Consulting

Channel Star offers strategic business consulting services in the following areas:

Optimizing business processes

With our assistance, you can streamline your ongoing business processes or design new ones – as the constantly fluctuating market environment and the competitive pressure demand. Our BIRT based Business Intelligence (BI) solutions play an integral role in the optimization process, being the foundation of enterprise-level reporting and analysis. By analyzing your business flows we gain valuable information that are vital to identify the areas where your system might need improvement. This is followed by a qualitative assessment of various business models. We can then set up a comprehensive e-business strategy that concerns such important areas as budgeting and forecasting, enterprise resource planning, supply chain management, customer and partner relation management (CRM/PRM) or security considerations.

Your new business model may leverage either your existing infrastructure or one of our sophisticated back-end solutions.

Network Management & Security

Our certified Master Linux Administrator and Master Internet Security Specialist consultants help you identify impending security threats and risks in your corporate system, provide protection against identified vulnerabilities, assist in policy development or design robust, scalable and secure networks.

Channel-Star has expertise in managing diverse kinds of network tools and devices. We can supervise your existing network and make it even more effective or secure; additionally, our team of engineers can consult you when installing your network and/or servers, or if you wish to assess their security, effectiveness and costs.

If you need to connect different locations via an untrustworthy network (e.g. the Internet) or would like to establish an online presence, or need practically any kind of managed server, we can offer cost efficient solutions tailored to your needs. We don’t have boxed products that we claim will satisfy everyone; we believe that the unique needs and circumstances of each customer must be evaluated and addressed separately in order to create truly customized, high-quality and yet cost-efficient solutions.

We provide consulting, support and engineering services especially in the following fields:

System design, implementation, integration based on Open Source Software
• server farms
• stand-alone servers (DNS, mail, web, database, etc.)
• firewalls
• Linux-based network appliances (routers, bridges, print servers, etc.)
• VPNs

Consulting services:
• security policy
• decision support

Security auditing:
• penetration testing
• policy review
• policy conformance auditing

Remote management and maintenance of your IT network infrastructure:
• Linux-based servers
• broadband routers, print servers, wireless access points and similar appliances

Managed web, mail and DNS hosting
• complex dynamic websites with J2EE and Lotus Domino support
• geographically distributed, highly reliable redundant DNS with zero downtime in three years

Virtual root server hosting based on UML (User Mode Linux)
• managed or unmanaged