
The people at I-Net Huddle have extensive ‘hands-on’ and senior management experience gained by working in major IT and Telecommunication companies such as IBM, Oracle, Cisco, and Alcatel. Our people have been involved in sales, network design, marketing and tendering, and many other aspects of this business. We have a strong background in advising clients in search of solutions and regarding the various possibilities available to them, and the unique values and benefits associated with each one.

One of the things we love to do is what we call “FALLING IN LOVE WITH PROBLEMS.” We like to speak with our customers and reach out to potential new ones, carefully listening to their future projects, their business issues and their company vision, in order to help them make a roadmap to success.
We have broad expertise in many IT subjects, and if we hear about a problem we can’t solve, we will find you someone who can!
Think of The Solution
not The Problem
IT Architecture

Information technology architecture is the process of developing methodical information technology specifications, models and guidelines, to build a technology infrastructure which will serve the company business goals and growth. This process has been developed in the past few decades in response to the requirements for a coherent, consistent approach to delivering information technology capabilities. The process has been led by information technology product vendors (IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, Citrix, etc.) and independent consultancies, based on real experiences in the information technology marketplace and collaboration amongst industry stakeholders

Best practice Information Technology architecture encourages the use of open technology standards and global technology interoperability. Information Technology Architecture can also be called a high-level map or plan of the information assets in an organization, including the physical design of the building that holds the hardware, which runs the software.
In a typical IT Architecture we find hardware (servers, networking, routers, switches, appliances), and, of course, the software which makes the work today easier than years ago. Nominate all the solutions is really long and probably not very helpful, so I-Net Huddle believes is better to categorize the most important ones, which form the building bricks of an IT Architecture.

- IT Infrastructure
- IT Services
- Business Solutions
- IoT – Internet of Things
- Online Collaboration & Productivity
- Security
- GRC
- Digitalization
IT Infrastructure
Hardware
We have a huge range of hardware. PC, Laptops, Servers, Blades, Mainframe. Depends on what a company is aiming to accomplish, but the choice of the right hardware is very important.
Networking
All companies today have a network within the company which aims to interconnect the employees with the IT architecture, in order for them to be able to use the software tools to do their job. There it comes routers, LAN cables, Switches, Firewall.
Operating System
An operating system (OS) is software that manages computer hardware and software resources and provides common services for computer programs. The operating system is an essential component of the system software in a computer system. Application programs usually require an operating system to function.
Database
A database is an organized collection of data. The data is typically organized to model aspects of reality in a way that supports processes requiring information. To manage and interact with a Database, a Database management system is used, which is a software application that interacts with the database users, other applications, and the database itself to capture and analyze data.
Virtualization
In computing, virtualization refers to the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources.
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
A service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a design pattern in which application components provide services to other components via a communications protocol, typically over a network. The principles of service-orientation are independent of any vendor, product or technology. A service is a self-contained unit of functionality, such as retrieving an online bank statement. By that definition, a service is a discretely invocable operation. Services can be combined to provide the functionality of a large software application. SOA makes it easier for software components on computers connected over a network to cooperate. Every computer can run any number of services, and each service is built in a way that ensures that the service can exchange information with any other service in the network without human interaction and without the need to make changes to the underlying program itself. SOA is part of Middleware which is the leading business innovation platform for the enterprise and the cloud. It enables enterprises to create and run agile, intelligent business applications while maximizing IT efficiency through full utilization of modern hardware and software architectures.
Key Benefits of having an IT Architecture well-designed span in every direction. Performances, Efficiency, Cost Reduction, IT System Quick-Change Enablement, Business Process re-engineering just to name just a few.
ITSM
IT service management (ITSM) refers to the entirety of activities – directed by policies, organized and structured in processes and supporting procedures – that are performed by an organization or part of an organization to plan, deliver, operate and control IT services offered to customers. It is thus concerned with the implementation of quality IT services that meet the needs of customers, and is performed by the IT service provider through an appropriate mix of people, process and information technology
On Demand
Demand is an economic principle that describes a consumer’s or a business’ desire and willingness to pay a price for a specific good or service.
On Demand means when consumers or Business are able to get this specific good or service online.
There are several examples: Video, Movies, books, software, hardware, etc.
Software on Demand
It is called Software as a service (SaaS) is a software licensing and delivery model in which software is licensed on a subscription basis and is centrally hosted. SaaS is typically accessed by users using a thin client via a web browser. SaaS has become a common delivery model for many business applications, including office and messaging software, payroll processing software, DBMS software, management software, CAD software, development software, gamification, virtualization, accounting, collaboration, customer relationship management (CRM), management information systems(MIS), enterprise resource planning (ERP), invoicing, human resource management (HRM), content management (CM) and service desk management. SaaS has been incorporated into the strategy of all leading enterprise software companies. One of the biggest benefits for is the potential to reduce IT support costs by outsourcing hardware and software maintenance and support to the SaaS provider.
Infrastructure on Demand
It is called “Infrastructure as a Service” and generally refers to computing hardware (servers, storage and network) delivered as a service. This typically includes the associated software as well: operating systems, virtualization, clustering, etc. There are a growing number of infrastructure service providers such as Amazon and IBM.
Cloud
One of the areas of confusion is the definition of Cloud Computing. There are many definitions of Cloud Computing out there. Here is one of them that seems to represent the most commonly held view. It’s from the National Institute of Standards (NIST) and seems to be gaining in popularity, not only in the US, but also the rest of the world as well.
Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.
Breaking it down, cloud computing is composed of:
The 5 essential characteristics are:
provisioning, monitoring, management control
implies sharing and a level of abstraction between consumers and services
the ability to quickly scale up/down as needed
metering utilization for either internal chargeback (private cloud) or external billing (public cloud)
typically means access through a browser on any networked device

Private Clouds
For exclusive use by a single organization and typically controlled, managed and hosted in private data centers. The hosting and operation of private clouds may also be outsourced to a third party service provider, but a private cloud remains for the exclusive use of one organization.

Public Clouds
For use by multiple organizations (tenants) on a shared basis and hosted and managed by a third party service provider.

Hybrid Clouds
When a single organization adopts both private and public clouds for a single application in order to take advantage of the benefits of both. For example, in a “cloud bursting” scenario, an organization might run the steady-state workload of an application on a private cloud, but when a spike in workload occurs, such as at the end of the financial quarter or during the holiday season, they can burst out to use computing capacity from a public cloud, then return those resources to the public pool when they are no longer needed.

Community Clouds
For use by a group of related organizations who wish to make use of a common cloud computing environment. For example, a community might consist of the different branches of the military, all the universities in a given region, or all the suppliers to a large manufacturer.

Managed services
They are the practice of outsourcing day-to-day management responsibilities and functions as a strategic method for improving operations and cutting expenses. This can include outsourcing HR-activities, production support and lifecycle build/maintenance activities. The person or organization that owns or has direct oversight of the organization or system being managed is referred to as the bidder, client, or customer. The person or organization that accepts and provides the managed service is regarded as the service provider or MSP.
Business Solutions
A business solution is a combination of ideas used to help a company achieve its objectives. A business solution comes in terms of marketing, payroll, auditing, accounting market research and analysis, among other essential business activities.
There are a lot of Business Solutions out there because companies face many problems. I-Net Huddle can cover many but not all of them. We especially focus to the following:

Customer Relationship Management
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is a system for managing a company’s interactions with current and future customers. It often involves using technology to organize, automate, and synchronize sales, marketing, customer service, and technical support.

Enterprise Resource Planning
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is business management software that a company can use to collect, store, manage and interpret data from many business activities, including Product planning, cost. Manufacturing or service delivery. Marketing and sales.

Enterprise Content Management
Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is a formalized means of organizing and storing an organization’s documents, and other content, that relates to the organization’s processes. The term encompasses strategies, methods, and tools used throughout the lifecycle of the content.

Business process management
Business process management (BPM) is a field in operations management that focuses on improving corporate performance by managing and optimizing a company’s business processes. It can, therefore, be described as a “process optimization process.” It is argued that BPM enables organizations to be more efficient, more effective and more capable of change than a functionally focused, traditional hierarchical management approach. These processes can impact the cost and revenue generation of an organization.

Product Lifecycle Management
In industry, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is the process of managing the entire lifecycle of a product from inception, through engineering design and manufacture, to service and disposal of manufactured products. PLM integrates people, data, processes and business systems and provides a product information backbone for companies and their extended enterprise.

Human Resource/Capital Management
Human Resource/Capital Management (HRM or HCM) is a function in organizations designed to maximize employee performance of an employer’s strategic objectives. HR is primarily concerned with the management of people within organizations, focusing on policies and systems. HR departments and units in organizations typically undertake a number of activities, including employee recruitment, training and development, performance appraisal and rewarding (e.g., managing pay and benefits systems). HR is also concerned with industrial relations, that is, the balancing of organizational practices with requirements arising from collective bargaining and from governmental laws.
Enterprise Performance Management

Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) is a management field of Business Performance Management which considers the visibility of operations in a closed-loop model across all facets of the enterprise. There are several emerging domains in the EPM field which are being driven by corporate initiatives, academic research and commercial approaches. These include:
Strategy Formulation
Strategy formulation refers to activities of an organization which determines the direction of its agenda. This is generally constructed of the mission, vision, and strategic goals and objectives of an organization. Once the direction is established, an organization monitors its progress against those activities and takes corrective actions to reach a particular target state.
Business Intelligence
Business Intelligence (BI), is a software tool allowing to get instant visibility into your business performance and drive better business outcomes using a broad set of capabilities for reporting, analysis, modelling, forecasting – all engineered for speed of thought performance on any device.
Business Planning and Forecasting
It refers to the set of activities where business is planned against the strategy and what forecast activities or results of the organization may occur from operational execution during a particular time period. Financial forecasts are, quite simply, your forecast of how your business will perform financially over, say, the year ahead. This is the daily bread for Business Intelligence.
Strategy Management
His software tool extends BI capabilities intended at communicating strategic goals across the organization and monitoring their progress over time. Further, it provides capabilities to establish specific goals, define how to measure their success, and communicate that information down the entire organization. Armed with this insight, employees can understand their impact on achieving success and align their actions accordingly. As they use scorecards to measure the outcome of their actions, they can quickly make adjustments as needed to successfully achieve the goals.
Financial Management
Organizations are continually tested by new regulatory reporting requirements, additional internal demands for information, and the need for fast and accurate reporting processes. When it comes down to Enterprise Performance Management, this tool enables you to adapt quickly to changing business and compliance requirements while reducing risk, improving control, and delivering faster, more accurate insights to all stakeholders—anytime, anywhere.
Advanced Analytics
Advanced Analytics is a software tool which predict marketing responses, churn, support, fraud and risk with highly scalable, secure data mining and geospatial analysis within the database and prescribe optimal, next best actions within business processes.
Backup

In information technology, a backup, or the process of backing up, refers to the copying and archiving of computer data so it may be used to restore the original after a data loss event. The verb form is to back up in two words, whereas the noun is backup. Backups have two distinct purposes.
The primary purpose is to recover data after its loss, be it by data deletion or corruption. Data loss can be a common experience of computer users. A 2008 survey found that 66% of respondents had lost files on their home PC.
The secondary purpose of backups is to recover data from an earlier time, according to a user-defined data retention policy, typically configured within a backup application for how long copies of data are required.
A remote, online, or managed backup service, sometimes marketed as cloud backup or backup-as-a-service, is a service that provides users with a system for the backup, storage, and recovery of computer files. Online backup providers are companies that provide this type of service to end users (or clients). Such backup services are considered a form of cloud computing.
Online backup systems are typically built around a client software program that runs on a schedule, typically once a day, and usually at night while computers aren’t in use. This program typically collects, compresses, encrypts, and transfers the data to the remote backup service provider’s servers or off-site hardware.
IoT – Internet of Things
The Internet of Things (IoT) is an evolution of mobile, home, and embedded devices that are connected to the internet, integrating computing capabilities and using data analytics to extract valuable information. Soon, hundreds of billions of devices will be connected to the Internet. Connected devices become intelligent systems of systems, sharing data over the cloud and transforming our businesses, lives, and world in countless ways. There are a lot of solutions out there designed to help you get to market faster and allow users to scale across a variety of platforms.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is the network of physical objects—devices, vehicles, buildings and other items which are embedded with electronics, software, sensors, and network connectivity, which enables these objects to collect and exchange data. The Internet of Things allows objects to be sensed and controlled remotely across existing network infrastructure, creating opportunities for more direct integration of the physical world into computer-based systems, and resulting in improved efficiency, accuracy and economic benefit; when IoT is augmented with sensors and actuators, the technology becomes an instance of the more general class of cyber-physical systems, which also encompasses technologies such as smart grids, smart homes, intelligent transportation and smart cities. Each thing is uniquely identifiable through its embedded computing system but is able to interoperate within the existing Internet infrastructure. Experts estimate that the IoT will consist of almost 50 billion objects by 2020.
British entrepreneur Kevin Ashton first coined the term in 1999 while working at Auto-ID Labs (originally called Auto-ID centers, referring to a global network of objects connected to radio-frequency identification, or RFID). Typically, IoT is expected to offer advanced connectivity of devices, systems, and services that goes beyond machine-to-machine (M2M) communications and covers a variety of protocols, domains, and applications. The interconnection of these embedded devices (including smart objects), is expected to usher in automation in nearly all fields, while also enabling advanced applications like a Smart Grid, and expanding to the areas such as smart cities.
“Things,” in the IoT sense, can refer to a wide variety of devices such as heart monitoring implants, biochip transponders on farm animals, electric clams in coastal waters, automobiles with built-in sensors, DNA analysis devices for environmental/food/pathogen monitoring or field operation devices that assist firefighters in search and rescue operations. Legal scholars suggest to look at “Things” as an “inextricable mixture of hardware, software, data and service”. These devices collect useful data with the help of various existing technologies and then autonomously flow the data between other devices. Current market examples include smart thermostat systems and washer/dryers that use Wi-Fi for remote monitoring.
Besides the plethora of new application areas for Internet-connected automation to expand into, IoT is also expected to generate large amounts of data from diverse locations that are aggregated very quickly, thereby increasing the need to better index, store and process such data. IoT is one of the platforms of today’s Smart City and Smart Energy Management Systems



Online Collaboration & Productivity
Firstly let’s define Collaboration.
"Collaboration at its most basic level is when 2 or more people combine efforts to accomplish a task for their mutual benefit."
When we do something with someone, we should:
Be present
I mean present where we work with body and mind
Be communicative
Towards the other people who are here/there with me
Be interactive
Communication shouldn’t be one only way
Be constructive
We shouldn’t just say no, we should give alternatives
Be in learning mode
I mean open minded
So, if we do that, we are collaborating and if I could add something else, we have just built a collaborative community.
What happens now if we introduce technology?
We surely go faster in doing our tasks, we can even get better solutions or one we could not think without technology.
On top of that, Internet technology introduces another important factor, which is “the possibility not to be physically present and do the same job”.
“The possibility to work together without the need to be together”
… that’s for I-Net Huddle the brief and essential definition of Online Collaboration.

Audio-Web Conference
Web conferencing refers to a service that allows conferencing events to be shared with remote locations. Audio Conference indicates a telephone call in which the calling party wishes to have more than one called party listen in to the audio portion of the call.

File Sharing
File sharing is the practice of distributing or providing access to digital media, such as computer programs, multimedia (audio, images and video), documents or electronic books. File sharing may be achieved in a number of ways. Common methods of storage, transmission and dispersion include manual sharing utilizing removable media, centralized servers on computer networks, World Wide Web-based hyperlinked documents, and the use of distributed peer-to-peer networking and Cloud.
