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What We Offer
Cloud Adoption and Acceleration
AWS Cloud Adoption Framework
Cloud adoption is a journey. A holistic approach to cloud adoption results in valuable and transformational outcomes. Start today by assessing the readiness of your organization for your upcoming digital transformation, identifying gaps and opportunities across the capabilities and perspectives of the CAF.
AWS Enterprise Acceleration
If you’re leveraging AWS across the enterprise, then you should be using a multi-account strategy. Accelerate cloud adoption today by ensuring your AWS Organizations and account structure meet your governance and compliance requirements while allowing you to better manage security and costs.
Cloud Architecture
Event Driven Architecture
Life is a series of events. By architecting your cloud-native applications around that simple idea, you can transform your business to respond and react at the pace of which life happens. Whether the seasonality of product sales or an unexpected response to a new offering, let us help you to architect for resiliency.
AWS Well-Architected Framework
Do the right thing, in the right way, and for the right reason. The Well-Architect Framework has been guiding organizations for years and is ubiquitous among cloud practitioners and experts alike. Partner with us, on your cloud journey, to align with industry best practices and identify opportunities from improvement in your cloud architecture.
Just getting started? We’re here to help! We will ensure your next project is successful and well-architected.
The Well-Architected Pillars
Operational Excellence – Let us help you to architect for observability and design your operational system around continuous improvement.
Security – A cross-functional discipline, security is everyone’s job. Work with us to design systems and the access to data around the principle of least privilege, security event detection and response, and information confidentiality and data integrity.
Reliability – Ultimately all systems fail. We can assist you in designing your architecture around the principle, to better manage risk and reduce the negative impacts to your business.
Performance Efficiency – To perform well is not enough. We can assist you in architecting solutions that meet the needs of your business while streamlining the use of resources and reducing waste.
Cost Optimization – We are here to help you architect for scalability and efficiency, and provide insights into your resource costs over time, so that you can focus the allocation of funds to where you need them, when you need them.
Sustainability – In a dynamic environment, available on-demand, it’s easy to lose sight of the environment impact of running workloads and applications in the cloud. Partner with us to better understand the impact, and how to optimize resource utilization to lessen the downstream effects on the environment.
Platform Engineering
Choosing the right technology partners is not the only requirement for a digital transformation. To ensure you get the most value from your technology choice, partner with us to build a self-service capability for the digital natives in your organization. We design and build workflows that deliver an internal development platform for your internal customers. Our goal is to foster innovation and problems solving in the cloud, so that you can achieve transformational business outcomes.
Migration & Modernization
Data and Application Migration
Don’t stop at lift-and-shift. Work with us to map and identify the applications in your workloads and let us assist you with the right migration strategy. Whether a simple re-platform, or a complex re-architecture, we’re here to help you along your migration journey. Allow our experts to help you with your well-architected migration.
Digital Transformation
To achieve new business outcomes, or accelerate existing initiatives, it’s going to be a family affair. A digital transformation is going to crosscut your technology, processes, operations, and business model. We’re here for you on this journey. Our industry experts are ready to envision new outcomes and align with your existing capabilities, to move fast and launch initiatives as you scale the business value of investments into the digital transformation process.
Training
To achieve desired business outcomes, we must go deeper than market or workplace transformations. By underdoing a workforce transformation, you can ensure that your business has the right knowledge and capabilities to meet the demands of the market. Our trainers are ready to tailor specific training for skill acquisition, or quickly elevate the cloud fluency and digital acumen of your team.
About Us
We believe the success of a business is dependent on one word: STRATEGY. Strategy116 is a management consultancy focused on business outcomes that is a trusted industry advisor. We provide solutions and services that add value to existing cloud managed services, vertically integrate managed services to enhance or replace complex business processes, identify, or develop go-to-market strategies leveraging cloud technologies and managed services, and deliver business outcomes for our clients by building solutions on top of scalable global infrastructure.
Organized and operated by accomplished industry veterans and cloud practitioners, the Strategy116 team and it’s partners have successfully helped clients succeed in industries across the public and private sectors, in areas such as compliance, cybersecurity, shared services, e-commerce, energy, and media & entertainment.
We are professionals exercising our craft through:
- Cloud Adoption and Acceleration
- Cloud Architecture
- Platform Engineering
- Migration & Modernization
- Training
Planning Prevents Poor Performance.
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Plugged In
When our leadership responds to clients or talks to other industry professionals and partners about various topics, we call these discussions "tech talk" in our monthly meetings. Feel free to browse through some of our tech talk topics notes.
~Alisa
Vice President, Strategy116, LLC
January
AWS is everywhere- what are your thoughts?
Many people know that AWS has over 200 services and is considered the most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering on the market. I have seen companies of all sizes use AWS to lower their cost and be able to keep up with the ever-changing world of technology. As someone who has been certified as an AWS DevOps Engineer and AWS Solutions Architect, I can tell you that AWS is a force to be reckoned with. Many people suggest AWS is price-restrictive. However, the tools that AWS unlocks for your business or organization pays dividends year over year and is well-worth the conversion investment.
February
How can I be certain about my organization’s security?
Safety is always a big deal when it comes to security, right? We all realize the issues regarding our current economic climate, but with the ever-growing wealth of sensitive data, comes the ever-growing need for increased security. Sadly, when it comes to economics and revenue, companies oftentimes eliminate some of the most important part of their company- TRAINING and security training is no different. Some of the easiest steps I believe an organization can take is to implement a security awareness training program to ensure all employees are educated about best practices. Security training is a successful strategy used to mitigate risks by educating employees in the areas of compliance, responsibility for company data, authorizations, document management, passwords and internet use as a whole. This is something Strategy116 can easily put into place and something that organizations should not leave unattended because the risk to a business for a cyber attack or breach, can be devastating.
March
Where exactly is the cloud?
This is actually a very common question that always makes me chuckle because oftentimes when an organization’s leader is asking that question, it’s during a time when we are migrating the group from their data from their servers to “the cloud” and what they are really saying to me is “I’m nervous. Where is all of my data going?” People sometimes believe the cloud is one server, but no. The cloud is a global network of servers that each serve a unique purpose. The way to think about the cloud is to consider it a vast network of remote servers around the globe linked together to operate as a single ecosystem. Instead of accessing files and data from a local or personal computer as we did years ago, we now use that network of remote servers to do the same functions, but with a reduced footprint in our physical offices.
April
How can I be sure that my IT team is enough for my business needs?
In 2021, Peter Karlson who is a member of the Forbes Technology Counsel posted an article that was called “Why You Might Not Need An IT Department Anymore”, which claimed cloud computing has changed everything and notes that that modern technology tools require few, if any, IT staff, and in many cases, he’s right. As a matter of fact, many companies have reduced their full-time IT resources and leave things like migration, software development, infrastructure planning and security analysis to a consulting service like Strategy116. My advice to any organization who is wondering if their existing IT department is appropriately sized and trained for current business volume and the future goals and objectives, is to contact me for a full technology analysis.
May
What is the process from migrating from my data center or server to the cloud?
Migration just like any family trip starts with one thing: a roadmap. The roadmap defines the role of the cloud and specifies the plan and digital assets to be moved from the client’s server to cloud. Then it defines the requirements, goals, governance, and strategy for new and existing applications. Platform architecture is developed and cloud provers are evaluated to ensure successful implementation of cloud services based on an organization’s needs.
June
Do you offer staffing for my technology services at Strategy116?
We don’t staff like a technology staffing company would do. However, Strategy116 has a network of global resources that provide services to our clients on a project basis through subcontracting. We believe that our resources can be a vital tool for an organization’s success, especially when embarking on a new project. In circumstances where companies may need resources (or additional resources) to manage the workload of that project, adding Strategy116 resources will allow you to meet the demand until the project completion date. It also allows you to have someone manage those project tasks or add some specialized expertise to your team for the project. We align with partners to ensure client services anytime a need arises.
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