Today's organizations need managers and staff who can handle their IT environments with confidence and experience.  Providing competency based training is the first step towards organizational efficiency and a technically enriched staff that is equipped with knowledge and experience in industry best practices.

CMI University provides world-class technology training from instructors with extensive industry experience who will help drive your technology from today’s standards into tomorrow’s innovations.  With over 20 years’ of experience delivering training programs, we understand that everyone's needs are different; therefore we provide cost-effective training solutions delivered to the level and context most suitable for your environment and your people. We offer both standard and custom courses to fit the diverse needs of our customers, which ensure that everyone will get the opportunity to have an unbeatable educational experience.   All of our efforts focus on the success and satisfaction of our students, and we plan for training that is geared for the customer’s environment.

CMI University arms your workforce with the knowledge and skills they need to meet your strategic goals. CMI University’s training courses are designed to help you leverage the power of CM and ALM best practices and methodologies so you can drive your organization with greater proficiency, which will result in better quality, control, and profitability.

We can help you create a comprehensive training plan, manage your talent, and offer flexibility with our live and/or virtual course options. We will follow-up after each training experience, assuring your staff that the training they received is helping with skills needed on the job.  No matter what your particular area of need, CMI University is here to deliver quality training programs to fit the needs of your organization.

CMI University is committed to providing world-class training and an outstanding educational experience. All of our efforts focus on your success and satisfaction.

Benefits of CMI University

• Customized training programs developed by a team of instructors, project managers, and subject matter experts with extensive industry experience.
• Phased approach allowing students to reach a level of competency, then progressing on to next level through certification program availability.
• Pre-training and post-training assessments to measure training benefits, and leverage plans for career development.

Contact us and learn how to get started with a training program today!

IT organizations require quality driven test data of huge volumes, which strictly adheres to standards regarding handling of confidential and sensitive data for their testing needs. Additionally, strict data privacy regulations are enforced to companies to protect personally identifiable information.

CMI Test Data Management team provides optimized test data on time to support critical business application with more reliable and repeatable testing process to accelerate time-to-market and reduce cost.

Data Loading – Using the Abinito & utility scripts, we support extraction and loading of huge volume of data into a target data repository for testing needs. We support data loading in Oracle, DB2, Teradata, MS SQL Server and MVS.

Data Masking – Using the Abinito tool and UNIX utility scripts, sensitive data is masked based on pre-built or custom functions to comply with privacy regulations and data governance policies.

Data Conditioning – This is to support the ongoing modification of existing data in pre-production environments to enable testing to support creation & maintenance of test data in New Functionality, Regression, Integration, System and Performance Testing.

Special Projects Consulting – We analyze business and technical operations, guide on overall enterprise architecture, conduct training, and deliver customized solutions to meet customer needs.

Key benefits

• Reduce costs by reducing the time required for extracting large amount of distributed data for testing and thereby accelerating application delivery
• Mitigate risk by supporting data privacy and security: Masks sensitive data with built-in functions for commonly used data types (for example, social security numbers, phone numbers, ...etc)
• Accelerate testing by empowering testing team to generate and refresh data.
• Reduces the cost of data storage for databases used in testing environments
• Improve quality through automation of error-prone processes.

The Ab Initio development suite provides an easy way to perform ETL development. However, for mid to large companies, the Ab Initio Suite of tools including Co-Operating System, the Graphical Development Environment (GDE), the Enterprise Meta Environment (EME) as well as other products can be very expensive not only in license costs but also from a maintenance perspective.

CMI’s Ab Initio Administration team manages one of the most complex Ab Initio implementations in the world. Our teams are extremely lean and efficient. Services provided by our highly experienced technical staff include (but are not limited to):

Ab Initio Software Administration

• Highly automated and streamlined process for managing high volume of Graphical Development Environment (GDE) license keys using Key Server software and custom built automation.
• Installation, configuration and license key management of Co-Operating system, Enterprise Meta Environment (EME), Work Load Manager (WLM), Resource Monitor and other Ab Initio products on all platforms,
• Primary point of contact for all Ab Initio environment/configuration related issues.
• Design, setup and maintain new Ab Initio environments for development, test and production on UNIX and Windows Servers including setting up the sandbox space, configuring and building out the data directory partitions (Serial/MFS) and the corresponding EME regions.

Enterprise Meta Environment Administration

The CMI team manages one of the most complex EME implementations with several 1000’s of EME projects in each EME and 10’s of thousands of jobs running in production. Services include:

• Administer the Enterprise Meta Environment (EME) which includes:
  • Set user groups and security with access control
  • Use internal namespace for the EME web portal
  • Automated EME backups and health checks.
  • Perform repository purge to reduce disk growth
  • Perform EME upgrades and related EME testing.
  • Provide technical support to Developers/Testers/Production support teams.

• Develop and maintain (in UNIX Korn Shell):
  • Project creation scripts.
  • EME Project Migration scripts.
  • EME Check-out Scripts.
  • Data directory build out scripts.
  • Automation scripts to perform EME branching and merging.

Savings

CMI’s experience and expertise with the Ab Initio tool set have allowed us to offer our clients savings of the order of:

• $ 3,000,000 + for Server disk space.
• $ 1,500,000 + for GDE license keys.
• $ 1,000,000 + for EME instance licenses.
• Self service implementation for highly frequency requests such as code-checker/data lineage checks, thus reducing Ab Initio Administration support staff.
• Highly optimized and automated code-promotion/checkout/data-directory build-out scripts which speed up day-to-day Configuration management activities and reduce deployment times.

Special Projects and Consulting

CMI can provide consulting to improve existing Ab Initio Administration/License management processes. We can also perform special projects such as:

• Ab Initio MFS (Multi-file system) expansion from 8-way to 16-way using existing file systems without adding additional disk in most cases.
• Windows Proxy Server setup to allow SQL server access from Linux servers running Ab Initio jobs.
• Automated production server disk space management by proactively monitoring the different file partitions for files not conforming to standards and reporting directly to the offenders by automated emails.

Contact us to learn more about our Ab Initio services.

Cloud Computing is a profound evolution and is the new model for consuming and delivering IT Services. It enables a more efficient, flexible and collaborative approach to developing and delivering solutions.  Cloud solutions provide significant economies of scale, greater business agility and increased innovation.

CMI’s Cloud-Based Consulting Services provide efficient yet flexible services to support the development of new solutions with consistent quality.  Our cloud services improve productivity by enabling agile collaboration within software development lifecycles.

CMI’s ECM Services in the Cloud (CMiCloud) is a flexible approach to providing ECM services in a Cloud-Based solution. 

In today's age it becomes a challenge for organizations to provide flexible and efficient Enterprise Configuration Management solutions in demanding geographically distributed development environments. CMI has leveraged their 20 years of experience providing best-practice ECM Solutions and is proud to introduce CMiCloud  - ECM Services in the Cloud. CMiCloud ECM solutions include hosting leading CM tools such as Subversion, IBM Rational Team Concert and Microsoft Team Foundation Server. We offer Hosting, Tool Configuration, Tool Administration, and Operational Support Services.

CMiCloud Consulting Services provide an advanced usage or consumption based model for clients.

Our flexible consumption based model allows customers to utilize the services they need. There is no need for organizations to be burdened with fixed costs. CMI’s service model provides the flexibility to pay for services as companies need them.

CMiCloud Consulting Services provide “service-based” pricing options for clients.

Our pricing also reflects its experience and maturity in providing services.  CMI provides a “service-based” pricing model that prices services based on the services provided.  This service-based pricing model allows customers to directly relate their costs to the services they are receiving.

Coupled with our consumption based approach, CMI has the most advanced cloud service model in the industry.

Contact us today to learn more about our Cloud-Based Consulting Services.