In fact, the Real-Time Enterprise is an architectural framework that helps companies respond to change more quickly and efficiently. By integrating core applications with business processes across the enterprise, the Real-Time Enterprise allows companies to streamline their business processes, maximize efficiency across the enterprise and reduce costs significantly. The focus is on continuous improvement while driving down cycle times and operating costs.

• Messaging Services, Web Services, ETL and others
• ERP, HRMS, and Financials systems
• ERM systems from PeopleSoft, Oracle, Siebel Systems and others
• Other enterprise systems including Single Sign On (SSO), Asset Management, Facilities, Security and others

Using AVSAR EAI Link, a standards-based open XML web service interface, AVSAR UPLINK integrates via your existing EAI infrastructure. Typical integrations enable AVSAR UPLINK to download and share employee cost-center and organizational structure information from existing ERP/CRM/HRMS or Legacy applications, coordinate procurement tasks through your e-purchasing systems, update asset and facility information with your asset management systems, as well as support complex approval processes and workflows. In addition, many enterprises are deploying portal-based solutions and providing single sign on capability across multiple applications.

AVSAR EAI Services Group has extensive experience across a variety of environments that will help make your integration quick and easy.

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Enterprise Architecture

In today's information driven economy, IT strategy has vaulted to the forefront of critical issues faced by top management. Information technology's potential for value creation or destruction is enormous, and Ivory Systems understands this. AVSAR Enterprise Architecture services are the foundation of its philosophy of delivering real business results for its clients through the application of technology. The industrial-strength architectural solutions created by Ivory's seasoned consultants adhere to three guiding principals:

• Business requirements driven
• Robust and adaptive
• Leveraging existing technology investments

Business requirements driven
An effective enterprise architecture strategy requires an understanding of business requirements and processes in addition to expertise in the relevant technologies. Thus the starting point for each project is a thorough understanding of business objectives, a process that is greatly helped and accelerated by Ivory's existing industry-specific know-how.

Robust and adaptive
As IT becomes an ever more strategic factor for success in every industry, a secure and reliable IT environment becomes that much more critical. Yet, it is also clear from the ever-accelerating pace of change in today's competitive business world that any enterprise architecture must be able to adapt quickly to new business and technological realities. Ivory's extensive experience allows it to successfully resolve the inherent tension between robustness (security, reliability) and adaptability (openness, scalability, flexibility) of design in arriving at balanced enterprise architecture.

Leveraging existing technology investments
Coupling grand visions with untried (in the real world) technologies is a recipe for highly visible failed IT projects. Ivory takes the opposite tact with an incremental approach that is designed to minimize project risk and maximize project returns by leveraging existing technology investments. One of Ivory's strong distinguishing characteristics is the unmatched expertise of its consultants in integrating backwards with legacy technology, including many mainframe-based applications

AVSAR Enterprise Architecture services include:

• Rapid Assessment / Diagnostic
• Technology Strategy / Infrastructure Planning
• Enterprise Application Integration / Middleware Implementation
• Migration Planning
• Information Architecture

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Data Conversion/Transcription Service

AVSAR is a provider of outsourced solutions for data processing and data transcription. We offer a full and complete service facility in a secure environment ranging from simple data entry and conversion from audio to text files to taking on the complete management of your data processing requirements. AVSAR provides data conversion services from digital to digital sources. AVSAR has expertise in a variety of conversion services including:

• Transcription from Voice to Text
• Data Entry
• Image Processing
• Electronic Publishing / PDF Conversion
• Image Processing
• Forms Processing
• Database Maintenance
• Indexing Services
• OCR / Cleanup
• Financial Extraction

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Managed Services

Our Managed Services provide you with an integrated, cost-effective IT management solution, enabling your company to focus on its core revenue-generation activities.

Managed Services goes beyond the core ERP and messaging environments by offering a full range of valuable management, monitoring and reporting services that support and maintain your IT and eCommerce infrastructure. AVSAR has the capability to support the leading eBusiness and web applications, databases such as Oracle and SQL, network hardware and all associated components, such as routers and firewalls. Our technical staff is trained and certified to support all major UNIX and LINUX platforms. These robust services can be performed remotely or locally for equipment located in our data centers. Additionally, we have enhanced backup monitoring and reporting capabilities for backup devices and procedures.

From the front office to the back, our Managed Services can provide you with an efficient, reliable IT operation that actually saves money.

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Specialty Services

AVSAR offers your business several niche specialty-consulting services that can be highly effective in increasing your revenues.

Improved scheduling involves the integration of process simulation and optimization, which has proven to be a highly effective technique to increase your business' revenues and/or decrease your business' costs. Process simulation offers your business "what-if" scenario capabilities and testing, which is an effective way to make virtual changes to your business policies without having to risk actual physical or procedural changes. AVSAR consultants can design and deliver a process simulation solution for your business that will give you the capability to identify policies or procedures that can improve your business operations.

Optimization provides your business with the mathematically provable best solution to a complicated process involving many variables. AVSAR consultants can design and deliver an optimization solution for your business that will give you the competitive and operational advantages gained from optimal management of complex operations.

Efficiency Evaluation is a method of analyzing data that comes from individual operating units that are part of a bigger entity, such as one restaurant that is a part of a franchise, to determine which operating units are less efficient than the others. By increasing the efficiency of individual operating units, your business can achieve an improved bottom line. AVSAR can provide your business with the tools and services to identify inefficient operating units, specific areas and levels of inefficiency and a mechanism to easily re-evaluate inefficiencies over time

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Security Service

Information security is rapidly becoming a serious concern for today's wired world. In most cases, governments, businesses, and individuals are all digitally storing information in systems that are connected through Internet which make them vulnerable to known and unknown threats. Safeguarding the information has become a point of survival in this information age. AVSAR main focus on information security lies in the areas of design, development, implementation, testing, and professional services are available for a wide range of information security platforms, including firewalls, VPNs, intrusion detection systems, application servers, e-business systems, Web servers, routers, anti-virus systems, authentication and authorization systems, network infrastructure elements, and Intranet and Extranet systems, with a variety of coverage and response-time service levels, from 8x5 remote-access service through to 7x24 on-site service, to meet their needs in this domain.

Our core competencies are in the following areas:

• Public Key Infrastructure/Encryption Technologies
• Authentication/Access Control/Intrusion Detection and Monitoring
• Security Auditing/Vulnerability Assessment
• Digital Rights Management/Secure Payment Technologies
• Real-time response to security alerts
• Security analysis (firewall, IDS, server, and network device logs)
• Reporting/Scheduled performance and capacity reviews
• Scheduled periodic security reviews
• Support for your operations staff in evaluating and implementing firewall and IDS operational changes
• Tracking and installation of vendor patches
• Secure configuration backup/recovery process
• Dedicated monitoring systems
• Security alert monitoring
• Functional monitoring
• Performance and capacity monitoring
• Log and alert consolidation capabilities (for most standard security platforms)
• Notification service:
• Continuous monitoring of Internet-based security alert data
• Filtering and expert analysis
• Presentation of specific actionable items relevant to your business environment
• Operational support systems:
• Dedicated system instance for problem tracking and support
• Web-based interface (open architecture and API, can be integrated with many client-specific problem-tracking tools)
• 7x24 resource availability
• On-site resources
• Remote management capabilities
• Emergency Response program available

We secure our clients through globally deployable resources, short lead-time to ramp up resources and experience of handling similar projects.

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Quality Assurance

At AVSAR we believe that quality is a culture, expressed in the way we interact with, and cater to the needs of our customers, and in the products and processes that we deliver to them. So, while we have met several external quality parameters, we are even more stringent about setting and meeting our own exacting standards.

Software development for AVSAR is an engineering process, where scientifically proven methods are systematically applied to generate the best possible results in any given situation. A hands-on quality assurance function and a comprehensive internal audit system support the software development process at AVSAR. Telecommunications have always emphasized on IEEE standards and CMM for Pharmaceuticals and Tobacco industries. There has been growing emphasis on the adoption of organization-level processes and are intended to be applied repeatedly to all software engineering projects within an organization. Standards not only must be technically excellent on an individual basis, but each must take its place within a suite of standards that can be adopted in totality, or in part by organizations.

AVSAR Project Methodology, based on years of experience, is our foundation for implementing best-of-breed IT business solutions. PPM was developed through expert-modified versions of mainstream industry methodologies and standards for development, quality assurance, process improvement, and project management. Selecting appropriate best practices to strategically adapt components as needed. These proven methodologies include:

• ISO
• CMM
• Rational Unified Process
• And other traditional methodologies

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