The database management industry continually changes, as do your DB2 training needs.

The International DB2 Users Group (IDUG) is an independent, not-for-profit, user-driven organization dedicated to providing the highest quality of education and services to the worldwide DB2 user community. Founded in 1988, IDUG has been helping users of IBM’s DB2 relational-database engine improve their professional efficiency and their organization’s return-on-investment from DB2 for nearly 20 years. Through education, technical resources, and unique access to fellow users, product developers and solutions providers – all driven by users for the benefit of other users – IDUG empowers DB2 information management professionals to improve the performance of DB2 in their shop, to better harness the power of DB2 to achieve organizational business objectives, and to drive personal career development.

IDUG continues to evolve in ways that enhance the year-round IDUG experience for our worldwide community of more than 12,000 members.

Join our vibrant worldwide community and Experience IDUG. To learn how our events and programs can benefit your ability to leverage DB2, visit our Web site (www.idug.org), join our DB2-L list-serve (www.idug.org/listserv.html), or become an IDUG member (www.idug.org/membership).

Contact Information

IDUG

401 N. Michigan Avenue
Chicago , IL, 60611-4267

tele: 1.312.321.6881
fax: 1.312.321.6881
idug@idug.org
www.idug.org

Our Mission

The International Informix Users Group is Premier Worldwide Community of Informix Users!

Founded in 1995, IIUG is a not for profit user organization which provides services to the Informix community and enables member voices to be heard collectively. IIUG is the most influential user group representing the users of Informix products. Members around the world network, share knowledge and influence IBM and other vendors through IIUG. IIUG membership is strong and growing, having doubled in size since IBM purchased the Informix portfolio in 2001. If you are just now discovering us and are interested in Informix technology, we encourage you to join now at no charge by visit www.iiug.org. Your IIUG membership information is protected; we do not sell member lists to any organization.

The IIUG Board of Directors are volunteer, member-elected representatives that build, maintain and promote communication between IBM, vendors, the IIUG members, and the public at large. On behalf of members, the IIUG board strongly influences the IBM Informix product family strategy. Likewise, working with the IIUG, vendors are able to deliver information, better products and services to Informix customers.

The IIUG board serves the members, vendors, and IBM by creating, maintaining, promoting, and supporting the following communication opportunities and services, all available at no charge:

• IIUG web site – www.iiug.org
• IIUG Insider (a monthly e-news report) – www.iiug.org/insider
• Software downloads (members only)
• including the latest version of the Informix Dynamic Server developer edition
• IDS 11 developer edition (members only)
• Open Admin Tool (OAT) (members only)
• Server Studio (members only)
• Sentinel (members only)
• Software repository of utilities
• Informix discussion forums – technical, non-technical, and special interest
• Local User Groups (creation, events, communication)
• Event calendar
• IIUG Informix conference
• Downloadable Informix conference presentations (members only)
• Informix surveys
• Promotion of Informix user wish lists/product features
• Informix job board
• IIUG TV
• Informix business directory
• Informix technical information and resources
• Business news related to Informix
• Informix success stories
• Informix library of documentation, books, and IBM RedBooks
• RSS feeds on most all content of the IIUG
• IBM Informix road maps
• IBM Informix Chat with the Labs webcasts
• IBM Informix press releases
• IBM contact assistance
• IBM Database Magazine content
• IBM DeveloperWorks content
• IBM representation on IIUG Board
• Sponsorship program
• IBM web site links for Informix products, solutions, tools & components
• links to Informix related websites, vendors, and other user communities
• IIUG Directors award recognizing significant IIUG contributions
• Repository of IIUG banners and logos

Become a Member, Get Involved!

Express your Informix passion! We welcome IIUG member contributions.

• IIUG Insider content / articles
• Informix content for IBM Database magazine
• IIUG web site ideas / content
• Alert us to other Informix content on the web
• Present at the Informix conference and local user groups
• IIUG TV videos (visit www.iiug.tv)
• Share your success story

Please contact us: http://www.iiug.org/iiug/contactus.html

Please visit the following areas to learn more about the IIUG, our mission and goals, and the resources we are working to provide to the Informix user community.

Gillani is a leading provider of Order fulfillment, Distribution Management and Financial Accounting solutions to many Fortune 500 and mid-market manufacturers and distributors, as well as some of the world’s leading 3PL organizations.

The Gillani Global Enterprise™ Solution features Gillani iDistribute™ a complete end-to-end Supply Chain Management solution. The system provides advanced Order Management capabilities including our Web-based OE and E-Commerce software, integrated with comprehensive Inventory Management, Advanced Inventory Planning & Replenishment, Purchasing and Procurement, and Financial Accounting functionality.

The Gillani™ Financials Software includes General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Fixed Assets, Financial Report Writer, Budget Manager, and Credit Manager functions.

The FourGen® CASE Tools are the cornerstone of MBD™, the Modifiability by Design™ concept, and provide a Rapid Application Development environment for industrial strength Informix 4GL applications.

Contact Information

Gillani, Inc.

833 E. Arapaho Road Suite 102
Richardson, TX, 75081-2245
USA

tele: 972.918.0400
fax: 972.918.0659
sales@gillani.com
www.gillani.com

It isn’t any secret…organizations around the globe are shedding workers like huskies shed hair on a hot day. From the board room to the broom closet, everyone is concerned and fearful even if they won’t readily admit it.

Industry analysts are dispensing sage advice advice on “IT Cost Optimization” and “Optimizing Existing Assets.” Businesses and individuals alike are scrambling to cut costs and improve efficiency. We have to become part of a Smarter Planet to survive and thrive.

During the last 24 years, I have survived several layoffs, taken the ax in one, and been in the unpleasant and unfortunate circumstance to instigate another. To my friends, peers, and blog readers around the world, this is my heartfelt advice.

First Things First – Start with You.While the world spins in a sea of tumultuous financial chaos, you are always in charge of YOU. Set some new achievable personal goals and pursue them relentlessly. You need to be happier, healthier, and smarter during stressful times. Resolve to change your diet or exercise more. Be more charitable and compassionate. Volunteer your time. Be helpful. And be sure to learn some-thing new.

You must invest in your knowledge and skills. It doesn’t matter if you learn basket weaving or a new technical skill – commit to feeding your mind and achieving your personal goals. Your value as a human on this planet is not measured by your paycheck, but rather who you are, what you know, and what value you can potentially bring to the table.

YOU have to be happy. Miserable people that gossip, complain, and harbor bad attitudes are on the top of every organization’s cut list.

With your personal house in good order, next let’s focus on your contributions to your organization. You need to be an active part of business solutions and not perceived as contributing towards your organization’s problems. Help your organization innovate new ways to improve efficiency, better utilize existing assets, increase productivity, eliminate waste, and optimize costs and profitability.

It is imperative to squeeze more juice from your lemons, more business transactions into every hour, and yield more productive value from everything you do everyday. You don’t have a minute to waste. To keep your IT job, take a leading role in business performance management and cost optimization initiatives.

Demonstrate and execute plans for bottom line cost savings that simultaneously improve performance and efficiency, and pay little attention to those who say it can’t be done – they are at the top of the cut list alongside the complainers and gossipers.

At DBI, we are very helpful people.“Your Performance IS Our Business” is more than a catchy slogan – it is our commitment to your success. We specialize in automated software tools that help tune IBM DB2 LUW and Oracle databases to improve performance, efficiency, and productivity.

We can help you get more juice out of your server lemons, more transactions and decisions per hour for your business, and help you defer or avoid unnecessary and costly hard-ware upgrades while lowering energy costs. Despite vendor claims, databases do not tune themselves – people do. Be aware that CPUs and their associated software license costs are usually like underwear – not returnable.

We probably cannot help you with marriage or automobile problems, but we would try if you ask. We don’t try to be the best looking. We are not flashy. We are not eye candy. We are all about real, measurable, and verifiable RESULTS that benefit Your Performance.

We have helped hundreds of world-wide customers and we are confident we can help you be a valuable hero in your organization’s eyes – and people that are an integral part of delivering great value to their organization are on the bottom of the cut list alongside other MVPs. This is where you want to be.

We can help. It’s all we do. It’s the fabric of who we are.

Visit www.DBIsoftware.com/help for free database tuning tips, success stories, and more information about how we can help you help your organization thrive in these challenging economic times.

Contact Information

DBI

tele: 512.249.2324
toll-free: 866.773.8789
fax: 512.249.2324
www.dbisoftware.com/help

Challenge

Migrate Progressive’s mission-critical Core Claims database and application from CA-IDMS to IBM’s DB2 without disrupting the business operations performed by 10,000 users and 2,000,000 transactions a day

Solution

ATERAS DB-Shuttle Automated Conversion Technology, patent pending

Success

Full migration of IDMS and ADS/Online to DB2 and COBOL CICS was performed in 10 months without disruption to claims-related activities

Key Benefits

• Lowered total cost of ownership
• Increased efficiency of operations
• Easier access to central data from web-based applications
• Flexibility for the future

“The task of converting all our IDMS databases and systems to DB2 was a formidable challenge. The ATERAS automation technology allowed us to achieve a rapid conversion with minimal disruption to our users” — Progressive

Migration Goals

Progressive required that their conversion solution be 100% automated, while still guaranteeing functional equivalency and maintaining all existing business rules. The migration needed to be transparent to the end user community and could not disrupt any business-related activities.

After extensive research into their options, Progressive selected ATERAS and its unique DB-Shuttle automated technology to perform the conversion.

The conversion of the CORE Claims System was the last step in a long series of changes Progressive had made to modernize their database structure. The need to access data directly from multiple web applications without complicated programming was a driving force in the decision to change. Progressive required a system that could function efficiently in their high demand environment.

Another factor driving the changes was the increased difficulty and expense of finding skilled team members to work with the IDMS database and applications. Transitioning to a relational database and more open languages would guarantee the availability of a larger pool of skilled resources to maintain and enhance the applications into the future.

Project Summary

A total of 5 IDMS databases and 5 million lines of code were converted to use the new DB2 relational database, including:

• 397 IDMS Maps
• 603 ADS/Online dialogs
• 10 IDMS ADSA structures
• 1,797 IDMS COBOL programs

The converted applications are high performance, non-proprietary and fully relational. The new configuration reduces overall cost, improves access to the data, and provides the business with greater agility and flexibility for adjustment and future expansion.

Project Phases

The primary phases of the ATERAS DB-Shuttle automated conversion included:

• Software Assessment to gather and inventory the Progressive software and database components
• Database Conversion to provide a fully functional relational database to replace the former IDMS hierarchical structure
• Data Conversion including IDMS extract programs custom-generated by DB-Shuttle based upon the former IDMS database structure
• Application Conversion including the application of Progressive standards for the new application languages and database access routines

Support by the ATERAS teams as the Progressive teams verified the results of the database, data and application conversion, and as they implemented the new applications and databases into production.

Software Assessment

ATERAS performed an in depth automated assessment of the IT environment at Progressive. In the Assessment phase, goals and areas of concentration were fully defined, and all source code and database components were collected, counted, inventoried and measured. The inter-relationships of the components were identified and reported. Even the methods of database access were detailed.

This very detailed, targeted assessment of the entire mainframe application environment provided the ATERAS and Progressive teams with the information required to fully define the conversion project plan, task assignments, responsibilities, timeframes and costs.

As a sub-phase of the Assessment, ATERAS performed a Proof of Concept illustrating two different methods of implementing the target databases and applications. This process allowed the Progressive teams to select the solution best suited for their future processing.

Database Conversion

The Progressive teams responded to a set of workbook questions regarding their standards for database table and column naming, as well as their requirements for space allocation and index usage. Using several DB-Shuttle workbenches, the ATERAS team selected rules for Progressive’s conversion to the new DB2 database.

ATERAS used DB-Shuttle to generate the new DB2 Database Definition Language syntax. The Progressive teams reviewed and adjusted the rules throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring that the relational database structure and configuration met the Progressive processing needs for the future.

Data Conversion

DB-Shuttle used the structure of the original IDMS database (including 265 record types and hundreds of set relationships) to generate a set of high-speed extract programs and the JCL required to run the extracts.

The IDMS extracts were delivered to the Progressive teams, who compiled and executed them on the Progressive mainframe, producing sequential files in the format required by the DB2 load utility. Progressive’s data was never moved from the Progressive mainframe, and only the Progressive teams required access to any of the Progressive data.

Additional data cleansing and relationship definition rules were defined through another DB-Shuttle workbench to further customize the data extract and population process.

Application Conversion

The Progressive teams responded to a set of workbook questions regarding their standards for application naming conventions for their new CICS COBOL DB2 environment. Using the DB-Shuttle workbenches, the ATERAS team defined the re-naming rules for all IDMS maps, programs and copy modules for Progressive.

With the naming standard rules in place, DB-Shuttle generated the new application code, converting the ADS/Online language component to CICS COBOL and all COBOL IDMS calls to DB2 access through a highperformance data access layer. The new applications were immediately ready for testing by the Progressive teams

Testing and Deployment Support

The ATERAS teams provide support, rule changes and other adjustments throughout the Progressive Team’s detailed testing process.

Contact Information

ATERAS

6600 LBJ Freeway
Suite 210
Dallas , TX, 75240
USA

tele: 469.385.7236
toll-free: 800.801.9005
fax: 972.664.9007
info@ateras.com
www.ateras.com

In these challenging economic times competition is fierce, and the pressure to perform has never been greater. You need to consistently outshine your competitors. When it comes to inspiring loyalty and winning new customers there is no margin for error. To obtain funding for your IT projects, and compete with other initiatives, a strong business justification is imperative.

How do you develop solutions to improve productivity and reduce costs? Where do you find new ways to maximize efficiency of existing staff and infrastructure?

Alpine Consulting responds to these challenges and more. Over the years, we’ve worked with many companies like yours to create quality Information Management and eCommerce solutions. Our proven methodology ensures that your IT projects will always be planned, implemented and supported properly.

With Alpine, you’ll have an experienced partner who is committed to your success and knows how to do it right the first time—on time and on budget.

A Higher View with Elevated Value

As our name implies, we view your information technology from the highest level, taking into account the needs of your entire organization today and your vision for the future.

Alpine has been an award-winning and highly certified IBM Premier Business Partner since 1996, a Sun-Certified developer and architect, and business partner with Informatica, Cognos and Coremetrics. Alpine adds significant value to our clients through our deep experience, comprehensive expertise, focused solutions, assessments, version upgrades and knowledge-transfer capabilities in the areas of:

• Information Management
• eCommerce
• Portals
• Managed Services
• Custom Development
• Security
• AlpineLabs
• CIO Services

At Alpine, we do it all at reasonable rates with flexible terms. Plus, you’ll never finance our learning curve. Our staff of experienced and project proven Information Management and eCommerce professionals have the skill sets and leadership required to deliver at every juncture.

Awards & Memberships

2008 Winner of the IBM Information Management Solution Excellence Award

Recipient of IBM IOD Specialty Certification

Member of IBM Business Partner Council

Member of IBM MidMarket Advisory Council

Member of WebSphere Commerce Advisory Council

Member of Everything Channel Advisory Council

Member of Chicago WebSphere User Group

Member of Chicago IBM Information Server User Group

“Alpine’s Information On Demand accreditation is an acknowledgement by IBM, and confirmation to our valued clients, that we are able to bring forth solutions that will drive business value in our client engagements. This not only increases the ability to generate a real ROI, but also improves the time to market.”

— Stan Duda, EVP, Sales & Marketing Alpine Consulting, Inc.

Vertical Experience Means Straight to Market

Helping you leverage the full potential of today’s Information Management services and eCommerce applications is only part of our value. Our extensive experience in vertical industries such as manufacturing, wholesale, retail, insurance, distribution, financial services, gaming and transportation give us first-hand knowledge of the intricacies you face in your business.

Moreover, our experience enables an accelerated time to market for your IT solution in the areas of:

Information Management

• Global Name Recognition
• Business Intelligence/Data Warehousing
• Entity Analytics
• Information Server:
  • DataStage
  • QualityStage
  • Information Analyzer
• InfoSphere™
• Optim™
• Cognos®

E-Commerce

• B2B and B2C Solutions
• WebSphere Commerce
• Custom eCommerce Solutions
• Back Office Integration

Portals

• Supplier, Partner, and Employee Portals
• Integration with Other Applications
• WebSphere Portals

Managed Services

• Outsourced Managed Services
• Remote Managed Services
• Security and Infrastructure Assessments
• WebSphere Application Server Migrations
• SaaS

Custom Development

• Custom Java/J2EE Development
• Application Design and Customization

Security

• Application Security
• Assessment and Development

AlpineLabs

• Add-on Products to Enable Your Business and Extend Your Investments

CIO Services

• IT Strategy
• Technology Application Selection
• Interim IT Management

Free Data Quality Assessment

A Partner to Your Business

At Alpine Consulting we understand you have many alternatives for IT consultants. What sets us apart is our hands-on experience and commitment to client success. We’re here to build the quality solutions you need today, while ensuring you meet your goals for the future.

Take advantage of our complimentary Data Quality or eCommerce Assessment and evaluate our consultants, skills sets, and expertise at no cost or risk to you. Discover opportunities and cost savings you’re missing, and unlock your data’s true potential!

Endorsements

“Managing risk on an ongoing basis, or transactional risk, is absolutely key for us. So we needed a partner we could trust. We needed a partner that would complement us, that would supplement the skills we require and provide a quality, long-term solution. Alpine and IBM do that for us.”

— Peter Ciceri, President Custom House

“I love what it (EAS) allows us to do now! Before, a ‘fraudster’ could be long gone before we knew that they were at one of our casinos. Or maybe we wouldn’t have known at all. Now, with the powerful alert capabilities, Boyd can respond immediately. That’s huge!… We were very pleased with the whole implementation process.”

— Deborah Cooper, Project Manager Boyd Gaming Corporation

“Since implementing our new order management system, In-Sink-Erator has not only reduced costs of placing orders but has also received positive feedback from our customers and resellers. Everyone is benefiting from this investment.”

— Larry Konkel, Director of Information Technology In-Sink-Erator

Contact Information

Alpine Consulting, Inc.

1100 East Woodfield Rd
Suite 105
Schaumburg, IL, 60173
USA

tele: 1.847.605.0788
fax: 1.847.240.5831
www.alpineinc.com

Online business is an enormously lucrative opportunity, with U.S. B2C spending alone expected to surpass $335 billion by 2012.1 IT eCommerce experts and strategists, Alpine Consulting creates solutions that drive rapid success—unleashing the potential of your online investment.

Are your eCommerce sites achieving your revenue and profitability objectives? Does your online portal deliver the recognition, attractiveness, and utility to engage customers and increase sales? Do you have the features and functionality that yield tangible business advantage?

The Internet is a goldmine of opportunity. Yet, in today’s turbulent economy, eCommerce success requires far more than a web presence. It requires a strategic solution that inspires customer loyalty. It requires scalable infrastructure that can accommodate change. And it requires best-of-breed tools that leverage your business model and systems for continual, high-margin growth.

To build and maintain a superior web presence, you need a partner who understands the technical, business, and customer dynamics of eCommerce. That partner is Alpine Consulting, a highly certified and award-winning IBM Premier Business Partner. With more than 13 years’ eCommerce experience, Alpine Consulting has developed more than 60 unique sites, supporting over $3.5 billion in annual transactions.

Our team can implement one of several off-the-shelf solutions, such as IBM WebSphere®; combine existing software with bridge applications; or develop a completely customized solution. Recognized eCommerce experts, we are involved in numerous industry groups and councils, enabling us to give clients access to the most cutting-edge technologies—often before they come to market.

The Pinnacle of Your Success

Alpine Consulting’s one-stop eCommerce offering spans:

• Assessment, Planning, Design, and Deployment
• Portal Creation and Customization
• Software Implementation, Installations, or Migrations
• Feature-Rich, Add-on Tools and Technologies
• Back-Office Integration
• Enterprise Training
• Ongoing Support and Development

We also add value by ensuring ADA compliance and search engine optimization (SEO). Plus, while others often need a 6- to 12-month startup, our eCommerce-experienced practitioners and Agile methodology enable us to begin development on day one—giving you a near immediate return on investment.

Endorsements

“As our trusted strategic I.T. partner, Alpine Consulting was our top choice for an eCommerce solution. Their team’s expertise at every point of the process created a program that not only better serves clients, but yields real operational savings. Plus, they care about your success. Alpine’s commitment to staff training, knowledge transfer, and ongoing support will ensure our maximum return on investment.”

— Larry Konkel, Director I.T. InSinkErator

“Alpine Consulting’s comprehensive eCommerce approach demonstrated their breadth of expertise in devising high-quality WebSphere Commerce solutions—at a good value. They presented many options and took care of every issue. We would highly recommend Alpine to others considering an eCommerce strategy.”

— Mike McCue, Manager eCommerce Large Consumer Tool Manufacturer

Drive New Revenues with the Power of eCommerce

Whether you need a cost-effective third-party application, feature-rich add-on, or end-to-end custom solution, Alpine gets the job done right—on time and on budget.

IBM WebSphere Commerce

Recognized as the “gold standard” of eCommerce applications, IBM’s WebSphere Commerce can address your eBusiness initiatives. Certified and well-experienced in WebSphere, Alpine heads up installations or migrations, offering customers a choice of:

• WebSphere Commerce—Express
• WebSphere Commerce—Enterprise
• WebSphere Commerce—Professional
• Gift Center for WebSphere Commerce
• Sales Center for WebSphere Commerce

B2B and B2C Solutions

Alpine prides itself on creating powerful B2B and B2C solutions that create value. Focusing on performance, flexibility, user experience, and enterprisewide utility, we leverage in-demand features such as Web 2.0 interface design, advanced search, and open-source coding. Your solution can be off-the-shelf, custom, or a combination, enabling you maximum latitude—and maximum results.

Content Management, Data Analysis & Performance Improvement

Alpine provides a number of value-added products and services to enhance your web presence, including:

• Coremetrics Analytics™ — Analyzes and reports on user activity to uncover traffic issues, points of customer abandonment, order statistics and more.
• Executive Dashboard — Provides management a user-friendly interface to view site activity, including daily volume, top product sales, regional statistics, value of open shopping carts and other items to improve organizational forecasting and reporting.
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO) — Helps sites achieve higher search engine rankings and improve visibility of your company and offerings.
• Regulatory Compliance — Ensures your sites are in compliance with current and pending regulations, including those related to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

Portals

Many companies struggle with limited infrastructure, making their sites cumbersome to users and unable to accommodate traffic and produce sales. From external websites to employee portals, Alpine Consulting can help you evaluate your needs and build a scalable solution to maximize your effectiveness.

Back-Office Integration

Alpine Consulting increases the efficiency of your eCommerce environment by architecting solutions that integrate seamlessly with your existing operational infrastructure, including those specific to your vertical industry.

AlpineLabs

AlpineLabs is a division dedicated to creating quality addon tools and modules that enhance the value of your existing eCommerce package. Solutions designed by AlpineLabs help you achieve your eCommerce solution’s full potential and solidify your position ahead of your competitors.

Free eCommerce Assessment

A Partner to Your Business

At Alpine Consulting, we understand you have many alternatives for IT consultants. What sets us apart is our hands-on experience and commitment to client success. We’re here to build the quality solutions you need today, while providing a strong eCommerce foundation to accommodate future objectives.

Take advantage of our complimentary eCommerce Assessment and evaluate our consultants, skills sets, and expertise at no cost or risk to you. Our costs are reasonable and our terms flexible. What matters most to us is your success.

Contact Information

Alpine Consulting, Inc.

1100 East Woodfield Rd
Suite 105
Schaumburg, IL, 60173
USA

tele: 1.847.605.0788
fax: 1.847.240.5831
www.alpineinc.com

BusinessAlpine Consulting, proven IT experts and innovators, helps businesses improve information management, creating customizable solutions that optimize performance and deliver significant savings to the bottom line.

Are skyrocketing overhead costs inhibiting your company’s growth? Is poor data flow undermining your ability to deliver first-rate products and services? Can you connect people with the information they need, when they need it, to reveal business insights and gain a competitive advantage?

Information is the lifeblood of every organization. Accessing, mining, and harnessing its power are vital to operational, sales, compliance, security, and other mission-critical functions. While extremely important, its cumbersome collection process makes information management (IM) increasingly complex—and unnecessarily expensive.

Alpine Consulting brings the knowledge and skill sets to tackle your IM challenges. A highly certified IBM Premier Business Partner since 1996, we have partnered with numerous companies, developing value-driven solutions that give them a competitive edge. From consultation through knowledge transfer and ongoing support, we serve as a trusted advisor to ensure your optimal success.

End-to-End Programs for Peak Performance

Far beyond a value-added IBM reseller, Alpine Consulting has been recognized for its leadership in deploying highly tailored, multitiered IM programs for some of the largest Fortune 500 companies nationwide. Our end-to-end suite of IM services span:

• Global Name Recognition
• Business Intelligence/Data Warehousing
• Entity Analytics
• Information Server:
  • DataStage
  • QualityStage
  • Information Analyzer
• InfoSphere™
• Optim™
• Cognos®

Whether you need a single service or comprehensive program, Alpine responds with quality solutions that maximize ROI by delivering value quickly and efficiently. With Alpine, you can be assured your project will be completed on time and on budget, by professionals who care about your success.

Endorsements

“Custom House needed a supplier to implement a technology solution for money laundering, compliance, and fraud detection. Alpine Consulting was the premier recommendation.

Alpine took the time to listen and under-stand our challenges. Their solution is expected to deliver improved monitoring, reduced risk, better recording and compliance reporting, and fewer false positives—benefits that will allow our business to grow without any additional staff or overhead.”

— Rob Fuller, Custom House VP of Product and CIO

“Alpine performed a DataStage v.6 to v.8 upgrade and migration project for us. In the process, they hosted the intermediary v7.5 environment and assisted in both software installation and testing of our existing DataStage jobs in the new environment. We were pleased that the entire project was completed on-time and under budget. We would definitely use Alpine’s services again.”

—Beverly Reimer, IT Applications Manager, Brunswick Bowling and Billiards information

Harness the Power of Your Business Information

An organization’s most powerful asset is data; yet busy IT departments are often too buried in day-to-day tasks to tap its potential. Alpine Consulting’s IM product portfolio—enhanced by IBM On Demand tools and our proprietary AlpineLabs— helps you leverage your company’s information, unlocking hidden value across your enterprise.

Global Name Recognition (GNR)

Variations in the data entry of names and forms of capture result in erroneous, truncated, and redundant databases— undermining an organization’s ability to market, sell to, and service their customers.

Alpine Consulting’s GNR software resolves these challenges, quickly and cost-effectively. A powerful toolkit, our application is ready to bolt on to your SOA and C++ applications, yet fully customizable for your unique needs. With a true look at your constituencies, you’ll be better prepared to maximize their business, while adding significant savings to yours.

Business Intelligence/Data Warehousing

The completeness, integrity, and centrality of data are struggles for virtually every organization. Alpine’s data warehousing solutions address this challenge, transforming data into actionable business intelligence. We offer integration, hygiene, mining, encryption, and more. Plus, we provide a full range of security provisions—from encryption and password protection through virtually limitless useraccess- level definitions.

Entity Analytics

Alpine Consulting’s Entity Analytic Solutions (EAS) is a robust identity recognition and relationship software that helps you identify individuals that most impact your business. Whether recognizing VIPs or curtailing fraud, your organization can immediately reconcile multiple entities to a single record, so you can swiftly respond.

Information Server

IBM’s Information Server combines multiple cutting-edge technologies into a single, user-friendly platform. Combining the modules of DataStage, QualityStage, and Information Analyzer, our solution enables companies to collect, streamline, cleanse, analyze, and transform data into contextrich information. Whether you’re looking to migrate to Information Server or transition to its latest version, Alpine Consulting makes the process quick and easy.

InfoSphere™

Your success in the global economy rests on a robust infrastructure that can deliver accurate, complete, and contextual information in real time, when and where it’s needed. Alpine’s IBM InfoSphere software provides the breadth and flexibility to help companies master the marketplace. Plus, IBM mainframe users can tap sophisticated functionality and security modules through our Master Data Management Server.

Optim™

Alpine Consulting addresses the increasing complexity of enterprise applications with IBM Optim. From assessing, classifying, and archiving information through accessing, reporting, and retrieval, this unique tool addresses every stage of the data lifecycle.

Cognos®

Alpine rounds out its offering with IBM Cognos, a comprehensive reporting tool that helps keep business teams informed, engaged, and aligned through multisource data collection, collaborative authoring, and web-based deployment of enterprise reports.

Free Data Quality Assessment

A Partner to Your Business

At Alpine Consulting, we understand you have many alternatives for IM consultants. What sets us apart is our hands-on experience and commitment to client success. We’re here to build the quality solutions you need today, while ensuring you meet your goals for the future.

Take advantage of our complimentary Data Quality Assessment and evaluate our consultants, skills sets, and expertise at no cost or risk to you. Discover opportunities and cost savings you’re missing, and unlock your data’s true potential!

Contact Information

Alpine Consulting, Inc.

1100 East Woodfield Rd
Suite 105
Schaumburg, IL, 60173
USA

tele: 1.847.605.0788
fax: 1.847.240.5831
www.alpineinc.com

Alpine Consulting Responds to Growing Risks with Robust, Scalable Solutions

Sweeping technological changes and anytime/anywhere access have enabled virtually every company to tap the global marketplace. But even faster than the growth of new revenue channels is the growth of fraud—a single event having the potential to wipe out even the most formidable enterprise.

At Custom House, staying above and beyond fraudsters is an absolute. One of the top international foreign currency exchanges, the company manages billions of dollars in annual transactions for consumers and businesses around the world. With operations spanning seven countries and 160+ currencies—servicing in-person and online—security requirements are complex, but extremely critical to performance.

While Custom House had traditionally managed fraud protection in-house, time-consuming labor and rising costs were impacting the ability to service customers and meet performance goals. Along with managing greater volumes, Custom House needed to comply with heightened regulatory controls and growing fraudster sophistication. A rigorous search for a partner with the proven abilities, speed to market, and vertical market expertise yielded a single choice: Alpine Consulting.

Alpine’s experience and agile methodologies were Custom House’s perfect fit.

“Managing risk is absolutely key for us,” explained Peter Ciceri. “We needed a partner that would complement us and deliver the quality and service we need for the long-term. That partner was Alpine Consulting.”

The Technologies to Protect, The Security to Succeed

Quick response and seamless transition were imperative. After meeting with Custom House to understand objectives and operability of existing systems, Alpine Consulting recommended an off-the-shelf entity analytics application, customized with an EAS Accelerator and intuitive dashboard technologies. The program would enable real-time identity and relationship recognition, transaction monitoring, suspicious activity reports, data comparison to known offenders/malfeasance incidents, and more.

Completed in just months, the solution has substantially lowered Custom House’s risk of fraud and positioned it to combat increasingly complex security issues. Moreover, with immediate alerts, thorough cross-checks, and advanced reporting capabilities, Alpine’s solution has enabled Custom House to:

• Continuously monitor and review thousands of clients and transactions activities
• Automate data gathering to speed investigation processes
• Strengthen company data integrity, utility, and flow
• Ensure compliance with fast-changing requirements
• Save innumerable dollars, employee hours, and tedious data gathering

Additionally, Custom House is able to automatically conduct watchlist checks as well as transactional monitoring – a benefit not possible with its manual system. Plus, as part of the initiative, Alpine’s experts trained Custom House staff to manage ongoing needs, ensuring ongoing high performance and optimal ROI.

“Our team is committed to delivering solutions that move clients beyond today’s needs,” said Stan Duda, EVP of Sales & Marketing of Alpine Consulting. “We care about clients’ success, and continue to innovate to offer even greater value.”

Indeed, Alpine’s success in fraud protection technologies continue to garner increasing prospect interest and trade publication coverage. Through its custom development business unit called AlpineLabs, Alpine Consulting are bringing new, essential applications to market. This includes Alpine IdentityInsight™, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering that makes advanced fraud detection functionality available to any enterprise at attractive, subscription-based prices.

Contact Information

Alpine Consulting, Inc.

1100 East Woodfield Rd
Suite 105
Schaumburg, IL, 60173
USA

tele: 1.847.605.0788
fax: 1.847.240.5831
www.alpineinc.com