Information Security Services

Information security is the most vital business enabler for all corporate organizations. Challenges faced in protecting critical assets like data and information need a solid and robust security framework that can detect, prevent and blocks malicious attempts to steal or misuse these vital resources.

Telkite's Information Security services, aimed at helping companies achieve continuous real time network monitoring and proactive security intelligence to ensure safety, availability and reliability of information can be classified into the following broad spectrum.

Professional Consulting	Managed Services
Security Governance and Compliance  Network and System Security Identity and Access Management  Information Technology and Systems Audit  Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery  Application Security	Vulnerability Management  Log management & analysis  Manage security operations  Security Device Management

Professional Consulting

Security Governance and Compliance

Telkite's umbrella services in Security Governance, Risk and Compliance helps organizations evaluate operational controls and ensure that controls and processes achieve Governance and compliance to required norms.

Network and System Security

Telkite has a comprehensive suite of services for network and system security assessment that ensure information processed by a set of network devices, servers and systems are configured to stringent protocols that eliminate security risks.

Identity and Access Management

IAM (Identity and Access Management) protects unauthorized access to vital information by implementing best of breed access management systems that ensures only authorized people get access based on roles and needs.

Information Technology and Systems Audit

Information Technology and Systems Audit helps organizations highlight business risks due to inadequacy of controls for live systems and the infrastructure supporting them. Telkite's auditing services are classified into Application Audits and Technical Audits.

Application Audits

subject applications in production to verification of controls from the business process perspective which may be administrative controls or controls embedded in the application. Auditors will evaluate the complete logical security related to authentication, authorization and the configurations around that.

Technical Audits

identify vulnerabilities with respect to operating systems, network devices and public websites and all IT operational controls are also assessed from the control risk perspective. Technical Audits include areas like Data Centre, BCP & Testing, Risk Assessment, Network Architecture and Components, Email Services, Active Directory Services, IT General Controls and Information Security Policy Compliance

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

Organizations rely heavily on infrastructure items for information processing and it is vital for infrastructure systems to have continuous uptime and be robust enough to handle contingencies. Telkite assess organizations from the Business Continuity Perspective and recommends the recovery strategy and the plan of action for implementation.

Application Security

Telkite helps organizations assess application security requirements with respect to business and development processes. Application audit also forms the part of Application Security.

Managed Services

Vulnerability Management

Vulnerability Management services identifies susceptibilities for critical servers and network devices and recommends best practices for handling the vulnerabilities. Penetration testing is done on servers and network components exposed to the internet as also wireless access points.

Log management & analysis

Log management and analysis involves analysis of security logs and action on exceptions.

Manage security operations

Security operation services include antivirus management, patch management, tool maintenance and license management.

Security Device Management

Security device management involves managing the network perimeter, intranet, extranet, servers, desktops and laptops.

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Middleware & SOA Services

Telkite SOA Vision

Telkite aims to seamlessly integrate business process and the underlying applications to facilitate real time information sharing and create a nimble Enterprise which successfully blends IT reuse and agility. This vision entails a 5 stage process beginning with implementation and development of applications to automate homogenous business processes. Stages 1 and 2 are about Integration of heterogeneous business process using SOA and EAI, while stage 3 is creation self improving and continuously optimizing business processes. Stage 4 entails creation of real time information sharing mechanisms using Business intelligence and Business activity monitoring and finally stage 5 is using Web 2.0 to build enterprise solutions.

Telkite Services

The Middleware & SOA practice offers business process integration solutions to large enterprises which are faced with typical integration and reuse challenges in key operational business processes.

At Telkite we have provided services to customers in their journey from mass production to mass customization. The services are classified into 5 key areas of Integration namely – EDI, EAI, BPM, IDM and SOA Driven Integration. Delivery of these services is aided by the focus and direction of the practice towards business process integration.

Services include:

EAI Servcies

EAI Product Evaluation
Integration Design
Implementation
Migration and Upgrades
Support and Maintenance
Testing

BPM Services

Platform Implementation
Process Modelling
Process Optimization
Support and Maintenance
Testing

IDM Services

Single Sign On
Access Management
Provisioning, User life Cycle Management
Personalization
Workflow
Integration with BPM and Middlware

SOA Services

SOA Roadmap and Consulting
ESB Implementation
SOA Testing
Service Creation
Service Extraction
Service Utilization and Management

SOA – Aligning IT with Business

Informatica Powercenter up and running in less than 30 minutes and yes it’s free (well free trial at least, with full PDF documentation)!

This is very simple and quick tip for everybody who wants to have Informatica Powercenter up and running in very short period of time and does not want to spend a dime. Yes all components are free and you are not breaking and license.

Take this as a very quick demo.

what you need

1. VMWare Player
2. MS Windows Server
3. Oracle Database
4. Informatica Server and Client

Here we go …

First, let's start with VMWare. There are some other free options, I really like WMVare Player. It's quick to install, very easy to use and Unity mode blows every other option away. You can get free VMWare Player here

After you install it, the second step is to download free 30 day evaluation of Windows 2003 server. After you download it, you can easily open it (click OPEN, not NEW instance and open WIN2K3R2EESP2.vmc) using VMWare Player – please note VMWare Player converts it to it's own format (this conversion took around 30 seconds on my PC).

Now start VMWare with Windows Server 2003 (make sure you enable networking, it's by default turned off in VMWare machine). After you login to the server using Administrator/Evaluation1 , download Oracle Database (download it from Windows 2003 server you just installed). The easiest way is to start with Oracle XE – it's super easy to install it and you really don't need to know much about oracle. You can get it here. The installation is painless, the only thing you need to set next to destination directory is password for sys.

After you install it, open web console and either create new user or enable SCOTT user – this user will be used by informatica repository and you need this ID during informatica installation. XE comes with easy to use web interface, it should take couple seconds to create new userid. You can of course use sql*plus

The last component is Informatica Powercenter. I'm not sure if Informatica offers demo version, but Oracle does. Wait, you said Oracle? That's right. Back in the old days when Hyperion was standalone company they offered Informatica Powercenter as part of their Essbase server offer, they called it Hyperion Data Integration Management sometimes called as DIM. I'm a bit surprised Oracle still offer it. From what I can tell it's really full blown Informatica Powercenter 8.1 with few cut-down features – you cannot run in parallel and you cannot use some of the drivers which come with Powercenter offered through Informatica. Download your copy here

The installation is very straightforward, when the setup asks for database location – select

database: ORACLE
host name:  localhost
SID: XE
USERID/PASWORD: whatever you created after you installed Oracle Database

grab your license key here http://licensecodes.oracle.com/hyperion.html

That's pretty much it. The downloads of the software components can take some time (windows and informatica are pretty big), the actual installation is very quick and does not require more than couple reboots (one for VMWare, one for Windows 2003).

small note: it can happen that when you reboot Windows2003 server, Informatica services are not going to start. This is possible that it tries to start before OracleXE starts. The easiest way is to wait for all services to start, then restart OracleXE services and then start Informatica services (both have shortcut in START-PROGRAMS menu).

One additional note about Window vs Linux vs Solaris … Yes I prefer Oracle on Linux or Solaris, but let's be honest, if you are doing it for the first time, you are going to spend quite a lot of time making sure all prerequirements are met. Installing XE on Windows is very quick and requires virtually no special setting.

Informatica 9, a complete data integration platform

In the market for a Data Integration is a leading manufacturer Informatica. This company is the first independent provider of data integration software. His best-known tool and the heart of his platform is Informatica PowerCenter, which has gone through many versions, and is a reference in the world of integration.

But apart from PowerCenter, Informatica also has other tools that focus on more specific purposes, while that are integrated into the platform, and always in the context of Data Integration.

The Informatica platform 9 is designed to cover the full life cycle data integration, which consists of five main steps: access, screening, cleaning, integration and delivery.

 

As usual with major software vendors, Informatica has many products, options and issues, and may cost a bit to get an idea of what each one, and what we need and what does not for our needs, but the fact that Informatica is an independent provider dedicated exclusively to data integration software makes a big difference.

This article will give a review of the main products that make the Informatica platform in September, grouped by type of problem they solve, and will provide a brief description of each one.

Data Integration
  Informatica PowerCenter
  Informatica PowerExchange
 
Data Quality
  Informatica Data Explorer
  Informatica Data Quality
  Informatica Identity Resolution
 
B2B Data Exchange
  Informatica B2B Data Exchange
  Informatica B2B Data Transformation
 
Lifecycle Management Information
  Informatica Data Archive
  Informatica Data Subset
  Informatica Data Privacy

Data Integration

The Data Integration products are those with a more generic and, to make an analogy, we could compare with ETL tools from other manufacturers.
 

Informatica PowerCenter

 

It might be called the flagship of Informatica. Connect with a multitude of data sources in real time, batch capture or even changes in the data (CDC).

Like other ETL tools, to define and implement on these data the necessary changes and then distribute them to the destination system as appropriate.

PowerCenter I would emphasize ease of use of its visual development tools, efficiency, scalability, expandability and functionality by the purchase of options 'Extra' and integration with other applications of the platform.

There are three product editions, each designed to cover a type of requirements. They are the Standard Edition with the basic options, the Advanced Edition which incorporates more advanced options, and Real Time Edition, which is aimed at the integration of real time data.

 

 
 

Informatica PowerExchange

 

This tool allows direct access, process and distribute data that are on platforms that often require intermediate steps to manage them with a standard ETL.

PowerExchange applications can connect to SaaS (Software as a Service), all kinds of databases, Email, LDAP, Web Services, XML, etc.

In an advanced version Complex Data Exchange can even work with complex data formats such as EDI, HL7, SWIFT, EDIFACT, etc.

With some of these platforms can work in real time, or even use the technology CDC (Change Capture), which detects changes to data in a non intrusive and over-burdening the source system with unnecessary queries.

It also integrates with Informatica PowerCenter and Informatica Data Quality.

 

 
 

Data Quality

It is not necessary to comment much to define this group, all tools designed to give help in improving the quality of data companies are here.
 

Informatica Data Explorer

 

It is the data profiling tool Informatica. Allows easy profiling data at the column level, table and between tables, which he named Informatica Data Analysis in three dimensions that can work on complex data.

From the analysis and profiling are generated metadata, related sources and destinations, and create reports that let you control the whole process of data quality, the anomalies, weaknesses and improvements over time.

It also integrates with Informatica PowerCenter and Informatica DataQuality to view results, create mappings automatically, or display specifications for cleaning and processing of data.

 

 
 

Informatica Data Quality 

 

Data Quality has a broader scope than Data Explorer, is designed to manage the whole process of data quality, profiling, specification, cleaning, validation and monitoring, allowing him to participate in a coordinated manner both data analysts and developers and administrators . Each one has its own profile-oriented interface, and accessible in a web environment.

Its functionality is the possibility of defining rules and quality services that can be reused in different data quality projects.

It also has predefined rules to cleaning and geocoding addresses for more than 60 countries.

 

 
 

Informatica Identity Resolution

 

The identity resolution software to detect records that appear in the system as different individuals, but by the similarity between values associated with them can be deduced that correspond to the same identity. In other areas this process is called deduplication also customers, and can not miss on a data quality project.

Informatica Identity Resolution combines similarity comparison algorithms in an efficient manner, taking into account any typographical errors, changes in the data and even compares data in both languages and even different alphabets.

Processes can operate in both batch and real-time and has API's that allow detection features include identities other applications.

 

 
 

B2B Data Exchange

 

This group encompasses the tools that are used to facilitate data integration with other businesses, with the outside world, where the manner of access to information, standards and protocols change, and where it is vital to ensure the quality of incoming data, and not compromising the security of internal systems.

This product family, consisting of Informatica B2B Data Exchange and Informatica B2B Data Transformation is aimed at the effective exchange of information between enterprises, and offers great flexibility in terms of formats, allowing for both structured data and unstructured.

The tools are integrated with the rest of the Informatica platform, and external data collection also incorporate the necessary security measures that can be integrated seamlessly with internal data

 

Informatica B2B Data Transformation provides processing functions and data quality easy to use for the passage of external data to internal easy and no programming.

Informatica B2B Data Exchange can also define profiles internally and externally with business partners with which information is exchanged, so that on the same platform can define rules for transactions and expedite the protocol before the start of exchange .

It also manages events, current and historical and enables control of transactions.

 

 

Lifecycle Management Information

The information has a lifecycle, and many data will become obsolete as time passes. Data will also be moved and replicated in different settings, some more critical than others, and efficient management of space is important. Many of the data need to be protected and managed to ensure that they can see them clear the appropriate profiles. It is important to manage the lifecycle of the information, and these are the Informatica tools provided to help with this task.
 

Informatica Data Archive

 

Informatica Data Archive is responsible for managing the archiving, with or without compression, inactive data, so stop using space and resources in major production systems, while still maintaining referential integrity and being accessible through tool and the various interfaces it provides.

Define rules and create metadata for data archiving, and provides direct connectivity to various databases, ERP and CRM systems, and even custom applications.

Another important feature is that by managing the archiving, to analyze and actively manage the data growth.

 

Informatica Data Subset

 

This application is used to create subsets of data from, for example, the full details of a production environment.

Allows you to define these subsets and policy creation and replication or maintenance of this data from the origin of the 'complete'. The software also is responsible for maintaining referential integrity within the data that form the subsets.

Includes accelerators for use on various ERP's, CRM's, and can greatly facilitate the creation and maintenance of development environments of reduced size, and date.

 

 
 

Informatica Data Privacy

 

In conclusion, this application is responsible for centrally manage data masking that require it within the organization, helping to comply with data protection laws, prevent leaks of sensitive data, and facilitate the creation of environments 100% operational development, but not displaying critical data.

Define masquerade rules, and has different algorithms or ways to implement it, while ensuring consistency and integrity of the data masked. Note that by dissociation of masking allows data values, while maintaining the functionality and readability of the same.

As expected, it also incorporates accelerators applications including masking predefined rules to implement quickly on various ERP and CRM applications.

 

 
 

SOURCE:http://www.dataprix.com/en/informatica-9-complete-data-integration-platform

Informatica Services

Our Informatica team comprises of Informatica Certified Professionals who have extensive expertise in delivering comprehensive solutions encompassing data warehouse development, implementation, maintenance, operations and support using Informatica Power Center 8.6 suite.

These solutions include:

Rigorous Business requirements gathering and analysis involving end-   users 
Dimensional modeling 
ETL architecture and development 
Data Integration and reconciliation 
Data Quality and meta data management 
Data Mart Development 
Reporting: Custom and OLAP solutions 
Deployment and change management 
Maintenance, Operation, and Support

Some of the key technical implementation features for the above solutions are:

Handling of multi-terabytes of data. 
Working with Heterogeneous data sources
Handling of XML (has become platform independent information   exchange standard in today's business community data) 
Implemented Informatica Web Services. 
Worked on Posting of data using HTTP transformation. 
Migration of legacy systems to today's commercially available platforms. 
Performance optimization includes Grid Architecture implementation,   Partitioning, etc.