Recent Case Study:
Expertise:
Disaster Recovery
Aquarion Water, the largest privately owned water utility in New England, utilizes SAP as their primary business application system. With the startup of SAP in 2007, the company found it necessary to significantly expand their IT infrastructure.
The company recognized a need to develop a disaster recovery plan for SAP and the IT infrastructure. They identified the risk to the business in the event of a natural or manmade disaster. Further, water utilities are regulated by state and federal entities including the Homeland Security Department.
About Us:
A full range of information management consulting techniques, skills and expertise are utilized to develop integrated solutions appropriate to address today’s emerging business information systems and technical environment.
Data Center Design:
The modern data center is a hardened facility dedicated to providing uninterrupted service to business-critical data processing and network operations. Among its features are:
- High availability – 24x7
- Fail safe reliability and continuous monitoring
- Power management
- Network communications, redundancy and path diversity
- Network security, physical access control and video surveillance
- Zoned environmental control
- Fire suppression and early warning smoke detection systems
- High performance cabling infrastructure
A successful plan for a data center design begins with the client determining the business objectives and availability requirements. This results in a conceptual data center design from which construction estimates and schedules are developed.
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ERP:
In the modern business world, ERP systems have revolutionized the way business is conducted. These systems have provided the platform for a new process oriented business model.
ERP is short for enterprise resource planning, a business management system that integrates all facets of the business, including planning, manufacturing, sales, and marketing.
Typically, an ERP includes the functions of accounting and finance, supply chain, fixed assets, manufacturing, human resources and payroll, projects, and customer relationship management.
Historically, organizations relied on a number of business systems to support business activities. Typically, there would be one system for each business function, such as accounting, human resources, manufacturing, purchasing, and the like.
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Disaster Recovery:
Many tragic, catastrophic, or malicious events over the last few years – storms, floods, acts of terrorism, operational errors, viruses, and hackers – have cost companies in lost revenue, customers, and valuable data. Organizations are facing new regulatory burdens such Sarbanes Oxley and HIPPA. Corporate executives have become increasingly aware of the need to devise and implement risk mitigation and recovery plans that protect data and quickly restore operations should another catastrophe occur.
Hawthorne Associate’s Disaster Recovery solutions use a proactive approach to avoid or minimize the impact such disasters could have on your business. It starts by understanding your business, areas of greatest risk, and priorities. This is accomplished by taking time to understand the challenges facing individual business units and examining how downtime impacts every critical corporate-level function that runs your business and services your customers.
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