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.

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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:

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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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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.

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

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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.

CloudScend: Unequaled Opportunity. Unmatched Capability.

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.

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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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As the complexity of the “cloud” grows, agencies are faced with the challenge of adopting new technology effectively and efficiently. They need to transform and modernize their businesses and create a more efficient way to develop and deliver secure services that leverage emerging technologies to drive down costs, increase standardization and lower the government’s operational risk. SAIC’s CloudScend is an integrated approach that provides a framework with a family of offerings: a mix of strategies, services and products available to help customers in their cloud modernization journey, no matter where they are in their journey.

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

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