Nakisa Private Cloud deployment overview

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Nakisa Private Cloud is a cloud computing platform that keeps your data safe within your corporate firewall. This deployment option enables you to benefit from the same features and advantages of the cloud, without compromising control over your company data, data security, and regulatory compliance. By using Nakisa Private Cloud, you can continue to focus on your strategic business objectives without needing to shift the focus onto IT infrastructure.

A scalable private cloud platform with high availability and dependability, Nakisa Private Cloud offers the flexibility to implement

Nakisa’s solutions without the burden of operational and configuration concerns. Nakisa’s unique architecture leverages SAP’s data model and works as its data repository. This architecture makes it possible to run Nakisa’s solutions in the private cloud environment without any persistent data. The information is maintained directly in your SAP environment.

Since Nakisa provides and maintains its solutions through its private cloud as a service, your company can easily and quickly solve some of its toughest technology challenges.

Introducing Nakisa Private Cloud

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Nakisa Private Cloud eliminates the need to purchase, install and maintain servers to host Nakisa’s solutions, while preserving the functionality and security of your data and systems. This helps reduce costs, increases efficiency, and introduces innovative business models to make your organization more agile with a fully managed service that can adapt to your needs quickly.

Business continuity is crucial to business agility. That is why protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your data and service is of utmost importance to Nakisa. To deliver the full benefits of a private cloud, Nakisa integrates unified data center architecture with intelligent, cloud-ready networks. This helps to simplify IT operations, maintain your security standards, increase business agility and enable consistent cloud experiences.

Nakisa’s solutions leverage SAP’s data model and security, so that you can continue to manage your data and user accounts within SAP. By moving your infrastructure into the private cloud, your organization can focus on its core business as opposed to spending time and resources managing infrastructure.

Unlike other vendor offerings, Nakisa Private Cloud hosts and maintains each client’s solutions separately. This enables enhanced security of your company data and information. It creates a closed, secure connectivity between your network and the Nakisa cloud environment. Only incoming connections that originate from your specified network are allowed. Authentication as well as authorization controls delegated to the source SAP system ensure that authorized users see information as per the access provided to them.

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Nakisa Private Cloud: Cost-effective, flexible, secure


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SuitabilityBenefitsSolutionObjectives

• A unique architecture that leverages SAP’s data model and works as its data repository, which makes it possible to run Nakisa’s solutions in the private cloud environment without any persistent data.

• A network that provides a highly secure user experience, wherever the user may be.

• A standardized and flexible approach to deploying and delivering IT infrastructure.

• Agile and rapid access to IT infrastructure and services leveraging automated and on-demand resource provisioning capabilities.

• High availability, security and monitoring with high level redundancy, so you can relax knowing your technology is up and running.

• An automated monitoring system to provide a high level of service performance and availability.

• A robust and resilient IT architecture designed to tolerate system or hardware failures with minimal impact.

• A separate, unshared, platform to create a closed, secure connectivity between your network and the Nakisa Private Cloud environment.

Nakisa Private Cloud offers:

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✓ Increase business agilityImprove the ability to respond to shifting market demands and changes in IT-supported business processes. If your organization grows as a result of a merger or market changes, the private cloud will enable you to gain control over your newly expanded network and adapt quickly.

✓ Reduce costs and save time Decrease costs by accelerating implementation and by eliminating the need to purchase, install and maintain solutions that also require specialized skills.

✓ Keep your data in a secure locationWith the private cloud, your data stays with you and you can be assured that the data transmission is fully secure in a closed, private environment. Also, your data will never be lost since it remains up-to-date in your SAP ERP. To further enhance security, Nakisa Private Cloud hosts and maintains each client’s solutions separate from other clients and the information is not publicly available on the internet.

✓ Visualize real-time data from any locationAuthorized users always visualize the most up-to-date information. With Nakisa solutions, leveraging SAP authentication and security models, only certain authorized user groups are allowed to access and write back information directly into SAP ERP.

✓ Comply with regulatory protocolsNakisa Private Cloud has been independently validated to comply with the PCI Data Security Standards as a shared host service provider, most requirements from EU Directive 95/46/EC, and will enable you to meet regional data hosting regulations. This ensures standard security and infrastructure architecture compliance requirements are met.

✓ Visualize and update data in real timeAuthorized users always visualize the most up-to-date information. With Nakisa solutions, leveraging SAP authentication and security models, only certain authorized user groups are allowed to access and write back information directly into SAP ERP.

✓ Ensure business continuity with high availability With Nakisa Private Cloud, the operating system, software and services that power your solutions are included in the monitoring. You have access to a comprehensive monitoring platform that displays the status of the infrastructure.

✓ Obtain high quality expert implementationNakisa’s solutions are implemented by expert implementation consultants to ensure: installation and validation of the configured solution, performance, system testing and support, and training.

✓ Take advantage of a shared responsibility environmentNakisa Private Cloud relieves a company’s operational burden by managing and controlling the components from the dedicated physical server to the host operating system and virtualization layer down to the physical security of the facilities in which the services operate.

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• Data security & privacy is important to your organization Nakisa Private Cloud keeps your data safe within your corporate firewall. You own and are in control of your data, which ensures no unauthorized or accidental access to your critical information. HR data is fetched in real-time, in a secure manner from your SAP ERP, which is presented to users authenticated against your SAP system. As no persistent data of a client ever gets stored in the Nakisa Private Cloud environment and since each client instance is logically separated through virtualization and an encrypted dedicated hardware tunnel, firewall rules and other network layers, the client instance is always secure.

• You must comply with government operations guidelines No public cloud model is flexible enough to accommodate all regulations around the world. The Nakisa Private Cloud architecture will empower you to control compliance.

• You need a flexible, adaptable solution to meet continuously changing business needs If you need a tailored solution, complete control of your data, and the flexibility of cloud at the same time, the private cloud is the way to go. It delivers the level of scalability to satisfy your immediate software needs. With a private cloud, you can quickly recalibrate IT resources changing needs. By centrally managing hosts through the use of automated processes that manage the cloud infrastructure, the data center is able to achieve high availability, repeatability, scalability, robust security and disaster recovery, therefore maintaining business continuity.

• You have immediate business requirements With high availability and dependability, Nakisa Private Cloud offers the flexibility to implement Nakisa’s solutions without the burden of operational and configuration concerns. This helps accelerate implementation so that your business can readily benefit from your SAP ERP solution investments.

• You want to save on IT infrastructure costs Nakisa Private Cloud provides all the great benefits of virtualization, security and cost-savings. With this deployment option, you no longer need to purchase hardware and maintain software, saving both in time and costs.

The Private Cloud is the right cloud computing system for you if:

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About usNakisa® Inc. is a leading Organization and Talent Management software company, providing the world’s largest organizations with the ability to visualize and maintain accurate HCM data, confidently execute organization design, devise harmonized succession and career plans, and create an aligned, high-performing workforce. In collaboration with a global network of partners, Nakisa serves a wide range of customers across all sectors and regions. Nakisa’s expanding client base includes 700+ enterprise customers, with more than 4 million subscribers from 24 industries, in 125 countries. Nakisa has been a partner of SAP® since 2007. SAP® Organizational Visualization by Nakisa® (SOVN) and SAP® Talent Visualization by Nakisa® (STVN) are co-developed, supported and sold by SAP. Available in 18 languages, these official solution extensions form a key part of the SAP product and enhancement roadmap, ensuring customers fully benefit from the latest SAP HCM technology innovations.

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Nakisa Private Cloud deployment overview