Overview of Persistent’s
Custom Connector Offering
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Build vs. Buy
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Connectors - a must-have to claim “Out-of-the-box” capability for the
Enterprise Products
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Substantial investment required in a team around Non-Core products
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Difficult to bring in expertise on-time for new Third Party Target
Systems
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Difficult to plan in advance given wide range of target systems
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Partnership overhead for Support and Maintenance
- Over 10 Years Experience - More than 80 Connectors built to-date -
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Value Proposition
• Near-ready set of connectors to most of the Packaged Applications,
ERPs and Data-stores
• Custom built to work with your product
– Point-to-Point and not generic
– Fully integrated
• Flexible pricing models to reduce your Total Cost of Ownership
• Access to a wide range of deployed applications, systems, through
Partnerships with key ISVs in this space.
– IBM, SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle, Microsoft, etc.
• Pre-Sales Support with Demos and POCs
• Ownership of Support and maintenance for the connector
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Partnerships are Key!
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Netegrity
Oblix
Informatica (OEM)
Oracle
Microsoft
Sun
Netezza
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Google
Hummingbird
IBM
Documentum
BMC
RSA
SOA Software (OEM)
Our Partnerships enable us to provide you ongoing support. Provides
us software access, technical support and updates & upgrades.
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Software Testing and Certification Lab
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IBM Lotus Notes/Domino
SAP R/3 HR, Finance, KM
IBM RACF
IBM OS/400
IBM Tivoli Identity Manager
IBM Tivoli Directory
IBM DB2 UDB
IBM Informix DB Server
IBM Tivoli Access Manager
CA eTrust Directory
Netegrity IdentityMinder
Netegrity SiteMinder
Oracle Peoplesoft HRM
Oracle JDEdwards
BEA Weblogic Portal
MQ Series
Hyperion Essbase
MS Active Directory
MS SQL Server 2000
MS SSIS
Hummingbird
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Documentum
MS Exchange
MS Sharepoint Server
RSA ACE Server/Authentication Manager
BMC Remedy Helpdesk
BMC Control SA
Sun ONE Directory
Oracle RDBMS
Oracle Internet Directory
Oracle eBusiness Suite
Oblix COREid Access Manager
Novell eDirectory
Sybase ASE
Teradata RDBMS
Informatica
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Windows NT/2000/2003
Solaris
HP US/AIX
Enterprise Linux
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Persistent Generic Data Connector Suite
• Data Connectors in the BI/DW
Domain
– Designed for High
Performance
– Bi-Directional generic DataConnectors
– Using Native APIs of the
target system
– Converting Un-Structured data
to Structured
– Bulk data loading
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System Name
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ERP
JD Edwards
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ERP
SAP R3 HR
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ERP
SAP R3 Basis
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Groupware
Lotus Notes/Domino
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IdM Store
All LDAP Directory Servers
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ETL
Informatica
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ETL
MS SSIS
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RDBMS
Oracle
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RDBMS
Netezza
OLAP
Hyperion Essbase
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Persistent Identity Connector Suite
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Category
System Name
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ERP
Oracle Enterprise App
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ERP
SAP R3 HR
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ERP
SAP R3 Basis
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Groupware
Lotus Notes/Domino
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CRM
BMC Remedy Helpdesk
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IdM App
IBM Tivoli Access Manager
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IdM App
IBM Tivoli Identity Manager
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IdM App
Oblix COREid Access Manager
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IdM App
CA Netegrity Siteminder
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IdM App
RSA Ace Server
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IdM Store
All LDAP Directory Server
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Legacy System
IBM AS 400
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Legacy System
IBM RACF
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Database
MS SQL, Oracle
Identity Policy Integration
– Authentication and
Authorization based access
control
– Single sign-on
– Policy Provisioning
– Filter-based search for Identity
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Identity Provisioning Integration
– Automation of User, Group
CRUD Operations
– User Password Management
– User Entitlement Provisioning
– Reverse Provisioning
Synchronization
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Persistent Enterprise Search Connector Suite
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Enterprise Search Connectors
– Content Access to Enterprise
Search Engines for content
stored in Content Management
Systems
– Implement Access Control by
implementing Authentication
and Authorization using the
ACLs stored in the CMS/KM
systems
– Metadata Access
– Change Detection
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Category
System Name
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CMS
Documentum
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ERP
SAP R3 KM Portal
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Portal
Sharepoint
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Groupware
Lotus Notes/Domino
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Mail
POP3, IMAP, MS Exchange
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CMS
Microsoft CMS
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Search Engine
Google Search Appliance
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Search Engine
Speed Of Mind
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Search Engine
Inxight Smart Discovery
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Search Engine
Thunderstone Search Appliance
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Next Steps…
Contact Information:
Gautam Malkarnekar
Product Manager - Connectors
Persistent Systems Pvt. Ltd.,
Bhageerath,
402, Senapati Bapat Rd.,
Pune 411016 INDIA
mgautam@persistent.co.in
ph: +91 98508 27944
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