Cloud

By streamlining the build-to-order and configure-to-order quotes process, the solution became easily accessible through a web browser, ensuring uniform pricing and configuration information for all users.

The implementation increased customer satisfaction, shorter sales cycles, improved production scheduling, and significant time and cost savings for the IT department by eliminating the need for software installation or updates.

Moreover, the unified system brought internal and external sales teams and customers together, fostering better collaboration and facilitating faster and more accurate product pricing configurations.

The solution incorporated features that complied with the Federal Reserve's strict regulations, ensuring a fully functional product could be launched in record time.

BlueAlly's expertise in creating a dynamic advertising sub-system enabled the client to target product and service offerings effectively, generating incremental business and revenue, while the account management system enhanced customer service, resulting in cost savings and improved service levels.

The collaboration allowed the client to access specialized skill sets, delivering the product cost-effectively and timely, ensuring its successful entry into the market.

Partnering with BlueAlly, we successfully implemented a browser-based workflow management system that streamlined processes and captured product set-up information in a central database.

By involving business users early in the development phase and enabling independent access to information, the system improved speed, accuracy, and accountability, leading to increased customer service levels, improved customer relationships, and better sales opportunities based on a deeper understanding of customer needs.

With individual business units adopting AWS without a formal cloud adoption strategy, the company faced soaring monthly cloud costs and alarming AWS alerts highlighting suspicious network activity.

BlueAlly's initial focus on triaging the environment led to the identification and resolution of critical security and cost issues, including isolating and investigating compromised servers, resulting in improved security and reduced stress levels. The subsequent shutdown of unused instances delivered immediate financial benefits, halving the monthly cloud expenditure and establishing project momentum and management support.

This success story not only enhanced employee and customer satisfaction by streamlining operations and fortifying the provider's environment, but also enabled the company to scale securely and efficiently.

We prioritized humility, serving as a trusted advisor, and fostering a federated model to align the vision with leadership and enhance communication and transparency.

As a result, we achieved a positive-sum outcome for the Infrastructure and Development teams, successfully implemented iterative improvements, fostered better collaboration between security and infrastructure/development, improved customer satisfaction, witnessed increased cloud adoption through positive word-of-mouth, and empowered teams through the federated model.

Through meticulous management of storage costs aligned with scientists' usage patterns and a carefully executed data migration process, we ensured efficient and timely data access. By maintaining open communication and transparency throughout the project, we collaborated closely with stakeholders to validate the migration process, prioritizing data integrity and mitigating the risk of data loss.

As a result, BlueAlly successfully migrated multiple petabytes of data, resulting in significant support savings of millions over a two-year period. Our outstanding performance not only expanded the scope of our work but also led to our involvement in conducting a root cause analysis for another team's data integrity incident.

This success story highlights our unwavering commitment to empowering scientists, optimizing costs, safeguarding data integrity, and delivering invaluable support to our clients.

The solution, leveraging SharePoint portal server and live communication server, enabled real-time collaboration among students, faculty, and alums.

By providing a secure and accessible portal for communication, document sharing, and resource access, the university enhanced the educational experience, improved faculty guidance, and overcame email delivery challenges, resulting in increased efficiency and a standout position among executive MBA programs.

With the expertise of BlueAlly, the district successfully implemented a flexible system that could grow with changing data and offered a user-friendly reporting interface.

The new system allowed educators to modify individual student curriculums, monitor course effectiveness, spot trends in student success, and create historical records, resulting in better support for students and improved decision-making for the school system.

By creating innovative reports customized for clients in 29 countries and supporting them round-the-clock in 7 languages, BlueAlly met specific industry and operational requirements.

With a focus on ensuring quick availability of service level information to major clients, including leading financial institutions and global organizations, BlueAlly addressed the critical data protection and compliance needs. The newly designed reports provided clients with quantitative insights into their data usage, instilling confidence in the strict adherence to record destruction guidelines.

In this dynamic information landscape, BlueAlly propels their client's growth while solidifying their position as a trusted partner in managing and protecting vital records.

BlueAlly played a crucial role in facilitating the migration process by efficiently coordinating communication with users and stakeholders.

The trained teams now possess a deep understanding of cloud architecture and development practices, supported by a cloud-native CI/CD pipeline that enables efficient and reliable application delivery.

With this achievement, the client has not only met their objective of transitioning to the cloud but also positioned themselves for future growth and innovation.

By shifting the project strategy from an unsuccessful Docker Swarm to Kubernetes (K8s) and addressing multi-AZ support and operational complexity concerns, we successfully completed the cloud migration without any unplanned downtime.

This resulted in significant cost reduction through data center shutdown and cloud cost efficiency measures and facilitated a DevOps transformation, improving application development and deployment velocity, operational efficiency, and enabling a seamless handoff to the customer post-migration.

By leveraging Lambda applications and various AWS services, we not only achieved these objectives but also ensured full compliance with PCI, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 standards.

Furthermore, our seamless migration of database shards greatly improved our client's data management capabilities, resulting in a secure and highly available infrastructure that adheres to the highest industry compliance standards.

This achievement empowers us to deliver dependable and safeguarded services to our esteemed customers.

With tens of thousands of email accounts spread across four campuses and using disparate email systems, our client turned to BlueAlly for their expertise in Microsoft Exchange migration and synchronization with Active Directory.

Within approximately 90 days, BlueAlly successfully completed the project, which included planning, security configuration, migration, and testing, enabling our client to provide students, faculty, administrators, and stakeholders with a robust, secure, and maintainable commercial email system tailored to their needs.

Overcoming challenges and leveraging their expertise in Microsoft 365 migrations, BlueAlly ensured a seamless transition.

The college now operates on a cloud-based Microsoft 365 Infrastructure, experiencing improved uptime, enhanced support access, and increased accessibility for faculty, staff, and students, aligning with their vision of a service-oriented environment.

With a focus on supporting the company's marketing plans, including frequent website updates and an annual customer conference, BlueAlly was entrusted to build, manage, and operate the WordPress platform using DevOps practices.

By implementing redundant and scalable infrastructure, meeting SLA requirements, and ensuring high uptime, BlueAlly collaborated closely with the customer to successfully operate the web platform with over 99.99% uptime for more than three years, enabling the company to achieve their ambitious goals.

Our team's deep involvement in the project allowed us to thoroughly evaluate different PKI systems and VPN technologies, resulting in the successful issuance of digital certificates to each vehicle's system.

Additionally, BlueAlly played a vital role in scaling the infrastructure, transferring knowledge to the client's staff, and providing continuous support to ensure a seamless operational environment.

With a shortage of staff and the necessary skills and expertise, BlueAlly performed a comprehensive assessment of the current state processes, built a robust tracker to manage PCI requirements, and prioritized the remediation of gaps.

Collaborating closely with IT, TechOps, and Engineering teams, we successfully remediated all PCI gaps, including vulnerability management, penetration, segmentation testing, and securing data extraction processes. Through regular reporting to stakeholders and the CFO, we achieved PCI compliance within the target timeframe.

The methodology employed reduced the time needed to achieve compliance and matured over the years through collaborations with four CISOs and security teams, resulting in a robust and consistent compliance framework.

BlueAlly took charge of the situation, assuming ownership of the customer's desired outcome and providing support for existing security compliance obligations.

Through our leadership, evaluation, and implementation of the OneTrust tool, we established a robust global security compliance program, effectively addressing the challenge. As a result, we successfully managed the compliance of seven companies for our client, leading to an increased demand for our services.

Recognized as a trusted partner, BlueAlly continues to assist in migrating additional acquired companies and expanding our consulting support for ISO 27001, solidifying our position as the go-to resource for compliance assistance.

Recognizing the challenge at hand, we worked closely with the client to systemize their approach to compliance operations, providing guidance and support in-house. Despite their aim to minimize reliance on consultants, the client acknowledged the quality of our work and maintained a strong relationship with us throughout the process.

Our expertise and commitment enabled a successful merging of products, showcasing our adaptability and value delivery even in challenging circumstances.

Our team diligently worked on developing essential documentation such as the System Security Plan (SSP), Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA), and Incident Response Plan (IRP), while implementing the necessary FedRAMP controls and processes.

Thanks to our collaborative efforts, the customer obtained the coveted FedRAMP Moderate certification within the designated timeframe, paving the way for the adoption of their cloud security services by the US Department of Transportation (US DOT) and expanding sales opportunities within the organization.

Despite scheduling constraints, BlueAlly prioritized the customer's needs and seamlessly integrated them into the Guided Onboarding process.

Through interactive workshops and collaborative efforts, BlueAlly achieved a successful onboarding outcome, meeting all the expectations set by OneTrust. The customer expressed satisfaction with the service, which was delivered punctually and within the allocated budget.