This presentation gives a view of Reverside's relationship with IBM as an Advanced Partner, specifically in Enterprise Modernisation using IBM HATS toolset.

1. Reverside IBM
Enterprise
Modernisation
Capability

2. Reverside Brief Profile
• Established 2006; Head Office in South
Africa
• High CSR Agenda - Black Economic Reverside
Empowerment Level 1 contributor
South Africa
• Over 120 consultants
• Over 300 person years of Global IT
experience Reverside Reverside
• Delivery centres in India and South
Africa
Europe India
• 21 active customers spread over South
Africa, Europe and USA
• Partner for IBM & Oracle
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3. Reverside IBM Advanced Business Partner
• Feb 2010 Reverside was upgraded
to Advanced Business Partner Status
• Reverside IBM solution offerings
– Rational
– WebSphere
– MQ, Message Broker
– Cognos
– Portal Solutions
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4. Reverside IBM Certifications
Certificate* Number of People*
IBM Rational HATS – Sales 13
IBM Rational HATS – Technical 4
IBM WebSphere – Sales 2
IBM WebSphere – Technical 7
IBM Lotus – Sales 2
IBM Cognos 11
* As of Feb 2010
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5. Enterprise Modernisation - HATS
• HATS: Host Access Transformation Services
• Rules-based Host-to-Web transformation engine, that provides
customised access to one or more host applications
• Dynamically creates new Web HTML interfaces
• Capability to quickly and easily generate a Web Service (SOA) from a host
application
• HATS applications are packaged in standard J2EE formats
• HATS application is packaged as a J2EE Enterprise archive (.ear) file for
deployment into IBM WebSphere Application Server
• HATS application is packaged as a Web archive (.war) file for deployment
into IBM WebSphere Portal Server
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6. HATS - Capability
• Transforms one or more host applications and presents Web pages/services
(SOA) to an end user, through an HATS Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) project
• HATS EJB project provides access to host interactions, which are encapsulated
in Integration Objects
• The Integration Objects provide host data to a calling application, which can
be another HATS application or a user-written Java program
• A HATS EJB project separates the collection of the host data from its
presentation
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7. HATS – Integration Typical Schematics
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8. HATS – As-Is To-Be
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9. HATS – Value Proposition
• Preserves your investment by
• extending you existing application through the Web
• provide web services (SOA) with limited risk and expense
• providing quick return on your investment
• Transforms your legacy/heritage applications to HTML with no changes to
source code
• Improve navigation and user experience of your application
• Reduces end user training costs
• Reduces costs associated with erroneous entries
All these, without touching your stable, reliable, time tested application
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10. Reverside Methodology
Decide Build
•Single sizable •Agree Scope •Train Users
functionality/process •Agree Plan •Create service desk
•1-2 weeks elapse time •POC success evaluation •Expand Plan
•Agree Bill of Material •Maintain and manage
•Feasibility showcase •Project go/no go •Design/Detailed Design
•Agree Costs •Onsite + Offshore
decision •Order H/W & S/W
•Onsite •Onsite
•Onsite •Code Build & Test
•Onsite + Offshore
Proof of
Agree Maintain
concept
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11. Reverside IBM Customers
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12. Case Study – A large insurance company
Business Challenges Our Solution
• The company is a full service • The UK operations had built • Reverside delivered a solution
insurance business with an independent web front whereby a XML message is
different products and end for claims processing received from the front end via
MQ, utilizing business specific
offerings in life, non-life and policy administration, Java code & Host Publisher (HATS)
insurance and London accessing policy data sitting Integration Objects to integrate
markets on applications running on the data received from AS400.
• The application in scope AS400 back end • A XML response is passed to the
manages and maintains both • Business was struggling to MQ channel for the front end
life and non-life insurance manage duplicate • The incoming and outgoing
policies for High Net Worth transactions, keep and message is stored in a DB2
individuals maintain log files and collate container
transaction details • A separate error and transaction
logging system was developed to
aid application support
This project has a high profile across the Group and it was imperative that it is delivered within agreed requirements.
The feedback I have received demonstrates how you leveraged your collective talents and strong relationships to
deliver - working across time zones and countries to make it happen – COO UK
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13. contact details:
Rajib Gupta
Reverside Europe
Business & Technology Centre, Bessemer Drive,
Stevenage, Hertfordshire SG1 2DX
: +44 (0)1438 791 008 / 08450 780 108
: +44 (0)7810 000 612
: rajib.gupta@reverside.co.uk rêver (french): {v} dream
: www.reverside.co.uk
WE MAKE DREAMS HAPPEN!
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