AVS SYSTEMS, INC www.avssystems.org

IBM Premier Business Partner and InfoSphere Information Server Specialist

Maximize your investments in IBM InfoSphere Information Server

Most Organizations, based on their business need and vision,

has invested millions of dollars on IBM InfoSphere Information

Server tool comprising of DataStage, QualityStage, Information

Analyzer, Business Glossary, Metadata Workbench, FastTrack,

Change Data Capture (CDC), Information Services Director (ISD),

and Master Data Management (MDM).

On top, these Organizations have entrusted the services of

implementation to their existing vendor community to seek out

qualified resources that are experienced in these tool sets and

spent 5 to 10 times more on getting some of their initiatives

completed or in progress. Typical implementation initiatives are

Data Warehousing, Data Marts, Business Intelligence reporting

and analytics, Data Quality Rigor, Data Profiling for column,

primary-key-foreign key, table, cross-table, domain, cross-

domain, baseline and comparative analysis with the baseline,

maintaining Enterprise Business Glossary or simply end-to-end

Metadata Management and Master Data Management.

With such selection of resources from various vendor agencies

where every resource works independently, InfoSphere

Information Server best practices, standards, guidelines, sound

data integration & ETL strategy, development methodology,

performance & tuning traits, knowledge of center of excellence

is lost giving way to poor design, development and practices

that results in inconsistencies, severe burn out ratio for the

Organization or end up with poor quality product being rolled

out into Production which creates lot of headaches to the

Incumbent Organization management.

This is where we come in

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Rely on our vast dedicated

technical expertise of over 14

years in InfoSphere to closely

guide and advise you on how to

leverage InfoSphere Information

Server as a platform for Data

Integration and using Information

as a Service as an asset for your

organization.

We bring in our innovative

Center of Excellence (COE) best

practice.

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Benefit from our extensive skills, deep industry

experience and knowledge

The Expertise you seek is

augmented by dedicated

professionals who specialize in

specific InfoSphere discipline and

certified by IBM thus ensuring

complete satisfaction that the

technology service is delivered to

you professionally by people who

understands the technology and

your business. Our past

experience with Fortune-500

companies and innovative best

practices combined with our

Center of Excellence (COE)

guidelines guarantees you of fool-

proof, high quality, high

performance deliverables.

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Finally, we offer advisement on product mentoring, development and exposing InfoSphere Information Server in batch or real-time as always-on Web Services to grow your business.

Our COE Service, stemming from over 2 decades of experience with leading fortune-500 cross-industry firms, is highly innovative, unmatched that provides immense tangible and intangible benefits that not only drives your business in the right direction but creates incredible return on investment (ROI).

Our InfoSphere Center of Excellence (COE) practice includes:

High-performance - Architecture and topology strategy

Best practices - end-to-end relating to topology, InfoSphere installation, administration, configuration, development, nodes, memory, capacity planning, file systems, scripting, automation, migration, and scheduling including Clustering and Grid solutions

ETL strategy and development - consistent innovative design vetted against our best practice, parallel processing, high-performance, loading/update strategy and error handling.

Conversions /Migrations - from previous versions to the latest

Agile Methodology – innovative iterative and incremental development approaches designed to cope and adapt to new ideas from the outset, allows changes to be made easily and faster but adhering to the principles and techniques of COE, thereby reducing overhead, products and code tested successfully and rolled out, on time and under budget.

Troubleshooting and Issue Resolution – having over 20 years of experience in diversified platforms and environments, we are highly skilled in tracking, monitoring, solving complex issues . Most of these get automatically resolved when we put our COE in use.

Work exclusively with IBM Technical Support – To resolve PMR’s on time does freeing Clients resources to work on more important tasks.

AVS

Gain visibility and trust in your information –Data about Data

Understand your end-to-end information infrastructure

Proactively manage and administer your information infrastructure - Web-based exploration of metadata relationships – InfoSphere,

modeling and BI applications - Explore and analyze both graphically and textually - Perform searches and customized queries

Assess and mitigate change management risk - Assess dependencies across InfoSphere and 3rd party tools

Support compliance and governance initiatives (e.g. Sarbanes-Oxley, Basel II) - Trace data lineage of modeling, BI reports and InfoSphere objects

InfoSphere Metadata Workbench helps support information governance by providing reporting and traceability on InfoSphere data movement, modeling and business intelligence applications, as required by regulations such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and Basel II.

During the design phase of an information agenda, IT personnel can analyze and view the impact of changes to the current information model, avoiding potentially disruptive modifications to existing processes.

InfoSphere Metadata Workbench relates design and operational and business metadata to drive better understanding and higher trust between IT and LOB employees.

And lastly, reporting on the end-to-end design is critical to the auditing process and understanding why and how decisions were made. Storing this information centrally is key to historical analysis.

AVS Systems Metadata Management Strategy facilitates answers to the following

questions (shown with typical outputs/deliverables):

What data elements are available / needed?

Inventory of data assets Why are these data needed?

Business rationale, business processes supported/enabled How do the data-related processes work?

Manufacture, manipulation, organization, storage and dissemination of data Execution of scripts, programs as required by Administrator as well as

developers. Who is responsible for each of these data elements?

Ownership, stewardship When do the data-related processes take place?

Calendar-driven (scheduled), event-driven, user-driven (ad hoc) Where are the data-related processes executed?

Internal/external organizations, applications/systems within which data is contained

Metadata management yields the following reports: - Business Lineage - Data Lineage - Impact Analysis - Operational Metadata

Explore Metadata Information assets in the

repository of InfoSphere

Information Server (IIS)

Analyze Dependencies and relationships

of key assets and business

intelligence reports

Manage Metadata to obtain in-depth

analysis reports

Typical Metadata Sources

INTERNAL to the InfoSphere

Information Server:

- DataStage ETL Jobs

- QualityStage Data Quality Jobs

- Information Analyzer Data

Profiling results

- Business Glossary Terms and

Definitions

- Master Data Management

Typical Metadata Sources

EXTERNAL to the InfoSphere

Information Server:

- Informatica/Other ETL jobs

- Data Modeling from Erwin,

ER/Studio, etc.

- Business Intelligence metadata

from Cognos, Business Objects,

Microstrategy, etc.

- RDBMS Structures from Oracle,

DB2, etc

- Various other sources via

bridges and connectors

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The quality of data within the

enterprise is measured according

to its reliability and validity; the

completeness and accuracy of a

data set. It is usually measured by

comparing the data set to

another data set identified as the

"gold standard", and assessing

the level of agreement, thus

creating a Master Record.

But, data being data, you

are faced with the

following challenges:

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insightful, reliable, complete, consistent and accurate.

Intensifying regulatory requirements

Multiple Versions of the same reference data exists for different reporting environment?

Lack of Information Standards (Redundancy nightmare, Structural differences prevalent across disparate sources)

Data load process overwrites the results of others

Cumbersome manual process to consolidate data

Every Short-term, long-term, just-in-

time Services

Business Assessment & IT Strategy, Roadmap Services

Data Warehouse/Business Intelligence/Master Data Management

Experience -20+ years of solid Cross-Industry Experience (Commercial and Federal)

Expertise - Data Integration and Business Intelligence Specialists

Past Performance - Managed huge initiatives for Fortune-500 Companies

Background - Extensive experience in Data and Project Management that involves IBM InfoSphere products for over 14 years ensures that the projects will be done right and on time with outmost dedication and professionalism

Services – IT Assessment , Strategy and Roadmap, Data Warehouse, Enterprise Architecture, Data Integration, Data Migration, Master Data Management, Business Intelligence, Legacy Reengineering and Consolidation, Application and Web Solutions, Data Management, Risk Management and Project Management

IBM Premier Business Partner (since 2000) –We specialize in InfoSphere Information Server brand and have over 14 years of extensive experience in IBM

product tools such as DataStage, QualityStage, Information Analyzer, Business Glossary, Metadata Workbench, CDC, Information Services Director, IBM MDM.

Business Needs – We ask the right questions, anticipate challenges, share ideas and work for a better outcome

High Quality of Deliverables - stemming from our standards and best practices. We are very passionate about our projects and take incredible pride in our deliverables.

Cost Effective – coming from our years of practice and sound methodology allows us to provide rapid application agile development.

Trusted Information Enables Innovation!

ARE YOU FACING ISSUES WITH YOUR MDM/ETL

PROGRAMS DEVELOPED WITH IBM INFOSPHERE?

PROTECT YOUR INVESTMENT. WE CAN HELP.

Today’s economy and business trends demand quick action and cohesive

handshake among all business processes so that companies can understand the

real benefits that are hidden underneath the guise of inaccurate and unreliable

data spread across disparate systems and also due to business initiatives taking

place such as citizens or corporate name changes, mergers and acquisitions,

parent-subsidiary relationships, divestiture, splits, etc.

Businesses are faced with the immediate need to consolidate their data and

integrate them so that immense value can be realized. Companies need to be

able to work together in a unified environment so that Master Data

Management/Customer Data Integration can take place.

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Issues with on-boarding clients? Citizen/Customer Identification a costly redundant process? No Trusted Source of Information. Facing difficulty in consolidating and integrating your data? Multiple versions of the same reference data for different

reporting environment? Data load process overwrites the results of others? Spend more time gathering data manually? Significant amount of point-to-point integration? Data quality issues are plenty? Data Warehouse/Business Intelligence platform not yielding the

right results or you don’t have one? No Data Governance in place? No Master Data Integration Strategy in place?

Professional Development

• Advice and Planning

• Develop Best Practices

• ETL Architecture &

Data Strategy

• Extraction and Load

Strategy

• Insta ll , Configure,

Administration

• Innovat ive

Design/Reusable

Funct ions

• Performance & Tuning

• Faster Execut ion

• Batch/Real -Time

Integrat ion

• Auto mat ion and

Scheduling

• Post-Production

Support

• Mentoring and Training

“We come and assess your

infrastructure, list inventory of

pain points and issues, perform

analysis and recommend

solutions”

AVS SYSTEMS, INC

IBM INFOSPHERE INFORMATION SERVER

9 Colt Circle West Windsor, NJ 08550

Ph: (609) 649-4174

Fax: (609) 228-1079

Email: info@avssystems.org Website: http://www,avssystems.org