Paremus consultancy engagements are crafted to meet the specific requirements of each of our customers and will usually include elements from the following:

Before embarking on any major re-engineering project, it is important to first understand the current operational environment:

• Application architecture audit
Classifying types of application and their coupling to existing middleware and infrastructure.

• Review of current Infrastructure services
Including deployment, configuration & monitoring and approaches to high-availability and distributed processing.

• Operational and Environmental recovery capabilities
Including the efficiency of the detect, decision, repair cycles; and an understanding of CAP trade-offs (consistency, availability, partitionability) for each business system.

• Review effectiveness of development, build, test and release process

• Summarize degree of accrued accidental complexity
Examples include architectural inconsistency, inappropriate use of technologies, inconsistent middleware strategies and virtual machine image sprawl.

The results of this analysis provide the baseline against which the success of any subsequent IT transformation can be measured.

Software modularity and dynamic assembly promise unprecedented levels of application agility and operation efficiency. Paremus engineering consultants can help you ‘boot-strap’ your OSGi migration via:

• OSGi development, build and test tooling.

• Dependency analysis of current systems and re-factoring / migration strategies.

• Application modularity best practices - granularity and management trade-offs.

• Realizing code re-use.

• Version management, Release, Upgrade and Governance.

In addition, our consultants can advise on the suitability of popular OSGi frameworks including OSGi Blueprint Service and Declarative Services, provide a brief on applicability of OSGi Alliance EEG standards, as well as advise and demonstrate the use of non-Java runtime languages such as Scala.

Paremus consultants have helped some of the largest organizations plan and implement their OSGi migration strategies, and can exploit this experience to help you efficiently leverage the advantages offered by modular software and composite applications.

Paremus believes that many large organizations will not outsource their business critical systems and data to Public Cloud providers. These organizations do, however, want to achieve the resource flexibility and operational cost savings achieved by these providers.

Paremus consultants can help you understand the opportunities and risks associated with adopting a Private and Hybrid Cloud strategy.

Building upon an environmental baseline, Paremus engineers can provide:

• A Cloud readiness analysis of your portfolio of business systems.

• Associated ROI, Operational Risk, Lock-In analysis and business case preparation.

• Implementation of a Private and/or Hybrid Cloud proof of concept to demonstrate ROI.

• A migration and application re-engineering strategy.

• Design and implementation of a Private and/or Hybrid Cloud.

Paremus engineers can help you to navigate the architectural design choices that present themselves as your organization moves to its next generation of composite Cloud based systems, including the appropriate use of NoSQL solutions and low latency P2P messaging.

Whether you are implementing a full Service Fabric-powered Private Cloud or a single distributed application running across a few Nimble nodes, Paremus and our System Integration partners have the skills and services to ensure your projects are successful delivered and operationally maintainable.

Paremus Service Fabric engagements typically include:

• Business justification
ROI analysis and business case preparation.

• Proof of Concept
Helping you deliver your first Service Fabric application.

• Migration & Best Practices
Developing OSGi based Service Fabric applications and supporting JEE and non-Java components.

• Build, Test, Release, Run & Governance
Ensuring effective governance while maintaining developer efficiency and operational agility.

• Site Design
Planning and configuring a Service Fabric runtime.

• Integration
Service Fabric integration with your existing directory, authentication, monitoring, OS / virtual machine provisioning and reporting services.