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Infrastructure Modernization

 

Organizations have multiple choices for selecting the infrastructure and applications that suit their needs. Over the past twenty years, customers have shifted from developing their systems to adopting vendor-provided enterprise systems and applications. Various technologies have shown their resilience and helped in the modernization of applications and infrastructure over a period of time. These include enterprise systems such as SAP, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Siebel, and Oracle; platforms such as JAVA, Weblogic, and Tuxedo; databases such as Oracle Database, MS SQL Server, DB2, MySQL, and NoSQL databases; operating systems such as Microsoft, Solaris, and RedHat Enterprise Linux; and hardware from Sun Microsystem, Dell, and HP.  

 

In the last decade, customers had the option to transition from a physical to a virtual infrastructure in their data centers to save capital as well as operating expenses.  The Cloud Infrastructure, which enabled IT operations to modernize and migrate their infrastructure to a remote data center run by Amazon, was the most significant change in this era. Other companies such as Google and Microsoft soon followed with their cloud services. The Cloud Infrastructure promised to reduce costs and provide features such as Just-in-time provisioning, pay-as-you-go, scalability, and automation platforms for monitoring, observability, and more. Customers pursued the assessment of different cloud providers and estimated the return on investment of cloud migrations as well as the potential benefits of moving their application(s) or data center to the cloud infrastructure.

 

Most of the customers who moved their workload to the cloud infrastructure preferred to stick with one cloud vendor, hoping to get discounts for long-term services. However, they soon faced challenges like service disruption and performance vs cost tradeoffs with the cloud infrastructure. Also, the fierce competition among cloud providers to offer reliable and scalable services, and the emergence of other hyper-scaler cloud platforms such as IBM and Oracle Cloud contributed to the demand for more resilient cloud solutions that do not depend on a single vendor, but rather leverage the benefits of hybrid and multi-cloud architectures.

 

Our Digital transformation services are focused on creating future state enterprise architecture by offering customer-centric consulting. We have partnered with Key Cloud Hyper Scalars to boost our multi-cloud assessment strategy against key metrics to assist customers in their infrastructure modernization journey.  If you are looking forward to an assessment of the current landscape, please contact us for a consultation at contact@pafsite.com to assist with an assessment, pricing, migration, and operation of your future state.

 

 

 

AI for Business Modernization

AI stands for artificial intelligence, aiming to mimic human-like intelligence in machines. Since the invention of computers, we have been in a race to involve machines to perform, assist, or automate our day-to-day activities. Since then, we have come a long way, and we use computer programs almost everywhere. This has on one hand contributed to adding comfort, quality, and assistance to performing our personal as well as business activities, whereas on the other end, the race to involve computers to mimic human intelligence has reached a stage, where we are preparing ourselves to start testing the machine for human mimicked response and compare its quality of artificial response against human decision.

Machines’ ability to mimic human response is developed by training. For an action, behavior, or situation, all the possible human response is data, and machines can be trained to choose the artificial response. As the machine trains, its artificial response accuracy gets better over time, and it becomes a model when it meets the specified goal. There are pre-trained models publicly available to use versus developing your own private model. On one hand, exposing data on public models has its own risk, whereas on the other hand, developing a private model will need an investment of time and money.

Businesses have been the biggest beneficiaries of using computers, programs, and automation to save time and cost in their operations as well as quality of services. Machines have helped businesses save costs against process completion or product readiness, and spend that savings towards improving customer satisfaction and expanding their business. Today businesses are exploring the use of AI to add more effectiveness in managing enterprise systems and modernize their enterprise applications. Public models and a variety of AI tools are available to support Human Capital, Finance, Customer Relationship/Marketing functions and other Enterprise applications for a business, however, a bigger question is do we know what are the pros and cons of using AI? 

Businesses’ need for automated response use cases and data privacy requirements varies by size, industry, nature of business, and so on. And, a business would like to assess AI user case requirements against key AI decision-making metrics namely: Digital Strategy, Business Value, Sustainability, Data Privacy & Compliance, and Cyber Security.

 Whether you belong to the Public Sector or the Private sector; whether you represent a Small and medium Business or any enterprise, we are ready to help with your business modernization journey with AI. 

We are partnering with key Infrastructure leaders to help our customers across the industry transform their businesses. Please contact us for a consultation at contact@pafsite.com

 

Digital Transformation for Businesses

 

Digital transformation is an ongoing journey for businesses that require (re)alignment with changing business requirements in infrastructure and application modernization. Businesses are motivated to revisit their digital strategy not only by the common factor of cost savings, but also by other aspects such as adding value to their business, enhancing cybersecurity, demand-based scalability, ensuring reliability, improving performance, and optimizing operations.

Business executives are paying attention to digital transformation in their industry as well as across other industries and they look up to consulting partners to assist them in creating transformation strategy and future state enterprise roadmap. Further, there are challenges in the execution of a digital transformation strategy, and they need implementation partners to design enterprise Infrastructure and application future state.

PNF Consulting offers customer-centric consulting and implementation services, to assist businesses in the digital transformation journey. The mission is to empower customers to make informed decisions towards digital transformation, and our partnership with leading Hyper Scalars like IBM, Microsoft, Salesforce, Redhat, and others strengthen our capability further by establishing a unique System Integrator and Product Reseller identity. Digital transformation services offer infrastructure/cloud transformation, application modernization, program management, and cyber security advisory services. Our digital platform.

 

PNF consulting Approach

PNF Consulting has the following pillars for its digital transformation strategy to create future state enterprise architecture for its customers.

 

1. Efficiency – Cost, Operations, Governance
2. Cyber Security & Compliance
3. Scalability, Reliability, and Performance

 

Our hybrid/multi-cloud consulting services are focused on creating enterprise future state architecture for customers and use our product reseller relationship with cloud Hyper scalars to optimize the services cost. Hyper scalars are competing among themselves in terms of scale, scope, cost, automation, performance, cybersecurity, and infrastructure/platform services. Our cloud assessment, implementation, and operation solution framework is unique in the industry, in terms of our expertise with cloud services as well as other key enterprise applications needed for data, integration, operations, and business continuity.

Our key IaaS consulting services offerings:

• Public–
  1. AWS
  2. Azure
  3. GCP
  4. Oracle

• Private–
  1. VMWare
  2. IBM
  3. Oracle Cloud at customer
  4. Microsoft Azure Stack

Our key PaaS consulting services offerings:

• Kubernetes
• 1. AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service
  2. Azure Kubernetes Service
  3. Redhat OpenShift
  4. Google run cloud
• Database
• 1. Oracle Autonomous Database
  2. AWS RDS
  3. Azure MSSQL Server
  4. Google SQL
• Integration and Middleware
  1. Oracle APEX
  2. Oracle Integration Cloud
• Serverless
  1. AWS Lambda
  2. Oracle FaaS
  3. Azure Functions
  4. GCP Cloud Functions

Our key SaaS offerings include:

• Oracle HCM, Financial, Customer Experience
• SalesForce

At P&F Solutions India, we have partnered with key cloud HyperScalars, to assist customers in their digital transformation journey. Please contact us for a consultation at contact@pafsite.com