Development of AI based code search engine for the Federal Government.

Name of the project: Adoption of Network monitoring tools

Client: Qatar’s biggest telecom company

Type of project: Consultancy and implementation support

Brief description: As the client was an existing user of CA NSM tools (Spectrum) for monitoring the networking performance and predictive analysis, the cost of maintenance and availability of resources was becoming difficult thereby intend to adopt the SaaS based tools.

Value: US$ 680,000

Duration: 7-months

Team Size: One Networking Architect, Two CA specialists of NSM tools, one three Cloud Architects

Establishing Hybrid cloud

Client: Major Sea-port of India

Type of project: Consultancy and implementation support

Brief description: This client is a major seaport in Orissa state-India who wanted to establish a Hybrid cloud for the port management services. Through this the importers, cargo management service providers, shipping agencies were able to utilise various services of Ship lading services, cargo arrival and various other services.

Value: US$ 230,000

Duration: 6-months

Team Size: Two SOA Architects, 3 Cloud Architects and one PMP

My role: Project Manager

This client is the biggest bank of Qatar with ranking of 6th biggest in the region and 58th ranking across the world. The client had a previously enterprise wide deployment of IT Service Desk (BMC Remedy) that he intends to replace it for want of advanced workflow management apart from CMDB integration with highest compliance of ITIL practices. The client was actively considering the option of adopting this re-deployment of this solution through SaaS to minimize the recurrence of capital budget allocation constraints. Accordingly, a feasibility study was carried out and implemented ‘live time’ solution to tackle the Request fulfillment, Incident Management, Problem Management, Change management and Release Management, Service Level Management & knowledge management apart from CMDB. Savings of around US$ 1 Million in the initial capital cost and other subsequent costs of US$ 500,000 was accomplished.

With the success of the above-referred client another big bank in the country too have adopted similar approach and solution.

This client has an IBM mainframe environment with internal storage area network. In view of serious problems of vendor’s frequently phasing out the products thus causing the support issues, compatibility and integration issues etc., and also the TCO. In this connection, feasibility study of demand management predictions were carried out as per the ITSM standards & policies and accordingly the migration to the cloud storage area network is being planned and implemented. The migration was planned to adopt the existing Amazon's cloud services which were otherwise being used for disaster recovery purposes and expects to use Amazon more over time due to its consistent performance. A third party virtual appliance was deployed to act as gateway between the client’s VMware-based network to enable immediate access to the Amazon cloud storage. The client uses the IBM mainframe on site as a web front end for authorized personnel needing access to contract-related documents cached in encrypted form in the third party SAN in the cloud. If the needed document isn't in the cache there, the IBM mainframe can bring it back from the Amazon cloud storage. The client’s business group has noticed any difference in performance in comparison to the former in-house SAN equipment.Savings of around US$ 900,000/annum was accomplished.

The scope included in this project was to carry out the feasibility study and implementation support. This project is to Provide Oracle database services via the Platform as a Service (PaaS) model within its Corporate Private Cloud. The vision of the project was to accomplish to build a shared infrastructure and software platform with uniform, standardized service offering Oracle database services “on tap” with an aim to consolidate up to 300+ small to medium database environments on to centralise management of Oracle systems to significantly reduce number of servers and associated s/w license & hosting charges. Also to accomplish from an operational perspective the goal of define common hosting standards and support arrangements to employ a dedicated team of Oracle DBAs to manage the platform, not for each application apart from applying a sophisticated charge-back model for cost recovery. Savings of around US$ 1.5 Million/annum was accomplished.