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Overview of Persistent’s Custom Connector Offering

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Build vs. Buy

• Connectors - a must-have to claim “Out-of-the-box” capability for the Enterprise Products

• Substantial investment required in a team around Non-Core products

• Difficult to bring in expertise on-time for new Third Party Target Systems

• Difficult to plan in advance given wide range of target systems

• 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!

• Netegrity• Oblix• Informatica (OEM)• Oracle• Microsoft• Sun• Netezza

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 Data-Connectors

– Using Native APIs of the target system

– Converting Un-Structured data to Structured

– Bulk data loading

Category System Name

1 ERP JD Edwards

2 ERP SAP R3 HR

3 ERP SAP R3 Basis

4 Groupware Lotus Notes/Domino

5 IdM Store All LDAP Directory Servers

6 ETL Informatica

7 ETL MS SSIS

8 RDBMS Oracle

9 RDBMS Netezza

10 OLAP Hyperion Essbase

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Persistent Identity Connector Suite

• Identity Policy Integration– Authentication and

Authorization based access control

– Single sign-on– Policy Provisioning– Filter-based search for Identity

entities

• Identity Provisioning Integration– Automation of User, Group

CRUD Operations– User Password Management– User Entitlement Provisioning– Reverse Provisioning

Synchronization

Category System Name

1 ERP Oracle Enterprise App

2 ERP SAP R3 HR

3 ERP SAP R3 Basis

4 Groupware Lotus Notes/Domino

5 CRM BMC Remedy Helpdesk

6 IdM App IBM Tivoli Access Manager

7 IdM App IBM Tivoli Identity Manager

8 IdM App Oblix COREid Access Manager

9 IdM App CA Netegrity Siteminder

10 IdM App RSA Ace Server

11 IdM Store All LDAP Directory Server

12 Legacy System IBM AS 400

13 Legacy System IBM RACF

14 Database MS SQL, Oracle

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Persistent Enterprise Search Connector Suite

• 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

Category System Name

1 CMS Documentum

2 ERP SAP R3 KM Portal

3 Portal Sharepoint

4 Groupware Lotus Notes/Domino

5 Mail POP3, IMAP, MS Exchange

6 CMS Microsoft CMS

7 Search Engine Google Search Appliance

8 Search Engine Speed Of Mind

9 Search Engine Inxight Smart Discovery

10 Search Engine Thunderstone Search Appliance

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Next Steps…

Contact Information:

Gautam MalkarnekarProduct Manager - Connectors

Persistent Systems Pvt. Ltd.,Bhageerath, 402, Senapati Bapat Rd.,Pune 411016 INDIAmgautam@persistent.co.inph: +91 98508 27944