RapidStart for Data Management provides a packaged set of reusable assets along with a well defined set of consulting services designed to help IBM IM customers more rapidly implement their data and content management solutions. Delivered by expert Across Borders resources, these assets and services can include installation and configuration templates, vertical industry guides for efficient integration, as well as common repositories for knowledge transfer and commonly asked questions. With RapidStart for Data Management, Across Borders combines proven implementation experience within our core vertical industries, creating a cost effective and rapid delivery methodology. Customers ultimately speed up their projects and maximize their project consulting budgets. The consultants implement, configure, mentor and help define best practices for these implementations.

In addition, RapidStart for Data Management provides an ideal setting for developing "Proof-of-Concept" or “Pilot” ready solution enabled applications for IBM Information Management. This leads to quick technology transfer, and helps customers reach a path of self sustainability quicker. Ultimately, customers are with functional environments that can be used as the foundation for developing their enterprise architecture for efficient information handling.

Our RapidStart for Data Management solutions include:

• DB2
• Informix
• CommonStore
• Content Manager

Business Challenge

Business agility requires the organization to efficiently handle data and transform the data to meaningful information. The range of solutions to manage information in a progressive organization is varied. These range from pure enterprise database management, data warehousing, business intelligence, content management and search solutions. An effective foundation must be built using robust mission critical capable products. Information can be harnessed to accommodate the ever-changing business climate, support new business models and “do more with less”.

Solution

RapidStart for Data Management delivers a reusable and framework driven approach to create robust information management solutions for your enterprise. The RapidStart services are geared towards delivering quick return on investment for our customers and focus on the following aspects of harnessing the power of the IBM Data Management technologies.

• Understanding your current needs for data management and creating solution architectures with the most effective products identified to satisfy your needs.
• Quickly leveraging the products by providing expert installation and configuration services to create a functional environment.
• Enable customers to gain skills quickly and efficiently with expert advices and knowledge transfer.
• Provide health check for existing installations either prior to major implementations to ensure success during deployment or after deployment to ensure optimal performance.
• Tailored offerings for specific products based on the most popular deployment of these technologies based on “best-practices” and proven implementation expertise.
• Templates for accelerated and consistent implementations to enable customers to integrate the IBM Data Management products in to their enterprises quickly and consistenty.

RapidStart for Data Management program offering provides a packaged set of consulting services to quickly implement a foundational and robust data management solution. Delivered by our expert data management and IBM product consultants - all of whom have an extensive background in information handling for a variety of domains - to solve your unique problems. Our consultants are knowledgeable in all aspects of complex enterprise and business architectures, data modeling, performance tuning and deployment of specific products such as IBM DB2 and Common Store.

Custom Services

Customized Services beyond what is available with RapidStart for Data Management can be delivered by Across Borders. This includes

• End-to-end implementation strategy and planning to create an implementation roadmap that is most appropriate for your enterprise.
• Certified training.
• Complete implementation based on the roadmap to ensure a successful production implementation.
• Post-production support for continuous improvement, maintenance and new enhancements.
• Extended Center of Excellence for your information management groups providing assistance on-demand.
• Integrating the various information management products with the rest of the enterprise applications.

Service Commitment

Driven by our commitment to excellence we are our own hardest critics. We strive to exceed your expectation as value-based providers of consulting services by:

• Adhering to proven project and quality management methodologies.
• Employing delivery oriented project plans.
• Conducting frequent peer reviews.
• Performing client satisfaction surveys.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

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