Cloud Pragmatics offers a wide range of assessment and consulting services for manufacturing end-user clients wanting to take advantage of the benefits cloud computing offers.  With all the competitive choices available and trying to map capabilities to performance, security and confidentiality requirements, Cloud Pragmatics team of experts can bring their decades of experience to cut through the noise and offer solid executable IT plans that include using cloud computing solutions in the right area, with the right deployment model.  Our deep subject matter expertise comes from our team of analysts that have decades of experience in bringing cloud and high-performance computing solutions to market and helping customers get full value from the solutions.  From documenting the business and end-user requirements, performing competitive analysis, architecting and pricing a solution, helping your procurement team how to qualify the opportunities and negotiate the best price, our team can ensure superior business outcomes that meet your companies objectives and needs.   Whether is a moving a legacy IT solution to an Infrastructure-as-a-Service moving to an Application-as-a-Service we ensure it meets the end-users and business’ needs.  Solutions include:

Cloud Maturity Assessment for a Client 

  • Audit the client’s capability requirements and application portfolio
    • Document the business requirements
    • Document the available applications’ capabilities
    • Document key personnel skill sets
    • Document infrastructure capabilities
    • Document IT processes and policies
    • Perform gap analysis from the requirements to the capabilities and skill sets
    • Identify strategies and potential solutions to fill the capability and skill set gaps
    • Generate a plan to
      • Leverage existing capabilities, skills, processes and technologies
      • Close the identified gaps
        • New skills
        • New applications
        • New and modified processes
        • New and modified policies
  • Scope costs and options 

 Enterprise Architecture Development 

  • Audit the client’s business drivers, objectives, strategies, partners and capabilities
  • Construct architectural view of the business including processes, outside interactions and outcomes
  • Document the capabilities, processes, applications, interactions and partners that fulfill the architectural and business requirements
  • Document gaps in the capabilities, processes, applications and partners in the enterprise architecture
  • Assess alternative solutions to the component technologies, processes and capabilities 

Solution Architecture – HPC 

  • Audit the client’s requirements and application portfolio
  • Document client’s IT capabilities, processes and maturity
  • Document solution alternatives
  • Document solution trade-offs in capability, performance and cost 

Solution Architecture – Cloud Services 

  • Audit the client’s requirements, security & business, and application portfolio
  • Document client’s IT capabilities, processes and maturity
  • Document client’s security sensitivity
  • Document service providers
  • Document solution alternatives
  • Document solution trade-offs in capability, performance and cost
  • Assess client’s suitability for public or private solutions 

Security Assessment 

Disaster Recovery and Resilience 

Application Scalability 

Service Descriptions for HPC 

Solution Architecture and Application Consulting 

RFP consulting and management 

Partner plan and ISV management