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N2N Services successfully completes SOC 2 audit

N2N Services successfully completes SOC 2 audit

N2N Services, Inc., a provider of secure and holistic cloud integration, today is pleased to announce the successful completion of a System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2® Type I Audit examination for N2N’s Illuminate Integration Platform. N2N Services, Inc. retained international business advisory firm Marcum LLP for its SOC 2® audit work. N2N Services, Inc. selected Marcum LLP after an intensive search based on Marcum LLP’s reputation as a leading risk advisory and compliance firm.

Ben Osbrach, CISSP, CISA, QSA, CICP, CCSFP, National Risk Advisory Leader of Marcum’s risk advisory group says, “We were excited to work with N2N Services, Inc. from the very start. They are an intriguing organization delivering high-quality services and their business adds to our growing SOC reporting practice.”

SOC 2® engagements are performed in accordance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants’ (AICPA) AT-C 205, Reporting on Controls at a Service Organization and based on the trust service principles outlined in the AICPA Guide, Reporting on Controls at a Service Organization Relevant to Security, Availability, Processing Integrity, Confidentiality, or Privacy. The SOC 2® Type I report is performed by an independent auditing firm and is intended to provide an understanding of the service organization’s suitability of the design of its internal controls. A service organization may select any or all of the trust service principles applicable to their business and N2N Services, Inc. chose to report on the control environment, communications and information, risk assessment, monitoring activities, control activities, logical and physical access controls, system operation, change management and risk mitigation. The successful completion of this voluntary engagement illustrates N2N Services, Inc.’s ongoing commitment to create and maintain a secure operating environment for its clients’ confidential data.

Marcum’s testing of N2N Services, Inc.’s controls included an examination of the firm’s policies and procedures regarding network connectivity, firewall configurations, systems development life cycle, computer operations, logical access, data transmission, backup, and disaster recovery, and other critical operational areas of their business. Upon completion of the audit, N2N Services, Inc. received a Service Auditor’s Report with an unqualified opinion demonstrating that their policies, procedures, and infrastructure meet or exceed the stringent SOC 2® criteria.

“At N2N, we take security and best practices very seriously, as we are focused on student data interchange. The successful completion of our SOC 2® Type I examination audit provides N2N Services, Inc.’s clients with the assurance that the controls and safeguards we employ to protect and secure their data are in line with industry standards and best practices. SOC2 attestation is one of the critical parts of N2N’s focus on best practices and commitment to data security,” said Joel Dunn, CTO and CISO.

About – N2N Services, Inc.
N2N Services, Inc enables secure and holistic cloud integration so that organizations of all sizes can seamlessly connect cloud applications with their enterprise applications and data stores. Headquartered in Duluth, GA, N2N Services, Inc’s flagship product, Illuminate is an iPaaS enabling turnkey SaaS-to-SaaS and SaaS-to-on premise application and data integration. Illuminate’s intuitive approach enables customers to create, manage, secure, and monetize APIs, and build bridges between two APIs without any need for programming and additional infrastructure.

N2N Services, Inc believes that secure and turnkey application and data integration, powered by APIs is critical to the success of any enterprise competing in today’s digital economy. Enterprises, irrespective of their size and business models, need APIs for integration with the cloud, mobile, and social applications, wearable devices, and partner and customer portals. Modern, digital enterprises are now leveraging APIs to support real-time process automation, workflows, artificial intelligence, and business intelligence and analytics.

Even though APIs are critical for achieving success in today’s digital economy, many enterprises have struggled with the creation, management, and security of APIs. In this context, enterprises frequently spend millions of dollars on middleware, architecture teams, and disparate technologies without realizing any significant success. Small and Medium-sized businesses have more IT spending and resource constraints and often struggle to meet the unrelenting need for integration for composing digital business processes and a seamless transition to cloud services.

N2N Services, Inc is committed to enabling enterprises of all sizes to participate, benefit from, and compete in today’s digital economy enabled by APIs. N2N Services, Inc’s iPaaS, Illuminate enables enterprises to achieve success with migration to cloud services and fosters the implementation of cloud and API-first strategies. For more information, visit N2N’s website.

About – Marcum LLP
Marcum LLP is one of the largest independent public accounting and advisory services firms in the nation, with offices in major business markets throughout the U.S., as well as select international locations.

Headquartered in New York City, Marcum provides a full spectrum of traditional tax, accounting, and assurance services; advisory, valuation, and litigation support; managed accounting services; and an extensive portfolio of specialty and niche industry practices. The Firm serves both privately held and publicly registered companies, as well as nonprofit and social sector entities, high net worth individuals, private equity funds, and hedge funds, with a focus on middle-market companies and closely held family businesses. Marcum is a member of the Marcum Group, an organization providing a comprehensive array of professional services.

Marcum offers an extensive range of professional services and a high degree of specialization. The Risk Advisory practice specializes in SOC Reporting, PCI DSS Compliance, HIPAA Compliance and HITRUST validation, FISMA, NIST, ISO 27001, and other regulatory information security assessments. Staffs in Marcum’s Risk Advisory hold several industry certifications including Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Qualified Security Assessor (QSA), GIAC Penetration Tester (GPEN), and GIAC Web Application Penetration Tester (GWAPT). For more information about Marcum’s Risk Advisory Services, please visit their website here.


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N2N partners with Boomi to provide additional integration options to customers and partners

N2N partners with Boomi to provide additional integration options to customers and partners

N2N Services, Inc., a leading platform provider for Higher Education systems integration, today announced a strategic partnership with Boomi™, a Dell Technologies business, a leading enterprise data management and data integration provider.

This collaboration allows N2N’s customers to experience Boomi features embedded with the Illuminate platform. N2N’s customers can leverage integrated Illuminate APIs with additional data sources using Boomi’s advanced development tools, and overall technology ecosystem. “The Boomi partnership will have an immediate impact by expanding our API development capabilities and integration options.” according to Danielle Whitney, VP of Business Development at N2N Services.  “Pairing Boomi technology with our deep higher education industry expertise and existing integration libraries will allow N2N to quickly and affordably deliver complex integration solutions.”

By integrating the Boomi Platform with N2N’s Illuminate Platform, N2N will be able to provide complete end-to-end visibility into Illuminate connectors and process flows as well as detailed performance metrics. N2N will also be able to provide additional connectors and advanced development options to customers.  Boomi’s Technology Partner Program provides invaluable enablement resources for our development effort, enabling us to accelerate building interoperability between the Boomi Platform and N2N’s Illuminate Platform. 

“We are thrilled to have N2N Services join the Boomi partner program as an OEM provider. Boomi is a great fit for N2N’s Illuminate platform and will help N2N further drive innovations within the Higher Education vertical,” said David Tavolaro, Boomi’s Vice President, Global Business Development.

“Boomi’s platform will allow N2N to quickly expand our Integration APIs and offerings which will provide the flexibility and connectivity that our higher education customers need,” said Kiran Kodithala, CEO and founder of N2N Services. “Boomi’s Partner Program will help us deliver additional integration and development options across our platform so we can provide seamlessly integrated solutions quickly and deliver greater customer success. We are excited to be  part of the Boomi Program.”


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PayClearly and N2N Services Give Higher Education AP Departments Optimal Efficiency Through Better Payments Processes

PayClearly and N2N Services Give Higher Education AP Departments Optimal Efficiency Through Better Payments Processes

PayClearly, an automated payments solution, has partnered with N2N Services to give Higher Education institutions the ability to integrate their ERP systems with accounts payables, streamlining an otherwise time-consuming process.

A strategic partnership with N2N Services, a leading provider of integration systems for Higher Education, allows PayClearly the ability to offer a fully integrated accounts payables payment solution. Universities and colleges use complex ERP systems such as Banner, Colleague, Workday, Oracle and Jenzabar, among others, that contain data necessary to the AP departments daily tasks. This streamlined approach to payables can evolve a department’s processes to allow for a much higher level of efficiency, leading to great savings and revenue-earning rewards.

“Our purpose is to solve payment problems and make the payments process as easy as possible,” stated John Jamieson, Senior Vice President of Sales at PayClearly. “N2N’s simple integration into higher education ERP systems removes multiple, cumbersome steps for controllers, university accountants and all accounts payable staff, allowing for a one step process within one enterprise software. The process becomes truly seamless, leaving time on the table for other important tasks while saving the department money.”

“We are confident that our integration platform, Illuminate, combined with PayClearly’s solution will not only help higher educations’ accounts payables processes but also provide those departments with long-term financial savings,” said Danielle Whitney, N2N Services Vice President of Business Development . “N2Ns integration platform is built to positively affect campuses helping provide higher levels of technology for optimal operational efficiency.”

 

About PayClearly

PayClearly is a global leader in payment issuing, card processing and other payment solutions that help companies scale more easily. Through the efforts of dedicated sales, development, and support teams in 4 cities across the United States and a network of issuing and acquiring partners operating in over 210 countries, PayClearly provides its clients and partners with streamlined payment solutions that significantly reduce costs and provide valuable business operations improvements.


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N2N Featured in Forbes: Edtech Startup To Release ‘Lifelong Learning Ledger’

N2N Featured in Forbes: Edtech Startup To Release ‘Lifelong Learning Ledger’

N2N was recently featured in a Forbes Brandvoice article from Oracle highlighting the Blockchain-Based ‘Lifelong Learning Ledger’ initiative.

The article details Brandman University and the application of competency based learning toward adult degrees.  Using a cloud software platform developed by N2N services, Brandman University has built a set of microservices that enables students to earn a master’s of business administration degree from their mobile phones.  As part of this effort, the university has developed a game-based learning microservice, which allows students to take a series of tests to demonstrate their competency. As students pass each test, they are automatically (and progressively) moved to the next level of the program. “Traditional courses take around six-months to complete,” says N2N CEO and founder, Kiran Kodithala.  “Now, universities can break down courses into multiple rubrics, test student competencies at each level, and then place students within an academic program according to their proficiencies.”

View the full article here:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/oracle/2018/07/12/edtech-startup-to-release-blockchain-based-lifelong-learning-ledger/

 

 


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N2N Services in Top 50 Companies for Global Startup Program

N2N Services in Top 50 Companies for Global Startup Program

N2N Services Inc. was inducted into the 2018 Class of Startups by Startup Grind. The Startup Program recognizes the Top 50 companies selected from 115 countries and 400 cities around the world to exhibit at Startup Grind Global 2018.

 

N2N Services Inc. is a technology company that provides  data integration solutions, with focus on turnkey Enterprise API development, API security, and API Integration. N2N’s vision is to enable a secure and holistic cloud integration so that organizations worldwide can “plug in” cloud applications with their enterprise data. N2N’s flagship product, Illuminate, enables this turnkey integration by providing a completely SaaS Cloud Integration Gateway. Illuminate’s intuitive and affordable SaaS platform enables customers to build, transform, virtualize, share, secure, and monetize their APIs in minutes. Illuminate also enables customers to build bridges between multiple APIs with no programming and no additional infrastructure.

 

“We are very excited to be recognized from among the thousands of startups vying for a spot on this list,” said Kiran Kodithala, CEO of N2N Services. “We are thrilled to launch Illuminate 2.0 at the Startup Grind Global Conference. We strongly believe that our products enable businesses and organizations of all sizes to securely share their data through a flexible and secure SaaS platform.”

 

“We started this program after seeing many of the Accelerators and Incubators not doing much to really help companies,” says Derek Andersen, founder & CEO of Startup Grind. “We really wanted to make an actual difference in the startups trajectory and leverage all of our resources and network to their advantage.”

 

Startup Exhibition companies are given access to Startup Grind’s global audience through media, and onsite at the annual Global Event (www.startupgrind.com/conference) held February 12th through February 14th in Redwood City, CA. The exhibition helps companies to accelerate their pace towards growth and success by gaining the visibility of mentors and investors inside the network.

 

“These startups have great teams, traction, technology and massive markets,” says Andersen. “Our biggest goal is for each startup to go back home with a new and improved game plan that would not have happened without the exposure of the exhibition and the mentors/resources that were gained through our network.”

 

N2N believes that secure and turnkey data Integration, powered by APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) is critical to the success of a modern enterprise. Enterprises of all shapes and sizes need APIs to support integration with mobile applications, wearable devices, and customer portals. Modern enterprises are now using APIs to support real-time process automation, workflows, artificial intelligence, and analytics.


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Our New Year’s Resolution

Our New Year’s Resolution

By Kiran Kodithala, N2N CEO and Founder

I have been supporting educational institutions since 1998 with their administrative student information systems. During the last 18 years, I have supported institutions with ERP implementation, Enterprise Architecture, Application Development and overall Enterprise Management. The first 10 years of my professional career included supporting educational institutions with their Systems Integration needs and I realized the plight of IT staff at these institutions. They are constantly being challenged to integrate the ERP system that was designed in 1980’s with the latest products and solutions. The existing approach of using scripts, batch jobs, and other deprecated technologies was getting increasingly cumbersome and expensive.

I founded N2N in 2010 with a singular mission to make seamless integration affordable for us. To this effect, we designed an integration platform that seamlessly integrates campus infrastructure with the different products on-campus. Over the last 6 years, we have successfully integrated the legacy SIS systems with Mobile Applications, SaaS products, CRM platforms, Content Delivery Systems, and Learning Management platforms.

After successfully launching illuminate last year, I am more confident than ever that my firm mission to solve the integration is now within reach. Illuminate allows customers to build and secure web-services within minutes. Using Illuminate, developers can build web-services using SQL , PLSQL or stored procedures as the Business Object.

Illuminate allows customers to build and secure web-services within minutes. Using Illuminate, developers can build web-services using SQL , PLSQL or stored procedures as the Business Object.

I am most excited about the potential for Illuminate to support the emerging trends in education. New entrepreneurs are actively in the process of creating “uber for learning”, “facebook for learning”, “google for learning” and many other disruptive technologies that have the ability to completely transform the way we learn in the future.

My resolution for the year 2017 is to enable every educational institution with the power of Web Services – Kiran Kodithala, CEO, N2N Integration Inc.

Integration use-cases

2016 has been a great year, we have successfully demonstrated the following use-cases successfully

  1. The ability to expose student and faculty data to the best mobile platform on the marketplace.
  2. The ability to expose student data using web-services to a SaaS distance learning platform
  3. Support the integration of SIS data with a CRM platform built on Sales Force
  4. Support the integration of SIS data between campuses in a consortia environment
  5. Support tech product vendor with the ability to connect data from their partner institutions in a turnkey and affordable fashion

N2N’s 2017 resolution

During the year 2017, we will focus all our energies to enable every educational institution with the power of web-services. To this effect, we are committed to partnering with every educational software vendor, every educational institution, and every consortium that supports the mission of affordable and efficient administrative systems on campus.

Together we can ensure the era of enlightenment via simplified and secure data access. I strongly believe that this data access will enable innovation at each campus.

Contact us to let us know how we can help your campus innovate. We are committed to supporting innovation at each educational institution this year.


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