Accelerating modernization and cloud migration to achieve mission transformation
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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 environment and business goals.
EXPLORE
SAIC makes applications and workloads cloud-ready and moves them to the cloud. This can be one or multiple applications or an entire portfolio. Working with the customer, we may retire and rewrite applications for lower sustainment costs and commercial-like user experiences.
TRANSFORM
SAIC provides cloud management services including daily operations, maintenance activities and FinOps via XaaS or managed service models that are flexible for the customer. We look continuously to optimize efficiency, lower cost and improve business processes.
OPERATE
MODERNIZATION FROM EARLY-STAGE EXPLORATION THROUGH ONGOING cloud OPERATIONS
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Secure
Secure
Optimize
Optimize
automate
automate
Innovate
Innovate
Explore
TRANSFORM
Operate
Explore
TRANSFORM
Operate
Explore
TRANSFORM
Operate
Explore
TRANSFORM
Operate
Assess technical, business and financial readiness for cloud
Prepare the new cloud environment, including enterprise, security and data architectures
Explore 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.
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Plan the migration, following the governance architectures and roadmap
Schedule migration
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Explore
Transfer databases and applications to new cloud environment
Replatform, rehost or rewrite applications
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Avoid interference with current business operations
Maintain visibility of migration progress
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TRANSFORM
Provide cloud management services, including daily ops, security and oversight activities
Optimize cloud consumption using a FinOps approach
Improve key business processes and provide training and troubleshooting support
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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
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
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.
Automate
automate
SAIC Innovation Factory and technology partners come up with and deploy novel technologies that improve cloud capabilities, business processes, decision-making and enterprise readiness.
Innovate
Innovate
Cloudscend
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Regardless of where you are on your cloud journey, CloudScend quickly and reliably moves you forward 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:
Take you on a faster path to compliance with government cloud security controls
Deliver applications and business services with commercial-like user experiences
Bring business agility and financial benefits starting from the first day
Be ready for continuous performance and efficiency improvements.
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CLOUDSCEND ENSUREs
A WORRY-FREE PATH TO THE CLOUD
You have cloud implementation challenges to solve, and we're here to support you. Talk to us about them and how we can accelerate solutions and outcomes.
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Accelerating modernization and cloud migration to achieve mission transformation
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Cloudscend
CONTACT Us to get started
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 environment and business goals.
EXPLORE
SAIC makes applications and workloads cloud-ready and moves them to the cloud. This can be one or multiple applications or an entire portfolio. Working with the customer, we may retire and rewrite applications for lower sustainment costs and commercial-like user experiences.
TRANSFORM
SAIC provides cloud management services including daily operations, maintenance activities and FinOps via XaaS or managed service models that are flexible for the customer. We look continuously to optimize efficiency, lower cost and improve business processes.
OPERATE
MODERNIZATION FROM EARLY-STAGE EXPLORATION THROUGH ONGOING cloud OPERATIONS
Secure
Secure
Optimize
Optimize
automate
automate
Innovate
Innovate
Explore
TRANSFORM
Operate
Explore
TRANSFORM
Operate
Explore
TRANSFORM
Operate
Explore
TRANSFORM
Operate
Assess technical, business and financial readiness for cloud
Prepare the new cloud environment, including enterprise, security and data architectures
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.
•
•
Plan the migration, following the governance architectures and roadmap
Schedule migration
•
•
Explore
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 Transform 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 Transform, the customer has confidence knowing SAIC executes a proven and holistic migration framework and can continuously track the performance of newly transferred applications.
•
•
Avoid interference with current business operations
Maintain visibility of migration progress
•
•
TRANSFORM
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 Transform 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
•
•
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
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
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.
Automate
automate
SAIC Innovation Factory and technology partners come up with and deploy novel technologies that improve cloud capabilities, business processes, decision-making and enterprise readiness.
Innovate
Innovate
Cloudscend
™
each cloudscend domain of explore, transform and operate includes proven practices to secure, innovate, automate and optimize the customer's cloud
Regardless of where you are on your cloud journey, CloudScend quickly and reliably moves you forward 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:
Take you on a faster path to compliance with government cloud security controls
Deliver applications and business services with commercial-like user experiences
Bring business agility and financial benefits starting from the first day
Be ready for continuous performance and efficiency improvements.
•
•
•
•
CLOUDSCEND ENSURES
A WORRY-FREE PATH TO THE CLOUD
You have cloud implementation challenges to solve, and we're here to support you. Talk to us about them and how we can accelerate solutions and outcomes.
Click below to get started.
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Blake Nelson
Bob Ritchie
Sanjay Sardar
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Blake NeLson
Vice President of Platforms and Cloud
Blake Nelson is a seasoned cloud solution evangelist and leader with over 20 years of experience in driving innovative technical solutions and business transformation. He is driving the enablement of everything-as-a-service for government customers in today’s hyper-scale world, leveraging his extensive experience in hybrid cloud and cloud-native technologies, DevSecOps and analytics platforms.
Bob Ritchie
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Vice President of Software
Bob Ritchie began with SAIC in 2006 as a senior principal software engineer and today leads the company’s software efforts in support of DOD and civilian agency customers. A longtime software development expert and practitioner, he has led numerous agile, DevSecOps, application modernization, cloud-native and intelligent software implementations. These have included developing, modernizing, migrating and operating resilient, enterprise-scale software systems in the U.S. armed forces.
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Sanjay Sardar
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Meet Our Experts
SAIC is a leader in helping government agencies manage, modernize and migrate their workloads to the cloud faster with reduced risk and maximum value. Our CloudScend solution has three core domains — Explore, Transform and Operate — addressing the complex tasks of cloud migration, management and optimization, and delivering secure and transformative cloud environments. We deploy CloudScend to unlock greater operational efficiencies, lower costs, reduce risk and enable secure, on-demand access to cloud-enabled technologies.
SAIC's cloud specialists collaborate with customers to determine their progress on the cloud journey and identify the specific CloudScend solution elements they require. The outcome is expedited delivery of cloud environments and capabilities that are tailored to maximize the benefits of each customer's transition to the cloud.
SAIC performs every type of migration, with years of experience handling large-scale government cloud migrations. Transform 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 Transform, the customer has confidence knowing SAIC executes a proven and holistic migration framework and can continuously track the performance of newly transferred applications.
SAIC is a leader in helping government agencies manage, modernize and migrate their workloads to the cloud faster with reduced risk and maximum value. Our CloudScend solution has three core domains — Explore, Transform and Operate — addressing the complex tasks of cloud migration, management and optimization, and delivering secure and transformative cloud environments. We deploy CloudScend to unlock greater operational efficiencies, lower costs, reduce risk and enable secure, on-demand access to cloud-enabled technologies.
SAIC's cloud specialists collaborate with customers to determine their progress on the cloud journey and identify the specific CloudScend solution elements they require. The outcome is expedited delivery of cloud environments and capabilities that are tailored to maximize the benefits of each customer's transition to the cloud.
Operate enables customers to outsource their cloud management. SAIC can provide managed services following Transform or manage a transition from an in-house IT department. We manage all environments, including on-premise, public and hybrid clouds. CloudScend's management platform gives control over provision services, IT operations, security, automation, financial optimization and visualizations through a single pane of glass for hybrid and multi-cloud environments. As a member of the FinOps Foundation, we are experts in maximizing the business value of customers' cloud environments.
each cloudscend domain of explore, transform and operate includes proven practices to secure, innovate, automate and optimize the customer's cloud
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Source: "U.S. National Federal Government Cloud Professional Services 2024 Vendor Assessment", By: Adelaide O'Brien, April 2024, IDC #US49996223
IDC MarketScape:
U.S. Federal Government Cloud Professional Services 2024 Vendor Assessment
showcasing our excellent outcomes in cybersecurity and agency-specific solutions that meet federal government needs.
IDC MarketScape vendor analysis model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of ICT suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each vendor’s position within a given market. The Capabilities score measures vendor product, go-to-market and business execution in the short-term. The Strategy score measures alignment of vendor strategies with customer requirements in a 3-5-year timeframe. Vendor market share is represented by the size of the circles. Vendor year-over-year growth rate relative to the given market is indicated by a plus, neutral or minus next to the vendor name.
