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CCP Technology

CCP TechnologyCCP is an integrated platform that makes best use of the combination of existing Local Authority systems and the latest technologies from Microsoft. The diagram below  illustrates how CCP fits within the Local Authorities ICT infrastructure.

CCP connects systems and users together, delivering business processes that can span across many different systems and users.

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Asidua are a Microsoft Gold Partner and have built the Customer Contact Platform based on the principals set out by Microsoft’s Citizen Service Platform Initiative. 

Asidua chose the Microsoft technologies based on not just the capabilities of the technologies but also on their cost effectiveness and acceptance within the Local Government domain. The full CCP solution is built on a range of Microsoft technologies as illustrated below.

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As CCP is a modular technology the use of these Microsoft technologies is dependent on the component of CCP as described below:

 

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CCP Components

CCP ComponentsThe Customer Contact Platform (CCP) is a modular solution platform and consists of a number of key components including:

  1. Portals
    Providing an off the shelf and extensible transactional portal for customer self service and internal employee collaboration.

  2. Desktop
    A unified desktop application used by council employees to provide access to information, process automation, process guidance, single sign on to multiple underlying applications, CTI integration and integration to both line of business systems and supporting systems.

  3. CRM
    A configuration and integrated Dynamics CRM setup for Local Government. Designed for both standalone use and when integrated into the various other components of CCP.

  4. Mobile
    A mobile solution that provides fulfilment staff access to job information and the ability to record progress through mobile devices even when offline. The mobile solution is integrated with the other CCP components and line of business systems to provide a joined up solution. 

  5. Enterprise
    Where enterprise level integration is required between systems and organisations CCP provides a layer of pre-built components including a SLA monitoring console to rapidly enable enterprise connectivity and the delivery of end to end processes. 

 

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CCP Delivers

CCP DeliversCCP provides support for end to end business processes from the initial point of customer contact through service delivery and where appropriate back to the customer to confirm they are happy with the service that has been delivered.

CCP is though also a modular architecture that can be deployed to deliver benefit within specific business areas such as Customer Self Service, Contact Centre Desktop, Mobile Fulfilment etc. Each of these components incorporates off the shelf Local Government system integrations and is also designed to enable rapid integration with other systems within a specific Local Authorities domain.

The following diagram illustrates some of the key areas of functionality of the CCP solution:

CCP Functionality

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All CCP solutions incorporate aspects of Information Management, Process Management and Performance Management. Specific client needs may target only specific channels through deployment of the Portal, Desktop, CRM, Mobile or Enterprise modules.

The Customer Contact Platform (CCP) is a software platform built upon Microsoft technologies that Asidua has developed through many years of experience in delivering complex end to end integrated business focussed solutions across the public and private sectors.

Over recent years Asidua have added to the Customer Contact Platform to provide a specific Local Government solution. This version is focussed on meeting the particular needs of Local Authorities to deliver improved customer service and significant operational savings.

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Customer Contact Platform

The Customer Contact Platform (CCP) is a software platform built upon Microsoft technologies that Asidua has developed through many years of experience in delivering complex end to end integrated business focussed solutions across the public and private sectors.

Over recent years Asidua have added to the Customer Contact Platform to provide a specific Local Government solution. This version is focussed on meeting the particular needs of Local Authorities to deliver improved customer service and significant operational savings.

In particular, CCP enables a Local Authority to:

  1. Be More Efficient
  2. Be More Effective
  3. Be More Consistent
  4. Deliver Higher Quality
  5. Deliver Greater Customer Satisfaction
  6. Improve Satisfaction
  7. Make Considerable Operational Savings

To find out more about Asidua’s Customer Contact Platform (CCP) and how CCP can help improve Local Authority productivity use the links below;

CCP DeliversCCP TechnologyCCP ComponentsCCP in Action

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Application & Data Integration

At Asidua we believe that seamless end-to-end processes can only be achieved through integration of systems, the applications they host and the data they contain. While modern enterprise applications offer ever-increasing integration capabilities, the effective use of these capabilities presents a major challenge to many organisations.

For medium-to-large enterprises, this benefit is amplified considerably due to the overhead in trying to manage many point-to-point integration links. 

Adopting a systematic integration strategy allows an organisation to radically re-arrange its enterprise ICT, leading to higher levels of automation and greater levels of flexibility. Asidua has devised Application & Data Integration (ADI) to enable its clients to embrace such a strategy.

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Case Studies

WES Case StudiesSince 2002 Asidua have successfully completed many projects for worldwide Tier 1 & Tier 2 clients utilising our unique WES (WinPathTM Expert Services) capabilities. 

To help highlight this, we have published a large number of recent case studies for your viewing. 

For your ease of reference, the case studies have been split into Technologies and Product Lines. To view the WES case studies of your choice, use the left hand menu or the links bleow;

 

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Published Customers

Asidua has worked with a wide range of equipment suppliers including Tier 1s & 2s from across the globe including;

WES Customers

 

WES Customer Testimonials
Client satisfaction with WES (WinPathTM Expert Services) is testament to the level of repeat business which Asidua has enjoyed throughout the years.  To help highlight our high level of customer satisfaction, please take a moment to review some of our recent customer testimonials;

  • Fujitsu Telecomunications Europe Limited
    “As Fujitsu’s broadband portfolio continues to expand, we need to attract complementary world-class design expertise to augment our in-house design teams. Asidua involvement has enabled us to be early to market with next generation products.”
    Andy Stevenson, CEO

  • Xalyo Systems
    ”The Asidua team was a pleasure to work with. They did an excellent job, under very tight time pressure. The resulting Wintegra microcode enhancement was very well received by our end customer. The entire process was extremely well managed and communicated.”
    Andre Wisel, President

 

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WinXtends

Asidua WinXtendsAsidua WinXtends are an off-the-shelf solution for deployment in the wire speed processing engine (DPS) within the WinPathTM architecture. These enhance the standard DPS functionality to help customers maximise the benefits of their WinPath designs in a cost-effective manner.

WinXtend example solutions include:

1. High performance MTP2 stack for use within SS7 solutions

  • comprehensive MTP2 feature list including statistics
  • user-configurable with support for ITU-T and national variants (e.g. Japanese)
  • supports high density signaling links up to STM-1 capacity

 

2. Packet-based policer to complement the standard bit-rate policer

  • particularly applicable in environments where traffic of variable frame lengths (large and small frame sizes) is being policed

 

3. Policer Chaining framework

  • while policers can be chained together using native constructs within the WDDI, Asidua’s solution delivers a highly efficient implementation which is faster in execution and quicker & simpler to implement;
  • allows a combination of policers to be deployed for maximum protection of the host e.g. multiple levels of bit-rate policer, or a combination of both packet-based and bit-rate policers

 

4. DMA transfer capability

  • provides Direct Memory Access (PCI Bridge) and removes the need for a hardware based implementation thereby reducing the Bill of Materials cost



For further information on these solutions or to discuss requirements for other solutions contact winpath@asidua.com

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WinStacks

Asidua WinStacksAsidua’s WinStacks for Link Aggregation (LAG) and Ethernet Operations, Administration & Maintenance (EOAM) are applicable to any solution involving Ethernet interfaces across domains including Wireless/WiMAX, Aggregation & Transport, DSL/PON and dedicated Carrier Ethernet deployments.

Asidua’s WinStacks are designed to assist vendors in achieving the MEF-defined goals for Ethernet based solutions including Standardised services, Scalability, Reliability and Quality of Service.

LAG is designed to overcome two problems that are common in Ethernet based deployments – bandwidth limitation and link redundancy – by allowing the grouping of multiple Ethernet links into an aggregation group.

Meanwhile, EOAM is a suite of protocols for monitoring and troubleshooting of Ethernet networks and WANs. The standard mechanisms for performance measurement and fault detection provided by EOAM are a key requirement for deployment of Carrier-class Ethernet.  Click here to view the WinStacks overview diagram

A total of four standards-compliant stacks are available from Asidua as follows:

  • Link Aggregation [IEEE 802.1 AX]
  • EOAM - Connectivity Fault Management - CFM [IEEE 802.1ag]
  • EOAM - Performance Monitoring - PM [ITU-T Y.1731]
  • Link OAM [IEEE 802.3ah]


Key Benefits of Control Stacks

1. Build on the capabilities of the WinPath DPS to present a fully functional, integrated solution
2. Highly competitive pricing
3. Enable faster time to market
4. Easy to use & integrate via a three step process supported by comprehensive documentation and an example/reference application

  • Prepare the Build environment
  • Integrate the Stack to the specific WDDI model
  • Initialise & Configure the Stack for the target usage


5. Standards compliant
6. Permissive licence arrangements with source code included in the deliverables

Further Information
Detailed product briefs for the LAG and EOAM stacks can be viewed using the links below:


Additional information can also be obtained by contacting winpath@asidua.com

 

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WES Products

Asidua’s WES (WinPathTM Expert Services) also offers a range of off-the-shelf products specifically designed for the WinPathTM processor family, each at a highly competitive price, these are;

Asidua WinStacksWinStacks
Asidua’s WinStacks for Link Aggregation (LAG) and Ethernet Operations, Administration & Maintenance (EOAM) are applicable to any solution involving Ethernet interfaces across domains including Wireless/WiMAX, Aggregation & Transport, DSL/PON and dedicated Carrier Ethernet deployments. 

WinStacks product examples;

  • Link Aggregation Carrier Ethernet Stack - [IEEE 802.1 AX]
  • Ethernet OAM Carrier Ethernet Stacks - CFM [IEEE 802.1ag], PM [ITU-T Y.1731] & Link OAM [IEEE 802.3ah]


To read more about Asidua WinStacks click here

Asidua WinXtendsWinXtends
Asidua WinXtends are an off-the-shelf solution for deployment in the wire speed processing engine (DPS) within the WinPath architecture. These enhance the standard DPS functionality to help customers maximise the benefits of their WinPath designs in a cost-effective manner. 

WinXtends product examples;

  • High performance (wire speed) MTP2 stack for use within SS7 solutions
  • Packet-based policer to complement the standard bit-rate policer
  • Policer Chaining framework – a highly-efficient, hierarchical deployment option facilitating advanced policing rules
  • DMA transfer – providing Direct Memory Access (PCI Bridge) and removing the need for a hardware based implementation thereby reducing the Bill of Materials cost


To read more about Asidua WinXtends click here

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The Asidua - Wintegra Relationship

Asidua & Wintegra RelationshipWith the successful deployment at the 2002 Broadband World Forum of a Tier 1 demo of an Integrated Voice & Data linecard based on the WinPath 1 processor, Asidua’s relationship with Wintegra has strengthened over time with an ever increasing work pipeline.
 
One of the key milestones in the relationship was a move from Application & WDDI layer developments into the DPS itself enabling Asidua to offer the unique end-to-end Service Offering encompassing DPS, WDDI and Application layers – the complete solution customers require.

More recently representatives from Asidua’s management team participated in the Wintegra Worldwide Sales conference in Austin Texas, where Eddie Millsopp, Head of WES (WinPathTM Expert Services) at Asidua commented:  “At the sales conference we were able to market our Wintegra WDDI and DPS offerings to a global audience. Asidua is in a unique position - our experience, understanding and capabilities, from the customer application right down to the microcode, allows our clients to truly unlock the potential of the Wintegra processor”

Since the conference the Asidua – Wintegra partnership has extended further with both companies embarking on a project to develop a number of standards compliant protocol stacks to further extend the capabilities of the Wintegra NP. 

With the extension of the Asidua & Wintegra partnership, Robert O’Dell, EVP Marketing and Sales, Wintegra said, “Carrier Ethernet Access and Aggregation equipment is increasingly being deployed by our customers around the world, driving the demand for MEF compliant Carrier Ethernet solutions and services” “Asidua’s Standards Compliant Carrier Ethernet Control Stacks, already ported to WinPathTM processors, help our customers meet their aggressive schedules and allow them to focus their efforts on value-added and differentiated features.”

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Why WES?

Why WESAsidua teams have been working on WinPathTM projects for almost 10 years which has resulted in Asidua and Wintegra enjoying an ever-closer working relationship.

Today, Asidua works with clients who have adopted or are about to adopt one of the WinPathTM network processors as part of their product development and who are therefore familiar with the powerful combination of Silicon & Software (including DPS, WDDI & Frameworks) which makes up the package from Wintegra.

Asidua’s services are typically best suited to clients who are taking the Wintegra Software & Silicon package and want to:

  • achieve the earliest possible time to market and/or
  • differentiate their product from their competitors


Some of the challenges which may be encountered during a typical product development include:

  • how to integrate existing Intellectual Property into the solution - one example here could be re-using scheduler algorithms for LTE
  • overcoming the learning curve associated with new technologies while addressing time to market pressures which dictate that the product is right first time without the luxury of a trial run.  Further those clients seeking to get maximum benefit from their choice of silicon must master all aspects of what is generally a necessarily complex domain
  • bridging the traditional gap between hardware and software disciplines which can lead to inefficiencies during critical phases of any embedded project such as during board bring-up or in troubleshooting problems
  • delivering the required performance to meet customer expectations


While clients can overcome these challenges themselves, availing of assistance from Wintegra as required, engaging with Asidua and using components such as the Carrier Ethernet Stacks and/or WES (WinPathTM Expert Services) offerings is a proven means of achieving time to market and product differentiation goals.

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What is WES?

What is WESAsidua’s WES (WinPathTM Expert Services) helps clients achieve their goals of Time to Market, Right First Time and Product Differentiation by delivering solutions across domains including Systems Engineering, Software Services and Board Bring-up

Asidua is unique in providing a ‘Top to Bottom’ offering, endorsed by Wintegra, relating to WinPathTM Software Services. This means that any new features or customisations can be implemented at the most appropriate layer of the software model, whether that is within:

  • the wire speed processing engine (DataPath Software or DPS) – in which Asidua is licensed to make changes so the client does not require a license
  • the WinPath Device Driver Interface (WDDI)
  • the Customer Applications layer - either developing new software or customising an existing application


Asidua’s Service Offering is not only limited to Software Services but also extends to:

  • Systems Engineering & Consultancy
  • Hardware “Bridge” & Board Bring-up


Here, the Hardware ↔ Software Bridge service spans the traditional divide between Software & Hardware teams. Experience has shown this is key to the efficient execution of activities such as Hardware Integration, Board Bring-up, Performance Engineering and Troubleshooting.


WES Products
Asidua also offers a range of off-the-shelf products (WinStacks & WinXtends) specifically designed for the WinPath processor family, each at a highly competitive price. 

WinStacks

  • Standards-compliant Carrier Ethernet Stacks for Link Aggregation
  • Standards-compliant Ethernet OAM WinStacks - CFM, PM & Link OAM


WinXtends

  • High performance (wire speed) MTP2 stack for use within SS7 solutions
  • Packet-based policer to complement the standard bit-rate policer
  • Policer Chaining framework – a highly-efficient, hierarchical deployment option facilitating advanced policing rules
  • DMA transfer – providing Direct Memory Access (PCI Bridge) and removing the need for a hardware based implementation thereby reducing the Bill of Materials cost

 

To find out more about WES Products click here.

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WinPath Expert Services

Asidua is endorsed by Wintegra as the preferred supplier for providing a complete portfolio of services focused on the WinPathTM product family. From their headquarters in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Asidua teams have successfully delivered solutions for a wide range of equipment suppliers including Tier 1s & 2s from across the globe.

Asidua’s WES (WinPathTM Expert Services) helps clients achieve their goals of Time to Market, Right First Time and Product Differentiation by delivering solutions, based on Wintegra WinPathTM, across lifecycle phases including Systems Engineering, Software Services and Board Bring-up

Asidua also offers a range of off-the-shelf products (WinStacks & WinXtends) specifically designed for the WinPath processor family, each at a highly competitive price. 

To read more about WES and Asidua’s WinStacks & WinXtends click the links below.

What is WES?Why WES?Published PartnersWES Case Studies

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Capabilities

The Asidua Device Services division provides a unique, world-class capability in Embedded Telecoms Integration (ETI). Our ETI service offering comprises four key differentiators:

    1. Handling Complexity
    Asidua provide consultants experienced in complex device architectures utilising millions of lines of code and brand new third-party components.


    2. Hardware/Software Mix
    A good solution – and ultimately a good embedded product – is one which has been designed with an end-to-end view. By necessity, in the device world, this involves being mindful of the hardware (silicon) and software (code) to be used, and ultimately the integration of the two. Asidua’s ability to review hardware schematics and plans, and advise our clients – early in the cycle – of potential features or issues in the hardware and software, saves valuable time and prevents costly mistakes. In addition, Asidua’s ability to utilise Model-Driven Architectures (MDA) allows for hardware and software design to take place in parallel.


    3. Cost Reduction
    Asidua’s end-to-end approach to Embedded Telecoms Integration (ETI) generates real cost savings for customers. Our cradle-to-grave involvement means that early engagements can be carried out with future developments and the complete product life-cycle in mind. This approach provides for a much higher degree of code re-use and allows the Model Driven Architecture to encompass all the wrappers and interfaces that will ultimately be needed.


    4. Support
    Asidua’s Device Services staff have evolved a support model to assist our clients in smoothing out the New Product Introduction (NPI) process. This involves providing on-site support with extremely rapid escalations as products move from development into production and deployment. Post-deployment, support can be scaled back to subsequent levels to meet the criteria laid down by our clients.


    Wintegra WinPath Capabilities
    Asidua has extensive experience of working with Wintegra WinPath devices, the DPS and are fully licensed by Wintegra to provide this service. Asidua have delivered solutions across all levels of the Wintegra Software Architecture including:

    • Control plane services within the Customer Application layer
    • Tailoring of the WinPath Device Driver Interface (WDDI)
    • Data Path Software (DPS) itself

     

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    Platforms

    ADI PlatformsAn ADI platform will be deployed to form the information broker at the core of your enterprise architecture. ADI platforms provide the communications infrastructure to allow your existing enterprise applications to exchange data and hence form end-to-end processes.

    Asidua offers solutions that will be built using middleware platforms from one of our technology partners. As a result, ADI solutions:

    1. can be either application focused (EAI) - or information focused (EII) - or both
    2. are based on open standards, such as XML and web services
    3. are designed to leverage the strengths offered by asynchronous messaging


    Asidua has considerable experience across a range of middleware platforms, and will provide a total solution package based on a platform best suited to the client’s needs. In addition to core messaging platforms, Asidua recognises that ADI solutions are often about providing additional capabilities not present in existing enterprise applications. To this end our solutions also offer portal and data management technology to allow the rapid deployment of application extensions or composite applications built to leverage an SOA.


    Platform Systems
    Currently, Asidua offers a full suite of such technologies from the both Microsoft and BEA Systems.  To find out more on each platform click the appropriate logo.

     

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    Methodology

    ADI MethodologyThe Asidua methodology is based on a dual approach of providing skills for both consultancy and realisation of an ADI solution.

    Click here to view a diagrammatical view of our ADI methodology.

     

    Consultancy is a phase that allows us to engage both in advance - or in parallel with - solution delivery and:

    1. Analyse a clients architecture, business processes and enterprise systems to assess needs and understand strategic business goals
    2. Model the processes and architecture that exist in a client organisation and propose a future state for both based on increased automation
    3. Build and potentially maintain an ADI Roadmap which demonstrates how a clients enterprise can follow a route to meeting key business goals through the deployment of an ADI solution

     

    Realisation is the phase that will deliver automated and seamless end-to-end processes that work. This is an iterative delivery model based on four key services:

    1. Model a solution in conjunction with customer stakeholders, using open standards to define a library of processes and services to be delivered in the context of existing ICT strategy
    2. Build the solution which will automate processes by customising a preferred vendor ADI platform using Asidua pre- canned pattern libraries and associated techniques
    3. Validate the solution from a number of perspectives, placing a high emphasis on the use of test automation to guarantee rapid detection of faults
    4. Operate the solution, with a focus on detection and rectification of business process level errors either as a managed service or in conjunction with existing customer teams
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    Each phase of the ADI methodology is underpinned by corresponding tools, techniques and platforms from the Asidua portfolio.

     

    ADI PLANNER Consultancy - In our experience Asidua’s clients all have the common need to leverage their ICT architecture to support changes in end-to-end business processes. But knowing how best to achieve this across multiple platforms is a cause for concern for clients. Asidua is able to help define the problem space as an evolutionary roadmap for the ICT architecture. This is presented via our ADI PLANNER tool, outlining any areas where the architecture requires enhancement, often by the realisation of an ADI solution.

     

    ADI DESIGNER Model - In deciding to evolve an ICT architecture through the use of ADI, any organisation has effectively agreed to a level of change which can impact the majority of its applications and users. If such an undertaking is not managed effectively, the impact can be catastrophic. Asidua will utilise a range of tools and techniques brought together within our suite of ADI DESIGNER tools. These ensure that the requirements and impacts of an ADI solution, are well understood, and documented, ensuring that organisational integrity is maintained.

     

    ADI Tester Validate - Verification is the area of solution delivery that is often at greatest risk when the pressure is on to meet business goals. We have focused our efforts to build a suite of automated test tools that allow near-100% test of ADI solutions before deployment. This minimises the amount of testing that must be done in-situ, allowing us to test the solution in isolation using our ADI TESTER to simulate the behaviour of a client’s enterprise systems.

     

     

    The ADI CONSOLE is available to act in support of all processes within an enterprise that have been automated using techniques from our ADI portfolio. The adi CONSOLE allows operation teams to act to ensure that the ROI offered by process automation is not lost through poor manual handling of exception conditions that were not themselves cost-effective to automate. Operate - Once a solution is built and deployed many integration vendors consider their job finished. Asidua recognises that the majority of pain in achieving ROI from an ADI project is making it work in a real-world environment: solutions are not perfect - they will break. The key is to be able to fix any problems as efficiently as possible. To this end Asidua provides a range of tools and techniques optimised to meet this need in the form of the ADI CONSOLE.

     

     

    Build - To many of our competitors, building an integration solution is about writing bespoke code to handle data transformation and routing. Within Asidua, our deep understanding of a typical ADI problem has allowed us to evolve an approach based on the use of well-defined integration patterns. These will be chosen from our dedicated ADI PATTERN LIBRARY.

     

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    Application & Data Integration

    At Asidua we believe that seamless end-to-end processes can only be achieved through integration of systems, the applications they host and the data they contain. While modern enterprise applications offer ever-increasing integration capabilities, the effective use of these capabilities presents a major challenge to many organisations. For medium-to-large enterprises, this benefit is amplified considerably due to the overhead in trying to manage many point-to-point integration links. 

    Adopting a systematic integration strategy allows an organisation to radically re-arrange its enterprise ICT, leading to higher levels of automation and greater levels of flexibility. Asidua has devised Application & Data Integration (ADI) to enable its clients to embrace such a strategy.

    Navigate to the appropriate learning zone below to acquire the knowledge you need to power your analysis, or contact us directly:

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    WES

    The Asidua Device Services division provides a unique, world-class capability in Embedded Telecoms Integration (ETI).  Our specialised division deals with complex systems, where complexity is defined by a number of metrics: scale, time-to-market, and experience.

    • scale: many of the systems Asidua deals with exceed 2 million lines of embedded code
    • time-to-market: since many product suppliers view speed-to-market as vital, this results in Asidua assisting our clients in integrating new, bleeding-edge devices into their solutions. With this comes the need to be able to work with third-party components which are “pre generally available” versions; this leads to Asidua working closely with those vendors so that a common understanding of limitations of “beta release” software is gained in order for patch releases to be turned around
    • experience: as the name ETI suggests, more often than not, Asidua is heavily involved in the integration of many third-party devices from disparate suppliers. Often our teams are integrating components that have never been combined in one product before

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    Partners

    Asidua is committed to creating a partner network delivering solutions into a wide range of vertical markets. Our business partners’ profiles range from those with whom we partner to sell, and those who provide technology and platforms we use. Below you can view some of our Technology & Teaming Partners that Asidua work with in the Telecoms Sector.

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    Technology Partners

    Asidua is committed to creating a partner network delivering solutions into a wide range of vertical markets. Our business partners’ profiles range from those with whom we partner to sell, and those who provide technology and platforms we use. Below you can view some of our Technology Partners that Asidua work with in the Telecoms Sector.

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    Teaming Partners

    Asidua is committed to creating a partner network delivering solutions into a wide range of vertical markets. Our business partners’ profiles range from those with whom we partner to sell, and those who provide technology and platforms we use. Below you can view some of our Teaming Partners that Asidua work with in the Telecoms Sector.

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    Leverage ADI Today

    Leverage ADI TodayAs an IT director or CIO, you may have a particular strategy in mind for your enterprise. Given the demands of today’s global markets perhaps you are considering an approach which embraces change - an approach such as:

    • building an Service Oriented Architecture
    • undertaking Business Process Management
    • building Composite Applications

    Asidua has considerable experience in using an ADI solution to help you in these areas.

     

    Service Oriented Architecture
    Asidua recognises that SOA is an approach to building an architecture which combines reusable business services with decoupled business processes. Business services are units of IT resource, generally hosted on systems that do useful work on enterprise data (such as performing a credit check or submitting an order for delivery). It is the co-ordination of these services by end-to-end processes that generally allows an enterprise to deliver value to it’s customers. We feel strongly that SOA is not technology, but rather a way of utilising technology to better map services to business needs and hopefully more highly utilise IT assets. SOA simply allows a “pick-and-mix” concept where a line-of business processes to leverage the best of whatever the rest of the business can offer.

    To make SOA work, there are several key architectural concepts that must be employed:

    • key processes must be oriented towards people - generally a customer or user
    • the way of accessing processes should be via a set of “front-ends”, each focusing on how a customer of user wants to access a process
    • processes and “front-ends” should be de-coupled from the services which are invoked to do the useful work

     

    Decoupling the key elements in this fashion leads to a much higher level of flexibility allowing new processes, services and front-ends to be employed as required. (view Asidua’s SOA model). SOA is about end-to-end processes, across a de-coupled architecture. So ADI must be pervasive across the architecture, accessible yet invisible to all. 

     

    Business Process Management
    Within Asidua we consider Business Process Management (BPM) as one of the key goals for deploying any ADI based SOA solution. BPM is a specialism that relies on a combination of domain experience, ICT and the techniques and tools to design, enact, control, and analyse operational business processes involving humans, organisations, applications, documents and other sources of information. BPM focuses heavily on applying continuous evolution to business processes, combining management methods with information technology so that managers can analyse and change processes in response to data, rather than just a hunch. Asidua specialises in offering ADI solutions that clearly separate automated business process from the services being invoked on business applications. This in turn makes this analysis and change of business processes more readily achievable.

     

    Composite Applications
    Composite applications are the next stage in evolution for an organisation that has adopted the strategy of SOA deployment. A composite application is an application built by combining services from enterprise applications and other enterprise-ready sources (e.g., commercial web services). Through the use of a composite application, our clients are able to leverage individual services, selected functions from within other applications, or entire systems whose outputs have been packaged, generally as web services (often legacy systems).

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    ADI Portfolio

    ADI PortfolioLeveraging its many years of experience in the field of ADI, Asidua has brought together a range of industry standards and in-house techniques into a single portfolio for the effective delivery of an ADI solution.  This portfolio is built from three building block (view how the 3 ADI building blocks link together);

     

    1. Methodology
    A proven methodology based heavily on solution modeling, which allows us to engage with a client at any point, and carry a need through to a fully realised solution. 

    Read more about our ADI methodology

     

    2. Tools
    A set of tried-and-tested tools to support both clients and our own engineers in effectively overcoming some of the barriers to integration that ADI addresses.

    Read more about our ADI tools

     

    3. Platforms
    A suite of platforms from our technology partners on top of which we build solutions.

    Read more about the platforms our ADI portfoilio can be built on

     



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    The ADI Concept

    The ADI ConceptADI is about leveraging the services of enterprise applications, joining them to build seamless (and automated) end-to-end processes. All enterprises have such processes. Some are well-documented, some already exist in enterprise systems, some may even exist as workflow. However most generally exist as islands, tied to existing people, products and departments, and the systems that support these. In order to make these processes truly end-to-end across an organisation, there is need to integrate these applications and the data they hold. Click here to view how business processes can be integrated with ADI

     

    ADI is about making end-to-end processes work, especially where scale and complexity is an issue. For enterprises with a greater number of enterprise systems and business processes, the use of point- to- point paradigms rapidly becomes a near impossible scenario to manage. ADI introduces an approach which is tailored to scale from simple to large and complex scenarios.

     

    ADI is about using vendor messaging platforms. One of the main elements of ADI is to deploy a message broker to provide a central information bus used by all applications. Such platforms are typically available from middleware vendors. Unfortunately, none of these platforms work out-of- the-box, and must be extensively customised to support the business processes required.

     

    ADI is about making integration work on real enterprise scenarios. At Asidua we are well recognised experts in vendor platform customisation. Over many years of delivering such solutions for our clients, we have come to understand the major obstacles that will be encountered and how best to overcome these. Typically, we recommend the following questions be addressed when building any solution:

    • Is the process in question optimised for automation?
    • Can the automated solution be effectively managed - especially if it fails?
    • Can the automated process be tested fully?
    • Is the resultant solution flexible - can it be readily extended

    Only by answering these questions correctly, do we feel that an integration solution is really truly effective. To do this, we offer our clients a portfolio of services known as Application and Data Integration (ADI).

     

    ADI is a well-defined layer of capability that allows us to meet enterprise needs. ADI allows us to insert a layer of capability between the desired business processes of a client, and the capabilities of a vendor platform supplied by one of our technology partners. We call this layer the ADI Data Flow layer. The ADI Data Flow layer is built using our own methodologies and tools, and guarantees delivery of end-to-end processes that work.

     

    ADI is about having a well defined portfolio of tools and methodologies to deliver the ADI capability. Fundamentally, ADI is based on four key concepts:

    1. Architect for change: by employing an ADI Data Flow layer [see diagram] we can decompose and model a clients end-to-end business processes using decoupled and reusable patterns chosen from a pre-existing ADI Pattern Library (view our ADI tools); the use of such inter-changeable patterns facilitates change at any future point.
    2. Optimise for automation: each of these ADI patterns models an operation commonly undertaken during an automated business process and is itself realised by a pre-canned, vendor-specific, executable orchestration written in a platform-oriented language such as BPEL, JPD or XLANG.
    3. Automate test: having an end-to-end ADI Data Flow Layer [see diagram] allows us to complete an standalone test of an ADI solution, using our own dedicated test engines to simulate enterprise applications; this can be highly automated, considerably reducing the level of downstream testing required once the solution is deployed.
    4. “Build in” management: by adding audit and tracking capabilities to a vendor platform we are able to provide a view of active business processes in the context of the ADI Flow Layer. This view can be interpreted by our ADI Console (view our ADI tools) which allows a client to monitor and control automated business processes in terms of their own process definitions, rather than from the perspective of the vendor platform.
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    Innovate With ADI

    Innovate with ADIIn our experience, many enterprises in today’s global economy are striving to reach similar goals. These goals generally fall into one of the following categories;

    • lowering costs
    • being more customer centric
    • adding new capabilities to your portfolio
    • achieving compliance with government or industry standards
    • future proofing your IT investment

    Click here to view a diagrammatical view of these categories

     

    In order to reach these goals an enterprise will typically look to leverage its resources, and those of its suppliers and partners as effectively as possible. These resources are typically:

    • processes which produce products or deliver services
    • ICT systems which support these processes
    • people who use systems to carry out the processes
    • data about customers, products and resources which is manipulated during the execution of processes

    It is processes that organisations look to as the primary catalyst for change to support these goals.

     

    Driving Innovators
    By applying constant innovation an enterprise can evolve and change its processes, to meet the demands of its customers. Such innovators come in many forms, but typical examples include:

    • allowing customers to undertake a greater level of self-service
    • facilitating greater levels of collaboration between your people, and between your people and your customers
    • aggregating information from across your enterprise to achieve greater insight and value
    • extending your processes beyond enterprise boundaries to encompass partners and suppliers

    There is no doubt about the need for such innovators to support change. But how do you support this change without radical upheaval of existing systems, and data? Unfortunately, like many of our clients, you are probably finding that your existing systems, whilst effective, act as a series of silos, unable to cope with the demands of supporting more seamless end-to-end processes, which increasingly demand higher levels of “zero-touch” and hence automation.

     

    Embracing Change
    At Asidua we believe that seamless and automated processes can only be achieved through integration of systems, the applications they host and the data they contain. While modern enterprise applications are themselves offering ever increasing integration capabilities, the effective use of these capabilities is a considerable challenge to many organisations. Where enterprises are medium-to-large this benefit is amplified considerably, due to the overhead that can be generated in trying to manage many point-to-point integration links. Conversely, embracing a wider integration strategy allows an organisation to radically re-arrange its enterprise ICT, leading to higher levels of automation and greater levels of flexibility. Asidua has devised ADI to enable its clients to embrace such a strategy.

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    Technology Partners

    Asidua is committed to creating a partner network delivering solutions into a wide range of vertical markets. Our business partners’ profiles range from those with whom we partner to sell, and those who provide technology and platforms we use. Below you can view some of our Technology Partners that Asidua work with in the Telecoms Sector.

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    Network Processor

    The points below illustrate the type and depth of expertise that Asidua Device Services division has gained by working with the Wintegra® WinPath™ network processor product family.

    Initial Board Bring-Up
    Asidua engineers the linecard board to the point where it can be passed to application developers. This includes the configuration of:

    • memory/flash
    • network interfaces
    • OS configuration and integration
    • integration of Board Support Package (BSP)
    • configuration and integration of any supporting hardware, such as PHYs, FPGAs/CPLDs and DSPs

    Configuration of Data and Control Plane for DSLAM services

    • Voice: For example - Asidua worked closely with Wintegra engineers to develop a proprietary communication bus between Texas Instruments’ voice DSP and the Winpath, enabling a high performance interworking system for facilitating VoIP
    • Enterprise Ethernet: Asidua applied their network processor know-how to construct and deploy a Layer 2 ATM/Ethernet switching system to meet customer specifications
    • Data Stream: A key requirement of next generation telecommunications networks is the ability to support backhaul protocols other than ATM. Asidua implemented an interworking system within the DSLAM to provide both PPPoA and PPPoE support

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    Leverage ADI Today

    Leverage ADI TodayAs an IT director or CIO, you may have a particular strategy in mind for your enterprise. Given the demands of today’s global markets perhaps you are considering an approach which embraces change - an approach such as:

    • building an Service Oriented Architecture
    • undertaking Business Process Management
    • building Composite Applications

    Asidua has considerable experience in using an ADI solution to help you in these areas.

     

    Service Oriented Architecture
    Asidua recognises that SOA is an approach to building an architecture which combines reusable business services with decoupled business processes. Business services are units of IT resource, generally hosted on systems that do useful work on enterprise data (such as performing a credit check or submitting an order for delivery). It is the co-ordination of these services by end-to-end processes that generally allows an enterprise to deliver value to it’s customers. We feel strongly that SOA is not technology, but rather a way of utilising technology to better map services to business needs and hopefully more highly utilise IT assets. SOA simply allows a “pick-and-mix” concept where a line-of business processes to leverage the best of whatever the rest of the business can offer.

    To make SOA work, there are several key architectural concepts that must be employed:

    • key processes must be oriented towards people - generally a customer or user
    • the way of accessing processes should be via a set of “front-ends”, each focusing on how a customer of user wants to access a process
    • processes and “front-ends” should be de-coupled from the services which are invoked to do the useful work

     

    Decoupling the key elements in this fashion leads to a much higher level of flexibility allowing new processes, services and front-ends to be employed as required. (view Asidua’s SOA model). SOA is about end-to-end processes, across a de-coupled architecture. So ADI must be pervasive across the architecture, accessible yet invisible to all. 

     

    Business Process Management
    Within Asidua we consider Business Process Management (BPM) as one of the key goals for deploying any ADI based SOA solution. BPM is a specialism that relies on a combination of domain experience, ICT and the techniques and tools to design, enact, control, and analyse operational business processes involving humans, organisations, applications, documents and other sources of information. BPM focuses heavily on applying continuous evolution to business processes, combining management methods with information technology so that managers can analyse and change processes in response to data, rather than just a hunch. Asidua specialises in offering ADI solutions that clearly separate automated business process from the services being invoked on business applications. This in turn makes this analysis and change of business processes more readily achievable.

     

    Composite Applications
    Composite applications are the next stage in evolution for an organisation that has adopted the strategy of SOA deployment. A composite application is an application built by combining services from enterprise applications and other enterprise-ready sources (e.g., commercial web services). Through the use of a composite application, our clients are able to leverage individual services, selected functions from within other applications, or entire systems whose outputs have been packaged, generally as web services (often legacy systems).

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    The ADI Concept

    The ADI ConceptADI is about leveraging the services of enterprise applications, joining them to build seamless (and automated) end-to-end processes. All enterprises have such processes. Some are well-documented, some already exist in enterprise systems, some may even exist as workflow. However most generally exist as islands, tied to existing people, products and departments, and the systems that support these. In order to make these processes truly end-to-end across an organisation, there is need to integrate these applications and the data they hold. Click here to view how business processes can be integrated with ADI

     

    ADI is about making end-to-end processes work, especially where scale and complexity is an issue. For enterprises with a greater number of enterprise systems and business processes, the use of point- to- point paradigms rapidly becomes a near impossible scenario to manage. ADI introduces an approach which is tailored to scale from simple to large and complex scenarios.

     

    ADI is about using vendor messaging platforms. One of the main elements of ADI is to deploy a message broker to provide a central information bus used by all applications. Such platforms are typically available from middleware vendors. Unfortunately, none of these platforms work out-of- the-box, and must be extensively customised to support the business processes required.

     

    ADI is about making integration work on real enterprise scenarios. At Asidua we are well recognised experts in vendor platform customisation. Over many years of delivering such solutions for our clients, we have come to understand the major obstacles that will be encountered and how best to overcome these. Typically, we recommend the following questions be addressed when building any solution:

    • Is the process in question optimised for automation?
    • Can the automated solution be effectively managed - especially if it fails?
    • Can the automated process be tested fully?
    • Is the resultant solution flexible - can it be readily extended

    Only by answering these questions correctly, do we feel that an integration solution is really truly effective. To do this, we offer our clients a portfolio of services known as Application and Data Integration (ADI).

     

    ADI is a well-defined layer of capability that allows us to meet enterprise needs. ADI allows us to insert a layer of capability between the desired business processes of a client, and the capabilities of a vendor platform supplied by one of our technology partners. We call this layer the ADI Data Flow layer. The ADI Data Flow layer is built using our own methodologies and tools, and guarantees delivery of end-to-end processes that work.

     

    ADI is about having a well defined portfolio of tools and methodologies to deliver the ADI capability. Fundamentally, ADI is based on four key concepts:

    1. Architect for change: by employing an ADI Data Flow layer [see diagram] we can decompose and model a clients end-to-end business processes using decoupled and reusable patterns chosen from a pre-existing ADI Pattern Library (view our ADI tools); the use of such inter-changeable patterns facilitates change at any future point.
    2. Optimise for automation: each of these ADI patterns models an operation commonly undertaken during an automated business process and is itself realised by a pre-canned, vendor-specific, executable orchestration written in a platform-oriented language such as BPEL, JPD or XLANG.
    3. Automate test: having an end-to-end ADI Data Flow Layer [see diagram] allows us to complete an standalone test of an ADI solution, using our own dedicated test engines to simulate enterprise applications; this can be highly automated, considerably reducing the level of downstream testing required once the solution is deployed.
    4. “Build in” management: by adding audit and tracking capabilities to a vendor platform we are able to provide a view of active business processes in the context of the ADI Flow Layer. This view can be interpreted by our ADI Console (view our ADI tools) which allows a client to monitor and control automated business processes in terms of their own process definitions, rather than from the perspective of the vendor platform.
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    Leverage ADI Today

    Leverage ADI TodayAs an IT director or CIO, you may have a particular strategy in mind for your enterprise. Given the demands of today’s global markets perhaps you are considering an approach which embraces change - an approach such as:

    • building an Service Oriented Architecture
    • undertaking Business Process Management
    • building Composite Applications

    Asidua has considerable experience in using an ADI solution to help you in these areas.

     

    Service Oriented Architecture
    Asidua recognises that SOA is an approach to building an architecture which combines reusable business services with decoupled business processes. Business services are units of IT resource, generally hosted on systems that do useful work on enterprise data (such as performing a credit check or submitting an order for delivery). It is the co-ordination of these services by end-to-end processes that generally allows an enterprise to deliver value to it’s customers. We feel strongly that SOA is not technology, but rather a way of utilising technology to better map services to business needs and hopefully more highly utilise IT assets. SOA simply allows a “pick-and-mix” concept where a line-of business processes to leverage the best of whatever the rest of the business can offer.

    To make SOA work, there are several key architectural concepts that must be employed:

    • key processes must be oriented towards people - generally a customer or user
    • the way of accessing processes should be via a set of “front-ends”, each focusing on how a customer of user wants to access a process
    • processes and “front-ends” should be de-coupled from the services which are invoked to do the useful work

     

    Decoupling the key elements in this fashion leads to a much higher level of flexibility allowing new processes, services and front-ends to be employed as required. (view Asidua’s SOA model). SOA is about end-to-end processes, across a de-coupled architecture. So ADI must be pervasive across the architecture, accessible yet invisible to all. 

     

    Business Process Management
    Within Asidua we consider Business Process Management (BPM) as one of the key goals for deploying any ADI based SOA solution. BPM is a specialism that relies on a combination of domain experience, ICT and the techniques and tools to design, enact, control, and analyse operational business processes involving humans, organisations, applications, documents and other sources of information. BPM focuses heavily on applying continuous evolution to business processes, combining management methods with information technology so that managers can analyse and change processes in response to data, rather than just a hunch. Asidua specialises in offering ADI solutions that clearly separate automated business process from the services being invoked on business applications. This in turn makes this analysis and change of business processes more readily achievable.

     

    Composite Applications
    Composite applications are the next stage in evolution for an organisation that has adopted the strategy of SOA deployment. A composite application is an application built by combining services from enterprise applications and other enterprise-ready sources (e.g., commercial web services). Through the use of a composite application, our clients are able to leverage individual services, selected functions from within other applications, or entire systems whose outputs have been packaged, generally as web services (often legacy systems).

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    The ADI Concept

    The ADI ConceptADI is about leveraging the services of enterprise applications, joining them to build seamless (and automated) end-to-end processes. All enterprises have such processes. Some are well-documented, some already exist in enterprise systems, some may even exist as workflow. However most generally exist as islands, tied to existing people, products and departments, and the systems that support these. In order to make these processes truly end-to-end across an organisation, there is need to integrate these applications and the data they hold. Click here to view how business processes can be integrated with ADI

     

    ADI is about making end-to-end processes work, especially where scale and complexity is an issue. For enterprises with a greater number of enterprise systems and business processes, the use of point- to- point paradigms rapidly becomes a near impossible scenario to manage. ADI introduces an approach which is tailored to scale from simple to large and complex scenarios.

     

    ADI is about using vendor messaging platforms. One of the main elements of ADI is to deploy a message broker to provide a central information bus used by all applications. Such platforms are typically available from middleware vendors. Unfortunately, none of these platforms work out-of- the-box, and must be extensively customised to support the business processes required.

     

    ADI is about making integration work on real enterprise scenarios. At Asidua we are well recognised experts in vendor platform customisation. Over many years of delivering such solutions for our clients, we have come to understand the major obstacles that will be encountered and how best to overcome these. Typically, we recommend the following questions be addressed when building any solution:

    • Is the process in question optimised for automation?
    • Can the automated solution be effectively managed - especially if it fails?
    • Can the automated process be tested fully?
    • Is the resultant solution flexible - can it be readily extended

    Only by answering these questions correctly, do we feel that an integration solution is really truly effective. To do this, we offer our clients a portfolio of services known as Application and Data Integration (ADI).

     

    ADI is a well-defined layer of capability that allows us to meet enterprise needs. ADI allows us to insert a layer of capability between the desired business processes of a client, and the capabilities of a vendor platform supplied by one of our technology partners. We call this layer the ADI Data Flow layer. The ADI Data Flow layer is built using our own methodologies and tools, and guarantees delivery of end-to-end processes that work.

     

    ADI is about having a well defined portfolio of tools and methodologies to deliver the ADI capability. Fundamentally, ADI is based on four key concepts:

    1. Architect for change: by employing an ADI Data Flow layer [see diagram] we can decompose and model a clients end-to-end business processes using decoupled and reusable patterns chosen from a pre-existing ADI Pattern Library (view our ADI tools); the use of such inter-changeable patterns facilitates change at any future point.
    2. Optimise for automation: each of these ADI patterns models an operation commonly undertaken during an automated business process and is itself realised by a pre-canned, vendor-specific, executable orchestration written in a platform-oriented language such as BPEL, JPD or XLANG.
    3. Automate test: having an end-to-end ADI Data Flow Layer [see diagram] allows us to complete an standalone test of an ADI solution, using our own dedicated test engines to simulate enterprise applications; this can be highly automated, considerably reducing the level of downstream testing required once the solution is deployed.
    4. “Build in” management: by adding audit and tracking capabilities to a vendor platform we are able to provide a view of active business processes in the context of the ADI Flow Layer. This view can be interpreted by our ADI Console (view our ADI tools) which allows a client to monitor and control automated business processes in terms of their own process definitions, rather than from the perspective of the vendor platform.
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    Partners

    Asidua is committed to creating a partner network delivering solutions into a wide range of vertical markets. Our business partners’ profiles range from those with whom we partner to sell, and those who provide technology and platforms we use. Below you can view some of our Technology & Teaming Partners that Asidua work with in the Telecoms Sector.

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    Case Studies

    Since 2002 Asidua have successfully completed many Application and Data Integration (ADI) projects for numerous clients.  Below you can view project case studies from the corporate sector which highlight Asidua’s unique ADI capabilities.

     

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    Teaming Partners

    Asidua is committed to creating a partner network delivering solutions into a wide range of vertical markets. Our business partners’ profiles range from those with whom we partner to sell, and those who provide technology and platforms we use. Below you can view some of our Teaming Partners that Asidua work with in the Enterprise Sector.

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    Technology Partners

    Asidua is committed to creating a partner network delivering solutions into a wide range of vertical markets. Our business partners’ profiles range from those with whom we partner to sell, and those who provide technology and platforms we use. Below you can view some of our Technology Partners that Asidua work with in the Enterprise Sector.

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    Partners

    Asidua is committed to creating a partner network delivering solutions into a wide range of vertical markets. Our business partners’ profiles range from those with whom we partner to sell, and those who provide technology and platforms we use. Below you can view some of our Technology & Teaming Partners that Asidua work with in the Enterprise Sector.

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    Platforms

    ADI PlatformsAn ADI platform will be deployed to form the information broker at the core of your enterprise architecture. ADI platforms provide the communications infrastructure to allow your existing enterprise applications to exchange data and hence form end-to-end processes.

    Asidua offers solutions that will be built using middleware platforms from one of our technology partners. As a result, ADI solutions:

    1. can be either application focused (EAI) - or information focused (EII) - or both
    2. are based on open standards, such as XML and web services
    3. are designed to leverage the strengths offered by asynchronous messaging


    Asidua has considerable experience across a range of middleware platforms, and will provide a total solution package based on a platform best suited to the client’s needs. In addition to core messaging platforms, Asidua recognises that ADI solutions are often about providing additional capabilities not present in existing enterprise applications. To this end our solutions also offer portal and data management technology to allow the rapid deployment of application extensions or composite applications built to leverage an SOA.


    Platform Systems
    Currently, Asidua offers a full suite of such technologies from the both Microsoft and BEA Systems.  To find out more on each platform click the appropriate logo.

     

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    Tools

    Each phase of the ADI methodology is underpinned by corresponding tools, techniques and platforms from the Asidua portfolio.

     

    ADI PLANNER Consultancy - In our experience Asidua’s clients all have the common need to leverage their ICT architecture to support changes in end-to-end business processes. But knowing how best to achieve this across multiple platforms is a cause for concern for clients. Asidua is able to help define the problem space as an evolutionary roadmap for the ICT architecture. This is presented via our ADI PLANNER tool, outlining any areas where the architecture requires enhancement, often by the realisation of an ADI solution.

     

    ADI DESIGNER Model - In deciding to evolve an ICT architecture through the use of ADI, any organisation has effectively agreed to a level of change which can impact the majority of its applications and users. If such an undertaking is not managed effectively, the impact can be catastrophic. Asidua will utilise a range of tools and techniques brought together within our suite of ADI DESIGNER tools. These ensure that the requirements and impacts of an ADI solution, are well understood, and documented, ensuring that organisational integrity is maintained.

     

    ADI Tester Validate - Verification is the area of solution delivery that is often at greatest risk when the pressure is on to meet business goals. We have focused our efforts to build a suite of automated test tools that allow near-100% test of ADI solutions before deployment. This minimises the amount of testing that must be done in-situ, allowing us to test the solution in isolation using our ADI TESTER to simulate the behaviour of a client’s enterprise systems.

     

     

    The ADI CONSOLE is available to act in support of all processes within an enterprise that have been automated using techniques from our ADI portfolio. The adi CONSOLE allows operation teams to act to ensure that the ROI offered by process automation is not lost through poor manual handling of exception conditions that were not themselves cost-effective to automate. Operate - Once a solution is built and deployed many integration vendors consider their job finished. Asidua recognises that the majority of pain in achieving ROI from an ADI project is making it work in a real-world environment: solutions are not perfect - they will break. The key is to be able to fix any problems as efficiently as possible. To this end Asidua provides a range of tools and techniques optimised to meet this need in the form of the ADI CONSOLE.

     

     

    Build - To many of our competitors, building an integration solution is about writing bespoke code to handle data transformation and routing. Within Asidua, our deep understanding of a typical ADI problem has allowed us to evolve an approach based on the use of well-defined integration patterns. These will be chosen from our dedicated ADI PATTERN LIBRARY.

     

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    Methodology

    ADI MethodologyThe Asidua methodology is based on a dual approach of providing skills for both consultancy and realisation of an ADI solution.

    Click here to view a diagrammatical view of our ADI methodology.

     

    Consultancy is a phase that allows us to engage both in advance - or in parallel with - solution delivery and:

    1. Analyse a clients architecture, business processes and enterprise systems to assess needs and understand strategic business goals
    2. Model the processes and architecture that exist in a client organisation and propose a future state for both based on increased automation
    3. Build and potentially maintain an ADI Roadmap which demonstrates how a clients enterprise can follow a route to meeting key business goals through the deployment of an ADI solution

     

    Realisation is the phase that will deliver automated and seamless end-to-end processes that work. This is an iterative delivery model based on four key services:

    1. Model a solution in conjunction with customer stakeholders, using open standards to define a library of processes and services to be delivered in the context of existing ICT strategy
    2. Build the solution which will automate processes by customising a preferred vendor ADI platform using Asidua pre- canned pattern libraries and associated techniques
    3. Validate the solution from a number of perspectives, placing a high emphasis on the use of test automation to guarantee rapid detection of faults
    4. Operate the solution, with a focus on detection and rectification of business process level errors either as a managed service or in conjunction with existing customer teams
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    ADI Portfolio

    ADI PortfolioLeveraging its many years of experience in the field of ADI, Asidua has brought together a range of industry standards and in-house techniques into a single portfolio for the effective delivery of an ADI solution.  This portfolio is built from three building block (view how the 3 ADI building blocks link together);

     

    1. Methodology
    A proven methodology based heavily on solution modeling, which allows us to engage with a client at any point, and carry a need through to a fully realised solution. 

    Read more about our ADI methodology

     

    2. Tools
    A set of tried-and-tested tools to support both clients and our own engineers in effectively overcoming some of the barriers to integration that ADI addresses.

    Read more about our ADI tools

     

    3. Platforms
    A suite of platforms from our technology partners on top of which we build solutions.

    Read more about the platforms our ADI portfoilio can be built on

     

     

     

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    Innovate With ADI

    Innovate with ADIIn our experience, many enterprises in today’s global economy are striving to reach similar goals. These goals generally fall into one of the following categories;

    • lowering costs
    • being more customer centric
    • adding new capabilities to your portfolio
    • achieving compliance with government or industry standards
    • future proofing your IT investment

    Click here to view a diagrammatical view of these categories

     

    In order to reach these goals an enterprise will typically look to leverage its resources, and those of its suppliers and partners as effectively as possible. These resources are typically:

    • processes which produce products or deliver services
    • ICT systems which support these processes
    • people who use systems to carry out the processes
    • data about customers, products and resources which is manipulated during the execution of processes

    It is processes that organisations look to as the primary catalyst for change to support these goals.

     

    Driving Innovators
    By applying constant innovation an enterprise can evolve and change its processes, to meet the demands of its customers. Such innovators come in many forms, but typical examples include:

    • allowing customers to undertake a greater level of self-service
    • facilitating greater levels of collaboration between your people, and between your people and your customers
    • aggregating information from across your enterprise to achieve greater insight and value
    • extending your processes beyond enterprise boundaries to encompass partners and suppliers

    There is no doubt about the need for such innovators to support change. But how do you support this change without radical upheaval of existing systems, and data? Unfortunately, like many of our clients, you are probably finding that your existing systems, whilst effective, act as a series of silos, unable to cope with the demands of supporting more seamless end-to-end processes, which increasingly demand higher levels of “zero-touch” and hence automation.

     

    Embracing Change
    At Asidua we believe that seamless and automated processes can only be achieved through integration of systems, the applications they host and the data they contain. While modern enterprise applications are themselves offering ever increasing integration capabilities, the effective use of these capabilities is a considerable challenge to many organisations. Where enterprises are medium-to-large this benefit is amplified considerably, due to the overhead that can be generated in trying to manage many point-to-point integration links. Conversely, embracing a wider integration strategy allows an organisation to radically re-arrange its enterprise ICT, leading to higher levels of automation and greater levels of flexibility. Asidua has devised ADI to enable its clients to embrace such a strategy.

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    Technology Partners

    Asidua is committed to creating a partner network delivering solutions into a wide range of vertical markets. Our business partners’ profiles range from those with whom we partner to sell, and those who provide technology and platforms we use. Below you can view some of our Technology Partners that Asidua work with in the Public Sector.

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    Teaming Partners

    Asidua is committed to creating a partner network delivering solutions into a wide range of vertical markets. Our business partners’ profiles range from those with whom we partner to sell, and those who provide technology and platforms we use. Below you can view some of our Teaming Partners in the Public Sector.

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    Partners

    Asidua is committed to creating a partner network delivering solutions into a wide range of vertical markets. Our business partners’ profiles range from those with whom we partner to sell, and those who provide technology and platforms we use. Below you can view some of our Technology & Teaming Partners that Asidua work with in the Public Sector.

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    Platforms

    ADI PlatformsAn ADI platform will be deployed to form the information broker at the core of your enterprise architecture. ADI platforms provide the communications infrastructure to allow your existing enterprise applications to exchange data and hence form end-to-end processes.

    Asidua offers solutions that will be built using middleware platforms from one of our technology partners. As a result, ADI solutions:

    1. can be either application focused - or information focused - or both
    2. are based on open standards, such as XML and web services
    3. are designed to leverage the strengths offered by asynchronous messaging


    Asidua has considerable experience across a range of middleware platforms, and will provide a total solution package based on a platform best suited to the client’s needs. In addition to core messaging platforms, Asidua recognises that ADI solutions are often about providing additional capabilities not present in existing enterprise applications. To this end our solutions also offer portal and data management technology to allow the rapid deployment of application extensions or composite applications built to leverage an SOA.


    Platform Systems
    Currently, Asidua offers a full suite of such technologies from the both Microsoft and BEA Systems.  To find out more on each platform please contact us.


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    Each phase of the ADI methodology is underpinned by corresponding tools, techniques and platforms from the Asidua portfolio.

     

    ADI PLANNER Consultancy - In our experience Asidua’s clients all have the common need to leverage their ICT architecture to support changes in end-to-end business processes. But knowing how best to achieve this across multiple platforms is a cause for concern for clients. Asidua is able to help define the problem space as an evolutionary roadmap for the ICT architecture. This is presented via our ADI PLANNER tool, outlining any areas where the architecture requires enhancement, often by the realisation of an ADI solution.

     

    ADI DESIGNER Model - In deciding to evolve an ICT architecture through the use of ADI, any organisation has effectively agreed to a level of change which can impact the majority of its applications and users. If such an undertaking is not managed effectively, the impact can be catastrophic. Asidua will utilise a range of tools and techniques brought together within our suite of ADI DESIGNER tools. These ensure that the requirements and impacts of an ADI solution, are well understood, and documented, ensuring that organisational integrity is maintained.

     

    ADI Tester Validate - Verification is the area of solution delivery that is often at greatest risk when the pressure is on to meet business goals. We have focused our efforts to build a suite of automated test tools that allow near-100% test of ADI solutions before deployment. This minimises the amount of testing that must be done in-situ, allowing us to test the solution in isolation using our ADI TESTER to simulate the behaviour of a client’s enterprise systems.

     

     

    The ADI CONSOLE is available to act in support of all processes within an enterprise that have been automated using techniques from our ADI portfolio. The adi CONSOLE allows operation teams to act to ensure that the ROI offered by process automation is not lost through poor manual handling of exception conditions that were not themselves cost-effective to automate. Operate - Once a solution is built and deployed many integration vendors consider their job finished. Asidua recognises that the majority of pain in achieving ROI from an ADI project is making it work in a real-world environment: solutions are not perfect - they will break. The key is to be able to fix any problems as efficiently as possible. To this end Asidua provides a range of tools and techniques optimised to meet this need in the form of the ADI CONSOLE.

     

     

    Build - To many of our competitors, building an integration solution is about writing bespoke code to handle data transformation and routing. Within Asidua, our deep understanding of a typical ADI problem has allowed us to evolve an approach based on the use of well-defined integration patterns. These will be chosen from our dedicated ADI PATTERN LIBRARY.

     

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    Methodology

    ADI MethodologyThe Asidua methodology is based on a dual approach of providing skills for both consultancy and realisation of an ADI solution.

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    Consultancy is a phase that allows us to engage both in advance - or in parallel with - solution delivery and:

    1. Analyse a clients architecture, business processes and enterprise systems to assess needs and understand strategic business goals
    2. Model the processes and architecture that exist in a client organisation and propose a future state for both based on increased automation
    3. Build and potentially maintain an ADI Roadmap which demonstrates how a clients enterprise can follow a route to meeting key business goals through the deployment of an ADI solution

     

    Realisation is the phase that will deliver automated and seamless end-to-end processes that work. This is an iterative delivery model based on four key services:

    1. Model a solution in conjunction with customer stakeholders, using open standards to define a library of processes and services to be delivered in the context of existing ICT strategy
    2. Build the solution which will automate processes by customising a preferred vendor ADI platform using Asidua pre- canned pattern libraries and associated techniques
    3. Validate the solution from a number of perspectives, placing a high emphasis on the use of test automation to guarantee rapid detection of faults
    4. Operate the solution, with a focus on detection and rectification of business process level errors either as a managed service or in conjunction with existing customer teams
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    ADI Portfolio

    ADI PortfolioLeveraging its many years of experience in the field of ADI, Asidua has brought together a range of industry standards and in-house techniques into a single portfolio for the effective delivery of an ADI solution.  This portfolio is built from three building block (view how the 3 ADI building blocks link together);

     

    1. Methodology
    A proven methodology based heavily on solution modeling, which allows us to engage with a client at any point, and carry a need through to a fully realised solution. 

    Read more about our ADI methodology

     

    2. Tools
    A set of tried-and-tested tools to support both clients and our own engineers in effectively overcoming some of the barriers to integration that ADI addresses.

    Read more about our ADI tools

     

    3. Platforms
    A suite of platforms from our technology partners on top of which we build solutions.

    Read more about the platforms our ADI portfoilio can be built on

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    Telecoms

    Since our inception, Asidua have deployed our unique Application & Data Integration (ADI) & specialised WinPathTM Expert Services (WES) capabilities for numerous clients within the Telecom Sector.  To find out more, please click your area of interest.

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    Asidua delivers world-class integration, software and consultancy services to government and corporate clients.  To find out more, please select a sector below and find out how Asidua’s unique capabilities can assist YOUR business.

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    Enterprise

    At Asidua we believe that seamless end-to-end processes can only be achieved through integration of systems, the applications they host and the data they contain. While modern enterprise applications offer ever-increasing integration capabilities, the effective use of these capabilities presents a major challenge to many organisations. For medium-to-large enterprises, this benefit is amplified considerably due to the overhead in trying to manage many point-to-point integration links. 

    Adopting a systematic integration strategy allows an organisation to radically re-arrange its enterprise ICT, leading to higher levels of automation and greater levels of flexibility. Asidua has devised Application & Data Integration (ADI) to enable its clients to embrace such a strategy.

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    Public Sector

    At Asidua we believe that seamless end-to-end processes can only be achieved through integration of systems, the applications they host and the data they contain. While modern enterprise applications offer ever-increasing integration capabilities, the effective use of these capabilities presents a major challenge to many organisations. For medium-to-large enterprises, this benefit is amplified considerably due to the overhead in trying to manage many point-to-point integration links. 

    Adopting a systematic integration strategy allows an organisation to radically re-arrange its enterprise ICT, leading to higher levels of automation and greater levels of flexibility. Asidua has devised Customer Contact Platform (CCP) and Application & Data Integration (ADI) to enable its clients to embrace such a strategy.

    Customer Contact Platform (CCP) is a software platform built upon Microsoft technologies that Asidua has developed through many years of experience in delivering complex end to end integrated business focussed solutions across the public and private sectors.

    Application & Data Integration (ADI) allows customers to better leverage the services of enterprise applications, joining them to build seamless (and automated) end-to-end processes. 

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    Innovate With ADI

    Innovate with ADIIn our experience, many enterprises in today’s global economy are striving to reach similar goals. These goals generally fall into one of the following categories;

    • lowering costs
    • being more customer centric
    • adding new capabilities to your portfolio
    • achieving compliance with government or industry standards
    • future proofing your IT investment

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    In order to reach these goals an enterprise will typically look to leverage its resources, and those of its suppliers and partners as effectively as possible. These resources are typically:

    • processes which produce products or deliver services
    • ICT systems which support these processes
    • people who use systems to carry out the processes
    • data about customers, products and resources which is manipulated during the execution of processes

    It is processes that organisations look to as the primary catalyst for change to support these goals.

     

    Driving Innovators
    By applying constant innovation an enterprise can evolve and change its processes, to meet the demands of its customers. Such innovators come in many forms, but typical examples include:

    • allowing customers to undertake a greater level of self-service
    • facilitating greater levels of collaboration between your people, and between your people and your customers
    • aggregating information from across your enterprise to achieve greater insight and value
    • extending your processes beyond enterprise boundaries to encompass partners and suppliers

    There is no doubt about the need for such innovators to support change. But how do you support this change without radical upheaval of existing systems, and data? Unfortunately, like many of our clients, you are probably finding that your existing systems, whilst effective, act as a series of silos, unable to cope with the demands of supporting more seamless end-to-end processes, which increasingly demand higher levels of “zero-touch” and hence automation.

     

    Embracing Change
    At Asidua we believe that seamless and automated processes can only be achieved through integration of systems, the applications they host and the data they contain. While modern enterprise applications are themselves offering ever increasing integration capabilities, the effective use of these capabilities is a considerable challenge to many organisations. Where enterprises are medium-to-large this benefit is amplified considerably, due to the overhead that can be generated in trying to manage many point-to-point integration links. Conversely, embracing a wider integration strategy allows an organisation to radically re-arrange its enterprise ICT, leading to higher levels of automation and greater levels of flexibility. Asidua has devised ADI (Application & Data Integration) to enable its clients to embrace such a strategy.

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