Strategic consultants in LDAP and directory architecture - Symlabs

Strategic consultancy

Directory enabled technology has become an "infrastructure component" and as such its importance and visibility has been raised within organizations. This fact is true from a business level perspective as well as an architectural, application and operational viewpoint. Because of the sensitivity of directory service implementations at a global level, business level personnel have to understand the implications, complexity and impact of considering the use of directory technologies as part of their enterprise solutions. Symlabs provides high-level consultancy for impact analysis, risk analysis, implementation strategies and business modeling with directory technologies.

Architecture, performance and security

For large enterprise solutions such as portals or e-commerce solutions, directories play a very important role. More often than not multiple directories are deployed within the whole enterprise information architecture. Directories frequently interact and cooperate with other data sources, be they corporate databases or specialized repositories used by products like SAP, PeopleSoft, etc. These cooperations need to be included in the overall enterprise architecture and require specialized knowledge of directory architectures in order to achieve seamless integration and design for optimum performance and security. Issues of performance and security are separate topics in themselves. Our consultants can provide performance analysis of your directory implementations and make appropriate recommendations. Our consultants can also provide a security audit for your directory implementation and propose solutions to tighten up or close any loop holes that might exist. Our consultants have provided solutions for global scaleable architectures and provide high-level synopses and artifacts to illustrate the issues in a concise and understandable manner.

Administration, installations and migrations

We have experienced consultants that will provide the necessary assistance to ensure that your directory is correctly installed and administered. We perform the initial installation and administration with your own system administrator while at the same time explaining the process so that he/she can manage from that point on. Data migration from one directory to another e.g. iPlanet v4.0 to iPlanet v5.0 is not as straightforward as might be expected. The area of data integrity is of the utmost importance and something that we at Symlabs understand very well. We specialize in data migration exercises and excel in providing this service in an extremely efficient manner with minimal disruption to service and without compromising data integrity.

Customized development

Symlabs has on its staff experienced LDAP developers proficient in C, C++, Perl, Sun/iPlanet, Netscape, OpenLDAP, NDS, Microsoft Active Directory, and of course DirectoryScript. Naturally, developing Internet Infrastructure components requires an in-depth knowledge of many network protocols such as TCP/IP, SSL, SMTP, SMPP, etc. Our staff has developed its own directory productivity products in house. Our professional services group is readily available for your short-term LDAP development requirements.

About Symlabs

Symlabs focuses on Identity Management. We offer "standards based" software components like the Symlabs Virtual Directory Server, Symlabs LDAP Proxy and the Symlabs Federated Identity Suite. We also offer software support, training and professional services.