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IT
Vendors
We offer our services as a one-stop-shop
to vendors who provide software and hardware solutions
to Enterprise Customers and Service Providers. You,
as such a vendor, would like to focus all your valuable
resources in your core competency so you can provide
the most competitive solution to your customer base.
This could mean that manageability may not be your core
competency. We, at ProdexNet, offer our services in
this area to round out the need for manageability in
your product offering.
We have developed extensive expertise in all aspects
Enterprise Manageability. We have, in particular, developed
a unique practices to help ramp up vendors quickly in
the up and coming RFID and WBEM / SMIS Technologies.
Enterprise Manageability
Some of the services we offer include:
Product
Marketing Services
ProdexNet has over 8 years in the Enterprise
Network and Systems Management arena. We have developed
extensive domain enterprise in this area including:
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Understanding of the
various manageability standards |
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Product offerings
by vendors in this space |
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Trends in industry
relative to this arena |
Leveraging the domain
expertise in this area, we offer the following services:
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White
paper generation with respect to manageability |
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Often vendors
need to develop white papers to better articulate
the value proposition of the manageability aspects
of their products. |
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Market
Research and Competitive analysis reports |
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Vendors
may have extensive domain knowledge in their core
competencies. They will be able to use our services
to extend their knowledge in the manageability area,
specifically with regards to where the market in
general is and specifically what their competitors
have. These reports are essential for defining product
requirements and specifications and sales tools.
We develop and hone this domain knowledge working
with various standards bodies including the DMTF
where ProdexNet is an active member and participating
and speaking at various conferences and tradeshows.
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Product
requirements and specifications |
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We are
able to leverage our extensive expertise in this
area to help define marketing and product requirements |
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Software
Design and Development Services
ProdexNet has worked with dozens of vendors
in the past 8 years developing manageability solutions
for them. We have designed, developed, supported and
maintained multiple releases of products for various
vendors. Our services include:
Designing, defining and implementing enterprise level
software solutions
We have extensive expertise in
designing management solutions around various standards
and technologies including:
RFID
SNMP
WBEM / WMI / SMIS
LDAP
Other Standards and Technologies
RFID
ProdexNet will work
with RFID solution vendors to round out their RFID offerings
with the necessary manageability components to make
them manageable in a heterogeneous environment:
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Agents
and Providers to make their RFID components manageable
via industry standards like SNMP and WMI/WBEM |
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Web
based Element Managers to provide configuration
management, asset management, event management and
performance management of RFID components |
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Ability
to make their RFID components manageable in existing
Enterprise Management environments like HP OpenView,
CA Unicenter, Tivoli, BMC Patrol etc. |
SNMP
SNMP - versions 1, 2 and 3 - Our services in this area
include:
- SNMP Agent development
- supporting multiple versions and multiple OS's
- SNMP based management
applications using multiple technologies - web based,
java and windows based
WBEM, SMIS
and WMI
WBEM, SMIS and WMI - Web Based Enterprise Management
is an industry standard defined by the standards body
- DMTF (Distributed Management Task Force). WMI is a
version of WBEM adopted by Microsoft to provide manageability
for its products. SMIS is based on the WBEM standard
and it has been adopted by the storage vendors and users
in SNIA to be the standard management interface for
networked storage. It was formerly called Bluefin. ProdexNet
is an active member of the DMTF and SNIA and is a participant
in multiple working committees in the DMTF. ProdexNet
has developed extensive expertise in WBEM/SMIS and related
technologies. Our expertise in this area includes:
- Development of WBEM
providers on multiple OS's - Windows, Solaris, Linux,
HP-UX etc.
- Development of a
C/C++ CIMOM which can also be used as an embedded
CIMOM
- WBEM client applications
using multiple client SDK's including those provided
by SNIA and Sun
- WMI/WBEM wrappers
to mask WMI data as WBEM and the reverse. This is
useful for interoperability purposes when there are
a mix of WMI providers and WBEM providers in the environment.
LDAP
LDAP - ProdexNet has also developed
in depth expertise in the areas of Directory Services
- LDAP and DEN (Directory Enabled Networking). We have
developed WBEM wrappers for LDAP to also expose LDAP
data in WBEM form to allow for interoperability in a
DEN environment.
Other Standards
Some of the other standards ProdexNet
has worked with include DMI, CMIP etc.
We have made extensive
use of various technologies to implement these manageability
solutions. Some of them include:
- Web Technologies
- Java
- Web Services
based
- Web servers including
Apache, IIS and Tomcat
- Database technologies
- SQL, ODBC, JDBC
etc.
- Oracle/SQL Server/Access
etc.
- Multiple platforms
- Windows 9x, NT,
Win2k
- HP-UX
- Solaris
- Linux etc.
Integration
Services
Often, vendors offer
manageability solutions to their customers that work
well stand-alone. Essentially, these can be considered
to be element managers, managers that manage specific
elements produced by the vendor. However, customers
need these manageability solutions to integrate with
industry leading management applications, so the entire
infrastructure can be managed via a single console.
Often, the vendor does not find it cost effective to
train internal staff to ramp up on each of these complex
Enterprise Management Applications, develop the integrations
and continue to maintain them on an ongoing basis.
We provide a one-stop-shop for vendors who want to integrate
with multiple management applications like HP OpenView
suite of applications, Unicenter TNG, Tivoli TME, BMC
Patrol, Micromuse NetCool, Remedy ARS, NetIQ AppManager
etc.
We have established development partnerships
with several of these vendors and have these applications
installed in our internal laboratories. Some of the
services we offer in this area include:
Testing
and Interoperability Services
Often vendors' management software has
to be tested on multiple platforms and versions of OS.
Further, they will have to be tested across multiple
versions of agents or devices. These testing exercises
can be extensive and resource-intensive. We have the
skill set and experience to efficiently perform such
extensive test matrices thereby easing the pressure
on the vendor's internal resources.
Documentation
and Support Services
Leveraging our extensive experience in
software development as pertaining to manageability,
we can also offer documentation and support services.
We can provide the following services in this area:
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Document the design
and code of internally developed manageability solutions |
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Provide the content
for the User's Guide for the manageability solutions
offered by the vendor |
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Provide any supporting
documentation needed to round out the manageability
offering from the vendor |
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Provide first or
second level support for the manageability products
from the vendor |
For
more information, please fill out the Registration
Form and our representative will contact you
within 1 business day and will help you proceed further.
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