Amdahl Corp this week stepped up its services offerings by setting up a new consulting business aimed at helping customers consolidate their IT systems and migrate legacy data to a web- based, e-business environment. The Sunnyvale, California-based company says its Enterprise Integration Practice (EIP) sets out to discover a customer’s pain points and prescribe proven solutions to overcome them using bleeding edge internet technology. The service, which is being offered through Amdahl’s Global Solutions division, is comprised of two offerings. Under web consulting, Amdahl will assist companies that want to web- enable their legacy, data center applications to the internet. The service is available for customers running OS/390, Unix and NT systems and over 40 database types, Amdahl says.
It will also offer web quality of service consulting to assess, enable and manage a company’s internet/web infrastructure to maintain the right service levels. Also within QoS, Amdahl introduced its ENView.Commerce service that evaluates the performance of a company’s web site versus its competitors. The software reveals web performance problems and highlights areas where a business should improve its QoS. The second offering, infrastructure integration, is concerned with server consolidation. Amdahl says its consultants will visit the customer premises and take an inventory of all the servers on the network. The possible outcomes include: introducing new systems management software tools to help manage the servers under one standard umbrella; carrying out a complete overhaul of the applications to improve TCO (total cost of ownership); or removing existing servers and adding new ones. Janet Clausen, director of the web consulting group within EIP said that some of the services were already available via Amdahl’s wholly-owned professional services arm, DMR Consulting, but that the company had decided to bring them into its own Global Solutions group and formalize them under a new name to take advantage of the booming market for IT services.
