EES

Emitac Enterprise Solutions, part of Emitac Group, has established itself as a System integrator, leader in delivering IT infrastructure services and solutions to clients in the UAE since 1976. EES designs, builds and provides solutions for business applications and core infrastructure including systems and storage, datacenters and enterprise wide communication and networking. Our in-depth industry knowledge and technical expertise and flexible delivery models help customers harness the best out of their IT investments by creating a reliable and scalable infrastructure.

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System Integration

IT System Integration

Technology shift is an ever changing game and it’s happening with such a pace that very few can keep up with it. System Integration is crucial for all kind of business operations and it is difficult to ensure that all systems are up to date with all the latest and greatest technologies. These days Computer System failure is one of the worst torment to the CEOs of every company, which they don't even want to dream about. But the ugly truth is that system failures are becoming a big news as its spreading like a virus in the market. In earlier days the system integration was only confined to connecting the hardware components but with the technology shift the system integration has been utilized to connect software, data and digital communication as well. Various soft-ware solutions are accessible in abundance to improve business productivity, but the challenge is to decide which is expedient to employ where and how to design the whole system to maintain consistency across the business. Nowadays System Integrators expanding into cloud with the help of Managed Services which help running business smoothly, resulting lower cost and increased productivity.

System integrators provide best infrastructural solutions for developing an integration ecosystem in the business and should be aligned with the business strategies and objectives. According to recent market report of ‘IT System Integration for 2014-2020’; its market value was USD 191.36 billion in 2013 and is expected to reach USD 377.59 billion by 2020 which is growing at 10.9% CAGR and this will be driven by latest technologies mainly like IoT and SMAC. North America is the largest regional market for system integration which accounted for 33.0% of the total system integration market. System integrators in Dubai accounts for 20% of total market. Asia Pacific is expected to be the fastest growing regional market for system integration during the forecast period, growing at a CAGR of 13.5% from 2014 to 2020.

System Integration has been used extensively to create and manage services which can offer the industry the palpable benefits in areas such as mobile applications development, cloud services, APIs development, Big data, IoT and Analytics. Appropriate System integration for any business comprises comprises of three layers of Integration i.e. Data integration, service integration and process integration.

As data integration moves towards process integration, the level of complexity also rises. To deal with such complexity the system integrators prefer two kinds of approach i.e. SOA (Service oriented Architecture) and ESB (Enterprise Service Bus). SOA can be executed with latest technologies like XML web services, DCOM, SOAP, RPC, & CORBA. Whereas ESB provides an infrastructure to implement this SOA concept in a simplified way by cutting down the intermediary interfaces and create connections between different systems.

As IT world is becoming super-connective and compact, increased complexity is directly proportional to the company size and the need of system integration providers. This is where EES can help. We provide the right tools, methodologies, resources for your enterprise’s needs, combined with world-class knowledge and experience

It is time to opt the right path for seamless business processes i.e. to outsource the expertise of system integrators for a better robust IT system with standardized configuration and industries’ best practices; resulting in reduced cost, increased productivity with improved & updated IT infra-structure, accelerated business processes, enhanced performance and increased flexibility.

This is an era of instant viral communication, one mistake in system integration is sufficient to create a dent in the business. To win the race careful integration of all systems is required for visualizing every aspects of business and control every bits and bytes of all systems from one place.

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IT Analytics

Today’s business world is taking a major seismic shift in the market at a speed faster than ever. The data coming into enterprises is coming from a substantial number of multiple areas and in various formats. Organizations are receiving these database at high volume and at lightning-speeds, whether from a mobile device, scientific sensor or the Cloud. Each of the data sources e.g. social media, sensors or spatial coordinates are new data vectors for the industry and established companies are having difficulty keeping pace with the changing trends. The digital revolution is disrupting the existing business models. Thus, enterprises need to learn how to address the pool of huge database in this digital world using IT Analytics.

IT analytics use cognitive computing capabilities to understand the IT systems’ behaviour over the time and provide early detection of abnormal system behaviour. Advanced data and text analytics are also used to extract insights from structured and unstructured data sources. It helps to predict problems before they impact the service and cause costly outages. But organizations are facing issues and certain challenges to integrate the analytics in the cloud.

These challenges are:

- Data Model Diversity: The entire analytical workflow can get complicated because of complexity and elaborate steps and processes. These steps are data acquisition (accessible data, selection of parameters, data cleansing & data quality), data modelling(Defining the logical model and linkage of various database), data mining (Algorithm writing, variable identification and process validation) and visualization (Advanced and customized graphical representation and reports).

- Data Volume: Its not that easy to process the large amount of generated/available data as there are multiple channels and means to obtain the data pool. It is a big task to move the whole data to cloud. Furthermore, analyzing this database for definite insights is yet another challenge.

- Real Time Analytics: As the value of IT analytics is increasing, the demand for rapid insights is also increasing. Thus, the world is moving towards the real time analytics and thus it is impacting and changing the business models and existing IT infrastructure.

- Security and Privacy: Security and privacy is the most difficult part of data analytics to handle. It is difficult to keep the data anonymous after the analysis to retrieve potential insights. With Private cloud this issue has been addressed but still companies with data criticality or regularity constraints stay reluctant.

Emergence of End-User IT Analytics

From banks and insurance companies to healthcare, and from retail stores to telecommunications companies, and many more are leveraging IT Operations analytics to transform their business processes, their organizations and even their industry.

According to the Harvard Business Review, companies in the top third of their industry who use data-driven decision-making processes are, on an average, 5% more productive and 6% more profitable than their competitors.

Today’s world seeks smarter and faster technologies and therefore it becomes important to bridge the gap of end- user satisfaction level. IT departments need to raise the bar and add end- user IT analytics for value addition services. Nexthink is the innovator in the field of end user IT analytics. Nexthink is unique because of its real time analytics for all execution and network connections. The corresponding real-time visualization of Nexthink provides new visibility and insight into what it means, in real terms, at that particular moment in time.

Benefits of IT analytics:

• Detect security threats and risks beforehand, avoid costly assumptions and mistakes, resolving issues early.

• Create a fact-based decision making culture.

• Using data analytics enterprises are able to gain better and complete understanding of captured data and use it efficiently to process and analyze these database.

• IT analytics lead to efficiency improvements, increased sales, lower costs, better customer service, and improved products and services.

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Is disaster recovery on your priority list?

There are times when your servers are down with the strike of a major disaster and you do not know the details , but have to decide on the next move. What will you do at that very moment? Would you take a step towards recovery of your servers? If that is what you are thinking? Then, what would be the order in which you would start?Feeling lost already? Do not worry, because that is exactly what we would be talking about throughout.To start with, prioritize server recovery in a disaster. Only because, managing mission Critical Servers for Business Continuity is the most critical task when you have a downtime. That is the time when data is not available to customers which eventually leads to loss of business, thereby, losing more in less time.A survey conducted by Symantec shows that only 51 percent of small businesses have an IT business continuity plan in place, ensuring IT systems are up and running within 24 hours, compared to 74 % of large businesses. About 60 percent of large businesses have business continuity plan in place, compared to only 43 percent of small companies. These statistics bring certain important questions to minds of CIO’s & CTO’s, questions like - what will happen to key data in the event of a disaster? How are we currently protecting facilities and applications, and are we protecting them the same way?Against which types of disasters are we guarding? What was the scope of the last test of the recovery processes?This is the reason why critical server requirements need to be reviewed at least twice a year.Get through with a checklist below that would ease your job and help you support critical server requirements on a regular basis.

In and out risk assessment

Strategy for server recovery

Consider application downtime for planned & unplanned outages

Backup Procedures

Duplicate offsite storage for most important records

Recovery time objectives

Hardware for server recovery

Alternate recovery site selection

Now that you have this checklist, classify systems for a planned disaster recovery. By this it means, there has to be a roadmap for your critical server infrastructure, understand the supporting business needs of the servers well in advance, since not all servers are of equal importance to your business.You cannot expect IT to perform any miracle during an outage. All you can do is ensure that your disaster recovery plan also consist of cross-departmental staffing, since it is important that a recovery documentation is prepared well in advance that will allow anyone is the business, to start a recovery. Be it the project manager or the chief financial officer, every employee in the organization should be able to start the recovery in the absence of your IT support.Other solutions that can be adopted as a recovery plan are as follows:

Dual data system integration: Some organizations prefer to operate on a dual data center, running parallel to one another. Thus if a disaster strikes one of them, the other is a read backup.Internal recovery: Many businesses have more than one facility. Hardware can be configured at other facility and data can be transferred, keeping the new facility as a backup.Vendor supported recovery: Data streams, data security services and applications can be hosted and managed by vendors. This information can be accessed at the primary business site or any alternate site using a web browser. If an outage is detected at the client site by the vendor, the vendor automatically holds data until the client’s system is restored.With this, you now know what to do and how to recover your business at any given point of time. The only other important thing is to keep your calm while the strategy works…And if you’re not there yet, it’s time to push Data recovery planning and preparedness to the top of your to-do-list and we will definitely assist you with a workable,affordable business continuity strategy, thereby bringing in a huge reduction in outages, hardware problems and data failure by adding scalable, redundant, fault resistant environments with huge volumes.

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Internet of Things - Turning Data into Wisdom

Imagine if the street lights sensed there is no traffic on a road and turned themselves off to save electricity; Agricultural variables could be controlled, thus influencing crop production and your doctor diagnosed your illness through a chip tracking your internal activities……all these sound impractical but no more. These and many such incredible things are possible with the newest technology called Internet of Things.

The term first coined by Kevin Ashton in 1999, means “Connected network of Things!”in the simplest of terms. Information can be collected, shared and exchanged from anything that is connected to the internet modernizing life - both at home and at work...

The theme behind IoT

With the pace at which technology is speeding, IoT is expected to bring interactivity between every object and human on the earth through internet. Smart cars, self-understanding thermostats, ovens, etc… IoT will bring automation in every ‘thing’ around you, just like a sci-fi movie.

Wireless and Wi-Fi networks are making it easier for Internet of Things to reach out to businesses worldwide. IDC notes that: "Today, over 50% of IoT activity is centered in manufacturing, transportation, smart city, and consumer applications, but within five years all industries will have rolled out IoT initiatives”. There are no bounds to the market for Internet of Things, it will be present everywhere. Itds to the market IoT products and services will add £12 trillion to the world economy by 2020 as IT spending continues to grow, according to Gartner.

Would IoT be of any use to your business?

Through IoT businesses will be able to deliver a flexible cloud-based approach that enables them to capitalize by gathering, storing and processing data centrally. While IoT gives a transformation shift to businesses, it also opens the door of new opportunities to businesses. IoT will give enterprises three major advancements:

Operational Efficiency

Business Intelligence

Business Transformation

Major corporations around the world like HCL & IBM have decided to join forces in developing solutions for Internet of Things. Each year more and more top US technology & telecom corporations are investing and preparing themselves to make the most of this new technology. Besides the new application areas being tapped by Internet, IoT is expected to generate huge amounts of data from diverse locations that is aggregated very quickly. The critical challenge is in storing and protecting data, and extracting valuable information from it. Well, an ideal way to tackle this challenge could be to integrate data protection to the archive process. This not only provides high-performance access for analytics processing, but also excellent protection and long-term retention.

Get ready for IoT: Digitize now!

Internet of Things can be used to automate and monitor pretty much everything in a company. For example, your laptop boots up when your car tells it that you are 5mins away from office etc..These are small menial tasks, but with data centers & management devices, it could become pretty complex.

The evidence is overwhelming: Experts view that by 2020, 29 billion devices will be connectedto internet & a market of $1.7 trillion for Internet of Things will be created. So, brace yourselves and get ready to become a part of this revolution in the world around you with IoT.