Akula IT Services is in the business of providing products & services in two distinct segments of an enterprise’s Information Technology:

• Application / Transaction Performance Management
• Business Intelligence / Analytics / Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting

We help maintain optimal performance of a myriad of transactions, as they occur in various applications across physical and virtual environments, thus ensuring satisfaction of end-users as they complete their transactions quickly, from wherever they are in this world.

Such transactions which get into data warehouses are an immense source of information to achieve business objectives. Our experienced analysts help decision-makers to improve their business performance by providing them timely and meaningful information by deploying and implementing analytical and planning tools.

CONSULTING:
We provide a range of professional management and technology consulting services to help you in improving business performance. We analyze key trends and directions in information management and technology in areas of Application Performance Management, Business Intelligence & analytics, Information Integration, Data Warehousing and related fields.

TRAINING:
Our services include a range of standard and customized training programs that impart adequate knowledge to empower people in your organization to manage and use the implemented solutions fully.

Mission critical applications in today’s enterprises are becoming more complex. Also, in order to cut costs of maintaining IT infrastructure and to ease operational hassles, many enterprises are adopting virtualization. Many applications are being ported to the cloud, either private or public.

While virtualization can help enterprises reduce sprawl and bring IT infrastructure costs under control, the gains could be limited unless they can manage application performance effectively.

With applications much easier to deploy and run in virtual machines, companies could end up with more applications and less uniformity in how they are configured, deployed and monitored. Each application instance or component typically runs in its own VM, which can make monitoring and troubleshooting complicated. If critical components such as the webserver, application server, and database server are running in different VMs and that too with software from different vendors, monitoring and root-cause analysis for slowdown / failure becomes even more difficult. Each component may have its own performance monitoring tools, making it harder to gain an end-to-end perspective.

Most organizations already have ERP applications that do a fine job with both operational and financial processes once the data are entered in a system-acceptable format. Yet those systems were not built to address the complexity that surrounds the marriage of operations and financial processes. When the business environment becomes too complex, issues arise, including:

• Gaps form between systems, forcing costly manual effort to complete the process (manually extract data from one system to enter it into another; using error-prone spreadsheets to collect information; manually checking data validity)
• Inability to drill into and interact with operational systems when questions arise and require further analysis and understanding, again requiring manual effort
• Crucial but complex metrics are out of reach, because they need to be derived from multiple analytical and operational systems

arcplan bridges the gaps in performance management to deliver:

• Performance Scorecards and Dashboards – providing complex metrics using strategic, financial, and operational data
• Operational Performance Management – extending financial analysis to key operational environments to drive changes within the business
• Solution Templates Made Easy – With CFO Cockpit, a solution template based on arcplan Enterprise, financial managers have access to instant answers to crucial financial questions.