Lot’s of buzz around Big Data

Looking at the increasing attendance levels at the Bay Area Hadoop meet last month, it is very clear that this segment is gaining a lot of traction. Even folks who have been steeped in traditional DW/BI solutions swearing never to defect are now taking a serious look at Big Data. The name is a bit of a misnomer: while Big Data offerings may lend themselves well to dealing with large amounts of data with their inbuilt distributed DB like architecture, their analytics can be availed of by anyone no matter what the amount of data they have. This is because of the unique, multi-dimensional analytical technology driven by Map/Reduce.

Given these radical changes, Infogain has decided to build a practice around Big Data. This will be kicked off by the setting up of a COE around Big Data with products like Hadoop and AsterData. We need help so anyone interested in working on these technologies and helping us setup this COE can send their requests to krish.khambadkone@infogain.com

Flexible Application Management Services

"Balance returns on your application portfolio investments with delivering guaranteed levels of service to your stakeholders"

Infogain’s Application Management Services (AMS) increase the return on application investments and improve IT organization effectiveness, freeing IT resources to focus onbusiness priorities. AMS delivers support throughout the application lifecycle, beginning with assessment and continuing with application maintenance, application and DBA support, and systems monitoring.

Enabling Companies to Meet the IT Challenge: Balancing Competing Priorities

Maintaining applications at optimal operating levels and providing responsive user support are critical for the success of business; however, doing so also requires significant planning and extensive resources. Infogain’s AMS maintains your applications, while offering reliable levels of service and support, lowering support costs, and providing resource flexibility to meet changing business requirements.

SharePoint Assessment & Roadmap: The Key to a Successful Collaboration Platform

By: Jim Eagleton

Senior Director SharePoint/ Collaboration

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is a robust collaboration platform that offers a wide variety of features to help organizations drive efficiencies and effectiveness across the enterprise, with employees, partners and customers. A well-planned and integrated implementation promises excellent results. However, to leverage the true potential of the platform requires up-front analysis of the business objectives and IT infrastructure to ensure the best fit solution that is aligned with organizational priorities.

In our experience, we’ve seen customers fall into a few broad groups that outline the opportunity matrix for SharePoint:

1. A business that implemented an older version of SharePoint and wishes to upgrade to the latest to avail the new features and capabilities
2. A business that implemented SharePoint as a point solution for a given project or team and wishes to expand its reach across the enterprise, ensuring standard usage and integrated governance policies
3. A business that uses a few of the features of SharePoint, but now wishes to leverage the full capabilities of the product
4. A business that has no collaboration platform as yet and wants to ensure an implementation that follows industry best practices and aligns with their business priorities

Infogain’s SharePoint QuickStart program is a five-day assessment and roadmap program that will help your organization get started quickly and take full advantage of the benefits of collaboration. If you are interested in setting up a meeting to discuss the opportunities for a SharePoint implementation, please contact us.

Proven Approach to Quality Assurance and Testing

Leveraging years of experience in QA and Testing engagements with leading software companies, including PeopleSoft, Siebel, Oracle, Informix, Sybase, Borland, Clarify, BroadVision, HP, NetApp, and Apple, Infogain has developed a comprehensive set of formal testing processes in the test management area like planning, execution, and automation . These processes use industry best practices, enabling Infogain engineers to catch software defects effectively and efficiently.

Defined procedures expand the scope of application testing beyond functional testing. This guarantees that the application will meet performance, scalability, and usability expectations of the end users. Infogain has experience using all of the available licensed and open source tools to perform testing in these areas.

Accelerate Time to Value

Infogain’s SharePoint QuickStart program is a five-day roadmap planning and information assessment wherein a senior consultant from our Collaboration / SharePoint Practice works with you to provide the thought leadership and strategic “next step” guidance to ensure a comprehensive framework for your SharePoint environment.

We empower you to:

• Connect with business users immediately
• Educate your team on critical decisions about the SharePoint environment
• Pilot SharePoint capabilities in conjunction with your business processes
• Expedite user buy-in of the platform
• Prioritize project requests from departments, project teams and even customers
• Balance strategy options and implementation priorities

Faster resolution to customer queries

In days past, retailers were generally unaware of their customers until they arrived at the check-out counter. That meant generally 20-30 minutes of missed opportunity to understand and interact with the customer.Today, retailers focus on increasing their sales conversion rates and average tickets by getting their sales associates out from behind registers and having
them interact closely with customers during their shopping experience.

Mobile Point of Service

Infogain’s Mobile Point-of-Service (POS) solution offers a compelling mobile platform with
integrated peripherals. Mobile POS enables your store clerks to handle customer purchases
from any location in or near the store. The result: delighted customers and increased sales.
Mobile Point of Service is available to both existing and new Oracle Retail customers.

Functionality

Out of the box, the solution supports the Point of Service functionality appropriate for the
sales floor, including product look-up, basic CRM and line busting. The solution functionality
includes:

• Log-in and log-out
• Scanned or manual entry of items
• View item details
• Delete, cancel or suspend a transaction
• Credit card payment using swipe or manual entry
• Accept electronic signature on screen via finger/stylus
• Customer data acquisition
• Issue paperless receipt using Infogain’s eReceipt solution

HP's acquisition of Stratavia

Last week’s announcement by HP of its acquisition of Data Center Automation firm Stratavia indicates a continuing trend of consolidation in this space, evidenced by acquisitions of a similar nature of firms like Opsware and Cassatt. This trend is significant as firms try to deal with rapidly changing and heterogeneous IT environments that are increasingly operating on a dual Hybrid model—which means the maintenance of their internal IT assets as well as those deployed in a Hybrid cloud comprising of both private and public cloud infrastructures.

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