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It’s no secret that cloud adoption is on the rise as businesses today face market and supply chain disruptions unlike any they’ve faced in the past and turn to the cloud for the scale, flexibility, and security they need to keep up. With most organizations also having significant investments in Microsoft technology within their datacenters (like Windows Server, Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint, Dynamics, or Active Directory), there are many reasons to consider a move to Microsoft Azure while leveraging existing skills, familiar tools, and established procedures as you shift workloads to the cloud.

With Azure and The Neudesic Cloud Factory, you can simplify your migration with a repeatable migration framework driven by automation—all while reducing costs through outstanding offers, protecting workloads with unmatched security, enabling agile operations with seamless hybrid capabilities, and modernizing apps with unparalleled innovation.

  • Reduced costs: Pay less than on other clouds because you can bring your Windows Server and SQL Server licenses to Azure using Azure Hybrid Benefit.
  • Unmatched security: Take advantage of multi-layered security across physical datacenters, infrastructure, and operations and Microsoft’s $1 billion annual investment in security. Benefit from 8,500 cybersecurity experts and active monitoring that helps protect your business assets and data.
  • Unparalleled innovation: Take advantage of features only in Azure that can help you accelerate the modernization of your infrastructure and applications.
  • Seamless hybrid capabilities: Azure is also the only consistent hybrid cloud. Connect your on-premises infrastructure, data, and apps to the cloud with Azure Arc for maximum agility and value from existing investments. You also benefit from hybrid consistency in app development, management and security, identity management.

All of this value is supported by mission critical infrastructure you can trust to run your business—making it the best destination for Windows Server and SQL Server workloads.

Neudesic and Microsoft can help simplify and accelerate your Windows Server to Azure migration. Learn more about the Neudesic Cloud Factory.

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Gain insight into Neudesic’s Cloud Control Framework for optimizing your Azure platform.

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Although Kubernetes was originally developed as a means of orchestrating containers to support software deployment, scaling, and management, enterprises have increasingly discovered that it can also be a powerful tool for creating business value.

If your organization is contemplating adopting Kubernetes to simplify deployment, improve resilience, and achieve more efficient scaling and storage, here are a few additional added benefits where Kubernetes can also help you grow your business.

1. Enjoy the benefits of AI now.

The conventional wisdom says that AI-powered solutions will be used more and more often to give companies a competitive advantage. So why wait? Whether you’re a pharma looking to develop drugs faster, an eCommerce provider that wants to offer shoppers personalized recommendations, or a company that wants to improve customer service by deploying a chatbot, you could benefit from the capabilities that ML and AI can provide.

However, several factors make AI deployment challenging, including the intense amount of data cleansing and preparation required, workflow handoff difficulties, provisioning inefficiencies, and more. Kubernetes can overcome these challenges by enabling you to quickly deploy and manage the multiple servers and resources you need to implement AI solutions. AI-supporting Kubernetes capabilities include providing self-service access to data management capabilities, breaking down departmental silos, providing visualization and analytics tools, and more efficient hardware provisioning.

2. Ensure high availability.

How much is high availability worth to your business? Even for companies without 24×7 operations, it’s everything. Maintaining high availability has immediate and measurable business value, ensuring everything from uninterrupted revenue streams to higher customer satisfaction.

Kubernetes ensures high availability by continuously checking the health of nodes and containers, then offering self-healing or auto-replacement in the event of a container or pod crash. Kubernetes also provides built-in load balancers to automatically reroute traffic during outages or peaks. Your business stays up and the revenue streams keep flowing.

3. Get the agility you need to make business moves.

Traditional architectures are not conducive to quick action. Application development – or changes to existing applications – can take months. The time lag between identifying an opportunity and seizing it is much longer than you’d like.

That’s why you should consider adopting a microservices architecture. With microservices and Kubernetes, you can break a single monolithic application into an organized collection of modular components that you can more easily swap out, reassemble, scale up, and reuse. Deploying Kubernetes enables you to implement – and better manage – a microservices architecture. This greatly reduces the time required to develop new solutions, giving you the ability to take advantage of opportunities and respond to new customer demands or marketplace changes. A first-mover advantage can give you the brand recognition, customer loyalty, and incremental revenue you need to outrace your competitors.

4. Focus more energy on business-building activities.

Every organization has to weigh operational costs against investments in growth. The more you spend on maintenance, the less is available for new development. Adopting Kubernetes is one of the most effective ways to tip the scales in favor of innovation and new business opportunities – especially if you adopt a cloud-native managed Kubernetes service.

For example, a recent analysis by Forrester Research showed that, by adopting a Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift environment, developers were able to recoup 20% of their time from infrastructure maintenance and put it toward application development. One organization in the study was able to reassign 25% of its staff from operations to development. That is a significant increase in business value.

How to ensure you reap maximum business value from Kubernetes

Kubernetes can deliver all the value described above – and more – but only if it’s expertly configured and deployed. Unless you have in-house Kubernetes expertise, you’re probably better off opting for a managed Kubernetes service than going it alone.

A managed Kubernetes service enables your team to totally offload the infrastructure maintenance and operation of Kubernetes clusters with total confidence.

Microsoft Azure offers two managed Kubernetes services: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Azure Red Hat OpenShift. At Neudesic, we support them both – and we can help you figure out which service is best for your organization.

What’s your next step to maximizing business value with Kubernetes? We’d recommend our Container Modernization Accelerator, a four-week jumpstart engagement that enables you to accelerate your adoption of Kubernetes with a proof-of-value implementation to deliver higher-quality applications with reduced development cycles and optimized IT costs. An initial discovery helps you choose the orchestrator that best fits your unique needs, followed by a proof-of-value implementation and a customized roadmap for final implementation and best practices.

Our Container Modernization Accelerator is one more way to reap business value, enabling a 70% reduction in development time, a 50% increase in operational efficiency, and a 20% reduction in infrastructure maintenance.

You can learn more about the features and capabilities of AKS and ARO by downloading our eBook, Creating Business Value with Managed Kubernetes Services.

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IRVINE, CA – August 4, 2022 — Neudesic, an IBM company, today announced that it has earned the Cloud Security Advanced Specialization, expanding its portfolio of solutions leveraging Microsoft’s cybersecurity stack.

Neudesic is one of 22 partners that have earned advanced specializations in both Threat Protection and Cloud Security, which validates our deep knowledge, extensive experience, and proven success in implementing comprehensive security solutions across Azure, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.

Neudesic delivers solutions and strategies to help organizations maximize the investments made in their security initiatives by leveraging centralized governance and automated processes to increase efficiency, protection, and privacy.

“The cloud security advanced specialization further demonstrates our deep technical expertise in Azure security workloads. Additionally, it results from a strategic investment in our Microsoft partnership to help organizations protect against threats and realize their full potential leveraging Azure native security services,” said Mark Jones, Chief Marketing & Alliances Officer, Neudesic.

Click here to learn more about Neudesic’s security solutions.

About Neudesic
Neudesic, an IBM company, is the trusted technology partner in business innovation, delivering impactful business results to clients through digital modernization and evolution. Our consultants bring business and technology expertise together, offering a wide range of cloud and data-driven solutions, including custom application development, data and artificial intelligence, and comprehensive managed services. Founded in 2002, Neudesic is headquartered in Irvine, California. To learn more, visit www.neudesic.com.

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[ON DEMAND] Learn about how security in the new modern workplace can impact your organization and how to get started on developing a holistic approach to your security strategy to achieve organizational goals.

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IRVINE, CA, United States – June 29, 2022 — Today, Neudesic announced it has been awarded the 2022 MSUS AI Partner of the Year and additionally named a finalist for Global AI Partner of the Year. This recognition reflects Neudesic’s track record in helping clients successfully scale artificial intelligence initiatives, leveraging Neudesic’s award-winning AI accelerators across a diverse set of use cases.

“Neudesic takes pride in our mission to be the global leader in business innovation. This award is a testament to Neudesic’s visionary thinking to deliver and manage world-class business and technology solutions that help our clients thrive in a cloud-first, data-driven world,” said Tim Marshall, co-founder, and president of Neudesic. “We are honored to work side by side with Microsoft over the past two decades, as we share their passion for innovation.  He added, “Our team of world-class data science experts have been instrumental, and I’m continuously impressed by their innovative use of Microsoft Cloud technologies and the impact on our clients. We are honored to be recognized among the pool of distinguished nominees in Microsoft’s partner network.”

The Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards recognizes Microsoft partners that have developed and delivered outstanding Microsoft-based applications, services, and devices during the past year. Awards were classified in various categories, with honorees chosen from a set of more than 3,900 submitted nominations from more than 100 countries worldwide. Neudesic was recognized for providing outstanding solutions and service offerings in Artificial Intelligence for Microsoft Azure.

“I am honored to announce the winners and finalists of the 2022 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards,” said Nick Parker, corporate vice president of Global Partner Solutions at Microsoft. “These partners were outstanding among the exceptional pool of nominees, and I’m continuously impressed by their innovative use of Microsoft Cloud technologies and the impact for their customers.”

Neudesic has a proven track record of delivering solutions and strategies that help organizations maximize their investments in transformative business initiatives with repeatable IP including:

  1. Neudesic’s Document Intelligence Platform  – enables organizations to apply AI and intelligent OCR to document-intensive workflows, replacing the manual and time-consuming process of extracting data from business documents.
  2. Neudesic’s Data & AI Platform – provides organizations the fastest path to for deploying a modern data and AI platform, including pre-built code for integrating data sources, building data models, data governance, and predictive analytics.

Neudesic’s most recent Data & AI projects and client successes include:

A leading multinational reinsurance company drove $3.3M cost reduction & 99% increase in processing efficiency ​with Neudesic’s AI-powered Document Intelligence Platform​

The client receives nearly 10,000 new life insurance applications on a monthly basis, and their current method of processing is entirely manual. Given that each application includes 150+ pages the client team needed an automated document processing and classification system to reduce their monthly costs, but they also needed to maintain security and compliance, given that they handled sensitive customer data.​ Neudesic’s Document Intelligence Platform allowed non-technical users to apply AI to address these specific needs and provided approximately $3.3M in cost savings and a 95% reduction in processing errors.

A leading American auto insurance company that provides coverage for more than 28 million reduces operational costs related to document processing by more than 90%

Neudesic recognized an opportunity to reduce costs related to inefficient document processing while also reducing risk related to missed expiration dates and on-demand letters that could increase their financial exposure. Neudesic’s document intelligence platform solution enabled automation across the client’s document-intensive workflows, increasing efficiency by 200%.

Leading provider of wealth management, asset servicing, and banking chooses Neudesic’s Document Intelligence Platform to automate document classification and extraction

In considering multiple cloud-based options, the company thought broadly about multiple use cases and scalability. Specifically, they wanted a platform that could be refined and modified over time to meet the needs of specific clients and support different processes. Ease of use and the ability to get smarter over time were other criteria for evaluating and selecting a solution. Neudesic’s Document Intelligence Platform proved to be the right fit and was able to deploy 60% faster than comparable solutions.

One of the largest professional services companies overhauls a costly invoice process with Neudesic’s Document Intelligence Platform

A leading professional services company was processing roughly 1M invoices annually, which included over thousands of hours of manually data entry into the accounts payable system.​ The time-consuming process also resulted in lost and incorrect invoices, which delayed payments. To improve efficiency and reduce billing discrepancies, the client turned to ​Neudesic to automate and accurately capture the invoice data. Neudesic’s Document Intelligence Platform helped improve payment accuracy by 90% and massively reduced the cost of processing invoices.

“Neudesic is pleased to be recognized by Microsoft for our commitment to helping organizations maximize their investments made in transformative business initiatives using Microsoft technologies,” said Mark Jones, Chief Marketing and Alliances Officer. “We value our relationship with Microsoft and see this as a reflection of the continued teaming and collaboration between Neudesic, an IBM company and Microsoft.”

About Neudesic

Neudesic, an IBM company, is the trusted technology partner in business innovation, delivering impactful business results to clients through digital modernization and evolution. Our consultants bring business and technology expertise together, offering a wide range of cloud and data-driven solutions, including custom application development, data and artificial intelligence, and comprehensive managed services. Founded in 2002, Neudesic is headquartered in Irvine, California. To learn more, visit www.neudesic.com.

For additional information, contact:
Tyler Suss
Director, Data & AI, Alliances & Marketing
tyler.suss@neudesic.com

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IRVINE, CA, United States – June 28, 2022 — Today, Neudesic announced it has been awarded the 2022 Global Microsoft Modernizing Applications Partner of the Year. This award distinguishes the impact Neudesic has made by accelerating time to market modernizing legacy/on-prem apps using Microsoft tools and technologies and leveraging repeatable IP.

“Neudesic takes pride in our mission to be the global leader in business innovation. This award is a testament to Neudesic’s visionary thinking to deliver and manage world-class business and technology solutions that help our clients thrive in a cloud-first, data-driven world,” said Tim Marshall, co-founder, and president of Neudesic. “We are honored to work side by side with Microsoft over the past two decades, as we share their passion for innovation. He added, “Our team of world-class app modernization experts has been instrumental, and I’m continuously impressed by their innovative use of Microsoft Cloud technologies and the impact on our clients. We are honored to be recognized among the pool of distinguished nominees in Microsoft’s partner network.”

The Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards recognizes Microsoft partners that have developed and delivered outstanding Microsoft-based applications, services, and devices during the past year. Awards were classified in various categories, with honorees chosen from a set of more than 3,900 submitted nominations from more than 100 countries worldwide. Neudesic was recognized for providing outstanding solutions and services in App Modernization.

“I am honored to announce the winners and finalists of the 2022 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards,” said Nick Parker, corporate vice president of Global Partner Solutions at Microsoft. “These partners were outstanding among the exceptional pool of nominees, and I’m continuously impressed by their innovative use of Microsoft Cloud technologies and the impact for their customers.”

Neudesic has a proven track record of delivering solutions and strategies that help organizations maximize their investments in transformative business initiatives with repeatable IP including:

  1. Neudesic’s Azure DevOps CI/CD Pipeline with GitHub – to help organizations accelerate software delivery by employing new practices, processes, and tools
  2. Neudesic Migration Factory – to provide organizations with a cost-effective framework that accelerates the typical migration and modernization timetable

Neudesic’s 3 most recent Modernizing Applications projects and client successes include:

An International Advisory Services Firm – Modernizing Legacy Applications to Create a 10X Reduction in Case Approval Processes and Improve Data Processing

Neudesic helped standardize their operations and improve workflows by modernizing their legacy apps and creating an automated request system environment that reduced case approval processes by 10X. We also supported the deployment of a Kubernetes ecosystem that offered service meshes and monitored capabilities. This led to reduced operational dependence on DevOps teams to promote faster innovation.

A Large Global Investment and Advisory Financial Services Firm – Building an Azure App Services Architecture to Reduce Outages by 90% and Promote Faster Innovation

Neudesic facilitated their transformation initiative by migrating everything to Azure App Services and leveraging Neudesic’s Azure DevOps CI/CD Pipeline with GitHub in their new ecosystem. This solution enables pluggability inside the architecture so new apps can be provisioned inside the framework and identity flow can be established. This engagement led to a 90% reduction in outages, along with scalability, operational excellence, and a 60% increase in cost efficiencies.

A Leading Provider of Information and Analytics Services – Accelerating Open-Source Modernization on Azure to Reduce Manual Security Incident Reporting by 90%

Neudesic partnered with their team to modernize their app estate at scale and build a robust, reusable GitHub action framework. During the engagement, Neudesic leveraged their Azure DevOps CI/CD Pipeline with GitHub IP alongside their Neudesic Migration Factory IP to streamline the migration of their 18 OSS apps to Azure at scale. This led to a 90% reduction in manual security incident reporting and enabled their operational staff to be redirected to higher-value tasks.

“Neudesic is pleased to be recognized by Microsoft for our commitment to helping organizations maximize their investments made in transformative business initiatives using Microsoft technologies,” said Mark Jones, Chief Marketing and Alliances Officer. “We value our relationship with Microsoft and see this as a reflection of the continued teaming and collaboration between Neudesic, an IBM company and Microsoft.”

About Neudesic

Neudesic, an IBM company, is the trusted technology partner in business innovation, delivering impactful business results to clients through digital modernization and evolution. Our consultants bring business and technology expertise together, offering a wide range of cloud and data-driven solutions, including custom application development, data and artificial intelligence, and comprehensive managed services. Founded in 2002, Neudesic is headquartered in Irvine, California. To learn more, visit www.neudesic.com.

For additional information, contact:
Melissa Carpenter
Sr. Marketing & Alliances Manager, App Innovation
Melissa.Smith@neudesic.com

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There are many benefits of adopting a cloud-based IT service model, whether SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, or a hybrid. One major reason is enhanced IT security; any major cloud service provider, including Microsoft Azure, has built their operations to comply with U.S. Department of Defense standards. They follow the latest best practices to keep their systems and user data secure. They offer deep security expertise and 24/7 resources to anticipate issues before they occur and respond promptly to emerging threats and vulnerabilities – coupled with modern AI and Machine Learning security technologies.

But what is the extent of security protection that your cloud provider manages versus your organization’s responsibility? The answer isn’t always clear-cut. The security protection you receive from a cloud provider can vary greatly depending on which service model and service options you’ve selected. That’s why it’s important to know who’s responsible for what – and where you might be vulnerable.

Hosting contracts vary – and many cloud service providers offer add-on security options – but here are some general guidelines and recommendations:

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
For IaaS services, your cloud vendor provides only the physical or virtual infrastructure. That means you’re in charge of the network and system infrastructure, applications, and data – and the security responsibilities that go with them. As an IaaS customer, it is your job to deploy and monitor the identity and access management tools you need to authenticate users and secure endpoints. In terms of data security, you are solely responsible for measures such as data collection, encryption, and monitoring.

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
If you’re operating in a PaaS environment, your cloud provider manages the entire infrastructure, including databases and other middleware. Your team manages the application and data content. That means you have primary responsibility for access management, while your cloud provider should be providing API security and auditing. While you supply the data, your provider oversees securing those databases. In addition to databases and middleware, PaaS services have evolved for Identity Solutions, namely “easy-auth” or Modern Authentication and customers should be taking advantage of their cloud provider’s serverless code functions to eliminate the need for username and password authentication dependencies.

Software as a Service (SaaS)
For SaaS services, your cloud provider provides everything from the infrastructure to the application. You’re responsible for providing the data and user access. You can be sure your SaaS provider has taken all proper application security measures, including source code analysis, vulnerability testing, secure deployment, and runtime threat protection. For your part, ensure the security of the endpoints used to access your cloud solutions. If your SaaS provider doesn’t offer identity and access management as part of their solution, deploy your own tools.

How can you be sure your IT security is adequate?
As you can see, security measures are a shared responsibility in cloud service models, and it’s essential to understand how robust your security protections are and which aspects of security your organization is responsible for.

In the Azure environment, a good starting point is your Microsoft Secure Score. At a glance, its dashboard enables you to gauge the current state of your organization’s security posture and alert you to responsibilities requiring your attention.

You can then build on your Secure Score findings by engaging a security services provider to perform a thorough security assessment. For example, Neudesic’s comprehensive security assessment service will analyze all aspects of your – identities, devices, servers, data, applications, infrastructure, and networks – helping you identify and mitigate risks and providing an actionable list of recommendations to put your security strategy on solid footing. Click here to learn more.

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This eBook shares how building your data governance foundation on Azure Purview, a unified data governance solution from Microsoft, enables your data consumers to easily find valuable, trustworthy data across your on-premises, multi-cloud, and software as a service (SaaS) data sources.

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[ON DEMAND]

Learn industry leading practices to manage and deploy your Power Platform solutions.

With the growing demand for digital solutions, organizations are looking for ways to enable greater speed and effectiveness for business users while maintaining data democratization across the enterprise.

Organizations are increasingly turning to low code application development platforms. During this webinar, Neudesic and Microsoft will share strategy, experiences, and customer stories of using Microsoft’s Power Platform.