Encode is an information technology consulting and solutions firm for large enterprise and small to mid-size businesses. Our strength is our ability to understand a client's business challenge and provide a technical solution that integrates seamlessly into current operating environments. With an average of over ten (10) years experience, our team members are the "best-of-breed" in their respective disciplines. Our extraordinary depth of knowledge and mastery of multiple technical platforms enables us to handle even the most complex integration issues.
Encode is an effective partner at any point in the life cycle of a project, from the development of business needs analysis and requirements definition, on through to implementation and support of the technical solution. We frequently provide senior level technical assistance for clients particularly in enterprise and application architecture, resolution of "critical situations" as well as pre and post deployment review.
Business Needs Analysis
Before your business commits significant resources to a project, find out what you will need, when you will need it, and how long the implementation will take. The Encode Business Needs Analysis helps you understand the opportunities and risks associated with a project before it starts, so you can plan and budget accordingly. Encode will work with you to define and analyze your business processes and workflow from a technical systems perspective, intending that the solution you choose best fits your current and future needs. Encode will then translate your business and process needs into an actionable strategy that can be implemented by either our or your technical team.
Product Consultancy and Reselling
Encode resells and services IBM portal, security, data management, and messaging software. We can advise you on how specific IBM software products can benefit your business, and we can help you work through the steps to implementation. Our experience includes customizing software to meet individual business requirements and integrating individual software products with legacy systems. Due to our extensive experience with IBM software products, client project managers can plan their projects efficiently with the knowledge that Encode will be able to provide complete project life cycle support. Our IBM product consultancy includes pre-sales support, proof-of-concept, installation, configuration, performance tuning, resolution of "critical situations", and pre- and post-deployment review.
Architecture Design
Architecture Design is the fundamental organization of your technical infrastructure, including the specific system components, the relationship between components, and the relationship between the system and the broader business environment. The Encode team of experts customizes enterprise-wide or specific application architectures to your business requirements and budget. Our extensive experience with Architecture Design enables our system architects to provide a detailed road map of the systems necessary to address immediate business needs as well as planning for long-term growth.
Integration Services
Encode's Integration Services enable disparate software solutions to share data and/or functionality. By automating the entire workflow, significant business gains can be achieved. Our depth of knowledge of the complexities facing large clients is particularly crucial for the success of enterprise-level projects, where disparate products must function together seamlessly. Our Integration Services include post-sales support, installation, configuration, integration, and problem resolution with pre-existing software or other new software products being installed.
Application Development
Encode's developers and architects are experts in the advanced technologies used to weld together the many pieces of a sophisticated enterprise solution. Application Development is the key to any successful enterprise and we have proven our capabilities time and time again. Our experience includes design and development of new application software to satisfy business needs; providing business requirements definition, application architecture, development, testing, and deployment services for custom business applications; and the customization of packaged software products.
Implementing a new portal solution requires a high level of readiness across many sectors of an organization. Encode leverages our extensive prior experience implementing IBM WebSphere Portal to assess the various domains, business units, users communities, and legacy systems that may be affected by a Portal product installation, so we can identify readiness issues and internal differences before they become problems. Encode will also provide you with a framework for planning the production deployment and operation of your portal solution.
Encode's experience with IBM Tivoli Security Software solutions allows us to identify and mitigate issues relating to the relevant domains, business units, users communities, and legacy systems that might slow down implementation. The assessment examines the current environment based on your business objectives and offers customized recommendations regarding the design, deployment, operation and use of the Tivoli solution. A high level of readiness will help ensure a rapid return on investment for your business.
The Encode Multi-factor Authentication Assessment is a short-term engagement designed to help identify the challenges associated with adopting the new FFIEC guidelines and the implementation of multi-factor authentication. During an Assessment, Encode works with key stakeholders to determine how to become, and remain, compliant with the new guidelines. We do this by performing a gap analysis covering issues relating to risk, policies, procedures, validation and enforcement, as well as a full technical assessment.
Encode offers a range of training courses designed to help clients fully leverage the WebSphere Transformation Extender (WTX) Suite. Our training is designed to enable customers to get started quickly. Many of our customers find training accelerates their success by providing a deeper understanding of the product capabilities, how those capabilities can be implemented to create solutions, and how solutions can be properly architected into a fully integrated Enterprise Architecture.
WebSphere Transformation Extender (WTX) Mapping, formerly known as Mercator or DataStageTX (Ascential). Data Mapping is a specialized service offering of Encode. Mapping is the process by which a data transformation map is created to produce a set of mapping instructions that describes how to translate data from a source document into a target document.
A company's infrastructure must support an ever changing global business strategy and evolve incrementally to leverage pre-existing investments. Encode offers the specialized skills, methodologies, knowledge base and partnerships to help companies develop business-oriented integration approaches that maximize existing processes, technology, and people. Utilizing IBM's technology and our integration best practices, we work with companies to implement and maintain solutions that deliver immediate, sustainable business value. By developing a vigorous integration framework that is flexible and maintainable, our clients are able to tactically leverage information from all their systems to support rapidly changing business needs.
