Tlou Technologies & Consultants

IT & ERP Strategy

Many organizations choose to formalize their information technology strategy in a written document or balanced scorecard strategy map. The plan and its documentation should be flexible enough to change in response to new organizational circumstances and business priorities, budgetary constraints, available skill sets and core competencies, new technologies and a growing understanding of user needs and business objectives. Tlou assists organisations identify how ERP can help stimulate high performance.

Business Blueprinting and Process Reengineering

Tlou utilizes our proprietary WAR ON WASTE™ methodology to interpret the business case/business requirements, develop business blueprints and perform process reengineering. Our methodology merges SAP's best practice workflows with Tlou's interactive process modeling tools. We help our clients increase business benefits by identifying process improvements that support business operations and long-term growth.

SAP ERP Implementation, Upgrades & Operational Support

Using our proprietary WAR ON WASTE™ and ASAP SAP's implementation methodology, which leverages elements of ASAP and SAP Solution Manager, Tlou guides mid- to large-sized companies in the planning, management and completion of their SAP ERP software implementations to realize increased benefits and minimize disruption. On average, our clients implement their ERP packages in 10% less time and at 30% less cost than they would without our services.

Our WAR ON WASTE™ Methodology for Support ensures that our consultants proactively support the environment, constantly appraising the clients on the user maturity and additional process optimisations that could be enabled to derive further ROI.

SAP Staffing

Our network of thousands of SAP professionals and our approach to SAP staffing gives organizations access to high-caliber, carefully screened talent that can't be found elsewhere.

SAP Support

Utilizing Tlou's WAR ON WASTE™, we provide boots-on-the-ground support for all aspects of an SAP project — from business process modeling/customization to application implementation to project management to end-user training and organizational change management.

Organizational Change Management

Tlou helps clients develop, actualize and sustain long-term organizational changes to best realize the business improvements enabled by their SAP systems. Services include staff management, organizational design, readiness assessments, strategic communication planning and project branding.

End-User Training

Tlou's end-user training philosophy starts with the big picture and drills down to the transactional details. Our WAR ON WASTE™ methodology embraces the following:

• First, we teach users how the system fits together
• Then, we explain how the new processes change everything
• We drill down to show how to enter the system transactions
• And finally, we test knowledge and competence through our assessments

Data Quality

Best Practice processes for the Enterprise Data Management Maturity Model recognize that an examination of people, processes, and technology identifies ways to improve data integrity. Greater process maturity should mean greater business benefit(s):

• Reduced Cost
• Greater Efficiency
• Reduced Risk

Data Governance

Best Practice integration platform as a service (iPaaS) provides capabilities to enable organisations (also known as "tenants") to implement integration projects involving any combination of cloud-resident and on-premises endpoints, including APIs, mobile devices and the Internet of Things (IoT). This is achieved by developing, deploying, executing, managing and monitoring integration processes and flows that connect multiple endpoints, so that they can work together.

Best Practice Areas

The data management disciplines we deliver against:

• Customer Intelligence
• Dashboard and Scorecards
• Data Governance
• Data Quality
• Enterprise BI
• Enterprise Data Warehousing

Best Practice Areas (continued)

• Master Data Warehousing
• Master Data Management
• Operational BI
• Predictive & IOT
• Unstructured Data Integrated in BI

Process Managing

• Management Consultancy
• Business Process Mapping
• Business Process Integration
• Business Analysis
• Process Performance Management

Information Management

Structured / unstructured data.

• Data Mining
• Data Integration
• Data Integrity & Quality
• Enterprise Data Access
• Master Data Management
• SAP Data Integrator

Networking

• Implementation, monitoring and maintenance of MPLS networks
• Fortigate Firewalls
• Sonicwall Firewalls
• Routing and switching

Data Center

• Implementation, monitoring and maintenance of customers' data centres
• Configuration, monitoring and maintenance of server farms, Dell and IBM
• Storage maintenance
• Networking
• UPS monitoring
• Access control

Virtualisation

• Implementation, monitoring and maintenance of virtualised customer clouds (private and public)
• Hyper-V Technology
• VMWare Technology
• Shared storage pools
• Shared server environments

VOIP

• Implementation, monitoring and maintenance of customer telecommunication networks
• Migration from traditional ISDN lines and copper to Voice Over Internet Protocol
• Telephone management systems
• Analysis of telephone bills
• Multivendor PABX systems support

WiFi

We deploy wireless networks for organisations.

• Ruckus Technology
• Unifi Communications Networks
• Wireless point-to-point and point-to-multipoint setups
• Wireless internet providers

Monitoring

• Monitoring MPLS networks
• Server monitoring
• Telephones and PABX system monitoring
• Network vulnerability scans
• Antivirus application monitoring

Cloud Computing

We offer on-demand availability of computer system resources, data storage, computing power and business applications. Tlou Technologies provides the following cloud services/solutions:

• IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)
• PaaS (Platform as a Service)
• SaaS (Software as a Service)
• DRaaS (Disaster Recovery as a Service)
• BaaS (Backup as a Service)

Software Development

With our agile methodology we develop bespoke application software effortlessly and to specification for our clients. We have over 20 years of combined experience and knowledge in developing and maintaining software solutions/applications. It is our goal to provide our clients with cost-effective, professional and efficient software that will save you time. Our motto is to deliver on time and within budget.

Whether your company needs a solution that will automate the routine work of employees, store data and information or provide comprehensive workflows, we provide the solutions for your business. We provide custom applications for varying types of industries — our responsive web interfaces allow users to log into their systems safely and securely from anywhere in the world and access them in real-time.

Technology

• Java
• Joomla
• WordPress
• PHP MySQL
• .NET
• SQL Server
• Python

Management Centre

• Simplified Deployment — zero-touch provisioning
• Centralized Management — deployment flexibility and scale; optimized policy management
• Compliance — continuous risk management; compliance reporting
• Security Analytics — real-time network monitoring and reporting; real-time Indicator of Compromise (IoC) detection; SOC adoption
• Network Automation — automation hooks; enterprise integration; central management hardware; analytics, reporting & response; Indicators of Compromise Service (IOC); security rating service

Security Operations Centre

Artificial-intelligence-driven security operations.

• AI (Artificial Intelligence) in FortiGuard Labs
• Artificial Intelligence deployed inline
• Artificial Intelligence for advanced threat detection
• Artificial Intelligence to speed response

Zero-Trust Network Access & Open Fabric Ecosystem

Zero-trust network access across users, devices and applications, delivered on an open fabric ecosystem.

• Fabric connector authentication
• Ease of deployment
• Automate security

Secure WLAN / LAN

• Secure SD-Branch — integrate SD-WAN and LAN; security-driven networking
• Campus networks
• Teleworker

Endpoint and Device Protection

• Real-time, automated endpoint protection — real-time breach and ransomware protection; incident response
• Endpoint visibility and control — visibility and zero-trust network access; web filtering for compliance control

Cloud Infrastructure — Dynamic Cloud Security

• Platform Security — SaaS; IaaS
• Application Security — web application security; secure productivity
• Network Security — secure hybrid cloud; cloud security services hub

Application Security

Business-critical applications.

• Securing web applications — web application security; web API security
• Securing email — advanced email threat defense; securing cloud-based email (Microsoft 365 and Google G Suite)
• Securing cloud applications — visibility; compliance; data security; threat protection
• CASB — insights into resources, user behaviour and data stored

Fortinet Next Generation Firewalls

Firewalls and services integrated in Fortinet next-generation firewalls:

• IPS – Intrusion Prevention System
• Secure Web Gateway
• SSL Inspection
• Application Optimization
• Cloud-On-Ramp
• VPN
• Perimeter Security
• Hyperscale Applications
• Network Automation
• Compliance
• Threat Intelligence