Transcript N2 Services Inc.

N2 Services Inc.
Strategic Vision
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About us
 N2 services is founded by a group of highly
accomplished Enterprise Architects,
consultants and project managers.
 The team is hand-picked based on our corecompetencies and the business needs we
wanted to serve as part of our Strategic vision
 We pride ourselves in keeping abreast with
the latest technologies and standards and
keeping our technology visions in-line with
the current developments
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We are not….
 We are not sales guys trying to market our
consulting firm
 We will not try to sell a specific product or
promote a specific vendor or technology
 We will not commit to tasks that we cant
accomplish. If we run into this issues, we will
let the clients know and even recommend any
potential alternatives or partners.
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Our Service Methodology
 N2 Services operates as “Implementation
Partners” to the clients it services. Our
Architects, developers and Project Managers
are selected by the clients at the initiation of
the project. Once they are selected; this core
team will be “committed” to the clients for
their project needs until the clients agree to
release them.
 Our Business methodology is to provide
partners for your project; not just consultants
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Service Methodology (contd.)
 Our Architects design reference architectures
for various project environments and
document the best practices for a given
project
 Our Project Managers follow best practices in
Project Management to help your project
succeed in the most effective manner
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Methodology departments
 We have identified a core-set of technology
departments as part of our effort to identify
target areas for our software services. These
departments can also be considered
“challenges” or “problem spaces” that
organizations frequently come across
 These methodology departments continue to
evolve as we expand and progress. This
effort is do exactly that; identify challenges
and opportunities that are consistent with our
architectural vision and core competencies.
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Methodology departments
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 Once the methodology departments are
identified our core-team works on –
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Identifying challenges and constraints within
that area
Identifying best practices within that area
Identifying industry leaders (Vendors, Service
providers) within that area
Design reference architectures that can be
implemented to solve the challenges and
problems within the area
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Methodology departments
Identified till now
 ERP Implementation Strategies
 Data Conversion Strategies
 Enterprise Application Integration Strategies
 Middleware Technologies
 Identity Management Strategies
 Project Management Strategies and approaches
 Change Control processes
 Testing and Deployment Strategies and Best
practices
 Software development Strategies
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Typical ERP Implementation
project challenges
 Most corporations (even ERP vendors) don’t
fully comprehend the complexities involved
with an ERP System implementation. They
generally understand it to be a re-engineering
of data, system and database. So they
generally focus on Data conversion, Systems
and database infrastructure
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Typical ERP Challenges
 Because of concentrating fully on conversion
of data and system efforts; the project staff is
strapped and blind-sided with the following
major side effects
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Lack of software development and design
knowledge of the application programmers
(since they were focused on conversion)
Lack of Applications Development
methodology and architecture for design of
custom applications, interfaces and ERP
enhancements
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ERP Challenges
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No Enterprise Application Integration or
Identity Management Strategy. Results in
maintenance of many interfaces with similar
goals; but programming style (some times
completely different approaches and
programming languages).
Poor or not well thought out reporting
architecture and report development
architecture (performance problems, inefficient
coding techniques).
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Problem summary
 A typical ERP implementation addresses the
data and systems conversion; but fails to
address the important needs of the
applications staff for continuing to support the
ERP system after the project
 If there is no consistent blue print for
application development it makes it very
difficult for developers to continue to do their
job in the new environment. This in turn
results in poor coding techniques and
practices
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N2 Services’ ERP Implementation
Strategy
 N2 Services uses proven methodology to
help our customers implement ERP systems
effectively. Our ERP Implementation strategy
doesn’t solely focus on the conversion effort
(to convert data from the legacy system to the
ERP system) but also focuses on the need for
Enterprise Application Integration and
Software Development methodologies.
 N2 Services also focuses on proven best
practices for Project Management and
Business Intelligence.
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ERP Implementation
 A typical N2 reference architecture for ERP
Implementation comprises of the following critical
components
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Enterprise Application Integration
Data Conversion
Project Management
Middleware technologies
Reporting
Software Development Methodology
Database Administration Support
Systems Administration Support
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