SOA Increasing IT agility

Infogain’s SOA and Integration QuickStart program is a 1-3 week roadmap and information assessment wherein a senior consultant from our Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Integration Practice works with you to provide the thought leadership and strategic “next step” guidance to ensure a comprehensive framework,and end-to-end SOA strategy, for implementation and governance.We assess your SOA maturity level in the areas of Tactical SOA, SOA Governance and SOA.

Maturity Model Alignment to drive:

• Services enablement and design for internal and shared services
• Comprehensive SOA governance for both design time and runtime
• Business Agility attainment by embracing all layers of the SOA maturity model
• Services aggregation through process orchestration for effective enterprise application integration and straight through processing to eliminate manual steps
• Evaluation of business process management strategies to integrate functional silos
• Analysis of electronic document access strategies for real-time business intelligence
• Transformation to an agile enterprise through the adoption of SOA best practices

Leading Insurance Provider leveraging BI Implementation

Infogain leveraged its experience in the insurance domain and with BI technologies to deliver
a state-of-art solution for the client. Infogain worked with the client’s IT and functional teams
to produce multi-dimensional data warehouse systems using the Microsoft BI Suite. This
Business Intelligence solution enabled the conversion of raw data into the information needed
for accurate management decision-making.
Some of the business and technology benefits include:

• In-depth analysis of KPIs such as claims, broker earnings, outstanding claims and premiums down to the policy level
• of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) vs Budget/Forecast
• Intuitive dashboards based on dials, gauges and traffic lights
• Reports downloadable to common Microsoft Office formats and PDF for ease of use and sharing
• Capability to share information through discussion threads and public folders
• Robust metadata to deliver a flexible and scalable BI architecture
• Single IDE for all reports and dashboards
• Consistent and extendible ETL technology for all data marts and reusability of dimensions.

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Phones 4u Selects Infogain to Partner in Ambitious Store Expansion of its Oracle Investment

UK's Leading Mobile Phone Retailer for the Youth Market Partners with Global Mobile and Retail Technology Experts to Deliver Major 'Stores-in-Stores' Expansion on Oracle

GITEX - Dubai, 18 October 2010 - Infogain, a global retail and mobile solutions provider, today announces that leading high street mobile phone retailer for the youth market, Phones 4u, has chosen Infogain to implement Oracle Retail applications to support its partnership with a major UK electronics retailer to roll-out at a minimum of 50 new 'stores-in-stores' before the end of the year, with additional sites planned for 2011.
With over 480 stores Nationwide, Phones 4u is working with Infogain to underpin an ambitious growth strategy based on a solid technology platform provided by Oracle applications and technology. Renowned for enabling retailers to meet shifting consumer demands and rapid, sustainable growth, Oracle's Retail solution offers a solid foundation for delivering a new store experience. Read More

Superior Product Delivery through Quality Assurance

Most companies feel there is opportunity to expand or enhance their testing and quality assurance (QA) activities. Inadequate testing can lead to increased time and expense related to quality product development. Infogain’s QA and Testing solutions address your unique needs.

Infogain offers QA and Testing solutions to software product companies and IT enterprises to expand team bandwidth, implement best practices, and help automate the testing process. Specialized services are also provided in often under-served testing areas, including system testing, load testing, internationalization testing, and usability testing. Infogain implements test management infrastructure so that testing scripts and test results are properly managed, ensuring the development organization receives actionable feedback.

Using a dual shore approach, a majority of Infogain’s testing team is located in offshore offices, while the QA lead, and the client’s main point-of-contact, works at the development site. This model gives Infogain the scalability that is needed to quickly organize large testing teams, as well as offer a cost effective model at up to a 50% discount from on-site costs.

Enterprise Mobility : A need

With the success of the iPhone and Android platforms, consumer interest in smart phones has expanded and the market is consolidating around these two platforms. Given that these devices offer an easy to use mobile application platform as well as security capabilities required before the devices can be connected to enterprise systems, these devices also started entering into businesses in a rapid way. This posed a challenge for the enterprise IT as they had not defined the business processes for preparing, distributing, and managing these devices. IT enterprises usually have standard laptops that they give to their employees and there are standard policies and platforms to distribute and manage the laptops. However, mobile devices are different types of devices and require a different way to manage them. IT enterprises are therefore scrambling to put together the infrastructure and plans for mobile devices.

With the incorporation of security and access controls, the availability of mobile device management software, and the sheer prevalence of mobiles phones and productivity benefits of a mobile-enabled workforce, enterprise mobility is becoming a reality. Within the next 1 to 2 years, the enterprise will learn to manage these devices as a standard part of their IT architectures, and will develop a plethora of mobile applications to provide access to their backend systems.

Infogain hosts 2010 Strategic Information Summit to celebrate its 20th anniversary

On September 12-13, 2010, Infogain hosted a special 20th anniversary event for its key partners entitled the 2010 Strategic Information Summit: Discovery through Intellectual Exchange. With more than 80 people in attendance, including clients, prospects, board members, and employees, the event provided engaging presentations and dialogue on information management issues facing businesses today. “What a great event, I can't thank you enough for your hospitality and introduction to a great group of clients,” said Jeremy King, Executive Vice President at LiveOps, one of the companies in attendance. “My wife and I had a wonderful time.” Read more