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Support customer loyalty and retention
Gain valuable customer insights from mobile data
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Dear LinkedIn Connection,
Despite uncertainties in the global stock markets, growth through acquisition is a viable option for MNCs seeking growth in Asia and for Indonesian companies keen on pursuing local and global opportunities. Globally, M&A deal values grew by 22% in 1H2011 compared to the same period in the previous year – an indication that corporate takeovers remain highly active. In contrast, transactions in Indonesia had more than doubled in value and volume in the ten-year period from 2001 to 2011 (Institute of Mergers, Acquisitions & Alliances).
Yet, M&As are inherently risky. Hay Group’s studies have shown that nearly 60 percent of deals transacted between 1992 and 2006 left the buyers with eroded shareholder value. Clearly, the long-term value of M&As is not guaranteed.
South Africa offers deep domain skills in Financial Services, especially Insurance. UK corporates seeking to retain quality whilst accessing 50% cost-reductions are examining this competitive option
Sale-leasebacks also supported overall growth, stockpiling equity and restructuring existing debt. Fortune 500 companies sold regional and national headquarters. Industrial conglomerates sold large distribution centers and portfolios of assets, respectively. Municipalities sought to lower deficits and balance budgets with government service assets by heading to the sale leaseback table.
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1. Dodd Frank Real Time Reporting
A.J. Aronoff - Connectivity Practice Director, Prolifics
Mike McChesney - Websphere Business Agility Tiger Team
WebSphere Powers
Smarter Banking
17. Dodd Frank Real Time Reporting
A.J. Aronoff - Connectivity Practice Director, Prolifics
Mike McChesney - Websphere Business Agility Tiger Team
WebSphere Powers
Smarter Banking
18. Agenda
1. Risk And Compliance Issues
2. Keep Me in the Green
3. SPOF: Single Point of Failure
4. MQ Monitoring (Find problems & solutions)
5. MQ High Availability (no stranded messages)
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19. Accomplished IBM Software Partner
AWARDS: SKILLS and RESOURCES:
2013 IBM Beacon Award Outstanding Technical Serviced over 1500 IBM software accounts in the past 8 years;
Vitality implemented over 300 portals
2013 IBM Collaboration Solutions Distinguished Conducted migrations to WebSphere from other technologies for
Business Achievement over 140 clients encompassing more than 2,000 applications
2012 Outstanding Business Agility Solution Award Prolifics boasts over 400 J2EE, WebSphere, ICS, Security, Business
Analytics, ECM, Tivoli, Rational certifications for architecture,
2012 IBM Smart SOA Impact Award Winner
development, administration, and project management
2012 Global WebSphere Community Customer
IBM’s highest technical rating (Level 5)
Recognition Award Winner
Highly Accredited - IBM Tivoli “AAA Accredited;” IBM Cloud
2012 ICS Award for Best Industry Oriented Social
Certified; Accredited with Ready for Rational; IBM Authorizations
Business Solution for Security, Insurance, Finance, Healthcare & Life Sciences,
2012 IBM Awarding Client Excellence (ACE) Banking, Energy & Utilities, Social Business and Enterprise Content
Award Winner Management.
2010 Impact Best BPM Solution Award 15 Technical Staff are "IBM Champions"
2010 Lotus Best End-User Solution Award Prolifics has worked with internal development teams multiple
times for the development of IBM technologies.
2010 Lotus Best Industry Solution Award
Strategic relationship gains internal access to IBM’s resources,
2009 Rational Solution Award
labs, and product development teams
2008 Outstanding SOA Solution Award
2008 Overall Technical Excellence Award
2007 Overall Technical Excellence Award
2007 Impact SOA Process Solution Award
2006 Best Portal Solution Lotus Award
2005 5-Star Partner Award
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20. Prolifics Customers
Financial Services
Healthcare Government
Retail & Distribution Utilities
Insurance Education
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21. “Keep me in the Green”
The almost universal message from anyone dealing with
compliance
Keep me in the Green
Everyone from Einstein to Erasmus has said that
“prevention is better than cure”
Einstein’s quote:
Brilliant people solve problems
Geniuses prevent them
The goal of this presentation is avoiding problems
And finding a bit of a safe harbor
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22. Dodd Frank Reporting Requirements
The Dodd-Frank Act requires that swap transaction and pricing data be
reported “as soon as technologically practicable.” What does that mean
under the proposed rules?
“As soon as technologically practicable” means as soon as possible,
taking into consideration the prevalence, implementation and use of
technology by comparable market participants.
http://www.cftc.gov/ucm/groups/public/@newsroom/documents/file/rtpr
_qa.pdf
MQ for guaranteed delivery of messages and High Availability to
handle failures is the prevalent implementation and use of technology
by comparable market participants.
Note: MQ H.A. is available via a special part number.
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23. SPOF: Single Point of Failure
SPOF (Single Point of Failure) is a 4 letter word. That is one of the
many many words heard after hurricane Sandy
Every time there is a major outage, there are many lessons learned.
One company had a clause guaranteeing next day delivery of fuel
under any emergency. Sadly, (nor surprise) delivery proved to be
impossible during an emergency. (The employees save the day.
Preparation reduces anxiety.)
SPOFs have included: redundant firewalls that didn’t failover, air
conditioners that melted & every other unimaginable occurrence
For compliance, using multi instance or highly available
queue managers covers the clause for the prevalent
implementation and use of technology by comparable
market participants
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24. WebSphere MQ & Message Broker Monitoring
Decrease Downtime w/ WebSphere MQ & WebSphere Message
Broker
Identifies common problems and automates corrective actions
Auto-discovery and immediate monitoring of complex environments
Drill-down to locate problem, identify root cause and resolve bottlenecks or
outages
Proactively Prevent Problems
Correctly configure and deploy
your WebSphere MQ infrastructure
Detect and repair problems as they
happen, or alert you to an imminent
concern
Provides key MQ and Message
Broker metrics for real-time and
historical data analysis
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25. WebSphere MQ Performance and Availability Monitoring
Navigator Workspace chart
showing WMQ
shows threshold
monitoring agent violation values both
initial & current
Clicking on links takes you
to the problem area ‘Expert Advice’ gives help
for resolving out-of-box
situations
‘Take Action’ allows for
manual or automated
problem resolution
Monitor WebSphere MQ health and status Monitor availability of all Queue
Monitor channel status and performance Managers
Monitor queue status and performance Monitor queue/channel thresholds
Queue Sharing Group status Automatically repair error conditions
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26. MQ High Availability: Multi-instance Queue Managers
1. Normal MQ MQ
Execution Client Client
network
192.168.0.1 192.168.0.2
Machine A Machine B
QM1 QM1
Active can fail-over Standby
instance instance
QM1
networked storage
Owns the queue manager data
27. Multi-instance Queue Managers
2. Disaster MQ MQ
Strikes Client Client
network
Connections
broken from
clients
192.168.0.1 192.168.0.2
Machine A Machine B
QM1 QM1
Active locks freed Standby
instance instance
QM1
networked storage
28. Multi-instance Queue Managers
3. Standby MQ MQ
Connections
Comes to Life Client Client still broken
network
192.168.0.2
Machine B
QM1
Active
instance
QM1
networked storage
Owns the queue manager data
29. Multi-instance Queue Managers
4. Recovery MQ MQ
Complete Client Client Clients reconnected.
Processing continues.
network
192.168.0.2
Machine B
QM1
Active
instance
QM1
networked storage
Owns the queue manager data
30. Next Steps
Prolifics is offering free Dodd Frank discovery calls that
take into consideration the prevalence, implementation and
use of technology by comparable market participants
IBM and Prolifics are offering MQ High Availability Licenses
at large costs savings. Combination offerings (including
installation and configuration) are available as well
MQ Advanced Developer licenses makes it easy to keep up
with the latest advances in MQ (including security and
Managed File Transfer).
IBM offers tools to monitor your systems and support pacs
for recording transactions. Demos, discussion, software and
service combos are all available.
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31. Contact – A.J. Aronoff
Connectivity Practice Director
Email - aj@prolifics.com
Editor's Notes
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“Keep me in the green” is a thought that has been expressed by many customersAn ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure