Cloud Engineering Services

Cloud Application Strategy Services

GSS Cloud Strategy Services ensure that your business goals drive your cloud application strategy. It is the foundation of adoption success. With deep domain expertise of development, deployment, and management of a broad range of cloud computing platforms and enablers, GSS will provide you with a clear, objective vision and efficient roadmap to guarantee your IT investment. Our Services Include: ROI/TCO Analysis, Labor Savings Analysis, Compliance Assessment (HIPAA, SOX, PCI, PHI, FISMA), and Security Assessments.

Our Approach

With any application transformation initiative, understanding the implications and available options is often what determines success. In every project we enter into GSS goes through a meticulous study of,the current state landscape, IT assets, user communities and their behavioral patterns. We engage in assessments of the appropriate cloud platforms and provide recommendations for development or migration of applications to the cloud.

Cloud engagement at GSS Infotech is a 3-step process

Assimilate: Help customers Understand different 'Cloud' platforms

What "Clouds" are all about?
How do cloud platforms enable rapid application hosting with minimal OPEX?
How cloud platforms enable hosting of your Business solutions?

Strategize: Understand and analyze your business

Map Existing Technology assets/ stack and validate fitment to various Cloud platforms
Identify the transformation required to port applications to Cloud
Define the scope for a Proof

Prove & On-Board: Evaluate and Adopt

Develop POCs and demonstrate the solution
Plan for Adoption and creating a road map for application hosting (porting) to Cloud platform
Support and sustain applications on Cloud

Cloud Application Proof of Concept Services

GSS Infotech's proofof-value services for the cloud application development enable clients to make sound decisions based on solid and unbiased expert analyses. Our services include:

Visioning Workshops - to understand the business case for potential migrations and the goals and expectations
Scenario Development - Working with customer to identify potential scenarios and applications best positionedfor cloud adoption
Evaluation Environments – GSS builds a custom evaluation environment to replicate the your environment for the POC to ensure accurate environmental analysis
Project Planning – We work with your project lead to createa detailed strategy and plan for execution

Cloud Based Solutions Enablement Evaluations

These services help customers significantly lower the costs incurred in application maintenance and in-house development. Our cloudbased solutions enablement services evaluates available service platforms and helps customers to determine the business case for building a development platform in the cloud and/or migration of applications to the cloud.

Impact Analysis– We evaluate the impact of migration or development of applications inthe cloud including areas such as; application performance, productivity, profitability, and brand image.

Recommendation - After careful analysis and evaluation of different vendors aided with a POC we provide recommendation on the right cloud platform for your development and migration needs.

Planning– Once the recommendation has been presented we develop detailedengineering plans to execute the solution enablement and realize the benefits of cloud deployment as quickly as possible.

Cloud based SOA & Integration Services

As cloud application penetrate the enterprise more and more, integrating SaaS applications with existing on-premise applications or other cloud applications is emerging as a not insignificant challenge. Enterprises use a wide number of approaches from point-to-point integrations using custom code, to hub-and-spoke integrations, to real-time integration.

GSS Infotech offers a comprehensive set of services to help enterprises integrate cloud and on-premise applications. The key elements include:

Integration Assessment and Strategy: Aimed at assessing the current integration landscape, identifying future needs and developing future state integration architecture.
Integration Development: Deployment services for cloud-to-cloud and cloud-to-ground integrations including development of integration templates, error and exception handling and integration testing
Cloud Integration Management: Ongoing management of custom integrations, including enhancements, maintenance and sustained engineering services as part of a monthly contract

Cloud based Testing

Cloud-based testing enables convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources. These resources made up of, networks, servers, storage, applications and services, can be rapidly provisioned and deployed.

Developing in the cloud leads to significantly reducing management effort and service provider interaction. GSS cloudtesting models outline the potential benefits, evaluate the challenges, and provide insight on new applications.

Cloud Technology Stack & Workbench

Cloud Workbench Platform:

The GSS Cloud ALM workbench provides a holistic development and test environment for Azure-based applications. Sophisticated design, code, test and deployment tools are some of the key features you get for building azure services and applications in the cloud.

Cloud Solution Accelerators

GSS Cloud accelerators help customers in the process of evaluating cloud platforms, and help to identify and reduce risks in adoption. We have developed cloud computing business cases and multiple frameworks to assist incloud computing decision making process.

GSS Saasify Architecture Framework
A blueprint for enterprises embarking on SaaSenabling applications or building new SaaS platforms

Azure ALM Development workbench
a high-end workbench, which comprises of a complete tool set that can be used to design, build and test cloud applications.

Cloud Assessment Services
aPortfolio assessment of applications and identification of the best candidates for cloud transformation.