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• SAP technical developers (all disciplines)
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• Training analysts
• Principal developers
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mPower is looking for qualified candidates and can provide competitive salaries along with an excellent benefit package. If you are interested, please submit your resume to at www.mpowerss.com/submit-resume or contact an mPower technology recruiter at 215-497-9730.

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“mPower Standardized is a unique approach to simplifying desktop management,” said Mark Buscaglia, vice president of managed services at mPower. “We have developed a framework to desktop standardization designed to standardize desktop environments, simplify delivery of new technologies, reduce ongoing end user support costs, and manage technology assets across an entire organization.”

While mPower Standardized is essentially a framework for desktop standardization, Buscaglia points out that the framework can be applied when tackling many large-scale IT initiatives such as Windows 7 migrations, technology refreshes, vendor or license audits, and application rationalization.

The mPower Standardized framework allows businesses to take a comprehensive look at their IT environment and standardize desktops in conjunction with solving whatever the pressing or current IT initiative may be.  This leads to long-term cost savings and a solid desktop management foundation rather than only addressing the pressing initiative.

The mPower Standardized framework is centered on a best-practices approach to creating a standardized desktop environment. Through a multi-layered approach, Standardized delivers a true universal OS and single image technology. The framework includes the following:

• Universal Image – standardize and automate the operating system
• Application Library – organize, automate, and manage applications
• Delivery Toolset – centralize deployment of applications and settings
• Management Hierarchy – organize and manage the alignment of roles and their corresponding application resources
• Security Controls – protecting company assets and information

In addition, through a partnership with BDNA of Mountain View, Ca, mPower Standardized delivers comprehensive IT visibility and data normalization tools used to discover and rationalize an IT environment faster and more accurately than any other available tools.

“We’ve found BDNA’s solutions deliver what we need to quickly discover and normalize data across a client’s entire IT infrastructure,” said Buscaglia, “BDNA allows us to reduce the IT asset discovery phase of a project down to hours or days instead of what literally used to take weeks or months.”

“In simple terms, mPower Standardized is a smarter approach to tackling large desktop initiatives,” said Buscaglia. “We have been able to demonstrate that a standardized and rationalized Windows 7 OS and application environment can cut ongoing management costs by as much as 60% when the mPower Standardized framework is deployed in conjunction with a Windows 7 migration solution.”

mPower Software Services is currently offering free assessments and demonstrations of how mPower Standardized desktop lifecycle management solution can be used  to reduce cost for enterprise-level desktop projects. To register for a free assessment, visit http://www.mpowerss.com/offer.  For additional information about mPower Standardized, please contact mPower Software Services at 215-497-9730 or visit www.mpowerss.com.

About mPower Software Services

mPower Software Services is an IT solutions firm that serves the technology project and staffing needs of mid to large-size businesses. Through a range of desktop solutions, proprietary services including mPower Standardized desktop lifecycle management, application and software development capabilities, and high-technology staffing services, mPower delivers IT solutions that drive change and meet business objectives for their clients. Founded in 1994, mPower has delivered high visibility solutions to clients in industries ranging from public utilities, defense, financial, FAA, and Fortune 500 organizations.

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“We’ve found BDNA’s products deliver what we need to quickly discover and normalize data across a client’s entire IT infrastructure,” said Mark Buscaglia, vice president of managed services at mPower Software Services. “BDNA allows us to cut the time necessary for the IT asset discovery phase of a project down to hours or days instead of what literally used to take weeks or months.”

mPower’s desktop solutions are geared toward helping businesses with enterprise-level IT infrastructures take on today’s most challenging projects including large-scale Windows 7 migrations, software license compliance audits, and technology refreshes – all areas where BDNA’s products help mPower expedite the delivery of a solution.

“Many of these IT challenges businesses are faced with actually present opportunities to drive organization-wide change and long-term cost savings,” said Buscaglia. “Our approach to solving these challenges starts with learning what a client has, what they use, and how they use it. BDNA allows us to accomplish that with both speed and accuracy.”

In addition, BDNA has added mPower Software Services as a service partner. BDNA’s service partners provide BDNA clients with professional consultation, assessment, analysis and implementation using BDNA products.

“mPower offers clients a full range of comprehensive desktop solutions where BDNA products are an exceptional fit,” said Peter Dehn, director of channel sales at BDNA. “We are pleased to be working with them and see this partnership as being very beneficial for both our clients and theirs.”

mPower Software Services is currently offering assessments and demonstrations of how BDNA’s IT visibility solutions combined with mPower Standardized™ desktop lifecycle management service can help simplify and reduce cost for large desktop projects. For more information about BDNA, visit www.bdna.com. For additional information about this partnership, please contact mPower Software Services at 215-497-9730 or visit www.mpowerss.com.

About mPower Software Services
mPower Software Services is an IT solutions firm that serves the technology project and staffing needs of mid to large-size businesses. Through a range of desktop solutions, proprietary services including mPower Standardized™ desktop lifecycle management, application and software development capabilities, and high-technology staffing services, mPower delivers IT solutions that drive change and meet business objectives for their clients. With company roots founded in 1994, mPower has delivered high visibility solutions to clients in industries ranging from public utilities, defense, financial, FAA, and Fortune 500 organizations.

About BDNA Corporation
BDNA provides the most comprehensive, accurate view into an organization’s IT infrastructure in order to drive critical IT processes and projects around data centers, desktops and enterprise architecture. BDNA discovers and transforms data into business-relevant information required to accelerate corporate initiatives. Technopedia, the world’s largest catalog of IT product information on more than 90,000 enterprise IT products with more than14 million market data points, helps more than 350 companies dramatically increase their IT visibility. To learn more about BDNA and its products – BDNA Discover, BDNA Normalize, BDNA Normalize as a Service and BDNA Technopedia – visit www.bdna.com.

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Date: Thursday, October 20, 2011 at 11:00 AM PDT / 2:00 PM EDT
Speaker: Don Jones, MVP, Concentrated Tech
Host: BDNA and mPower Software Services

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mPower will be presenting along with BDNA and guest speaker Don Jones, MVP, Concentrated Tech on the topic Windows 7 migration and its impact on software licenses. Specifically, mPower will focus on application standardization, and highlight mPower Standardized, an approach to simplifying desktop management, and how the approach can pay big dividends when tackling a large-scale Windows 7 migration.

Are your licensing fees out of line? Do you know what software your users have installed and are actually using?  Are they using every component of their software suites?

If not, your Windows 7 migration might be an excellent time to rationalize what you’re paying for. After all, you’ll be touching every computer anyway.

Join industry expert, Don Jones, as he explores techniques and capabilities that will help you better manage your software licensing. You will learn:

• How to determine what software is Windows 7-compatible
• How to figure out what you got, what you need and what you can get away with during the upgrade
• What software is actually being utilized
• Steps for a better approach to software licensing
• How to achieve and maintain software license compliance

Reduce maintenance and support costs! Find out how in this webcast.

Register now at: http://redmondmag.com/webcasts/2011/09/bdna-oct20.aspx?partnerref=BDNA

mPower Standardized desktop life cycle management methodology is a framework designed to resolve and manage the internal challenge corporations are facing today – The inability to consistently obtain, deploy, manage, and reclaim business assets – including software licensing, hardware, user ID’s, employee credentials and/ or any critical data or asset necessary to introduce and maintain corporate human capital.

This document speaks to the process methodology that manages the design, implementation and delivery of a standardized technical framework which can deliver a
managed desktop lifecycle environment. The functional frameworks which make up the mPower Standardized desktop life cycle management methodology and the critical role of BDNA Discover and BDNA Normalize in the application rationalization phase are discussed. In addition, this document focuses on the subsequent steps used to deliver a more effective approach for desktop standardization and management, while providing a solid desktop foundation for simplifying large scale IT projects including Windows 7™ migrations, technology refreshes, vendor audits, device standardization and IT cost reduction initiatives.

From multiple PC images and non-standard applications, to network device security and software compliance issues, there are many hurdles that enterprise-level businesses struggle to overcome.

Deliver a more effective approach for desktop standardization and management, while providing a solid desktop foundation for simplifying large scale IT projects.

Download the mPower Standardized Whitepaper

Windows 7 is the single biggest release since Windows XP and will have a major impact on your enterprise. From management, to security, to virtualization to application development–every aspect of your IT infrastructure will be affected. Whichever path you take–upgrading an infrastructure over a multi-year refresh cycle or installing Windows 7 on existing computers–it’s critical to gain complete visibility into your infrastructure to ensure a smooth and cost effective upgrade to Windows 7.

For the vast majority of enterprises, migrating to the Windows 7 operating system is not an “if,” but a “when” and “how” question. Migrating to a new generation of Windows operating systems is, if anything, overdue. For a variety of reasons, most enterprises decided to skip Windows Vista, originally released in 2006, giving Windows XP, originally released in 2001, an unexpectedly long life as the standard enterprise-computing platform for business and government agencies. Although Windows XP still maintains the dominant share of enterprise desktop and mobile computers, Microsoft released the final XP service pack in 2008, ceased taking orders for the operating system in October 2010, and will end support for it in April 2014. Even this 2014 end-of-life date comes three years later than expected, and stands as an exception to Microsoft’s policy of 10-year lifecycles for operating system generations.

Download the Windows 7 Migration Whitepaper from BDNA

* this whitepaper provided by BDNA

Standardized™ from mPower Software Services is a total desktop lifecycle management solution designed to resolve, simplify, and manage corporate IT challenges.

From multiple PC images and non-standard applications, to network device security and software compliance issues, there are many  hurdles that enterprise-level businesses struggle to overcome.

Piling on more technology is the most common approach to “fixing” these issues. This usually leads to IT environments which function, but are not truly efficient, cost effective, or cohesive. Tasks such as large-scale Windows® 7 migrations, technology refreshes, or implementing peripherals like iPads and mobile devices, all become more challenging, costly, and less effective without first establishing a solid desktop management foundation.

mPower Standardized Helps You:

• Standardize your desktop environment
• Simplify delivery of new technologies
• Reduce ongoing end user support costs
• Manage and track technology assets across your organization

Download the mPower Standardized Datasheet

The approach that we adopt is the spiral iterative methodology, where the project goes through one or more iterations of all project stages. The above presentation gives a brief overview of the process.

We have defined processes for requirement capture, analysis, design, development, testing and deployment. We generate UML diagrams representing the Use Case Model, Analysis Model, Design Model, Implementation Model and Test Model.

Requirements Definition

In this stage, the customer requirements are gathered. This is done on the basis of information provided by the customer and which could be in the form of documents, existing systems & process specs, on-site analysis interviews with end-users, market research and competitor analysis. The following steps are necessary (but not limited to):

• Requirements analysis with business application goal and high level requirement gathering
• Creation of visual scope document and feature list
• Providing technical recommendations and high level requirement specification

Analysis

A detailed analysis is carried out from the information in the vision & scope document and feature list. The following steps are necessary (but not limited to):

• Analysis and documentation of Software Requirement Specification
• Document Use Case Specification & Diagram and generate Use Case Model
• Design business rules and process workflow diagrams
• Establish Requirement Traceability Matrix
• Validate scope and estimates against the contract and revise if necessary

Design

Application design is developed based on software requirement specification, use case specification, business rules & diagrams and the scope agreed upon in the Requirement Definition stage. The following steps are necessary (but not limited to):

• Designing Architectural Diagrams
• Creation of High Level Design and Low Level Design class diagrams

• Establishment of Entity Relationship Diagram, Data Flow Diagram and Deployment Diagrams
• User Interface – Prototype is developed and validated against the requirement and presented to the client for approval
• The use cases elaborated in the analysis model are represented using collaboration diagrams
• Design model elaborations are made from the analysis model. Validation of the scope, estimates against the contract and revisions are made if necessary
• The Implementation Model is generated from design
• The Test Model is generated from use cases

Development

The actual code based on the design is created and tested against design requirements and test cases. The following steps are necessary (but not limited to):

1) The development of code base proceeds as per implementation and design models
2) The application source code is tested according to the test cases and test plan
3) Documentation of processes
4) Creation of Use Case Test results

Integration & Testing

The developed application is tested through test cases, test plans and user acceptance criteria in the deployed environment.

• Integration and quality testing is carried out resulting in test reports.
• Client acceptance tests carried out.
• Client feedback and debugging.
• Client acceptance

Deployment & Acceptance

Developed application is deployed on the live server.

• Integrated application and deployment plan
• Implementation on client location or hosting server.
• Implementation acceptance by client.
• Creation of archived software
• Transition to the maintenance team.

The steps above are iterated through until the final deliverable is completed.

We will submit a detailed project schedule in accordance with the above deliverables. The project schedule will clearly indicate the responsibility of the client and the developer and indicate the dates by which each person will submit their deliverables.