SAIC CloudScend is a family of solutions to help government agencies modernize and move their workloads to the cloud faster with less risk and maximum value. CloudScend’s three core solutions — Explore, Migrate and Operate — tackle the complex work of cloud migration and optimization and safely deliver secure and transformative cloud environments. Agencies benefit from increased operational efficiencies and lower operational costs and risks while leveraging secure, on-demand access to cloud-enabled technologies. The CloudScend family of solutions is adaptable and modular. SAIC cloud specialists work with customers to determine where they are on their cloud journeys and the exact CloudScend solutions they need. The result is accelerated delivery of cloud environments and capabilities that are optimized to make the most of each customer's move to the cloud.

Modernization simplified for the speed of tomorrow

Transformative Missions

Accelerating modernization and migration to achieve mission transformation

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FULL MODERNIZATION AND MIGRATION SOLUTIONS FROM EARLY-STAGE EXPLORATION THROUGH ONGOING OPERATIONS

Whether a customer is at the starting line, has a cloud strategy and plan or already has cloud infrastructure and needs help with operations and managed services, SAIC's cloud specialists can implement the parts of CloudScend Explore, Migrate and Operate that are needed. The family of solutions is the result of a decade of technology and tool investments and proven approaches and processes developed from our support of numerous local, state and federal agencies with their workload modernizations and migrations across multiple cloud service providers.

SAIC assesses the as-is state and, in collaboration with the customer, develops a cloud strategy with a target architecture and security objectives. This includes a plan for migrating applications and workloads to a desired state that aligns with the customer’s cloud and business goals.

EXPLORE

SAIC makes applications and workloads cloud-ready and moves them to the cloud. This can be a single application, multiple applications or a customer’s entire portfolio. Working with the customer, SAIC may retire inefficient applications and rewrite them for the cloud, which will lower sustainment costs and provide efficient, commercial-like user experiences.

MIGRATE

SAIC provides cloud management services, including daily operations and maintenance activities, via anything/everything-as-a-service (XaaS) or managed services models that are flexible for the customer. We look continuously at ways to optimize the cloud environment to drive efficiency, lower cost and improve business processes.

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Regardless of where you are on your cloud journey, CloudScend quickly and reliably moves you forward with organized and coherent strategies and tactics and always gives you a clear view of what’s happening with your IT and cloud environment. You’ll get a secure, resilient and optimized environment that will:

COMPLEMENTARY IDC STUDY WHEN YOU GET STARTED.

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Getting the most out of your agency’s cloud investment also requires collaborative leadership, training and a well-executed, phased approach to outcome-based transformation. So, we’re offering at no cost the IDC study, “IDC PlanScape: Government Change Management Approach to Deploying Cloud,” featuring new research findings by Adelaide O’Brien, to help agencies understand the aspects of change management in cloud adoption.

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Launching and enhancing modern online services for constituents require a cloud environment built for tomorrow’s applications and users.

The Challenge

SAIC CloudScend enables agencies to accomplish their cloud migration goals rapidly and securely. CloudScend is a proven migration methodology that brings together best-of-breed automation, smart processes and security controls, which empower every stage of modernization, from planning and discovery to application and data migration to optimization. Digital services desired by agencies and demanded by constituents require scalable, available and secure capabilities. The agility and comprehensive capabilities of the CloudScend framework, backed by SAIC’s cloud expertise, ensure agencies can meet citizens’ expectations for intuitive, interactive websites and applications. From tax returns tabulated in real-time throughout the year to Medicare eligibility and payment records that know a citizen’s stage of life, agencies can enable online experiences that keep up with commercial e-commerce sites. Any agency that interacts with constituents can realign resources to meet users where they are, using the unmatched power of a foundation designed for innovation. CloudScend gets you there, quickly and securely.

The Solution

Flexible processes to match where you are on your cloud journey Eliminates “migrate and wait” with SSPs for multiple environments and automated ATOs to accelerate secure migration Brings balance to DevSecOps with an environment that aligns with zero trust security Optimizes multi-cloud environments and minimizes technical debt

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Bringing the power of a data-driven enterprise to warfighters everywhere takes a CONUS-side effort to accelerate cloud modernization.

The Challenge

SAIC CloudScend is a proven migration methodology designed to rapidly move large-scale, mission-critical workloads to the cloud. With best-of-breed automation and security built-in, CloudScend provides the tools, processes and analytics needed to ensure results are tied to mission requirements, operational tempo and the evolving needs of warfighters. The ability to capture, analyze, protect and deliver actionable information to warfighters anywhere — at mission speed — opens the door to innovation, including from smartphones that deliver real-time situational awareness to augmented reality goggles that can instantly translate someone speaking in a native language. Data can provide a decisive advantage to warfighters in-theatre, requiring a scalable, secure and always-available foundation. CloudScend can get you there quickly and securely, positioning you to embrace the future with a foundation designed for innovation.

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Bringing Data to Warfighters at the Tactical Edge

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Take you on a faster path to compliance with government cloud security controls Enhance your agency or organization’s agility by allowing personnel to quickly develop and integrate innovative new applications and business services with more consistent and commercial-like user experiences Bring business agility and financial benefits starting from the first day and even greater cost savings and organizational efficiency over time Be ready for continuous performance and efficiency improvements through innovations and new and emerging technologies

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METHODOLOGIES ENSURE A WORRY-FREE PATH TO THE CLOUD

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Assess technical, business and financial readiness for cloud Prepare the new cloud environment, including enterprise, security and data architectures

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Plan the migration, following the governance architectures and roadmap Schedule migration

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Our CloudScend Explore solution analyzes a customer’s workloads for readiness as well as budget constraints and compliance needs and works all of them together into the migration plan. Regardless of the maturity and technical debt of the as-is state, our process-driven Foresight tool automates analyses, rationalization and planning, providing our specialists with measurable insights into application quality and cloud-readiness. We provide the customer with a clear view of their cloud future, and our planning ensures safe and optimal migration, lowering risk and rework.

Transfer databases and applications to new cloud environment Replatform, rehost or rewrite applications

SAIC performs every type of migration, with years of experience handling large-scale government cloud migrations. Our CloudScend Migrate solution is built from that experience, equipped with a comprehensive knowledge base, best practices, repeatable processes, services and tools that include analytics and dashboards and automated ones for testing and quality control. With Migrate, the customer has confidence knowing SAIC executes a proven and holistic migration framework and can continuously track the performance of newly transferred applications.

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Avoid interference with current business operations Maintain visibility of migration progress

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Migrate

Provide cloud management services, including daily operation, security and oversight activities Improve key business processes and provide training and troubleshooting support

CloudScend Operate enables customers to outsource management of their cloud services. SAIC can provide managed services after performing CloudScend Migrate for a customer, or we can manage a transition from an in-house IT department. We manage all types of environments, including on-premise private clouds, public clouds and hybrid clouds. The CloudScend Management Platform gives customers control over provision services, IT operations, security, automation, financial optimization and visualizations through a single pane of glass for hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

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Consolidate billing and financial management activities Perform data-driven analytics for continuous insights and improvement

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Operate

SAIC assesses and provides security services for cloud services and applications equivalent to FedRAMP Moderate and High, as well as DOD Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide Impact Levels 2, 4, 5 and 6, depending on the customer.

Secure

SAIC finds ways to keep improving applications and the cloud environment, such as system performance, reliability, compute/storage cost, development, security and operational efficiencies.

OPTIMIZE

Our modern technology stack of automation tools, analytics and processes reduce costs, accelerate delivery of capabilities and implement continuous improvements to the customer’s cloud environment.

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SAIC Innovation Factory and technology partners come up with and deploy novel technologies that improve cloud capabilities, business processes, decision-making and enterprise readiness.

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In addition, CloudScend includes the service enhancements Secure, Innovate, Automate and Optimize to supercharge cloud migration outcomes and the cloud’s transformative benefits for each customer.

Sanjay Sardar

Senior Vice President of Digital

Since joining SAIC in 2015, Sanjay Sardar has been helping lead the development, implementation and delivery of digital transformation and IT modernization solutions to SAIC’s customers across government markets. A former federal CIO, Sardar has been working in information management and technology management, leveraging innovative technologies, for more than 25 years. Today, he helps government agencies leverage cloud, application, software development and cybersecurity technologies.

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Vice President of Platforms and Cloud

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