Strategic Solutions

Companies are looking beyond their existing environments to provide new solutions or to proactively improve their systems.  SageLogix is well-positioned to assist you with customized solutions to address strategic endeavors.   The SageLogix team can customize a plan to meet your needs including, but not limited to, the following components.

MiddleWare Solutions

Our custom application development experience and expertise covers a broad range

• Development of independent smaller
• Departmental applications using technoligies like Application Express (APEX) to integrated enterprise wide applications
• Custom reporting to meet your business intelligence needs
• Additions to existing applications, external web sites, and corporate intranet portals.

SageLogix delivers leading edge solutions through our successful approach in deploying a sound architecture in applications and technology. Our consultants have a comprehensive knowledge of Oracle products and integration strategies utilizing Oracles Fusion Middleware technology. Our goal is to provide you with a custom web development solution that best fits your business, no matter how big or small the project. We evaluate and determine the best possible solution and then implement that solution.

Web Sites and Portal Design

SageLogix can assist your web site and portal needs.  Whether it be selection of products to implementation, SageLogix has deep knowledge and experience using web development and portal tools.  Project types could include:

• Enterprise intranets
• Customer self-care extranets
• Commerical/Marketing websites
• Web-based reporting and business intelligence solutions
• Process portals
• PMO portals
• Project portfolio and tracking
• Web-based ticketing and source control
• Web forms and workflow
• Web-based knowledgebase and content management
• Community sites - forums, blogs

Health Checks

• Performance:   Measure and recommend configuration, application, storage and business process improvements for optimal throughput and response times.
• Oracle Applications:  Ensures that E-Business Suite and PeopleSoft infrastructure environments are optimally sized and configured to meet service level agreements for performance, recovery, and availability. Recommendations for operational best practices including certified configurations, cloning, security, patching processes and procedures are provided/validated.
• Security:  Identify potential vulnerabilities and compliance with security practices.
• High Availability:  Analyze existing infrastructure to validate operational practices compared to required service level agreements. Real Application Clusters and/or DataGuard/Active DataGuard processes and configurations are analyzed for optimal availability.

Assessments

A SageLogix Assessment can provide many benefits by leveraging our expertise to meet critical business needs and planning.  We will custom design an assessment to meet specific needs including (but not limited to) one or more the following areas:

• Performance:  Delivers immediate recommendations on application, instance, storage and system to eliminate performance bottlenecks and balance infrastructure resource utilization.  Maximizing throughput and recuding response times during peak processing cycles is obtained.
• Operational Readiness: Analyze system resources and applications for performance, recoverability and availability.  Provide best practices and general infrastructure recommendations.
• Capacity Planning: Measure and evaludate current and planned infrastructure resource requirements.  Provide recommendations for optimal growth path and scalability.
• Security:  Examine the security of your environment through inspecting every point of access to your systems to ensure that proper security controls are in place.  Use of Identify Management technology solutions and encryption is surveyed.
• Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity:  Assess, validate and plan approach to business continuity and service level attainment including best practices for system failovers.
• Migration and Consolidation:  Evaluate how virtualization strategies and storage solutions can suppport consolidation and migration of applications and databases leading to a 'greener' and more economical computing environment.
• High Availability:  Assess the availability of your architecture and provies a roadmap to attaining the high availability and business continuity goals of the business.
• Business Intelligence:  Analyze business requirements, data and key metrics to provide advice on how to maximize the return on investment in Business Intelligence.  Rapid, fixed-price proof of concepts can be provided and tailored to specific industries and business needs.

Training

SageLogix provides instructor-led training that contains both lecture and hands-on lab exercises. Training may be provided on-site or off-site in half-day increments and can be tailored to accommodate various levels of experience and technical solutions. Custom training courses are offered and tailored to suite a client’s unique environment. 

• Training may be centered around an Oracle technology such as:
• Real Application Clusters (RAC)
• Data Warehousing
• Data Guard
• RMAN Backup and Recovery
• WebLogic Portal
• WebLogic Application Server
• Identity Management
• Oracle Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Suite
• Oracle Business Intelligence

Alternatively, training may be functionally-based such as:

• Database Performance Tuning
• Application Performance Tuning
• Use of Oracle Enterprise Manager Packs and Management Plug-Ins
• Service Level Monitoring
• High Availabilty & Disaster Recovery
• Backup & Recovery Strategies
• High Availability Strategies
• Disaster Recovery Strategies
• Operational Best Practices

Content Management

The SageLogix team can provide the analysis needed to design and implement a strategic content management architecture.  After installing and configuring the products, SageLogix can provide the necessary training and business practices to ensure the critical processes and policies are in place to maximize your investment. 

SageLogix can also provide the necessary expertise to integrate your existing security model, configure advanced search capabilities, create workflows, and deploy other UCM components.  These services along with security considerations such as integrating Active Directory, Oracle Internet Directory or other LDAP authentication mechanisms will ensure secure timely access to your enterprise content.