websites and portals while authentication processes provided only limited accessibility. This combination of issues resulted in pileups of unresolved issues and spikes in service calls. Technology Components Liferay, Oracle, Okta – SSO, BizTalk, Dynatrace (monitoring, logging, and reporting), Apache Ant, Eclipse, Liferay MVC portlet The Approach Developed geo-specific marketing portals leveraging content management system Hosted environment in a centralized Liferay 6.2 for seamless experience Enabled application integration including complex workflows Used federated identity management for secure access Build portal interface using ESB pulling information from downstream systems Developed responsive design to support access from multiple devices Built real-time reports and analytics Transformational Effects Redesigned online interactions improved user experience, increasing daily site visits by 30%. The number of help desk calls was reduced 60%, dropping the number of expired credentials tickets by 90%. 25% lower infrastructure costs paved the way for new technology like instant alerts for suspicious activity.

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Digital Apps

E-GOVERNMENT PORTAL

e-Government authority in the Middle East required a large scale e-Governance platform that enables citizen self services. Received best m-Government service award from Prime Minister of UAE Shortlisted for the United Nations Public Service Awards (UNPSA) Awards THE BUSINESS CHALLENGE Government to Citizen: To provide information focusing content on city details, rules, jobs, education, recreation public safety etc. Government to Business: To provide information on economic development, trade regulations and licenses, tax rules, business grants and loan schemes Government to Government: Providing information on, state data, economic development plans, disaster management & public safety norms, response management Internal Efficiency to Effectiveness: Using best practices in government operations – supply chain, HR documentation flow, Finance management TECHNOLOGY COMPONENTS Filenet, Documentum, Liferay, SharePoint , Data Migration, Data Analytics, Creation of Content Stores, Managing Content Stores THE APPROACH Developed a success measurement metrics framework that focuses the execution team on its mission Analyzed internal and external variables that impact the e-Government implementation cycle Representation of the future state covering client’s e-government capabilities, processes, delivery channels, technology infrastructure and organizational models. Developed execution strategy and plan, incorporating contingencies, decision making framework, team structure and governance model. Mobilize technology and process re-engineering team and execute based on selected plan to deliver prioritized capabilities Review success of the initiative based on adoption and performance improvement

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Digital Apps

DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT FOR NON-PROFIT

RPA Based Document Management A non-profit organization in the US provides jobs to the disabled individuals by selling the goods received as donations. The client has 30,000 square feet of retail space at 25 locations. It has 70 sites where donations are accepted and 15 centers for training and employment. Business Challenge The client was facing 35% attrition annually. The documentation and paper-based processes were becoming tedious and time-consuming. Also, the HR and Payroll process and the approval cycle was lengthy. Technology Components Document Management System, UIPath, Windows servers, APIs Approach Configured the document management system chosen by the client Automated the manual operations with RPA solutions Implemented an automated document routing and auto approvals system Facilitated automatic updating of records based on set parameters Transformational Effects Eliminated paper storage 25% reduction in effort and time spent on verification and approvals 70% reduction in repeated enquiries Considerable dollar savings

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Digital Apps

SHARED SERVICES INCIDENT RESOLUTION

Automated Remediation of Server Error Incidents The client is a Fortune 100 diversified P&C insurer in the United States and was looking for an automated remediation system for server error incidents. Business Challenge The client was looking for an automated remediation system for server error incidents. Frequent use of emails to communicate alerts/incidents was resulting in longer lead times and subsequently longer cycle times for resolution. With alerts/incidents being generated 24/7 via email, the chances of an odd email being missed were high, leading to escalations. As the support team was manually resolving all L1 issues, comparatively less time was allocated to individual issues, resulting in more incidents moving to L2, L3, and L4. Technology Components Dell Boomi, BMC BladeLogic and BMC Remedy Approach Conducted interviews with business stakeholders to understand the challenges Analyzed process from an RPA standpoint and identified best incident resolution candidate for automation Built scripts to automate the identified process Validated the automation logic and results in test environment Transformational Effects Faster incident remediation using RPA automation tools (~15 mins. per incident) Automated detection from alert/incident emails from inboxes, resulting in zero missed alerts and escalations Prompt resolution of issues and fewer escalations leading to increased end customer satisfaction

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Digital Apps

PART NUMBER AUDITS IN MANUFACTURING

Proactive Part Number Monitoring A leading data storage company in the US sought to automate their part number auditing process using Robotic Process Automation to reduce manual effort and increase accuracy across the organization. Business Challenge The client's part number creation process involved setting up attributes in multiple systems by multiple owners. Also, the products were available for sales even before the completion of the part numbers set up. This resulted in a cumbersome audit process performed manually. Technology Components RPA vendors were evaluated and UiPath was selected because of the ease of development and cost Various application technologies were automated including Lotus Notes, Agile to SAP Approach Identified the manual steps involved in the end-to-end part number audit process and highlighted the business benefits and ROI of automating using RPA Supported business outreach to educate broader organization of RPA capabilities Pilot automation was developed in 10 days, and is being used to prove value, technology & approach Transformational Effects Reduced cycle time by >80% and improved accuracy Reactive audit process resulted in fewer missed/late orders

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Digital Apps

CASE STUDY: A CUSTOM BI DASHBOARD AND DATA ANALYSIS TOOL

Improved Access Through Digital Tools A global payments and technology company (we’ll call them Transactive) envisioned a digitization of their client’s access to data through a business intelligence dashboard and data analysis tool. Transactive was projecting to implement and release the tool within an aggressive time frame, so that merchants could be provided with parametrized reports, customized settings, and several other capabilities with little interruption to service. Trianz came aboard as Transactive’s development and implementation partner, helping them create and launch a platform that provided an appealing, flexible experience supported by a robust, streamlined technological framework. Thinking Under Time Pressure Due to the accelerated time frame of delivery established by Transactive, the Trianz team had to modify our process. Since the window was narrowed by their requirements, our experts could not exhaustively document the performance of each phase of the process. Modifying our usual rigorous design process, our team iteratively developed prototypes of the dashboard and tools, testing each version to continuously incorporate user feedback. Keeping Transactive’s limited timeline in mind, the team first clearly outlined and established team responsibilities and processes for smooth overall progress. In order to have our agile methodology functioning optimally, we engaged our global workforce in the development process to ensure there were no gaps in continuity and rapid results. Leveraging both client and server technologies to ensure high performance in data-intensive cases, Trianz experts were therefore able to quickly build the application frameworks as well as further, to-be-extended services. Throughout the process, we leaned into our capabilities with .NET, HTML5, JSON Newtonsoft, Tableau, and Microsoft Azure to develop Transactive’s state-of-the-art customer experience dashboard. The Triumph of Transformation Thanks to Trianz’s multitiered approach comprising of clear communication, project management, and delivery assurance processes, the applications were thoroughly aligned with client and stakeholder needs. While delivering an application that delivered competitive advantage was important to us, we also ensured that the tools would adapt quickly to industry verticals, remain compliant with regulations, and maintain system security throughout. By taking special care to create a robust back-end, end users were able to enjoy a dashboard application that was reliable, functional, and intuitive. Product changes were also consistently tracked without impact to the timeline. The final versions of the business intelligence tools were rolled out well in time, and under budget, to boot. Business Intelligence Outcomes The transformative effects of the applications were numerous. To begin with, merchants obtained greater access to their data and insights, enhancing their overall engagement with Transactive as a company. Another important milestone was that software development best practices were instilled, especially regarding multiple-site engagement in the process. And finally, the application was able to accomplish the delicate, important task of providing support for multiple business models and geographic locations through its configurations. Experience the Trianz Difference Trianz enables digital transformations through effective strategies and excellence in execution. Collaborating with business and technology leaders, we help formulate and execute operational strategies to achieve intended business outcomes by bringing the best of consulting, technology experiences and execution models. Powered by knowledge, research, and perspectives, we enable clients to transform their business ecosystems and achieve superior performance by leveraging infrastructure, cloud, analytics, digital, and security paradigms. ×

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24X7 PRODUCTION SUPPORT FOR ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS

A large diversified P&C insurer based in US recognized the complexity in managing Legal and Compliance Applications with constantly changing laws and Regulations. Trianz was engaged to provide 24x7 Production Support for all the critical legal and Compliance applications. THE BUSINESS CHALLENGE Client was facing challenge in managing 13 critical corporate legal and compliance applications that needs support 24x7. Reduced budgets in the past 2 years reduced ability to meet service levels. And, increased feature changes and additions due to constantly increasing and changing laws and regulations TECHNOLOGY COMPONENTS J2EE, Informatica, Teradata, Sybase and Oracle Databases, Windows and LINUX Servers THE APPROACH Application Management IT Infrastructure Management Database Migration Advisory Consulting   24x7 Levels 1, 2 and 3 Support of 13 independent applications of varied technologies   Stringent service levels and security requirements   Serviced a user base of 20000 across North America   Development activities included planned enhancements and ad-hoc change requests   Managed weekly, monthly and quarterly releases   Teradata, Oracle and Sybase Database Management   Windows and LINUX Server Administration   Interface with Network Administration team   Migrated Online applications’ databases (9) from Sybase to Oracle   Migrated Reporting databases (7) from Sybase to Teradata   Sybase to Oracle and Teradata Migration Assessment   Application Portfolio Rationalization

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Digital Apps

INFRASTRUCTURE MONITORING & AUTOMATION FOR RESTART OF VM SERVERS

Infrastructure Monitoring and VM Server Automation A leading insurance company in the US sought to automate repetitive and routine IT Tasks of restarting the servers to reduce downtime using Robotic Process Automation in order to reduce manual effort and increase accuracy. Business Challenge The client had to restart 25000 VM Servers after patches were applied to manage the server workloads, reduce the server downtime and troubleshoot the servers in case of a failure or a spike in the workload on certain periods, resulting in delays and more staffing. Technology Components UiPath Various application technologies were automated from B2B Tools, Dell Boom, vSphere, JIRA, VMware, MC, BladeLogic Approach Identified the steps involved in the restart process i.e. the hostname from JIRA and mapping the corresponding jobs and rules triggering the workflow. Setup a workflow that is either scheduled or automatically triggered via an event Notification after restart and logging a ticket in BMC if the process results in a failure, minimizing the downtimes; Supported business outreach to educate broader organization of RPA capabilities Transformational Effects Minimized downtime needed for server restarts and incidents Reduced the cost of automating remote computer shutdown, standby or hibernate modes

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INTRANET PORTAL DEVELOPMENT FOR FULL-SERVICE RESEARCH AND EVALUATION FIRM

A North American full-service research and evaluation firm, working to create social and health solutions to serve underserved populations globally, needed a cost-effective and scalable intranet portal. THE BUSINESS CHALLENGE Lack of an internal communication channel was hampering information dissemination and collaboration | Absence of centralized space for document management was creating knowledge silos Unavailability of single entry point for applications and personalization, infrastructure, IT and budgetary freedom TECHNOLOGY COMPONENTS Liferay 7 DXP, Apache, Java, jQuery, JavaScript, AJAX Tomcat 7.0 ,MySQL 5.6,Jenkins,SSL, AWS - S3, Clustering, Adobe Creative Suite. THE APPROACH Adopted Show and Tell Approach to provide end-state view to business users Deployed Liferay 7 DXP Portal Infrastructure on Amazon Cloud (FedRAMP?) to enable responsive web design Developed intranet portal for employees and clients | Enabled knowledge and information exchange on scalable and secure architecture capable of personalization Integrated DevOps platforms/ tools identified and leveraged by client with cloud deployment Enabled monitoring, logging, reporting exception, error handling capabilities Conducted performance tests, user training workshops | Made training/ user manuals and videos available Extended support for infrastructure and portal post implementation TRANSFORMATIONAL EFFECTS Increased employee satisfaction and engagement | Improved participation among citizens and communities Enabled multiple integrations and an unified view for employees and clients Reduced time taken to publish updates Brought response time of a page to < 3 seconds Enabled usability across multiple platforms – PCs, mobiles, tablets

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DEFINING DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION FOR A GLOBAL INSURANCE LEADER

IT Strategy and Execution Plan to Align Initiatives to Corporate Objectives of Digital Transformation and Spend Optimization from ‘Run’ to ‘Growth’ The IT organization of a global insurance leader needed to align with the corporate-wide transformation. Trianz was engaged to collaborate in defining and articulating the client’s 3-year strategy to enable business growth while servicing technology debt and upgrading the existing team skills. Business Challenge/Objective The client had a decentralized organization, which became expensive and slow to react to change. We identified the core principles needed to drive the articulation of IT’s vision and specific action plans along with detailed financial models and organization changes. Approach Identified outside influences through our research capabilities to define the impact of digital transformation Worked with the IT leaders to position this within the context of their current IT architecture, business needs and organization capabilities Articulated the strategy to business leaders, IT leaders and IT teams Transformational Effects Alignment of IT teams across organization with a clear call to action Clear definition of the IT strategy themes such as “Modernize the Architecture” and “Build for Local Experiences” Alignment with business priorities and identification of synergies between the Business and IT needs​ Detailed next steps and roadmap for each theme Governance model to ensure change Ability to move forward on a number of new initiatives to enable new business capabilities and pay tech debt

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TRANSFORMING BUSINESS AND IT OPERATIONS

Transforming Business and IT Operations via Large-Scale Public Cloud Migration Trianz was approached by a Fortune 500 global insurance company that sought to migrate the majority of its business applications and infrastructure workloads to the public cloud. Business Challenges for the Fortune 500 Insurer in Process and Data Orchestration The client was using inconsistent manual processes to input data, and this data was spread across numerous siloed data repositories at the department-level, and more widely across country borders. With data spread across multiple platforms and geographies, manual collation and reconciliation led to inconsistency in datasets, reducing the accuracy and validity of real-time revenue and profitability insights. Technology Components Selected by Trianz for the Fortune 500 Insurance Company After close collaboration with stakeholders and business departments, Trianz decided on the following technology components: Informatica PowerCenter was chosen as a scalable, high-performance solution for data integration and data lifecycle management. IBM PureData System for Analytics (PDA) was chosen as an advanced data warehousing and analytics operations solution. Qlik was chosen as a visualized data analytics solution to enable the creation of interactive, visually represented reports and dashboards. Aginity works as a data catalog for analytics workflows, enabling the reuse of SQL code to return tried-and-tested query results faster. IBM Cognos Framework Manager was chosen to create collective business models using metadata derived from various singular data sources. Cognos Active Reports was chosen to supplement business intelligence workflows with interactive reports containing data insights. How Trianz Helped the Fortune 500 Insurer to Eliminate Manual Processes and Transform Visibility Trianz started by identifying business use cases, as well as assessing the complexity and value of migration to the cloud for each use case. Next, our data experts defined a conceptual cloud architecture that would meet business and IT objectives on the AWS cloud. Then, migration prioritization took place, ensuring low-effort and high-value migration milestones were prioritized first for a faster return on investment. After this, data analysis took place to generate profiles for each geographic area and line of business. During this process, workshops took place to facilitate decisions and agreements on common definitions between business department stakeholders and select digital champions. Finally, a proof of concept was developed for two specific, high-priority countries. After validating the concept, it was then expanded to ten other countries. Transformational Effects After Eliminating Manual Processes and Improving Data Visibility Trianz finalized the project with a roadmap established around business use-cases and incremental development work on AWS. The client would use this as guidance to maintain and upgrade the platform in the future. A return-on-investment model was also created for the global enterprise data warehouse in IBM PDA. By eliminating manual processes, the client mitigated data quality risks proactively to improve the value of its datasets. Business definitions established in Aginity guided operations across countries and departments, promoting analytical consistency. Finally, business users were now able to analyze and unearth insights on revenue and profitability in congruence, regardless of country or department—a critical milestone in the project. Experience the Trianz Difference Trianz enables digital transformations through effective strategies and excellence in execution. Collaborating with business and technology leaders, we help formulate and execute operational strategies to achieve intended business outcomes by bringing the best of consulting, technology expertise, and execution models. Powered by knowledge, research, and experience, we enable clients to transform their business ecosystems and achieve superior performance by leveraging infrastructure, cloud, analytics, digital, and security paradigms. Reach out to get in touch or learn more.

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INFRASTRUCTURE ANALYTICS AND AIOPS ON BMC CLOUD

Business Service Health Monitoring and Event Correlation to Minimize MTTR Trianz worked with a global insurance provider to enhance its infrastructure analytics and AI-powered remediation capabilities in the cloud. The insurance provider delivers services and products to individuals, families, and corporate customers worldwide. Challenges for the Insurance Provider with Cloud Visibility The insurance provider was struggling with excessive mean-times-to-repair (MTTR) incidents on its network. Gaining visibility into business service health and co-dependent services was difficult, and manual thresholds and rule-based alerts were not fit for purpose. This led to event noise and inefficient IT operations management (ITOM). The client used a diverse multi-cloud architecture but lacked cross-cloud insight, leading to a lack of infrastructure visibility. Trianz was enlisted to build an IT Operations (ITOps) platform with intelligent monitoring algorithms, which would reduce the client’s service incident levels using data-driven analytics and AI remediation playbooks. This would bridge the current multi-cloud canyon, centralizing monitoring for the entire IT network and reducing the mean-time-to-detect (MTTD) incidents through better data correlation. Technology Components Trianz worked with the insurance provider to implement the following technology components: BMC Cloud was used to orchestrate the insurance provider’s multi-cloud IT environment. This included cross-cloud spooling of IT resources, ingesting and centralizing monitoring data, cost management, dependency mapping, inventory management, as well as independent software vendor (ISV) relationship and licensing management. Splunk ITSI was included to enable IT Service Intelligence (ITSI) for the insurance provider. This solution enabled end-to-end service visibility and streamlined incident resolution using real-time event correlation, automated incident prioritization, predictive analytics, and other ITSM orchestration tools. How Trianz Helped the Insurance Provider to Enable Multi-Cloud Analytics and Insight on BMC with Splunk Trianz started by conducting workshops across all business departments, helping key stakeholders to understand the present IT challenges and the plan-of-action to remediate using BMC and Splunk. From here, our infrastructure experts prototyped a solution using the requested technology components before seeking feedback from the insurance provider. After approval, the system was developed further. Sample operations data was collected across numerous monitoring solutions to develop correlation policies for event de-duplication. This eventually constituted a custom algorithm for incident and event correlation, developed in-house by Trianz for the insurance provider’s specific business context. Next, Splunk ITSI was integrated with the BMC multi-cloud platform to enable the collection and analysis of event and incident data, removing IT silos in the process. Visualized dashboards in Splunk enabled customizable monitoring and alerting, accessible by employees on device, or deployable to TV displays for greater IT awareness. Finally, the completed system was stress-tested to demonstrate the final incident prediction model, which uses historical events and trends to proactively predict IT incidents. Transformational Effects The insurance provider experienced tangible transformational effects after adopting the new BMC Splunk platform. To start, root cause analysis (RCA) was greatly simplified and much more efficient. This enabled the insurance provider to quickly and competently remediate IT problems using AI, analytics, and system log data. Anomaly detection acted as a safety net for un-predictable IT events, while the proactive incident remediation algorithm automated a large percentage of incident response workflows. This freed up time for the IT department without sacrificing IT service quality. A centralized, consolidated view of critical key performance indicators (KPIs), server metrics and business service health metrics led to greater awareness, faster incident responses, and a better understanding of the correlation between service health and underlying systems. Historical trends, patterns, and problem areas were tracked and archived, acting as a fuel source for the custom machine learning algorithm to perform incident remediation and event correlation. Experience the Trianz Difference Trianz enables digital transformations through effective strategies and excellence in execution. Collaborating with business and technology leaders, we help formulate and execute operational strategies to achieve intended business outcomes by bringing the best of consulting, technology expertise, and execution models. Powered by knowledge, research, and experience, we enable clients to transform their business ecosystems and achieve superior performance by leveraging infrastructure, cloud, analytics, digital, and security paradigms. Reach out to get in touch or learn more.

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MANAGED SERVICES FOR IT OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

Managed Services for IT Operations Management Trianz was enlisted to help a global insurance company that provides products and services to individuals, families, and corporate customers worldwide. The client needed a managed service that involved handing off management responsibility to a third party, as well as develop an IT operations management (ITOM) toolset digital transformation. Business Challenges The insurer was experiencing trouble with its IT service desk ticketing software, leading to backlogged work requests stretching back to 2014. IT Service Management (ITSM) and IT Operations Management(ITOM) operated independently, creating data silos that reduced agility and awareness. This led to complications when staff performed manual incident resolution workflows, with inaccurate insight leading to inconsistencies when applying a fix. Coupled with the scale and frequency of manual tasks within the business, this opened up a significant risk for human error. Technology Components Trianz consulted with the insurance company and decided upon the following technology components: Citrix Intelligent Traffic Management (ITM) was proposed to optimize inbound and outbound network traffic using real-time data analytics, applicable across web apps, digital software applications, content delivery networks (CDNs), and similar platforms. Tivoli Netcool or OMNIbus was chosen as a service level management (SLM) system. It provides real-time, centralized monitoring of multi and hybrid-cloud networks, feeding relevant data back to helpdesk systems, databases, and remote systems. The end-state enables automatic response triggers to incidents and events on the network and monitors the adherence to proposed service level agreements (SLAs). IPSoft was selected as an autonomic, cognitive solutions platform. IPSoft automates IT and related business processes using conversational AI, which is ideal for external customer queries and internal knowledge sharing with employees. BMC Helix ITSM(previously BMC Remedy) was chosen as an industry-leading, next-gen service management platform that upholds and evolves best-practice ITSM principles aligned with business requirements. How Trianz Helped the Insurance Company to Reduce Human Error, Eliminate ITSM/ITOM Data Silos, and Digitally Transform the IT Service Desk Trianz started by running workshops across all business departments, cultivating the understanding of present IT challenges among key stakeholders. Our infrastructure experts then developed a prototype environment using Citrix ITM, Netcool, IPSoft, and BMC Helix. This established a centralized event management system, providing a single source of truth for AI when executing automated ITSM and ITOM workflows. Data and insight correlation policies were developed and tested so the insurance company could de-duplicate events and reduce event noise fatigue among service personnel. IPSoft was integrated with the event management system to enable remediation playbooks and automated incident resolution. This process involves the creation of Scope of Work (SOP) documents, and configuration of automation scripts aligned with business workflows. The final step was validating the automation script parameters and generated outputs, ensuring everything aligned with the insurer’s expectations. Transformational Effects for the Insurance Provider After Enabling Automation After implementing the new system, the insurance company experienced tangible benefits. First, incident remediation timescales were significantly improved using IPSoft automation playbooks, improving mean-time-to-remediation (MTTR) metrics. This indirectly supported SLM and the upholding of SLA agreements. The prevalence of human error was significantly lowered, namely due to consistent and repeatable automation playbooks through IPSoft. This meant the workforce had more time to focus on high-value tasks, rather than low-level workflows. End-customer confidence levels soared exponentially due to improvements in service quality and reliability, driving business growth and supporting revenues. IT service desk backlogs were reduced by 91% with the support of auto-remediation AI over a five-month period. Staff well-being improved with this change thanks to lower workloads. Finally, around 90% of SLA metrics and reports were automated to simplify management and reduce human error. Overall, this meant that 50% of business-wide reporting needs were met through the new system. Experience the Trianz Difference Trianz enables digital transformations through effective strategies and excellence in execution. Collaborating with business and technology leaders, we help formulate and execute operational strategies to achieve intended business outcomes by bringing the best of consulting, technology expertise, and execution models. Powered by knowledge, research, and experience, we enable clients to transform their business ecosystems and achieve superior performance by leveraging infrastructure, cloud, analytics, digital, and security paradigms. Reach out to get in touch or learn more.

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HARNESSING SOFTWARE ASSET MANAGEMENT EFFECTIVELY TO ITS FULL POTENTIAL

Helping a Logistics Provider Harness Software Asset Management Trianz was approached by a logistics services provider needing help with software asset management. This client was seeking to utilize its asset management function at full efficiency, while adopting new software compliance frameworks and industry best practices as it transitioned to a Software Asset Management (SAM) platform. Challenges for the Logistics Company in Asset Management The logistics company handled hundreds of thousands of assets per day in its delivery network. Tracking, checking in, and reporting lost payloads was difficult, and finding information on ownership and asset handling was slow and inefficient due to outdated systems. The logistics company needed a SAM solution to reduce manual data input workloads, improve data accessibility for drivers performing fieldwork, and adopt more robust data security and governance processes. Technology Components Curated by Trianz for the Logistics Provider After consulting with the logistics firm, Trianz identified a number of solutions that would help it meet project objectives: ServiceNow was chosen as an end-to-end solution for IT service management (ITSM) and IT operations management. The platform can orchestrate IT resources, obfuscate interactions between services through a centralized accessibility layer, and automate numerous workflows to simplify work for employees. Business DNA (BDNA) Discover is a software and hardware asset identification platform that uses agentless technologies to perform horizontal and vertical network discovery workflows. Level 1 can identify hardware and software assets, with Level 2 revealing asset metadata, and Level 3 offering application identification in runtime environments. How Trianz Helped the Logistics Provider to Develop a SAM Platform To start, Trianz developed and implemented asset and configuration management best-practice frameworks for the logistics provider. This is a form of process engineering. Next, a solution architecture was built. This involved the design, development, and implementation of ServiceNow CMDB and ServiceNow Asset Management tools, with data pipeline creation to centralize all configuration item and asset datasets in ServiceNow. The IT Infrastructure Library framework was adopted to manage processes around configuration management. This eliminated gaps in existing processes to improve overall service management efficiency by 25%. Consultation and thought leadership with key stakeholders communicated the importance of compliance frameworks and industry best practices. Our data experts also guided stakeholders in transforming their individual departments’ processes and workflows to align with new policies and frameworks. New, repeatable processes and workflows were developed to reduce administrative overhead. Overall visibility into ITSM was greatly improved as configuration items and contractual information were readily available in a centralized location. Transformational Effects for the Logistics Provider With SAM Custom parameters were replaced with standardized parameters in alignment with the ServiceNow out-of-box-experience. This reduced the number of configuration variables, streamlining configuration item lifecycle management. All critical-priority hardware and software assets were identified with comprehensive metadata by integrating ServiceNow with BDNA Discover. Reporting frameworks were established to help the organization identify software contract data, including license volumes, licensing permissions, and license compliance versus runtime. The new SAM platform was proactive rather than reactive, helping the logistics provider to plan ahead and foresee challenges and trends. Trianz conducted ongoing workshops to help elevate understanding among stakeholders and the workforce on software or hardware asset management best practices. Experience the Trianz Difference Trianz enables digital transformations through effective strategies and excellence in execution. Collaborating with business and technology leaders, we help formulate and execute operational strategies to achieve intended business outcomes by bringing the best of consulting, technology expertise, and execution models. Powered by knowledge, research, and experience, we enable clients to transform their business ecosystems and achieve superior performance by leveraging infrastructure, cloud, analytics, digital, and security paradigms. Reach out to get in touch or learn more.

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EVENT ANALYTICS

IT Operations with actionable insights from Event Data The client is a leading provider of in-flight broadband internet service around the world and also offers other connectivity services for commercial and business aircraft. It is headquartered in Chicago. Business Challenge The client had multiple tools with overlapping functions and interfaces that hampered visibility into IT operations. Multiple trouble tickets were generated because of duplicate events for single issues, negatively impacting the effectiveness of the IT operation team. Also, the inability to identify actionable events and recognize trend patterns from real-time and archive events were preventing the decision-making ability on capacity planning. Technology Component IBM Netcool Operations Insights, IT Operational Analytics, IBM Dash and ServiceNow Insight Packs for event data analytics, ITOM data from various monitoring tools Approach Conducted workshops with business and IT stakeholders to understand business needs Implemented Netcool Operations Insight solutions (NOI) with IBM Operations Analytics to identify bottlenecks and problems from operational data including events, infrastructure and application monitoring metrics  Integrated various monitoring solutions with NOI and developed correlation polices to de-duplicate events. Created dashboards to monitor business services health and performance Integrated NOI solution with ServiceNow Incident management to automate tickets Implemented customized XinY threshold UI interface for NOC team to modify the threshold values on demand Transformational Effects Reduced events load and improved MTTR Integrated visualization and dashboarding to provide a single interface for the entire IT operation Implemented user-friendly and easy-to-use event analysis and search functionalities for incidents Gained visibility into event patterns which enabled NOC team to proactively address potential outages and reduce problem tickets

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ITSM PROCESS CONSULTING

A centralized event management, self-healing and auto-remediation of incidents A payment processing network operator - supporting more than 725 million credit and debit card transactions globally - was facing visibility issues. Due to a lack of insight into IT infrastructure and applications and an inability to assess critical incidents in real-time, the company was losing transactions and business. The client wanted to ensure it complies with the data security standards requirements of the Payment Card industry and see that its inbound processes are well-equipped with these standards. It was also looking to enhance its existing tools with the industry’s current best practices and apply security recommendations as defined in the security policies for monitoring infrastructure. Business Challenge The client had deployed a separate ServiceNow instance for Service Management and the resulting process gaps were leading to issues related to audits, especially Change Management. The client was looking to conduct an assessment of all of its ITIL processes to address the gaps and identify areas for improvisation. Their objective was to conduct specific workshops focused on aligning processes with the Payment Card Industry – Data Security Standards (PCI-DSS). The client also wanted to enhance the ServiceNow instance and process modules with industry best practices. Also, CSF and KPIs were not configured/measured properly. Approach Conducted classroom workshops leveraging a scenario-based approach to understand the current state of the "AS-IS" process based on the Gap Analysis report. Determined the desired "TO-BE" state during the workshop and understand current pain points and challenges by conducting interview sessions with the relevant stakeholders. Identified action items during the process based on the concepts discussed and distributed amongst both parties depending on the required output. Defined the process by adopting best practices as per the ITIL v3 framework aligned to business needs. Provided a walkthrough for the final sign-off. Transformational Effects Alignment of the current processes with PCI-DSS requirements and created detailed knowledge articles/reference guides beneficial for practical use. Highly efficient KPIs and metrics defined to enhance user experience. Defined step-by-step flowcharts that aligns with GBT organization structure.

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APM SOLUTION REPLACEMENT

Enterprise scale implementation of APM solution The client’s primary business focus includes deposits, lending, credit cards, and trust and investment services. Business Challenge The client’s existing Application Performance Management (APM) solution was not satisfactory. The APM metrics were not configured properly in the existing solution. Also, the MTTR (Mean Time to Repair) was high. The client was looking to replace its existing APM solution with AppDynamics for a wide variety of business applications. Approach Designed and implemented highly available and scalable AppDynamics platform that meets complex application performance monitoring requirements Instrumented wide variety of applications (Java, .Net, C++, Node JS, etc) for end-to-end performance monitoring including Database, MQ, BRUM (Browser real user monitoring) and synthetic monitoring  Implemented AppDynamics Biz-IQ (Advanced analytics) component to provide ITOps and business metrics (revenue per minute, quote vs conversion rate, etc.) to executives and support team Integrated AppDynamics with IBM Netcool for auto ticketing and automation Transformational Effects Replaced the existing APM tool with high-performing and scalable AppDynamics solution End-to-end monitoring of 25 business-critical applications Out-of-the-box reports and dashboards

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REMOTE INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES

An SOC-compliant, 24x7 network operations center utilizing ITIL framework for operations and incident management One of the largest data center hosting services provider that currently operates 175+ data centers in 44 major metropolitan areas in 22 countries across five continents. Business Challenge Availability of multiple tools for performing similar functionalities Lack of centralized repository Identifying patch vulnerabilities, non-compliance configurations across the network Compliance issues with OS patching and 3rd party application patching Business Objectives To manage software across different platforms To enforce continuous security compliance that validates the security threats and remediates the issues in real-time Policy visibility between IT Operations and Security Support and control of workstations from a central location Real-time visibility to endpoint changes Speed and accuracy The Approach Strategy to build BigFix Infrastructure and distribute BigFix agent to all servers/desktops/laptops Implementation of Bigfix to eliminate the drawbacks with the existing solution and to secure the servers/desktop./laptops in an effective manner Process for deploying patches related to operating system vendor Automated Bigfix agent deployment solution to install BigFix agent and configure all client related settings Distribute remote control agent to all servers/desktops/laptops to manage/access those machines remotely Deploy scanners across all servers/desktops/laptops to discover software and hardware data Configure all security health check related settings based on customer agreed technical specification documents and scan all machines to find and remediate all non-compliant settings Transformational Effects Provided a centralized solution to manage all servers, desktops and laptops within single console (patch deployment, software deployment, software & hardware inventory, remote control, security and compliance). Provided an automated approach to update all servers with security related policies, which includes virus definition updates, pattern updates and agent updates. Effective handling of security threats and vulnerabilities, and real-time visualization of current status. Facility to control/access desktops/laptops/servers remotely Perform security health check scan and ensure all configurations are compliant

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INFRASTRUCTURE SUPPORT SERVICES

24x7 Integrated NOC center for service desk, data center, network and cyber security utilizing ITIL framework for operations support and incident management A global manufacturer that provides innovative plumbing, heating and water quality products and solutions for commercial, residential, and industrial applications. $1.5 B global company that is headquartered in the USA with approximately 4800 employees spread across 87 countries in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific regions. Business Challenge Inefficient Service Desk, Data Center and Network operations resulting in low customer satisfaction scores Lack of visibility and effective monitoring capabilities for Network devices Reactive way of incident management and outdated change management process. Incomplete 24x7 coverage across geographies resulted in gaps and delays Existing processes are not aligned with the ITIL best practices Business Objective Transition from existing (10 years) vendor to Trianz Centralized support for Servers, Network, Cyber Security and Operational Management Products Improve customer satisfaction level by improving response times and region/ time coverage Reduction in incident escalations through better internal communications and coordination Enable client stakeholders to focus on core business objectives instead of operational issues Key Deliverables Single pane of glass for real time monitoring and alerting for Servers, network devices and other critical services. Provide 24x7 support for Servers, Network and ServiceDesk operations Timely weekly, monthly quarterly reports and metrics for KPIs Well documented SoPs, KB articles and guidelines for command center roles for day to day operations Custom script based automated backup solution for Network devices Upgrade and configuration of Service Management tool (ServiceNow) to improve efficiency of operations. Identify, plan and execute critical projects for Data Center and Network Compliance analysis for all network devices for best practices and plan for upgrade / replacement of out of warranty devices. The Approach Set up of 24x7 NOC Center staffed with certified SMEs and cross trained across various technologies Successful completion of knowledge transition from existing vendor within a time span of 8-weeks Configuration of SolarWinds for realtime monitoring of Servers, Network devices, critical services and printer Round the clock monitoring and management of server components and network devices to reduce incident ITIL Framework based service approach for effective handling of tickets (best practices like shift handover, ticket auditing) Transformational Effects Improved customer satisfaction and reduced churn Consistent round the clock customer support Reduced Incident Aging and MTTR Process alignment with ITIL best practice Significant reduction in P1 (outages) for network Custom backup solution for critical network devices eliminated manual efforts and costs for a licensed backup solution

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AUTO DISCOVERY & SAM IMPLEMENTATION

Implementation of centralized Software Asset Management (SAM) solution for a single source of truth The client is one of the largest drinking water and wastewater utilities in the nation, with a network of nearly 5,742 miles of fresh water pipeline and over 5,546 miles of sewer pipeline. It was looking for a single platform to auto discover the assets and centrally manage the software assets & IT Service Management platform. Business Challenge The client didn’t have complete infrastructure dependency information, which was leading to multiple unplanned outages. It also lacked visibility into the business view of IT infrastructure and workstations scattered across different locations. Due to these issues, the client was unable to identify the risk before implementing the change as well as understand or manage complex licensing models and software lifecycle effectively. Additionally, there were increasing security threats and other risks due to unauthorized software installation by end-users. Technology Components ServiceNow, SCCM and Microsoft O365 Portal Approach Conducted workshops with various business units to gather requirements. Designed a ServiceNow discovery architecture consisting of 2 MID servers to meet business and IT needs. Designed a Daily Automated Discovery solution for nearly 4k devices across 22 locations. Created software models for Microsoft & Oracle publishers; enabled normalization and reconciliation of software products; integrated SCCM to pull the software metering information and automated license harvesting; integrated the architecture with O365 Portal and imported the user subscriptions. Configured dashboards and license expiry notifications. Transformational Effects Consolidated single source of reference, configuration data in CMDB with greater visibility into infrastructure components and its relationships to applications. Gained better insights into data about software ownership and usage; re-harvested and re-allocated unused software licenses. Enabled the tracking of overused licenses and compliant software using the publisher overview dashboards.

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AUTOMATED SERVICE REQUEST MANAGEMENT

Service Request Management implementation with end-to-end automation A Leading Auto and Personal Insurance provider’s current homegrown IT Service Request Management tool was nearing end of vendor support with frequent performance and stability problems. The client's major focus was to enhance the service request and streamline the approval process. It was also looking to automate the change request process. Business Challenge The client was looking to input data into both home-grown systems and BMC SRM when there is a need to change tickets because both the systems are on different platforms. Data silos across systems were making it difficult to maintain. Also, there was poor visibility on the fulfillment process and work order routing. Technology Components BMC Remedy, BMC Atrium, Atrium Orchestrator & BladeLogic Key Deliverable BMC Remedy Integration with Atrium. IDM and BladeLogic Automated work order creation with repeatable process Approach Successful automation/integration with Atrium Orchestrator, IDM, BladeLogic using Web Service and scripts through synchronous and asynchronous calls Automatic work order creations, polling external system and updating WO status to help reduce manual intervention and time-to-service requests Developed and implemented repeatable process, reducing administrative overhead Transformational Effects Enhanced usability of service based requests, streamlined approvals and workflows Provided thought leadership in driving efficiency and best practices Automated the change request process, avoiding significant manhours Covered a wide variety of categories: Monitoring & Performance, Messaging & Collaboration, Network & Telephony, Identity & Access Management and HR Management

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IOT PLATFORM EVALUATION & DEVELOPMENT

IoT platform evaluation, product development & operational strategy The client is an operator of Smart Grid Communications Infrastructure (SGCI) nodes using broadband frequency carriers modulated on distribution grid power cables. Business Challenge The client lacked a centralized network management system (NMS) to manage smart grid devices, resulting in service level agreements violations, penalty payments, and operations budget exceeding limits. Approach Assessed current state deployment, challenges with existing deployment and growth forecast for the next five years Performed detailed assessment on existing IoT solutions and NMS solutions considering parameters including scalability, security, network discovery, topology and configuration management Partnered with customer to identify the tool of choice Defined a conceptual end state IoT platform and endpoint architecture to meet business & IT needs Co-developed the IoT solution that can be used to manage up to 10 million devices Transformational Effects Delivered comprehensive analysis on IoT platforms with categorized scoring Deep insights into strengths and weaknesses of the current and near-future capabilities of Enterprise Network Management Solutions and IoT platform Developed a product roadmap for IoT solution starting with definitions for MVP release Defined strategy for scaling the deployment of the solution to meet the target of 10 million

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CONSOLIDATING INFORMATION TO IMPROVE IT EFFECTIVENESS

A leading school district in Georgia, U.S., was using a helpdesk system with no automation, and no authorized process to track IT assets spread across more than 100 sites. Frequent changes to infrastructure caused unanticipated outages, and lack of a well-defined process to resolve such incidents resulted in frequent SLA breaches. The client partnered with Trianz to map applications, as well as organize and consolidate information to enable effective service management. Trianz installed and configured the IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager (TADDM) solution to discover a complex infrastructure with multiple firewalls, air gaps and hardened security. We also implemented ITSM operational and process management tools, including endpoint management, configuration and change management, in addition to integrating TADDM and BigFix solution to populate Configuration Management Database (CMDB). Additionally, Trianz developed a process to automate impact analysis and view Request for Change (RFC) details from the TADDM application. Rolling out Endpoint Manager (BigFix) was critical to ensuring all hardware and software assets and their usage across sites were tracked in a centralized repository. The Business Challenge A reliable source of data was needed to accurately track IT assets and a dearth of well-defined processes to analyze and resolve critical outages. Technology Components IBM Tivoli Application Dependency and Discovery Manager IBM Control Desk Endpoint Manager (BigFix) The Approach Rolled out a service management and application affinity solution in a phased approach. Initial focus was to build an authorized asset repository for an end-to-end integrated service management solution. Implementation was completed within 9 months of kick off. Performed a steady state run and maintenance for another 2 years before transitioning the engagement to client personnel. The solution has been deployed across more than 100 sites within the state of GA, and is the primary help desk and asset management solution for the school district. Trianz ensured sufficient training to IT and non-IT users within the first few weeks of solution go-live. Transformational Effects Automated analysis and inputs prior to infrastructure change Minimized downtime from elimination of trial and error Enhanced visibility to software-hardware allocations and capacity monitoring Facilitated usage-based allocations to revenue/cost centers directly into general ledger Streamlined new hire onboarding process using a single self-service offering and auto routing of those requests, reducing manual effort

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Infrastructure

ENTERPRISE MONITORING MANAGED SERVICES

Centralized Event Management, Self-healing and Auto-remediation of incidents A Leading Auto and Personal Insurance Provider’s current homegrown IT Service Request Management tool was nearing end of vendor support and was facing frequent performance and stability problems. Given the significant growth in capabilities in ITSM tools over the last five years, a replacement will move the client to a new platform with improved usability for the end user and a significant increase in automation and integration capabilities. Business Challenge Manual processes and growing complexity of the environment was overloading IT staff, resulting in longer times (approx. three days) to resolve critical incidents and growing backlog (~1000) of work requests IT staff was consumed with reactive tasks leaving no time for process improvement. Low level of integration of multiple tools and siloed repositories of information (CMDB, incident logs, ITOM) made it difficult to correctly diagnose and resolve incidents first time, resulting in a significant rework effort and time to close incidents. Business Objectives Increase customer satisfaction level by reducing manual operation errors and ensure resolution of incidents within the committed SLA. Increase visibility and reporting to SLA metrics and elimination of aged backlog work. Reduce human errors related to manual tasks and improve efficiency through targeted automation and integrations. Key Deliverables Integrated existing monitoring and incident management tools (IBM and Netcool monitoring, BMC Remedy/ServiceNow) into a centralized event management system. Implemented auto-remediation of events using IPSoft. Developed correlation rules within Netcool to de-duplicate events. Validated automation logic and created SOP documents for IPSoft to support continuous development of automation scripts. Provided necessary 24x7 support for server monitoring. Implemented self healing by Netcool & IP-Center AI integrated with ServiceNow. The Approach Performed workshops with business and IT stakeholders to identify people, process, tool issues and desired outcomes for eight weeks. Created future state architecture and end-state visualization for integrated solution. Staffed a blended team of client and Trianz onshore/offshore resources to attack backlog Took complete control over the server monitoring by providing the necessary support. Transformational Effects Decreased the incident remediation time and ensured adherence to all committed business SLAs. Reduced the backlog of work requests by 91% over a period of five months. Estimated improvement of 20% in staff efficiency.

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Infrastructure

IT SERVICE MANAGEMENT : END POINT MANAGEMENT AS MANAGED SERVICE

The client is an $18B engineering firm and a global provider of technical, professional, and scientific services, looking for a unified ITSM and endpoint management platform. It also wanted integration between ITSM and the endpoint management system. The client’s main aim was to reduce all the current manual processes. THE BUSINESS CHALLENGE Lightly used ITSM instance with little attention to process initiatives; Underutilized request management, no self service portal; No analytics or baselines to drive/manage improvement No integration to other capabilities; Endpoint operations causing lots of overhead on network and hitting performance bottle necks; SCCM infrastructure was aging and too expensive to manage Lack of automation for IT operations; Pending M&A activity threatening to slow things even more. Business Objectives Key Deliverables  Lightly used ITSM instance with little attention to process initiatives; Underutilized request management, no self service portal; No analytics or baselines to drive/manage improvement  No integration to other capabilities; Endpoint operations causing lots of overhead on network and hitting performance bottle necks; SCCM infrastructure was aging and too expensive to manage  Lack of automation for IT operations; Pending M&A activity threatening to slow things even more  Unified ITSM platform through ServiceNow  Endpoint management through BigFix and SCCM  Integration of ServiceNow with BigFix and SCCM THE APPROACH Assessed current state and growth including M&A to develop strategy and execution roadmap Performed detailed assessment on the existing ITSM applications, tools, integrations and relation with other ITSM process / initiatives. Provided a detailed gap analysis document Conducted workshops with various business units, gathered requirements and developed functional requirements document Defined a conceptual end state ITSM & endpoint architecture to meet business and IT needs Delivered holistic solution as a service; Endpoint as a service covering patch management, OS Distribution, Software Distribution, Power Management and Remote Control Self Service Portal and Automated Password Reset; Buildout for automated change management; Normalization and reconciliation of CMDB; Monitoring Analysis and process improvement; Event Management Integration; IT Operations Center Buildout

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Cloud, Cybersecurity

CLOUD SECURITY POSTURE MANAGEMENT

Trillium Targets Secure, Compliant Cloud Infrastructure With cloud computing rapidly phasing out legacy and on-premise applications and infrastructure, one of the leading payment services and mobile payment gateway providers in the Middle East/North Africa (MENA) region – we’ll call them Trillium – recognized the need for a secure, fully compliant hybrid cloud environment for their e-wallet application. This application, that required lifting and shifting into the cloud, would serve all of Trillium’s e-wallet users in the Egypt area, with a full data migration that needed to be conducted within the short span of a year. Because Trillium had an existing relationship with Trianz, they turned to us to handle the e-wallet application’s platform migration, rearchitecting, and data governance. Addressing Cloud Challenges In June 2018, Trillium was looking to ensure that their cloud platform was up to standard, with a customized architecture to handle their approximately 300 vendor management systems (VMS) and appliances, as well as the more than 300,000 transactions made through the app in a day. This was especially important considering that these applications were financial inclusion products used by a large segment of Egypt’s population lacking access to full-scale banking services, as well as by small businesses. In addition to this, Trillium needed to establish multiple front-end and back-end connectivity for the customers and for failover, while also having an environment that was compliant and secure according to PCI, SOC, and ISO 27001 regulatory standards, at all times. Trillium required a thorough cloud security posture management (CSPM) process to help them detect misconfigurations, encryptions and inappropriate permissions, while also ascertaining regulatory policy compliance, monitoring suspicious activities, and enabling real-time protection for the cloud. The Trianz Approach to CSPM As an enterprise with considerable experience in the areas of cloud security and CSPM, Trianz partnered with Trillium to revamp their hybrid cloud environment. Our cloud experts sat down with the Trillium team to conduct a thorough cloud security posture audit. This included discovering how and where their resources were being consumed, investigating the types of transactions that occurred on each resource, and identifying who accessed them. A Secure Pathway To Data Access Copyright © 2021 Trianz When the teams were able to procure this information and identify Trillium’s cloud security needs, the Trianz consultants leveraged Azure Security Center, Key Store, and Defender – as well as other technologies like Sophos and Checkpoint – to monitor data access activities and configure alerts that would detect suspicious behavior. With these alerts, Trillium’s hybrid cloud system would be able to automatically detect anomalies, firewall rules changes, and IP address ranges. Coupled with these upgrades, Trianz also worked with the client to perform a thorough assessment of their cloud platform misconfigurations. Now armed with a deep understanding of the issues at play, the Trianz team was able to resolve Trillium’s key cloud platform misconfigurations in such a way that they achieved 100% in Azure’s Security Benchmark, as well as hitting their regulatory compliance targets. The Technical Takeaways Along with helping Trillium obtain their goal of being fully adherent to SOC, ISO 27001, PCI, and DSS data governance policies, Trianz was able to maintain their cloud environment misconfiguration-free, along with generating regulatory reports whenever requested. Furthermore, our team was able to protect the cloud platform from data leakage by automatically blocking downloads to their infrastructure, as well as rejecting uploads of any malicious files. This was a clear step forward in terms of Trillium’s data security. Impacts to the Business Through our engagement with Trillium, we were also able to help them realize several impactful changes to their business. As a result of the increased security and higher data quality, the accuracy of insights improved, as did customer relations. Higher regulatory compliance further strengthened the company’s reputation, while simultaneously lowering incident rates and consequently, the resources and hours wasted on resolutions as well. This would also guarantee smooth, uninterrupted service delivery to customers. The hybrid cloud environment’s scalability meant that the e-wallet platform went gradually from being able to handle 300,000 transactions daily to 3 million, allowing them to onboard even more customers – whether private individuals or small businesses. All this, while remaining fully secure. Furthermore, Trillium needed their data to be fully migrated and secured in the new cloud environment within the span of a year (i.e. by July 2019). By partnering with Trianz, they were able to achieve this goal and avoid the significant financial penalties that would come with a delay. The Transformational Effects By bringing their application platform and data from a legacy warehouse into a hybrid cloud environment that met their business needs and global regulatory compliance standards, Trianz was able to help Trillium become more a more cloud-native, customer-focused, and digitally empowered organization overall. The Trianz Difference Trianz enables digital transformations through effective strategies and excellence in execution. Collaborating with business and technology leaders, we help formulate and execute operational strategies to achieve intended business outcomes by bringing the best of consulting, technology experiences and execution models. Powered by knowledge, research, and perspectives, we enable clients to transform their business ecosystems and achieve superior performance by leveraging infrastructure, cloud, analytics, digital, and security paradigms. Reach out to get in touch or learn more.

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Digital Apps, Cybersecurity

ENRICHED AND SECURED USER EXPERIENCE

A global leader in the security and protection industry was interested in digitizing their B2B customer interactions to improve their customer experience, increase revenue, and reduce the cost of both, infrastructure maintenance and administration. By not having an intuitive system in place, the company’s customers were experiencing inconsistent interactions and turning to other sources. The client partnered with us to build self-service portals and region-specific marketing sites. A responsive design allowed the company to provide a seamless user experience and further integrate their content management system. A user management system and SSO with multi-factor authentication was enabled to secure access across devices and locations. We also facilitated infrastructure sizing, consolidation and hosting for multiple countries with seamless monitoring, logging, and reporting. Finally, analytics were employed to track customers, interactions, and marketing metrics while improving overall Customer Experience. The Business Challenge Customers around the globe were experiencing inconsistencies on the client’s websites and portals while authentication processes provided only limited accessibility. This combination of issues resulted in pileups of unresolved issues and spikes in service calls. Technology Components Liferay, Oracle, Okta – SSO, BizTalk, Dynatrace (monitoring, logging, and reporting), Apache Ant, Eclipse, Liferay MVC portlet The Approach Developed geo-specific marketing portals leveraging content management system Hosted environment in a centralized Liferay 6.2 for seamless experience Enabled application integration including complex workflows Used federated identity management for secure access Build portal interface using ESB pulling information from downstream systems Developed responsive design to support access from multiple devices Built real-time reports and analytics Transformational Effects Redesigned online interactions improved user experience, increasing daily site visits by 30%. The number of help desk calls was reduced 60%, dropping the number of expired credentials tickets by 90%. 25% lower infrastructure costs paved the way for new technology like instant alerts for suspicious activity.

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Cybersecurity

A SECURITY SOLUTION FIT FOR A GLOBAL SECURITY IMPERATIVES PROVIDER

A leading provider of identity-based data security imperatives to global enterprises, financial institutions and governments needed a comprehensive end-to-end security solution. Trianz deployed a single identity and security profile across the entire identity management, provisioning, infrastructure, workflow, auditing, reporting and self-service capabilities spectrum. Centralized session management was introduced, including support for idle and session timeouts, and real-time user revocation. We also facilitated easy administration and deployment with N-level delegation administration and rules-based access (open and interoperable based on industry standards). Finally, we designed fully conformant interoperable SAML 2.0 identity federation capabilities to provide seamless integration, apart from extending continuous L1, L2 and L3 customer support. THE BUSINESS CHALLENGE Increasing demand for data privacy, mission-critical need to ensure appropriate access to resources across increasingly heterogeneous technology environments, and a need to meet rigorous compliance requirements within critical time-to-market deadlines. TECHNOLOGY COMPONENTS Technologies: Core Java, Servlets, Java Sockets, Jax RS, C++, SSL/certificates, SAML, SOAP, Tomcat, Angular JS, and Axis web services. Repositories: Oracle, MS SQL server, and LDAPs. Tools: Eclipse, JIRA, OpenSSL, GIT, vSphere, Wireshark, etc. THE APPROACH Periodic maintenance and enhancements to stay abreast of evolving technologies and security needs Enabled single sign-on moving from SAML 1.0 to SAML 2.0 Architectural changes to support common deployment tool for the product (supporting multiple platforms and webservers) Revamped GUI for enhanced user experience Enhanced the product to support other single sign-on frameworks - OAuth and OpenID support Rolled out deployments (onsite), post-development maintenance, and enhancements TRANSFORMATIONAL EFFECTS Roadmap established based on business use cases and incremental development of AWS services ROI model developed for the global enterprise data warehouse initiative Risks mitigated from addressing data quality issues upfront Common business definitions established across regions and countries Enabled business users to analyze and unearth insights on revenue and profitability across LoBs Developed an ROI model for global enterprise data warehouse initiative

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Our Success Stories

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Our engagement with Trianz has now exceeded three years, and together we have delivered many significant initiatives in that time. Many of our successes could not have been achieved without our partnership. In many ways, Trianz has already put our products ahead of the curve.

Director of Quality Assurance

Top 10 US Life Insurance Company

The white glove approach, agility, and flexibility of the team helped us to tap opportunities in the ever-changing business environment.

Director of Customer and Partner Services

A Leading Global IT And Networking Organization

Trianz team worked side-by-side with us to transform our sales operations. Now, we have complete visibility into everything from our supply chain to sales and pricing. Our partnership with Trianz has been exceptional.

Director – Accounts and Cost

A National Cattle Feed Supplier

The team at Trianz worked tirelessly to propose a system that overcame our business challenges. Rising to the occasion, they simplified our processes, enhanced the system and increased productivity. There’s no doubt; our ongoing success was enabled by our partnership with Trianz.

Director

A Leading Commercial Automobile Liability Insurance Provider

Trianz commitment to taking end-to-end ownership of developing the e-commerce web app is exemplary. Their dedicated involvement was key to us garnering the advantages of automated test suite development and manual testing

VP of Marketing

Global Storage Systems And Data Management Company

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