1. Copyright 2005 © Persistent Systems (http://www.persistentsys.com)http://www.persistentsys.com 1 Overview of Persistent’s Custom Connector Offering

2. Copyright 2005 © Persistent Systems (http://www.persistentsys.com)http://www.persistentsys.com 2 Build vs. Buy Connectors - a must-have to claim “Out-of-the-box” capability for the Enterprise Products Substantial investment required in a team around Non-Core products Difficult to bring in expertise on-time for new Third Party Target Systems Difficult to plan in advance given wide range of target systems Partnership overhead for Support and Maintenance - Over 10 Years Experience - - More than 80 Connectors built to-date -

3. Copyright 2005 © Persistent Systems (http://www.persistentsys.com)http://www.persistentsys.com 3 Value Proposition Near-ready set of connectors to most of the Packaged Applications, ERPs and Data-stores Custom built to work with your product –Point-to-Point and not generic –Fully integrated Flexible pricing models to reduce your Total Cost of Ownership Access to a wide range of deployed applications, systems, through Partnerships with key ISVs in this space. –IBM, SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle, Microsoft, etc. Pre-Sales Support with Demos and POCs Ownership of Support and maintenance for the connector

4. Copyright 2005 © Persistent Systems (http://www.persistentsys.com)http://www.persistentsys.com 4 Partnerships are Key! Netegrity Oblix Informatica (OEM) Oracle Microsoft Sun Netezza Google Hummingbird IBM Documentum BMC RSA SOA Software (OEM) Our Partnerships enable us to provide you ongoing support. Provides us software access, technical support and updates & upgrades.

5. Copyright 2005 © Persistent Systems (http://www.persistentsys.com)http://www.persistentsys.com 5 Software Testing and Certification Lab IBM Lotus Notes/Domino SAP R/3 HR, Finance, KM IBM RACF IBM OS/400 IBM Tivoli Identity Manager IBM Tivoli Directory IBM DB2 UDB IBM Informix DB Server IBM Tivoli Access Manager CA eTrust Directory Netegrity IdentityMinder Netegrity SiteMinder Oracle Peoplesoft HRM Oracle JDEdwards BEA Weblogic Portal MQ Series Hyperion Essbase MS Active Directory MS SQL Server 2000 MS SSIS Hummingbird Documentum MS Exchange MS Sharepoint Server RSA ACE Server/Authentication Manager BMC Remedy Helpdesk BMC Control SA Sun ONE Directory Oracle RDBMS Oracle Internet Directory Oracle eBusiness Suite Oblix COREid Access Manager Novell eDirectory Sybase ASE Teradata RDBMS Informatica Windows NT/2000/2003 Solaris HP US/AIX Enterprise Linux

6. Copyright 2005 © Persistent Systems (http://www.persistentsys.com)http://www.persistentsys.com 6 Persistent Generic Data Connector Suite Data Connectors in the BI/DW Domain –Designed for High Performance –Bi-Directional generic Data- Connectors –Using Native APIs of the target system –Converting Un-Structured data to Structured –Bulk data loading CategorySystem Name 1ERPJD Edwards 2ERPSAP R3 HR 3ERPSAP R3 Basis 4GroupwareLotus Notes/Domino 5IdM StoreAll LDAP Directory Servers 6ETLInformatica 7ETLMS SSIS 8RDBMSOracle 9RDBMSNetezza 10OLAPHyperion Essbase

7. Copyright 2005 © Persistent Systems (http://www.persistentsys.com)http://www.persistentsys.com 7 Persistent Identity Connector Suite Identity Policy Integration –Authentication and Authorization based access control –Single sign-on –Policy Provisioning –Filter-based search for Identity entities Identity Provisioning Integration –Automation of User, Group CRUD Operations –User Password Management –User Entitlement Provisioning –Reverse Provisioning Synchronization CategorySystem Name 1ERPOracle Enterprise App 2ERPSAP R3 HR 3ERPSAP R3 Basis 4GroupwareLotus Notes/Domino 5CRMBMC Remedy Helpdesk 6IdM AppIBM Tivoli Access Manager 7IdM AppIBM Tivoli Identity Manager 8IdM AppOblix COREid Access Manager 9IdM AppCA Netegrity Siteminder 10IdM AppRSA Ace Server 11IdM StoreAll LDAP Directory Server 12Legacy SystemIBM AS 400 13Legacy SystemIBM RACF 14DatabaseMS SQL, Oracle

8. Copyright 2005 © Persistent Systems (http://www.persistentsys.com)http://www.persistentsys.com 8 Persistent Enterprise Search Connector Suite Enterprise Search Connectors –Content Access to Enterprise Search Engines for content stored in Content Management Systems –Implement Access Control by implementing Authentication and Authorization using the ACLs stored in the CMS/KM systems –Metadata Access –Change Detection CategorySystem Name 1CMSDocumentum 2ERPSAP R3 KM Portal 3PortalSharepoint 4GroupwareLotus Notes/Domino 5MailPOP3, IMAP, MS Exchange 6CMSMicrosoft CMS 7Search EngineGoogle Search Appliance 8Search EngineSpeed Of Mind 9Search EngineInxight Smart Discovery 10Search EngineThunderstone Search Appliance

9. Copyright 2005 © Persistent Systems (http://www.persistentsys.com)http://www.persistentsys.com 9 Next Steps… Contact Information: Gautam Malkarnekar Product Manager - Connectors Persistent Systems Pvt. Ltd., Bhageerath, 402, Senapati Bapat Rd., Pune 411016 INDIA mgautam@persistent.co.in ph: +91 98508 27944 mgautam@persistent.co.in