IBM Sterling B2B Suite Health Check
Optimize the performance of your B2B / MFT Collaboration solutions
We offer you the chance to request a no charge Expert Technical Assessment of your IBM Sterling B2B Integrator, IBM Sterling File Gateway or IBM Sterling Connect:Direct platform, to identify possible improvement areas in Performance, Resilience, Security, Monitoring, Cost of Ownership and Best Practices.
To carry out the study, at no cost, our IBM-certified specialists in client solutions will work to prepare a technical document of high value for your organization that will compile the reviews carried out by area, the details of the findings and our professional vision of the overall status of your platform.
Likewise, our study will collect the areas for improvement according to their impact or severity, as well as our recommendations and the action plan to optimize the overall performance of your B2B Collaboration solutions.
Rediscover what a problem-free B2B/MFT platform can do to ease your day to day operations, reduce the number of incidents raised by your customers, improved onboarding and implementation times and overall meeting of your business expectations.
Key benefits of our Health Check
Overview of the status of the B2B Collaboration ecosystem with documentation of each finding, degree of severity, complexity of resolution, affected areas and recommended corrective actions.
Risk reduction by keeping the ecosystem functioning under the best security conditions and at optimal performance levels.
Protecting ecosystem integrity by analysing and identifying known security vulnerabilities.
Improved productivity and specialisation of the Customer’s IT teams by recommending Best Practices, adapted for implementation.
Cost reduction by maximizing activity time and performance of your platform.
Avoid system deterioration by preventing future performance problems.
What is the Total Cost of Ownership of your platform?
All Integration Systems usually perform well when they go live with the first trading partner setup. However, while more and more partners, logic and data flowing through them, any misconfiguration or coding defect starts having a more and more significant impact, skyrocketing the amount of service hours your technicians need to use for troubleshooting customer complaints.
Furthermore, the risk of regulatory impact as GDPR due to security non-compliance and performance degradation over time adds for tremendous costs to any platform.
Discovering the cause of symptoms and their solutions is not a simple task. Sometimes due to time constraints, task re-prioritization or lack expert technical resources, this issues are set aside and tolerated as an extra burden in our day to day
activities, posing a greater and greater risk over time.
In order to reduce your costs in man-hours, eliminate operative risks and excel in customer satisfaction, it is important to carry out routine health checks of your B2B / MFT Collaboration systems.
B2B Solutions can help you to discover and solve anomalies in your B2B / MFT Collaboration platform, getting your Sterling systems out of the center of attention as usual suspects when a production problem occurs.
Health Check Scope
As experts in IBM B2B / MFT Collaboration solutions, we can help you to identify problems that will affect the performance of your systems, and detailed the recommendations needed to address them.
Our Health Check includes:
- Resources verification for a properly function (CPU, Memory, Disk and Network metrics are used and extracted for analysis).
- Review of network latency and communications between components.
- Review of recommended installation parameters of the solution.
- Performance Review based on BP’s execution and DB connection metrics.
- JVM and Memory Tuning Parameters Review.
- DB Growth and Indexing Review, including the optimization of the DB Connection Pools.
- DB Clean-up processes check.
- Verification of compliance with the prerequisites of hardware, database tables and tablespaces, JDK configuration, system, user and compatibility with other family solutions.
- Queue Pool Tuning Parameters Review.
- Adapters, Perimeter Servers and Clustering Tuning.
- Security review. Vulnerabilities, insecure connections and deprecated cyphers, accounts, passwords and external authentication.
- Code Review. Performance degradation analysis, identification of functions with high computational cost and best practices recommendations.
- Review of maintenance policies: Cleaning of mailboxes, retention, archive and purge policies, documents on disk, DB Scheme, tables and Indexes fragmentation, high cost SQL queries, buffer pools, etc.
- Review of the configuration of the solution in terms of backup, recovery and high availability.
- Performance analysis and specific reviews based on the solutions implemented at the client.
- etc.
Contact B2B Solutions if you want a free technical evaluation or if you have any further information about our Health Check.
