Cloud Computing & Services

Cloud Computing & Services

Overview

Cloud is a powerful technology disruptor challenging existing IT landscape and processes, forcing enterprises to adopt newer cloud based paradigms or be left out in the competitive race. The on-demand, elastic and pay-per-use model of cloud empowers the dynamic and connected business environments. But for all these advantages, merely having the cloud in place may not yield the business results desired. iCrest helps you design, build, secure and monitor the cloud solutions and environments. We can help you achieve your business goals of revenue growth and profitability across the new business environment of connected enterprise.

Why iCrest

iCrest, an early adopter of cloud, supports enterprises through their journey on cloud: right from cloud strategy stage to deployment of full blown production environment.

We future proof your business and ensure your business is optimally cloud enabled to crunch your response time to the changing needs and demands of your internal and external customers.

We design, build and manage enterprise-class public, private and hybrid cloud infrastructure, platform and software solutions that meet the performance, security and scalability needs of your enterprise.

Relationships with key cloud providers and tool providers enables us to design, migrate and operate your cloud environment with high levels of security.

iCrest provides comprehensive cloud services that includes consulting and readiness assessment, transition and integration, and SLA based managed services around AWS and Microsoft Azure.

Cloud Readiness service

Are you really ready to migrate to the Cloud?

If you’re interested in migrating your applications to the Cloud, and want to make sure you’re your applications have had a comprehensive review before making the move, you’re not alone. In fact, it’s a decision many of our customers are making to ensure they have taken the proper steps to prepare their organization and their applications. While they realize the many benefits that they can achieve with a cloud-based application/solutions, they may not have the in-house resources needed for this key step in the process.

VPs and CIOs are concerned with managing risk when migrating their applications to the cloud and generally require an independent review to assess the true risk and introduce plans to mitigate it. By understanding the risks, you are also increasing the chance of keeping your migration on time and under
budget. This is even more important if you are moving out of data centers that are approaching end of life.

Fortunately, there is some good news: iCrest’s can help with our Cloud Readiness service offering. Based on the experience we have gained assisting multiple of organizations migrate to the cloud, this service offering helps your organization prepare for and execute an efficient, effective, and low-risk upgrade to the Cloud. As a result, you are assured you have the best migration plan in place while freeing your IT staff to focus on what’s most important — the real work at hand.

 

Cloud readiness tasks

Our technical consultants use functional and technical best practices to help you prepare for an efficient, low-risk upgrade to the Cloud.

 

Inventory

Terminals
Products
Application Interfaces
Custom reports, products, and tables
Authentication

Evaluate

Architecture and network topology
Database performance
Integration strategy
Terminal strategy
Workstation requirements

Improve

Record retention settings
Global policy settings
Database settings
Best practice recommendations
Change control process

Don’t go it alone

Let’s face it: Chances are good your applications have changed since you first installed them. As a result, it may be difficult to audit, review, and validate your applications in an objective way to ensure a smooth, quick upgrade to the cloud. Our Cloud Readiness offering is carefully designed to help your organization assess your overall readiness and best prepare for your migration.

As part of every engagement, our team of technical consultants evaluates your environment to document any aspect of your infrastructure that could be affected by the transition. This includes your full architecture, network, databases, workstations, terminals, third-party interfaces, custom reports, extensions, and more.

Our services team then presents this information in an executive dashboard summary presentation and a comprehensive report that details these findings as well as actionable recommendations for upgrading to the Cloud. Part checklist and part roadmap, this report helps you create a cloud-ready environment
consisting of technical, business, and functional best practices to achieve the most successful migration possible.

Plan to succeed The Cloud Readiness offering evaluates your entire infrastructure to help ensure your migration plan is as thorough — and as successful — as possible.

Our team helps you address the following key areas and more:

  • Workstations: Evaluate workstation requirements, suggest minimums, and identify anomalies.
  • Architecture: Review and assess current architecture topology and devise new strategy
  • Network: Evaluate network bandwidth and identify opportunities for improvement.
  • Terminals: Review existing terminals and provide suggestions for device-initiated enablement.
  • Interfaces: Examine and document interfaces and custom reports or extensions.
  • Database: Identify opportunities to clean up or optimize existing databases.
  • Application performance and settings: Provide recommendations to improve usage of the application and performance of the entire application.

 

Minimize guesswork, maximize results

When it comes to something as significant — and as important — as migrating your workforce management technology to the cloud, don’t take the risk of going it alone. The Cloud Readiness service can help you assess where you stand today, make your best plans for the migration, and execute against the plan.

Even better, we can manage the entire process so your IT staff doesn’t have to. After helping many customers manage their cloud-migration efforts, we are confident we can help you, too. A simplified approach to software in the cloud not only transforms the way the applications are used, it allows you to implement your goals faster — for accelerated adoption and a rapid return on your investment. By migrating to the cloud, you can achieve higher performance and system availability so you can unlock the true value of your application while focusing on your core business.

IMPLEMENTATION SERVICES

Our experience ensures your success.


We know the cloud is critical to your business and security must be an enabler – not get in the way. iCrest provides implementation services that are fast, predictable, reliable, and tailored to your precise business requirements.

When you migrate an application to the cloud you can take advantage of the automation and scalability that a public cloud environment offers. However, ensuring that this cloud deployment does not adversely impact the business is essential but not simple. Careful planning, experience and the expertise of iCrest consultants will minimize the risks.

Our highly experienced team and global partners use proven methodology to eliminate the guesswork and minimize your time to production. From simple to complex, we treat every project as mission-critical and work closely with your staff to deliver successful results.

We understand that enterprise cloud deployments can be complex, and have successfully deployed solutions that span multiple regions, integrate with third-party tools, and have intricate interactions with enterprise infrastructure.

Proven methodology – reliable results

iCrest delivers the experience, insight and proven methodology to get it done right, and minimize your time to production. Integrated teams of solution architects, technical consultants, project managers and platform trainers work together to plan, design, deploy, and configure your solutions. No deployment is complete until it is fully validated and seamlessly integrated with your network infrastructure and cloud ecosystem. We ensure smooth go-live with detailed knowledge transfers to your team and iCrest support to operate the live solution.

Best practices to deliver compliance

iCrest doesn’t just deploy technology. We leverage our extensive industry experience helping major enterprises protect sensitive data and ensure compliance. We apply our experience working with regulated businesses in banking, financial services, healthcare, telco, technology and government. Our experts work with your teams to identify what needs to be protected, recommend best practices, and choose the right protection schemes to meet your use cases.

 

Offerings

 

Readiness assessment services: Advisory and specialized consulting services to help you evaluate cloud readiness, governance, IT optimization, and reference architecture to adopt cloud

Enablement and migration services: Secure, seamless and rapid migration of your cloud-ready applications or infrastructure to a public, private or hybrid cloud, leveraging our in-house tools

Cloud managed services: 24/7 managed services through our global delivery locations supported by our integrated managed services platform. Our ITIL based managed services ensure that your cloud environments are up and running to serve your business needs

Cloud security solutions: Comprehensive security services enables you to have an integrated, affordable and secure cloud environment compliant to industry standards and government regulations

Solutions on cloud: Design and deploy fully managed solutions that can effectively leverage the cloud architecture to provide sustainable economic and strategic advantage for the business. Our solutions are in the areas of – digital marketing, highly scalable web hosting, backup and Disaster Recovery (DR) and performance testing

3rd Party SaaS implementation services: Consulting, implementation, administration and customization services for SalesForce.com and ServiceNow Platforms

Benefits

  • Save up to 40% costs when moving to a cloud platform
  • Reduce capital costs with minimal upfront spending on technology infrastructure
  • Decrease time to market of products and services, through on-demand and agile infrastructure
  • Deploy multi-tier complex applications in weeks instead of months on AWS using our SLA driven ITIL aligned Managed Services delivered through our global platform
  • High performance environment created with optimal architecture and design using iCrest IP and platforms
  • Improve accessibility to data and information with access anytime, anywhere creating higher collaboration
  • Higher visibility into security, regulatory compliance and service levels
  • Accelerate innovation across your organization

Highlights

  • Supports you in the complete life cycle of cloud management solutions including design, build, operate and support for public, private and hybrid clouds, with robust, ready-made building blocks
  • Value based pricing models that allow lower IT operating costs to realize business transformation
  • Robust digital strategy: launch websites within 2 days with our customized solution
  • Helps deliver 99.9% uptime while using popular tools like AWS and Microsoft Azure