Performance

XML files are heavy which can cause application latency and user frustration. XML processing also ties up computing resources, increasing expenditure on servers, licensing and maintenance.

KAZ can analyse your current application performance, identify where it can be improved and help to reduce costs. Our capabilities include:

• Performance assessment of applications including capacity planning
• Performance simulation of applications and technologies and assisting with technology choice
• Network optimisation of applications – tuning the software infrastructure to reduce costs by optimising HTML, CSS, managing caching and XML usage and other capacity issues
• Service Level Monitoring

Security

SOA opens up corporate information across departments, business units, partners and customers. This poses a considerable danger since XML tools aren’t security-hardened. Governing access to information and applications is also vital.

KAZ provides a range of services for risk assessment, software implementation and application security. These include:

• Integration with the security environment – integrates bespoke and packaged applications with directories and provides authentication for applications and services. Extracting or modifying authorisation logic from applications and moving it into infrastructure can be a major part of this procedure
• Assessment of risk – assesses the risk from Denial of Service attacks, XML parsing attacks, HTML/HTTP-borne attacks and attacks on authentication infrastructure
• Identity Management - consulting, consolidation, implementation and product selection
• Single Sign On selection and configuration

Integration

Connecting legacy systems to new workflows and applications can be hard to code and maintain across multiple vendor environments. These integrations can also be needlessly expensive.

KAZ has strong integration capabilities, including ESB and messaging. These include:

• Architectural patterns for messaging and service integration
• ESB implementation
• Messaging interface design and implementation
• Integrating software of various types
• Service design and management
• XML and data format transformation
• Master data management across organisational boundaries

• Simplified messaging and services architecture design lets you focus on business results rather than technology issues
• Specific messaging technologies can be implemented with more reliable results
• ESB implementations are carried out more rapidly and with less risk
• Potentially cheaper, faster and more future-proof XML and XSL design