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Internet Skills Provider

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The Prevail Biography• Incorporated April 1997• Background of the Founders:

– IT Consulting & Systems Integration Jill Broyles, President

– Public Accounting/Technology Wayde McMillan, Chief Financial Officer

• Profitable Since Inception

• Independent, Self Funded

• Sustaining 100+% Annual Growth

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Prevail’s IBM Relationship • IBM Premier Partner - Software Program

• Member, Web Integrators’ Initiative

• Practiced, certified skills including …• Websphere

• Commerce Suite (Net.Commerce)

• MQ-Series

• TSM

• HACMP

• AIX, SP

• DB2 (EEE) etc, etc.

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Prevail’s End User Clients

BankBoston Ericsson Kodak

BlueCross Fidelity Liberty Mutual

Bayer First Data Mass Mutual

Chase Gartner Group Navisite

Chrysler GTE Onlinesuppliers

CIGNA Honda SONY

Citibank IBM Stop & Shop

EMC Informix Worldbook

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Prevail’s Channel Partners ...

• Availant• Berkshire• Champion• Directech/Emerge (www.directechemerge.com)

• IBM• Keylink (Dickens, Pioneer)• Thoughtbubble

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Technical Expertise• Full Time Consulting Team

– No contractors.

– Incentives on delivery and quality of service.

• Team is Highly Trained & Certified– Consultants average 12 years IT Experience

– Average 3 Specialty Certifications per consultant

– Average 6 weeks training annually

• Strong Reputation – Highly skilled professionals providing mission critical solutions

across all platforms

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Prevail Services Framework

IBM Sun HP Intel

AIX

Performance Tuning / Capacity Planning

High Availability

Storage Management

DataManagement

BusinessIntegration Messaging &

Collaboration

e-Commerce Security

e-business Solutions

Data Management: DB2 UDB, DB2 EEE, Data Warehousing, Oracle,Informix, Parallel Databases, Tuning, Data Modeling, Data Migration

e-Commerce: WebSphere Commerce Suite, Java, WebSphereApplication Server, MQ Series, Firewalls

Business Integration: WebSphere Application Server, MQ Series, Host On-Demand, Host Publisher

Security: SecureWay Firewall, Policy Director, Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), PKI Messaging: E-mail, Messaging, Work Flow Collaboration

e-infrastructure Services

Storage Management: Tivoli Storage Manager (ADSM), Legato, Disaster Recovery, Storage Area Networks (SANs), RAID, SSA, EMC, CLARiiON

High Availability: IBM-HACMP, Sun Cluster, Veritas Firstwatch, HP-MC/ServiceGuard, Single Point of Failure Analysis

Performance/Capacity: OS Migration and Tuning, System Planning, Integration, and Capacity Analysis

Supported Platforms

Open Systems Planning & Integration, Capacity Planning,Migrations & Upgrades

OS/400 NT LinuxSolaris HP-UX

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Benefits of Partnering with Prevail• We provide complex web based solutions

– General Contractor– Point Services– Knowledge Base/Support/Skills Transfer

• Access to high-level expertise and information– Continuing Education– Vendor Relationships– Industry Involvement– State of the Science

• Continuity– Focused on long term client relationships– Business Model– Client Knowledge– Customer Satisfaction

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Prevail Business Model

• Permanence & Commitment

• Understanding your business

• Three Points of Contact …– Executive

– Client

– Architectural

• Exploiting the IBM Product Set

• Providing Agility and Access

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The Cycle• Transform …

– Customer Relationship Management– Supply Chain Management– E-commerce

• Build– Application Framework

• Run– Systems & Storage– Systems & Network Management– Security

• Leverage– Messaging & Collaboratoin– Distance Learning– Business Intelligence

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IBM Application Frameworkfor e-business

• Development …– Domino Designer– Websphere Studio– VisualAge Family– San Francisco

• Web Serving– Websphere Family– Domino Application Server

• Security– SecureWay Software– SecureWay Toolbox

• Enabling– DB2 Universal Database– MQSeries Family– Host Integration– IBM Suites