Problem

Client had started migration towards cloud solutions. As part of the cloud solution implementations, security compliance is of utmost importance.

Scope

Program needed insight, advice, support, and recommendations to ensure the successful cloud solution implementation with a targeted focus in FedRAMP, NIST, FISMA, Privacy Act, and OMB requirements.

Solution

The following tasks helped meet the objective:

• Consulted with internal stakeholders to develop security requirements and security and compliance plans for applications and systems. Mapped the security requirements to the applicable security statutes and implementing regulations; Followed the security requirements through development, testing, and production and provides security assurance by testing and certifying systems prior to production cutover
• Advised client on NIST, FISMA/FedRAMP compliance activities
• Conducted security risk assessments for third party applications and service providers
• Ensured organizational structure recommendations integrated cohesively into the overall strategic direction
• Identified and helped plan for long-term financial considerations due to cloud migration and business transformation
• Reviewed and advised on post implementation de-commissioning scheme for legacy applications, as well as migration and maintenance of historic data

Outcome

Successfully delivered on the scope of the work.

Problem

Leverage emerging technology to turn data into insights, increase cyber security, create organizational value, reshape the workforce for a digital world, solve critical business challenges and deliver on our customer’s expectations.

Scope

Increase the capacity and knowledge of employees on digital twin capabilities and improve skillsets.

Establish best practices and governance for the digital twin program.

Facilitate and encourage cross-discipline awareness and expertise to deliver the Digital Twin Program.

Establish and cultivate a knowledge-sharing, knowledge-driven culture for long-term success.

Solution

The following tasks helped meet the objective:

• Collaborated with Digital Strategy Workgroup, Information Technology Services and other internal departments to develop the digital twin roadmap and sustain executive support
• Worked with senior executive sponsors to develop a vision for success for digital twin technologies
• Determined the structure and build an effective program team to support the business units and strategic workgroup
• Defined and manage digital twin workstreams
• Developed and documented standards and governance
• Identified gaps in technology capabilities to support digital twin
• Identifed necessary skills, gaps and training requirements for the organization
• Tracked and measured success of the program

Outcome

The entire program has been widely accepted and growing with great success.

Problem

Client's Information Technology Services (ITS) department had the need to migrate out of their current data center's physical location and into a new space.

Scope

Discover and to document the current assets aand state of the data center ahead of the actual migration effort.

Solution

Install Device42 to begin the discovery and capturing of the complete details of Data Center 1 and Data Center 2.

Gather the details discovered and validate the sources.

Server and application dependencies mapped and confirmed. Data quality processing to compare discovery results with expected results.

Conduct interviews with SMEs to review and validate data findings and dependency mappings. Conduct final deliverables workshops to review the final deliverable artifacts ensuring expectations have been met and are agreed upon.

Key steps during the project:

• All County Departments were interviewed
• Complete list of all applications, workloads, with details like OS, versions, patches, hardware configurations, storage, and network dependencies, etc.
• Visual/tabulated representation of application interactions and dependencies including databases, middleware, and external services.
• List of current security measures and assessment against compliance requirements. A list of all current security measures in place, including firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and access controls.
• Visual representation of the current network setup, highlighting key components, such as routers, switches, firewalls, and WAN connections. Documentation of current network setup with detail on bandwidth, latency, etc.

Outcome

Evolvers was able to help develop a scope of work to be included in an RFP solicitation for the actual data center migration.

Problem

Airport collects vast amount of data across the organization and plans to become a data-driven organization to further turn this data into detailed insight into its business.

Scope

To help manage this cultural change, airport was looking to establish a cross functional Data Governance program.

Solution

Created detailed and functioning Data Governance Program framework and processes.

Provided recommendation on recent Audit findings and any potential changes needed to Standard Operating Procedures and Board Policies.

Created the plan to create synergies and drive the data governance program with business, security and technical teams.

Performed executive level presentations to track and monitor the success of the Data Governance Program.

Captured modeling of business domain and business processes.

Performed mapping of business domain to data models.

Assessed and recommended design, architecture and implementation of business intelligence systems.

Designed and architected master data management (MDM) and meta-data management.

Outcome

Project was performed within budget and time schedule.

Problem

The County was experiencing massive increases in the amounts of data stored and processed, and with the rapid technology changes in the industry, the County wanted to continue its transition from department applications having their own servers to shared virtual machines and moving to cloud applications.

Scope

Documenting, analyzing and assessment of the current state of IT infrastructure including virtual machines and asset assignment, general set up of equipment including memory allocation and storage, overall system monitoring and maintenance processes, ensuring that documentation and contracts are in place for continuity of operations, and assessment of employee staffing.

Solution

Evolvers team reviewed and documented the current infrastructure's as-is state and identified what was needed to move the County to the recommended state, by identifying gaps and required updates in their current set up to provide a structure that would support the County’s departments to better meet their objectives, and identify the resources needed by the IT department to meet the County’s needs.

Deliverables included all-inclusive as-is state of IT infrastructure, processes and IT organization, with gaps identified and recommendations made for a future state with a roadmap identifying priorities to implement the recommended improvements.

Key steps during the project:

• All County Departments were interviewed
• Numerous business applications were reviewed/assessed
• System software, including MS Exchange, MS Active Directory and VMware were assessed
• Network and telecommunication systems were assessed
• Assessment of Continuity of Services was performed

Outcome

County Commissioners Court allocated funds in the following fiscal year's Capital Projects Budget for implementing the recommendations included in this county-wide IT assessment.

Problem

Agency's core business applications are aging and use legacy technologies. The ongoing operations, maintenance and enhancements of the system to address the business needs are becoming expensive.

Scope

As part of its IT Legacy System Modernization effort, agency wanted to capture the current business architecture, application architecture and data architecture of its core software system and its interfacing applications, for system modernization that will meet its function/program needs.

Solution

Evolvers team captured the Business Architecture, Data Architecture, and Application Architecture of the applications and interfaces.

Key steps during the project:

• Business Capabilities Analysis
• Business Process Analysis
• Business Domain Modeling
• Use Case Modeling
• Business Applications Portfolio Modeling
• Business Requirements gathering and documentation
• Logical Data Modeling
• Physical Data Modeling
• Application Architecture of Each Major App
• Gap Analysis - List of Pain Points & Wish List

Outcome

Project was completed on time, within the budget and exceeded customer expectations. Customer has used the artifacts to implement a new solution.

Problem

Federal law established the BIP (Balance Incentive Program), which increased the Federal Matching Assistance Percentage (FMAP) for Medicaid community. Texas was committed to fulfilling the BIP objectives of helping individuals who need LTSS live healthy, independent lives in their homes and communities and improving quality of care while reducing costs by diverting or relocating individuals from institutional to community-based settings. With these objectives in mind, the BIP offered an opportunity to further enhance the state’s LTSS rebalancing efforts.

Scope

The scope entailed program management of nine (9) IT projects and project management of 3 sub-projects.

Solution

The Evolvers Group successfully provided Program Management Support Services for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission’s (HHSC) IT BIP (Balance Incentive Program) Program Management Office (IT BPMO).

The services included setup and operation of a PMO, including enterprise program and project management support activities, coordination, project and program level reporting, risk management, documentation and PMO Portal management across all phases of delivery for all the projects.

Evolvers’ team of Program Managers, Project Managers, Project Coordinators, and Technical Writer:

• Developed and implemented the BIP Communication Management Plan
• Created and managed a Program Dashboard
• Created action plans for resolving issues and mitigating or avoiding risks
• Managed the consolidated master schedule
• Provided resource planning
• Developed and reported on the BIP key business metrics; establishes baseline metrics where applicable to measure outcomes that are desired out of the BIP program
• Performed and reported on Post-Implementation Reviews of Business Outcomes

Outcome

PMO was regarded as highly successful in mitigating risk, working across agencies, working across projects being executed by different SI (system integrators), and reporting on the key metrics, to make the program successful.