Unique Comp Inc
27-08, 42nd Road
Long Island City, NY 11101
Ph – (866) 392-5100
“Excellence Through Teamwork”
 UCI is a highly successful, financially sound (D&B Performance
Rating of 92%), award winning, 62 employee, New York State Certified
Minority Woman owned information technology services firm
headquartered in Long Island City, New York.
We provide ERP implementation services, custom application
development, system consolidation, server engineering, IT security,
and resource management service to the commercial sector, federal
agencies and New York State and New York City agencies.
 UCI also holds Oracle, IBM, VMWARE and Cisco Business Partner
certifications, and has significant experience in providing information
technology services to public sector organizations such as the MTA,
NYC Department of Law, New York Power Authority, Worker
Compensation Board, Office of the State Comptroller and others.
UCI has received several awards for its outstanding performance
including, MTA Top Business of the Year-2008 and New York City
Mayor Bloomberg's "Small Business Award of Distinction“.
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“Top Small Business of the Year” – COMTO / MTA
“Small Business Award of Distinction” – Mayor Michael Bloomberg
“Woman Entrepreneur of the Year Award” – National Republican
Congressional Committee Washington DC
 “Top Woman Business Owner Award” – National Association of Woman
Business Owners, Long Island Chapter
 “Woman Entrepreneur of the Year” – World Business Forum Inc.
 “Outstanding Asian American in Business Award” – Asian American
Business Development Center
“Top Small Diversity Owned Business Award” – Diversity Business.com
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Corporate
IT Security
Enterprise
Application
Integration
Architecture/D
esign
Network
Engineering
Business
Process Analysis
IT
Software
Infrastructure
Services
IT Greening
ERP
Health & Human
Development
Services
(J2EE/.NET)
Disaster
Financial
Recovery
Transportation
Business
New York State
New York City
Virtualization
Intelligence
Resource Management
Business
Project Team
Structuring
Intelligence
SOA
PeopleSoft
Oracle
ETL
E-Business
Federal Government
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Clients
NYS Department of Civil Service
NYS Division of Budget
NYS Workers Compensation Board
NYS Office of General Services
NYS Office of the State Comptroller
NYC Department of Law
NYC Off Track Betting Corporation
NYC Health & Hospital Corps
NYC Administration for Children Services
NYC Department of Law
New York Power Authority
MTA Headquarters
MTA Long Island Bus
MTA New York City Transit
MTA Capital Construction
Nassau County, New York
County of Rockland, New York
New York Racing Association
US Department of HUD
US Peace Corps
Internal Revenue Service
State of Illinois
State of California
State of Ohio
University of Michigan
Woman’s President Exec
Department of Navy
Department of Air force
Department of Army
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Clients
SAIC
KPMG
Accenture
Lockheed Martin
Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank
Mizuho Corporate Bank
Marsh & McLennan
Citigroup
Talecris Biotheraputics
JP Morgan Chase
Koch Industries
IBM Lotus
Price Waterhouse
Dreyfus Mellon
AT&T
Verizon
Computer Associates
Safra National Bank of New York
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• Long Island Power Authority
– Network assessment design and support
– Intrusion detection design and implementation
• New York State Department of Civil
Services
– Peoplesoft financial and HRMS upgrade
• New York City Health and Hospital
Corps
• New York City Off Track Betting
– Facilities Management Implementation
– Custom Reporting Solution
• New York City Department of Law
– .Net Reporting Services
– Custom Application Development – Microsoft
.Net
• Metro North Railroad
– Enterprise wide IT consulting
• New York Power Authority
– SAP Implementation (HR and Billing Modules)
– Custom Application Services .Net
– Desktop Support Services
• New York State Workers Compensation
Board
– Business and Requirement Analysis for
Peoplesoft Financials Upgrade
– Ongoing Quality Assurance
• State of Ohio
– Custom Application Services- Microsoft .Net
– Service Desk Implementation
– Legacy Application Support
– Oracle Financials Implementation
– Configuration Management Services
• US Peace Corps
– Oracle Financials Post Implementation
Support
– Custom Application Services
– Data Management Services
• Internal Revenue Services
– Transition Analysis for IRS Modernization
Program.
• County of Rockland
– Quality Assurance
– Medical Billing System Enhancement
• Administration of Children Services
– Requirements Analysis for Legal Tracking System
– Data Migration
– Full life Cycle Custom Application
Development – J2EE, oracle platform
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Case Study – NYC Administration of Children Services
Legal Tracking System
LTS is web based, programmed in Java and JSP utilizing ORACLE 10G DBM. Highlights of
the system functionality are:
•Fully compliant with all NY State and Federal laws for Child Welfare & reimbursement.
•Downloads current caseworker assignments fmCONNECTIONS and child CIN# fm WMS
•Automatically generates all Article 10 and 358-a petitions, generates legal notices many
other legal documents such as service orders and draft disposition orders and other court
related documentation.
•Embedded legal context sensitive logic minimizes inconsistent/ erroneous data entry
•Maintains a complete history of all hearings associated with a case.
•Schedules hearings and records the outcomes.
•Has an automated process that notifies the ACS and external Foster Care Agency worker of
upcoming Permanency Hearings and allows them to be submitted electronically.
•Documents retrieval for Court Orders, Court Action Summaries, & Birth Certificates
•Compliance & reimbursement – Reasonable Efforts and CTW tracking and PH Due Dates
calculation
•Home pages that informs the attorneys of their action items, tracks their schedules and
supports their workflow.
•Bulletin Boards that allow support user workflow and allows management to monitor current
and future case activity..
•Tracks biographical parties and workers and provides views for quick access to case
histories, legal status, and worker contact information
•Remotely supports users at Foster Care Agencies.
•Generates management reports that summarize legal case statistics.
UCI responsibilities included:
Design, development, implementation, documentation, training and operational support.
Specifically these project responsibilities included system requirements definition,
construction of business models, logical and physical data structure design and
implementation, data conversion plan and implementation, system and application testing
strategy and implementation.
UCI staff includes the actual LTS development and implementation team with extensive
subject matter expertise in case and child tracking systems, extensive management, system
analysis & architecture expertise, and programmer analysts with extensive expertise in latest
programming methodology, technology, and tools.
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Case Study – New York Power Authority (NYPA)
Custom Application Development
The UCI team was awarded contract to develop NYPA Time and Attendance Management
System. Since this was supposed to be an intranet application, a web based application
development tool was needed and UCI proposed using ASP to develop the application with
Oracle 8i as the database for storing data. Using this system, employees can fill their time
sheets online and they can also modify it before getting their time sheet approved. It also
assisted in managing project hours and would be accessible to all employees. Security being the
most critical aspect, the application was developed by implementing role based security. For e.g.
a manager can view time sheets of all employees under him only. An employee can
view/modify/create only his time sheets. Once a time sheet is approved, the time sheet cannot
be modified by the employee but can only be viewed. All time sheets are recorded based on the
pay period for which the time sheets are filled. Time sheets are recorded on a weekly basis or on
a daily basis depending on the convenience of the employee. NYPA also wanted the FLSA rules
to be incorporated within the system. Lastly the application allowed the running of various
reports by the managers. All reports were designed using Crystal Reports 8.5, a reporting tool
that could be viewed on the browser. Internet Explorer 6.0 is the standard browser used in
NYPA. UCI not only designed and developed this system but also is helping NYPA and its
employees in maintaining and supporting the system. Training on a large scale was conducted
for all the employees in helping them to understand the system and how to use it.
Other NYPA PROJECTS
•SAP BW Administration
•Billing System Enhancement
•Oracle Portal Development
•Energy Trading System Support
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Case Study – NYC Health and Hospitals Corps
Oracle Application Upgrade
HHC evaluated its IT infrastructure with the objective of creating a single platform that would allow
the agency to connect business processes and provide the visibility needed to identify the impact of
specific processes on the organization’s performance. After considering several leading vendors,
HHC’s selected Oracle E-Business Suite as the standard for crafting its new IT infrastructure, which
will span the purchasing organization from the front office through distribution. UCI assisted HHC
with the implementation of Oracle Applications 11.5.9 with Inventory, Purchasing and iProcurement
modules.
Fourth quarter of 2006, HHC was faced with the need to perform a highly complex technical
upgrade of its installed Oracle E-business release 11.5.9 to 11.5.10. UCI was contracted to upgrade
to the new release because the current version did not meet the business requirements. UCI
performed the following activities:•Functional Requirement Analysis.
•Complete upgrade of the Oracle Applications from 11.5.9 to 11.5.10 and migration of customizations
•Development of Custom Java Components.
•Configuration of XML Punch out to Cardinal Health Web Site, which is HHC Pharmacy Items Supplier.
Development on Oracle Applications Tool AK Developer to conduct modifications to the Self Service Web
applications.
•Customization of Purchasing Workflow
•Upgrade the interface between external applications and Oracle Applications
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Case Study- NYS Workman Compensation Board
PeopleSoft Financials Upgrade
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WCB engaged UCI to assist with the upgrade of PeopleSoft financial applications to Version 8.8.
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UCI Completed a Gap Assessment performed between PeopleSoft General Ledger v.8.8 and the
client’s current functionality.
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UCI made recommendations for optimizing functional and technical aspects of the existing v.7x
General Ledger and Account Payable.
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UCI Integrated Claims System with upgraded Accounts Payable.
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UCI made recommendations for the functional and technical aspects of the PeopleSoft 8.8
upgrade
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UCI also performed analysis of custom code, interfaces, reports, etc. to identify changes and effort
required. The objective was to reduce current level of customization within each application and
streamline the existing business processes. UCI successfully minimized building functionality
outside of PeopleSoft applications’ offerings which resulted in cost savings.
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UCI created all test scenarios, test cases and detailed test plans. UCI also performed all System
Integration and User Acceptance Testing
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Assisted WCB in creating user procedures, training documentation and provided all user training
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Case Study – NYS Office of State Comptroller
Quality Assurance for PeopleSoft Implementation
KPMG and UCI partnered to provide Independent Quality Assurance services for
replacement of the centralized accounting system (FOCAS) for which UCI team will
review Deloitte’s testing, conversion plans and conduct quality assurance training
and Independent Acceptance testing.
UCI will also provide following services:
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Assist KPMG in setting the strategic direction of OSC’s testing effort for the ERP
platform.
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Develop a Quality assurance training plan to support the new system, including
a definition of the scope, approach, and organization of the QA function
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Review the integrator/developer (Deloitte’s) Testing plan and conversion plans
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Assist with review of system configuration, data migration and code review.
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Assist OSC in Independent Acceptance Testing including development of
objective, scope and approach of testing, test preparation, execution and
reporting.
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Case Study – U.S. Peace Corps – .NET Development
In the fall of 2006, UCI (under the Financial Systems Group) had a requirement to computerize a manual
process of submitting financial data for a particular application from overseas posts to headquarters. This
process would greatly reduce the time taken to complete this process manually each month. Since the posts
would access headquarters from the Internet, a two factor authentication scheme was necessary in order to
ensure the privacy of the transactions. During this period the organization was already in stages of integrating its
IT infrastructure globally and in this particular case, it needed a timely and cost effective software solution that
complied with government standard authorization and encryption procedures. The group tasked UCI's
contractors currently working within the Financial Systems group, to provide a design and implementation of a
compliant framework that can be utilized not only by the current requirement but also for future similar
applications. The framework was designed to support web-based applications that do not require constant
connectivity with the headquarter servers. The core components of the implementation are SSL digital
certificates, AES and SHA-1 encryption and hashing algorithms, on the .NET platform. This overseas
authorization infrastructure was able to enforce the two-factor security requirements in considerably less cost,
and streamline the authentication scheme of similar applications that posts will need to use in the future.
The scope of work involved with the project included single logon functionality, usually available only from
completely integrated IT environments, and implemented transparently from the user, also supporting legacy
applications at posts. The solution integrated Microsoft's .NET forms authentication architecture with enhanced
custom security features to strengthen the security of the transactions. It was through the combined efforts of
the UCI team and Peace corps business users that the project was completed on time and within budget.
UCI also supported Peace Corps’ Oracle financial management system, Odyssey/FOR Post. UCI is assisting
Peace Corps in post implementation activities, software upgrades, enhancement of core functionalities and
future phase-in of additional functionalities and integration. The core modules implemented were: general
ledger, accounts payable, purchasing, accounts receivable, project accounting, FOR Post overseas (front end),
HRM (non-employee payments), and budget tracking through Oracle Financial Analyzer.
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Case Study - KPMG
Information Security Consulting
UCI team assisted KPMG in reviewing the existing IT control framework for its
customers, which included the IT policies, risk assessment, and the IT Audit
plan. Our team conducted Internal Vulnerability Assessment by employing a mixture
of purchased network software that was deemed appropriate for the customer’s
specific network configuration.
We established a methodology for penetration testing to the internal defense and
evaluated the relative strength of the automated controls, while gauging the
effectiveness of the customer’s manual procedures, such as monitoring and
escalation.
UCI team also conducted external penetration test by reviewing the controls over
access to customers from external sources. The Internal Vulnerability Assessment
and External Penetration Test procedures included techniques such as brute force
password attacks, exploitation of any known security gaps that may exist at target
devices such as routers, firewalls, etc., use of specialized hacker software and the
use of any network monitoring facilities that may be accessible from remote locations.
Case Study – Talecris Biotheraputics
- MPLS Migration – Voice Over IP
The scope of the project is to implement MPLS (PIP) with Managed WAN services for both domestic
and international locations with fully managed services. The implementation will touch on all Centers
(54 Centers), the Donor Management System (DMS) hosting service Site in Edmonton, Canada, and
the DMS contingency Site, and the Clayton NC facility. The use of MPLS will be extended for use
beyond DMS as other systems come online. It will involve upgrades to existing communication lines
and establish resilient and alternate paths to the DMS Hosting Site in Edmonton, Canada and to the
Hub Site at Clayton, NC. New routers will be deployed at each of the spoke sites.
Circuits to the Centers will be replaced with MPLS T1’s (1.536 Mbps) instead of the Internet. Routing
of these circuits will be through the Verizon MPLS network. Backup broadband (high-speed) circuits
will be provided in a failover configuration and will also be routed through the MPLS network using
secure VPN. OOB (Out of Band) analog lines will be used for managing the network devices.
Talecris will order these lines and have them installed prior to the startup of the network.
The solution will provide redundant VPN connection into Clayton & HSS using VPN over Broadband.
At completion of Migration, Talecris will work with UCI in analyzing a VOIP solution for all branches in
the U.S. VOIP project will start 2nd qtr of 2008. Currently reviewing solutions and speaking with
vendors (i.e. Cisco, NEC, AT&T)
Case Study – Mizuho Corporate Bank, U.S.A.
Voice Over IP migration
In 2005 Mizuho Corporate Bank needed to conduct an analysis for migration from PSTN to Voice Over IP
environment, for the America’s. UCI’s role was to conduct an assessment of ROI for a VOIP
implementation, taking into account factors such as the state of the existing IT and telephony
infrastructure (multi vendor environment), the types of investment required for a VOIP migration and the
cost savings that may be expected.
Additionally, Mizuho needed to determine whether to go with the traditional in-house approach, a hosted
model or a managed services option. Given the potentially high startup and manpower costs and the lack
of technical know how within the organization, the managed services model was recommended by the
UCI engineering team. Our recommendation was based on the theory that a managed services model
may provide the best route forward, enabling there enterprise to reduce the risks involved in VoIP
deployment while tapping on the service providers expertise to address quality of service and network
management issues.
There were several steps involved in assessing the ROI of a VoIP implementation, starting with a
preplanning phase which included a baseline assessment of the existing infrastructure and an evaluation
of the cost and issues associated with the current voice platform. The cost would have to be identified
and qualified. This took in to account the capital and operations costs, including the cost of planning,
acquisition and procurement, setup and installation , management and support, evolution and retirement,.
The potential benefits would also be identified and qualified and weighed against these costs.
UCI competed the assessment within budget and time frame and the approach recommended was
adopted.
Case Study - Mizuho Corporate Bank, U.S.A –
VPN Enhancement
• Increased performance:
TRUSTED Remote Users
•Users are connected to the quickest Citrix server to respond (least busy).
Home Users
Mobile Laptops
• Users can utilize both internet connections to 1251 (Cogent) & HS (Sprint), sharing the load
and minimizing impact to on-site Mizuho internet users.
Internet
• Load balancing and automated failover features will be made available for Citrix and ISA
servers, firewalls and internet connections (no SPOF).
• Increased security:
–Citrix will remain with 128-bit encryption while the firewalls will
–create a new protected VPN tunnel providing
–256-bit encryption.
–Secure Client (VPN) software may be configured to provide:
•256-bit encryption
•remote desktop security through a personal (centrally managed) firewall
•secure configuration verification –
•OS patches & browser version preventing rogue/infected PCs access to Mizuho data
•software distribution service to remote users' PCs
•automatic security policy updates to remote users' PCs
•local logs/diagnostic tools on client (for remote troubleshooting)
•multiple entry points (internet connections, firewalls, Citrix servers)
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Be able to accept an increased number of concurrent remote users
Dual Citrix configuration eliminates single point of failure and takes advantage of the existing dual internet
connections & dual ACE servers
Firewall replacement (upgrade):
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Implementation of current industry standard Nokia hardware (for the firewalls) will provide active
support and the necessary processing power to address Mizuho’s continually growing security needs
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Replacement of existing firewalls leaves old firewall hardware that may be usable in a test
environment
Internet Cafes
100 Mb
100 Mb
1.5 Mb
1251
Internet
Routers
1.5 Mb
Firewalls
Firewalls
1251 Internal LANs
HS Internal LANs
d i gi t a l
d i gi t a l
d i gi t a l
d i gi t a l
d i gi t a l
Enterprise ACE
Citrix
Server
Server
HS
Internet
Routers
d i gi t a l
Server
Farms
Clustered
ISA Servers
Enterprise ACE
Clustered
Citrix
Server ISA Servers
Server
Server
Farms
SIDC / NJDC / Remote Offices
UNTRUSTED Remote Users
Home Users
Mobile Laptops
Internet Cafes
Internet
Internet
100 Mb
Internet
Routers
100 Mb
1.5 Mb
1251
Firewalls
1251 Internal LANs
HS Internal LANs
d i gi t a l
d i gi t a l
d i gi t a l
d i gi t a l
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Standard
ISA Servers
HS
Internet
Routers
Firewalls
Standard ACE
Citrix
Server
Server
1.5 Mb
Server
Farms
d i gi t a l
ACE
Server
SIDC / NJDC / Remote Offices
Standard
ISA Servers
Server
Farms
Case Study – Nassau County, New York
Time and Attendance System - INTIME
UCI engaged with Accenture to assist in the technical support activities for the
Nassau County INTIME project. UCI provided the following services:
•Installed and configured the development and test environments as specified by the
County IT Staff, the technical team lead and the functional team.
•Supported and managed the Workbrain development, test environments and stage
environments
•Provided technical assistance to the application, development and change
management resources
•Performed migrations as scheduled
•Downloaded and apply patches throughout the development and test environments
•Participated in knowledge transfer activities with the Workbrain Application, technical
and change management teams.
Case Study – Hudson River Park
Virtual Infrastructure (VMWARE)
Unique Comp, Inc.’s (UCI) proposed solution was to broadly fulfill Hudson River Park Trust’s
(HRPT) prerequisites for a technology that would maintain maximum uptime during
implementation, and provide a high level of reliability, redundancy, scalability and central
manageability. Moreover, our proposal for virtualization reflects a significant attempt by our
designers to architect a versatile architectural design, which would enable HRPT to
seamlessly accommodate its future technology goals and business requirements while at
the same time, mitigating their system and operational risks.
Completed Following Objectives:
Installation of new HP4108GL switch and integration with existing HP switch
Installation of new Windows 2003 AD infrastructure
Installation of new Cisco 3700 routers
Migration of data from existing File Server to new (located on
VMWare with data on SAN)
Configuration of dual ISP redundancy for Internet connectivity
HP Blade and HP SAN configuration
Installation of VMWare ESX Server ver2 on 3 HP Blades
Installation of 11 VMWare virtual servers
Installation of Win 2003 on all virtual servers
Install of RSA ACE Server and integration with Checkpoint
(SecureID authentication)
Upgrade backup server to Windows 2003. Install Backup Exec 10
and install agents on all servers.
Installation of new Exchange 2003 server
Installation of Exchange Outlook Web Access
Installation of Citrix NFuse
Repair existing Citrix implementation
Installation of Checkpoint Firewall
Configuration of SecureRemote VPN
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CONTACT
Kalpana Patel – President
Email – kalpana.patel@uciny.com
Gary Rado – Chief Technology officer
Email- gary.rado@uciny.com
Gautam Tooley – Vice President
Email – gtooley@uciny.com
Unique Comp Inc
27-08, 42nd Road
Long Island City, NY 11101
Ph – (866) 392-5100
Fax- (718)392-7272
CERTIFICATIONS
The US SBA:
GSA IT schedule 70
GSA Fast II
State Of Maryland
NY&NJ MPC:
The MTA of NY State:
NJ Commerce
The City of New York
Dept. of Business Services
NY Dept. of Economic Dept
The Port Authority of NY/NJ
WBE National Council
Chase Manhattan Bank
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