Servicios – Iktinus

Our Services

We have had the opportunity to be a strategic partner for our customers in different countries, working together in the design and implementation of strategies for their businesses, facing different challenges and obtaining significant benefits with our Cloud Native, migrations, DRP, MSP, data integration and Oracle Stack services.

Migrations

Migrations

Why should you migrate?

Migrating workloads to the cloud is an essential form of transformation in the new era of disruption, as it demands a great effort and commitment to reach a cultural change in the organization.

Migrating applications and workloads to the cloud for operational, exploratory, experimental purposes allows organizations to scale to a level that gives them agility, innovation, and many other benefits such as cost reduction, operational efficiency, enhanced human capital and productivity.

Migration strategies

To migrate successfully, you must have total clarity on your business objectives, impact of applications on the operation, dependencies on other applications, their technological features and migration costs. Choosing an optimal migration strategy is summarized in identifying the following cloud transition scenarios:

Rehost

(Reubicación)

It is the simplest and most common method of all migration options. Applications move to the cloud without any code modification or architecture redesign. This is a quick solution for organizations to reduce their on-premises physical infrastructure costs as soon as possible and start generating cloud exploration and adoption. However, in this scenario organizations typically do not benefit from elasticity as a cloud-native feature. Fortunately, while in the cloud organizations have different mechanisms, tools and services that allow them to redesign, optimize and therefore evolve their applications to a more competitive model.

Replatform

(Replataforma)

It involves optimizing a portion of the application so that it can adapt to services of new generations of infrastructure (virtual machines and containers), databases (DBaaS, NoSQL, Graphs, etc.), storage types, among others, without changing the central structure of the application leading to significant benefits. Replatform provides a suitable midpoint between Rehost and Refactor strategies. Organizations choose this approach when they want to get the most out of the cloud because it represents fewer changes in the application and doesn´t have an impact on their operation.

Refactor

(Refactorización)

It is the most complex option, as it depends on a process of restructuring and recoding the application. In contrast to Replatform's strategy, this option involves changes to the application's code and configuration, allowing you to add state-of-the-art features that are only available on cloud-native architectures. Customers that refactor their applications maximize the efficiency of their cloud environment even though this approach requires more time and resources. This strategy puts organizations in the best position to scale to a higher level of competitiveness because it increases agility, improves business continuity, fosters innovation, increases productivity, and generates cost efficiency.

CASE STUDIES

Confa requería reducir los gastos operativos en mantenimiento de TI, así como el gasto capital en renovaciones y adquisiciones de infraestructura local. Los altos costos estaban limitando la organización para desarrollar, optimizar y transformar sus servicios de valor a los ciudadanos. Al mismo tiempo, la organización era consciente de la necesidad de modernizar y evolucionar su plataforma monolítica y heredada utilizada para ejecutar su solución ERP crítica para el negocio.

At first, Recurso Confiable hosted an application to manage and monitor cargo vehicle traffic based on multiple hosting providers, what caused an inefficient administrative effort, an excessive consumption of computing resources and security vulnerabilities. To solve these shortcomings, the workload was designed and migrated to the cloud based on AWS best practices.

By migrating its mission-critical applications, Kosta Azul overcame performance and scalability issues, as well as eliminating long-term contracts with its data center provider and optimizing excessive time to deploy additional compute capacity for its existing workloads. As a result, Kosta Azul managed to deploy new business ideas in less time and increase the demand of its customers through the e-commerce website.

Cloud Native

The success of new digital initiatives mostly depends on adopting a new model of designing, building, and deploying modern applications on scalable, resilient, high-performance, and cost-efficient architectures based on deployable microservices on container, as well as a rapid and continuous release of new application features through DevOps practices.

DevOps

It is an agile software lifecycle management practice that combines the responsibilities of development and operations teams to provide a more collaborative environment and to automate processes from the beginning to their release into production.

Containers

They are the new revolution in infrastructure that provide a better level of abstraction and utilization of computing resources to package code and dependencies in isolated and independent environments that facilitate the deployment, scalability and portability of microservices.

CI/CD

Continuous integration, continuous delivery and continuous deployments are the automated and consistently controlled procedures that agilely execute a series of actions ranging from unit testing to release in your productive environment, to be consumable by service users.

Microservices

They are independent and decoupled services focused on their point-in-time functionality, allowing the application to be built in a more distributed and fault-tolerant model.

CASE STUDIES

After the difficulties that many restaurants in Colombia experienced with COVID-19, Entu facilitated the reopening of this sector through virtual waiter service that complies with biosecurity measures through a fully digital interaction that is activated by WhatsApp, where users place their order without having physical contact with the staff. Entu's innovative solution was agilely enabled in Amazon Web Services with the support of IKTINUS, modeling a decoupled deployment under a Serverless computing model that provides Entu the benefits of dynamic scalability, less infrastructure management, high availability, and cost reduction.

Confederación Nacional De Organismos De Apoyo Al Transito (CONFEORG) was able to provide a reliable, available and high-performance platform that integrates the service platforms of different companies that provide transit-related services in Colombia. This integration makes it easier for citizens to carry out all kinds of transit procedures online, from a single platform called PAO. This platform was designed, built and deployed using Amazon Web Services based on the principles, standards and best practices of Cloud Native Computing, allowing scalability and agile updates of the application through our practices, procedures and mechanisms complemented by AWS DevOps services.

DRP

Adopting the AWS Cloud for disaster recovery scenarios has enabled customers to overcome rapidly and with a high level of reliability after having suffered interruptions of their services caused by unforeseen events that have directly affected their computing infrastructure where they store and run their mission-critical operations. A cloud disaster recovery plan increases the level of availability of organizations at a reduced cost and without the need to incur in the implementation of complex technologies and licensing them.

CASE STUDIES

La exigencia de sus clientes del sector financiero demandaban que sus soluciones como servicio desplegadas en AWS se complementaran con escenarios de recuperación ante desastres. Estos escenarios fueron implementados con el servicio de CloudEndure bajo las mejores prácticas y estándares en conformidad con los acuerdos de niveles de servicio. Ariaxa logró una excelente calificación por parte de las entidades de bancarias.

Right after the migration project to AWS was completed, Kosta Azul executed the implementation of a disaster recovery scenario in an alternate AWS region distant enough to meet DRP standards.

Productos Químicos Panamericanos (PQP) managed to reestablish its operations with a one-hour RTO and a 15-minute RPO after an impact on the computing infrastructure in its outsourced data center that generated the unavailability of its Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne solution, as a mission-critical ERP for its 7x24 operations with customers through the e-commerce website.

MSP

Many of our customers take advantage of our strong philosophy of an optimal service in IT operations, through best practices, standards and human talent that are required as a Managed Service Provider (MSP). This helps to make the transition in a gradual and evolving way towards a model of management, control, and operation of the IT platform. Our main purpose is to drive and support all our customers to achieve their goals in a more agile and efficient way, by focusing all their effort and resources towards the real mission of their business.

As an MSP we promote trust and commitment, so we become your strategic business partner, rather than a simple service provider.

CASE STUDIES

Productos Químicos Panamericanos nos ha brindado la oportunidad de administrar su plataforma tecnológica de Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne como aplicación de misión crítica de sus operaciones. Esta oportunidad nos ha permitido reflejar a PQP los beneficios de administración delegada y ha eliminado su preocupación en la adquisición y formación de talento para mantener de forma confiable una plataforma crítica para su operación.

Leaders in the ecuadorian automotive market, with a reputation of 88 years has implemented a new culture of services that strengthens the loyalty of its customers and the relationship with its partners and suppliers. Under this same philosophy we give them support by running their mission-critical Oracle stack in Amazon Web Services, achieving cost efficiency, stability, and evolution of their applications.

Its solutions and services in logistics and transportation sector provide its customers with visibility and predictability of all logistics operations, from start to finish. Their energy is focused on improving and creating new solutions for their customers, to achieve this they have our support in the management of their infrastructure on the AWS platform where we use a variety of computing services, databases, analytics and more.

Data Integration

The new data integration practices in the cloud are the basis for the different types of strategies such as Cloud Data Warehouse, Business Analytics, Data Lakesamong others. These practices lead to a better understanding and visibility of the data to gather useful and valuable information for intelligent decision making.

Data integration begins with the extraction process and is complemented by data cleansing, duplication, transformation, and data loading processes. A unified and consistent result of all these interactions results in a highly reliable data, based on accuracy, integrity, and consistency.

CASE STUDIES

The set-up of data ingestion and data at rest corresponding to measurements of quality, volume and productivity of agricultural dairy suppliers, stored in different sources (records of on-site technical visits recorded thru mobile applications, historical performance data in XLS, data recorded through SAP ERP) in a 100% Cloud Native data lake with automated integration and grouping functions. Data lake integration with analytics tools such as Amazon Quick Sight (to create dashboards) and Amazon Athena (direct access to data without provisioning additional development environments) for visibility of results, reports, and statistics.

Its initiative to get a greater use to data in order to generate valuable information and optimize its logistics operations; determined the need to deploy a Cloud Data Warehouse environment to collect and centralize data from different operational sources, both structured and semi-structured, in a data lake on AWS that is later use in its analytics strategies.

Oracle Stack

Working with organizations from different sectors that rely on Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and Oracle E-Business Suite for their operations, has given us more than 20 years of experience in modeling, designing, and deploying architectures of both applications under the Oracle Architecture Reference Framework (ORA).

As a result of the continuous changes in the IT world, we consolidate this experience with the use of methodologies for deploying, updating, migrating, and managing of workloads of Oracle cloud-based applications, which enables our customers to use AWS as a platform for those business solutions in productive, non-productive environments, and other types of scenarios such as disaster recovery that complement their IT architectures.

CASE STUDIES

Ha podido reestablecer ágilmente sus operaciones de JD Edwards EnterpriseOne en AWS cuando ha experimentado interrupciones totales en su centro de datos principal.

Ejecutó un proyecto de modernización con la migración de JD Edwards EnterpriseOne de iSeries hacia AWS. Pudo obtener beneficios de reducción de costos, agilidad organizacional y productividad del equipo de TI.

As part of the pharmaceutical industry in Ecuador, Farmacid deployed in record time the latest version of Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne on AWS.

It achieved the upgrade to latest version of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne in compliance with pharmaceutical regulations by adopting AWS services.