raising expectations Nymad specialises in reducing cost and complexity from your IT investment.

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1 raising expectations Nymad specialises in reducing cost and complexity from your IT investment.

2 Contents Navigate this PDF by clicking contents below. Click the page number on each page to return to the contents. Management team...3 Nymad specialises in reducing cost and complexity from your IT investment...4 Managed Services...5 Implementations and upgrades...6 Licence and technology optimisation...7 Consulting and integration...8 Development...9 Development (continued)...10 Project assurance...11 Nymad solutions Talentcomm...12 Nymad solutions Talentcomm (continued)...13

3 Management team Gary Hurlstone Gary is the co-founder and CEO of Nymad. Gary set-up the company in 2011, at a time when the market was feeling the impact of the downturn, his objective was to provide exceptional services to Oracle customers. His leadership skills and ability to spot and develop talented people, have ensured the company has gone from strength to strength. The team is committed to Gary s ethos of always striving to exceed clients expectations, both technically and through the service they deliver. His unique mix of professionalism and a personable approach has earned him the reputation of being a reliable person to work with. As a result, he benefits from long-term working relationships with both colleagues and clients. Now that Nymad is recognised as a market leader, Gary is focused on the long term vision of the business. Chris Jones Chris is the co-founder and COO of Nymad. Chris aims to provide the best advice for clients to enable them to reduce costs and complexity from their Oracle estates. He co-founded Nymad in having previously worked with Gary, he wanted to be part of a company that puts the client first, knowing profits will follow. With ultimate responsibility for developing and improving propositions and delivering the service to clients, he has been a core part of successfully introducing Nymad into a highly competitive market during a tough economic period. His broad experience has given him a unique understanding of both what s technically possible and commercially viable. This has given him the confidence to push boundaries and his innovative thinking recently saved a client almost 200k on a licensing problem. Chris is also passionate about integrity and will always give the client honest advice, even if that means no business for Nymad at the time. 3

4 Nymad specialises in reducing cost and complexity from your IT investment Nymad is an Oracle Gold Partner and Microsoft Cloud Partner specialising in providing managed services and consultancy across the Oracle and Microsoft technology stacks. Whatever the size and nature of your business, we will work with you to maximise your application investment by reducing your operating costs, whilst improving your business performance We achieve this by carrying out an in-depth examination of all the components that make up the Operating Expenditure for your applications: Agreed service levels Software Hardware Storage Other data centre costs Integration Staff costs Their client focussed ethos and belief in delivering the best possible service is shared by the whole team. Nymad have an agile approach and our offering has grown to cover the entire Oracle footprint from Applications to Disk. We have continued to expand and diversify and are now delivering the same proposition across Microsoft and Open Source database and middleware platforms. We specialise in the following areas: Managed Services Implementations and upgrades Licence and technology optimisation Consulting and integration Development Project assurance Our founding directors, Gary Hurlstone and Chris Jones, have had successful careers in Oracle since 2000 and both have a reputation for providing innovative and client focused managed services. 4

5 Managed Services We recognise that no two clients are the same and structure our managed services to provide the relevant skills, service coverage and commercials to keep our clients systems available. We approach all managed service engagements with two key goals: Ensure availability and resilience is as strong as possible to deliver against contract SLAs Deliver value added services throughout the contract to improve the customer experience over and above agreed SLAs We have extensive experience in managing Oracle and Microsoft technologies but also provide skills across many less well known application technologies, including OpenSource components and legacy technology. We provide a range of services across technology platforms, from full outsource of hardware, software and application support, to any combination required to support your in-house team. Whether a dedicated team is required or ad-hoc support, we re always striving to reduce cost and complexity from our clients IT estates. Please contact us to find out more about the following: Application support and management Oracle ERP functional and technical support Legacy systems management Including obsolete software or hardware Where internal skills have moved on leaving no documentation Middleware / integration support and management Database managed services Cross platform database support Tier 1 Oracle and Microsoft OpenSource Postgress, MySQL, MariaDB NoSQL and Big Data OS / hypervisor lever support and management Hosted infrastructure managed services Disaster recovery as a service We include time in the service transition to understand the business process and value the application brings. This is required when we are providing functional support, but is also invaluable in supporting the technical decision making process. 5

6 Implementations and upgrades We are proud of our implementation and upgrade services as they provide a real alternative for our clients. You can be confident that with us as your implementation partner, we ll be acting in your best interests throughout the project and not upselling product or services based on our own requirements. We start an engagement by understanding the business rationale behind a project. This enables us to structure an approach based on a blend of: Cost Value Total cost of ownership A time framed return-on-investment The differences between these approaches can run into many hundreds of thousands of pounds, Nymad is unique in our advocacy of the most appropriate model. We have many clients willing to discuss how the Nymad approach either saved a significant sum or enabled a business case in the first place. These values hold true for simple database upgrades through to ERP installations. Find out more about how our services may be what you are looking for: ERP upgrades and implementations Core technology upgrades and implementations A typical example of how we assess what s required is with Oracle ERP upgrades: A value driven approach is generally ROI based and will include workshops to review process and align to industry best practice, as well as how to best use new functionality A cost based approach will generally dictate a technical upgrade to enable existing operations to continue in an upgraded state 6

7 Licence and technology optimisation Nymad is an Oracle Specialised Gold Partner and Microsoft Cloud Accelerate Partner and we excel in providing managed services and consultancy designed to reduce cost and complexity for our clients. Our Partner status enables us to stay close to Oracle and Microsoft to keep abreast of licensing rules and we have strategic relationships at all levels to reinforce this. However, we also maintain independence so we provide the best advice for our clients as we are not funded or targeted by the vendors for delivering licence revenue. The rationale behind our Oracle Optimisation Services in particular, is to ensure your compliance with Oracle licensing rules with the most cost effective deployment footprint, taking into consideration: Application performance Application resilience Application security Cost profile Oracle s policy of charging for all licenses in use at point of audit, including those that may have been unknowingly deployed, can make for some eye wateringly large liabilities. As these come out of the blue there is rarely budget set aside, making the impact that much higher. Ensuring your investment is optimised and licensed compliantly is extremely important. Nymad s Optimisation Services include: Baseline Audit Discovery Inventory Contract review Licence position Deployment Optimisation Discovery workshops Plan Realise Manage Standalone Oracle and Microsoft licensing services include: Licence procurement Licence SAM services ULA & ELA services 7

8 Consulting and integration Our services all have one thing in common - we bring best practice and sound commercial sense to your IT investment. Whether this is providing a reduction in your operating expenditure or allowing you to do more with your current assets, we focus on reducing costs and complexity whilst freeing your time to focus on your business. Our consulting and integration services cover a range of areas and technical disciplines but our management values remain the same across the portfolio. Our technical services cover a wide range of disciplines across multiple roles including: Technical consultancy Middleware integration Database migrations Virtualisation We are very strong at making disparate systems work together through bespoke development or the use of Oracle and Microsoft middleware platforms. This should be, by definition, the primary role of a Systems Integrator, however all too often it s an area that ends up being complex and costly to maintain and upgrade. 8

9 Development When it comes to development, it s not just what we do but how we do it and that is down to our team. We specialise in on-shore development based on close working relationships between our developers and the business users. Our approach engenders a trust-based model by creating an agile environment, which enables discussion and impact assessment for new requirements as they occur. Crucially, our developers are just as comfortable discussing the business requirements with the users, as they are debating the finer points of sub-clause use in their code. Our team s experience ranges from smaller development projects such as point-to-point interfaces between systems, through to multi man-year assignments to modernise a legacy modelling suite. We cover all aspects of Oracle development for the E-Business Suite and for the Oracle technology stack, as well as a strong capability in bespoke and web-development. We also retain skills in some of the more mature languages such as Fortran and COBOL and others. 9

10 Oracle languages PL SQL Forms and Reports Apex (HTMLDB) Oracle ADF (Application Development Framework) J Developer Key Features Gap Analysis Technical Functional Bespoke Development Working within your IT strategy to minimise ongoing support costs Built to requirements Tactical throw away applications Strategic development Remote Team Management Other languages C, C++ Visual C++, C#, Delphi, Fortran, COBOL CLI, Java,.NET, Torque, Visual Basic, Xcode DirectX, OpenGL, LINC, MFC, OLE, ActiveX, LINC, MFC Titanium, Android, XHTML, PHP, CSS, HTML, AJAX, JQuery, IIS / ASP.net, Javascript Legacy Modernisation Review Stabalise Enhance Business Intelligence Data Warehouse Oracle BI applications Bespoke reporting Web Development Team Leadership 10

11 Project assurance Nymad s assurance programmes are a set of flexible delivery engagements - we provide independent, impartial advice and represent our clients interests on major investments such as large programmes, BAU operational management and major software purchases. Our consultants work on areas with significant investment and inherent risk. They bridge the gap between stakeholders and delivery partners, whether internal or third party systems integrators. They ensure: the programme remains viable in terms of costs and benefits the business users requirements are being met the project is delivering a cost justifiable and sustainable solution Commercial Assurance Solution Optimisation - hardware, OS, virtualisation, tech stack, application Vendor Audit Compliance Migrations Roadmap Assurance Cloud \ SaaS Migration Planning Vendor licensing We will craft a programme of work suited to your requirements, your relationship with third parties and the overall risk profile of the programme. We deliver our assurance services over four key areas; Project Assurance PMO \ Commercial Technical Solution Business as Usual Assurance Technical Solution Internal \ Vendor Management SLA s Commercials 11

12 Because first impressions count and user experience means everything. Talentcomm is Nymad s web facing job portal that provides your potential employees with a professional and culturally aligned online recruitment experience. Talentcomm is a complete recruitment application system in a box that enables you to post your vacancies in a corporately branded jobsite, manage employee applications and conduct a two way communication stream throughout the process. Talentcomm provides a seamless out of the box integration with leading ERP systems, enabling you to extend your internal systems to your applicants, without the constraints of vendor branding. Talentcomm extends the boundaries of the traditional Recruiter Applicant relationship by the innovative use of Personal Statement Videos (PSV). First impressions count, PSVs enable the applicant to demonstrate star quality and for the recruiter to save time and effort on initial interviews. Talentcomm PSVs are then used to engage with the candidate and to ask key questions and deep dive into their experience to date. Service Offerings Talentcomm is available through 2 service offerings that reflect the differing requirements of our clients. Talentcomm Classic Assumes a fully managed job site domain built from a structural template that has been customised to reflect corporate branding and provides the following for a single monthly fee: Hosted jobsite domain (naming subject to availability) Prebuilt web services integration Customised themes to reflect corporate branding 12

13 Talentcomm Bespoke Assumes a fully managed job site domain that is completely unique to the client and built to their specific requirements. It provides the following for an upfront development cost followed by a single monthly fee: Hosted jobsite domain (naming subject to availability) Website design workshop Bespoke build and commission into managed service Advanced Technology Talentcomm utilises the latest in Oracle s Fusion Middleware technology and is designed to run on an Oracle Weblogic Server (WLS) in order to maintain security segregation with your internal systems. This is provided via fully managed Software as a Service (SaaS). Enhanced Security Using a Fusion Middleware Server provides visibility of applicant activity. Transactions are processed by the Fusion Middleware server and applicants have no direct access to the data held within the core HRMS applications, providing an enhanced level of security. Forward Facing Talentcomm is integrated with your internal system using webservers that enable the creation of Android and ios applications for ipads and Tablets. Additionally, it can be integrated into Facebook/ Twitter/LinkedIn and any other applications that are written with a programming language that supports web services. 13

14 nymad.co.uk raising expectations 5 Cherrywood Stag Oak Lane Chineham Business Park Basingstoke RG24 8WF Registered in England No Nymad specialises in reducing cost and complexity from your IT investment.