Who we are and what we can do for YOU.

Today, modern organizations typically spend between 40% to 60% of their IT budgets on operational support,

keeping existing systems running efficiently, ideally to appropriate service level commitments or SLAs.

Arcadia has been founded to address this space by a number of industry leading application support specialists

that used to run custom application support for Microsoft, Avanade and JP Morgan.

In combination with its Strategic Partner IPsoft, rated #1 by the Gartner Group for Remote Infrastructure

Support, which they provide to over 500 of the Global 2000 largest companies, Arcadia offers end to end SLAs

with financial penalties for non-compliance, saving customers an average 30% or more on IT Operational

Support costs, reductions of up to 50% in incidents over time, significant improvements in IT stability, and the

flexibility to easily deploy new technology seamlessly.

In contrast to some of our competitors, we achieve these results through the use of autonomic expert systems

that do the work of support engineers, rather than traditional outsourcing.

Introduction

IPsoft is the recognized global market leader in IT Infrastructure Management. For the past 13 years, they have

built and refined an autonomic platform of interconnected expert systems that monitor IT infrastructure and

standard systems, and largely do the work previously done by support engineers. The system is the most

advanced of its kind in the world, and escalates incidents it cannot automatically solve to real engineers, then

learns the solutions to be able to automatically handle any reoccurrences.

It is this focus on having systems automatically do the work that helps IPsoft generate the substantial average

savings by their customers, not to mention the improvements in stability, speed of resolution, and reduction in

incident counts. Almost all of IPsoft’s competitors arbitrage labor costs, rather than use systems, which is a

fundamentally different approach, and anyone doing the same systemic approach has to catch up with the 13

years of continuous systems refinement already in place.

Gartner Group estimates that IPsoft is a least 5 years ahead of all of its competitors in this space.

What IPsoft does

Arcadia Support Group was founded by the Team that pioneered Internet application support as a formal independent function at Microsoft from 1995-2005, and which was later released as Microsoft Operations Framework, or MOF. We developed the methodologies and techniques for building Operations teams that could take custom Applications developed by others, reverse-engineer them if necessary, document them, and support them to business defined and driven SLAs.

Arcadia was founded specifically to address the other half of the IT Operations problem, how to support the non-standard, custom applications that IPsoft doesn’t already have the answers for, because they are unique to every customer. Working seamlessly with IPsoft, leveraging the same autonomic toolsets, as well as several additional ones specific to the custom application landscape, Arcadia offers the customers end-to-end SLAs for running IT Operations, Applications and Infrastructure, objectively monitored in realtime and with financial penalties for non-compliance.

We provide world-class stability, transparency and performance in IT Operations, so CIOs can focus on leadership, strategy, and where to add value for their businesses instead of fighting fires.

What Arcadia does

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Our Approach

• Assessment - We begin by assessing the ICT Operations of our client holistically, to determine the relative

maturity and stability, and developing the business case for the improved service levels and cost savings that

can be achieved. The output of the Assessment will be a set of proposals to actually fix ICT Operations.

• Stabilization and transition – Depending on the results of the Assessment, we will bring together a

combination of local resources, international experts, and strategic partners to address any serious pain

points or bottlenecks identified, then implement the new models, moving to improve the effectiveness and

efficiency of the support delivery.

• Ongoing ICT Operations – In combination with the client’s local resources, we will enable a seamless,

streamlined, ITIL standards-based, IT Operations delivery. This should provide three major benefits:

– Cost effectiveness and potential savings

– Significantly improved Service Levels and transparency, with financial penalties for non-compliance

– The flexibility to change rapidly to adopt new technologies without incurring large costs

• Local Presence backed by Global Capability – In all phases, we marry the accountability and detailed client knowledge

with our world-class 24x7 coverage and expertise to deliver. Where it makes sense we will leverage our deep

experience and expert systems, or develop and train local resources to hit the required Service Levels. Each solution is

tailored to the specific and unique needs of the client.

• Flexibility– Backing the local support resources with the resources of the global organizations behind them allows on-

demand ramping up and down of resources to meet changing needs, almost in real-time.

• Accountability and Transparency – Once the new model is in place, it will be backed by Service Levels with financial

penalties for non-compliance, and detailed, objective tracking mechanisms, allowing the Client’s management to really

understand what is happening in service delivery.

• Strategic positioning for the future – Once we have stabilized any operational problems, and transitioned operations

with the right service levels and right mix of global and local resources, new IT implementations, such as cloud

migrations become much easier, opening up the possibility to really innovate and achieve much more with ICT. We

have the resources to help in this space as well, but we believe in laying the right foundation first.

Advantages inherent in the Hybrid Approach

Case Study - Rompetrol

We undertook a similar project approach for Rompetrol, one of the largest oil and gas companies in Romania, and a wholly owned subsidiary of KazMunaiGas.

Over the course of 4 months, we:• Created an internal IT department, and helped them recruit 27 headcount to manage the IT function, which had

been completely outsourced to a single-source vendor.• Built and trained a team of 40 resources to handle the required local onsite support• Transitioned the network, server, operating systems and database management.• Transitioned 90 mission critical applications to our management and support, in spite of receiving no

documentation or transition support from the incumbent vendor, including SAP and Oracle EBS for multiple modules and business entities.

• Negotiated and went live with formal SLAs, after the applications had been documented and stabilized.

Now that the basic ICT Operations are under control, we have begun, with other Strategic Partners, to analyze how to

improve the cost benefits and revenue recognition of Rompetrol’s SAP system… rendered much easier by the increase in

control and transparency.

Other reference Customers and Partners

Partners & Service Providers

Sample Customers

Millions of critical IT devices under management

What do we supportSample Technologies Supported (not limited to)

Security Check Point, Cisco, ArcSight, Juniper, Entrust, BlueCoat, ISS, RSA, nCircle, eEye, SafeNet, McAfee, Symantec, Trend Micro, Sophos

Application Business Logic

Oracle Financials, SAP, PeopleSoft, Lawson, JD Edwards, Custom Processes, ATG Commerce, Batch Processes

Middleware Tomcat, WebLogic, OAS, WebSphere, IIS, Jboss, ATG, MQ, Tibco

Database Oracle, DB2, Sybase, MySQL, MS SQL, PostgreSQL, Teradata

OS & Virtualization

Solaris, RedHat Linux, Windows, AIX, HP-UX, iSeries/AS400

Storage EMC, Hitachi, NetApp, IBM, Dell EqualLogic, HP, Cisco Nexus & MDS

Network & Voice Cisco, F5, Juniper, Riverbed, Blue Coat, Nortel, Avaya, Brocade, Motorola

Service Desk MS Windows, MS Office, Exchange, Lotus Notes, Adobe, Productivity Suite

What are our key benefits

Cost Reduction•Typical 30-35% reduction in operational support costs•Additional benefits in cost avoidance of software license and support costs•Flexible cost structure, delivery ‘as a service’

Availability, Stability & Predictability•Significant (circa 60%) reductions in mean time to resolution•Increases in application and service availability•Availability and service level guarantees, compliancy standards secured

Scalability•Global operation across three continents•Ubiquitous shared knowledge management system•Integrated toolset and support operation, full TIL V3 support

Flexibility•Interoperability with current support structure /safeguard investments•Flexible contract structure to allow growth & shrinkage•Support processes configured to work with client and 3rd parties

In control of Continuity, Continuous Improvement•End to End Orchestrated control of operations and processes•6 Sigma processes / process governance and continuous improvement•Adaptive learning with Bayesian Analysis and Predictive Analytics

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