Enterprise Cloud Consulting Services Realize business value through cloud – securely, efficiently and confidently The power of cloud offers many benefits and advantages, but only if your cloud capabilities align with your business objectives. Our Enterprise Cloud Services empower you to leverage the cloud's potential for organizational transformation and modernization. We help identify avenues for gaining advantages, through your investment in technology, while enhancing business efficiency and operations. With our comprehensive services, we guide you from initial envisioning and strategic planning through seamless migration, efficient implementations and ongoing managed services.We're ready to meet you at any point in your cloud journey. Our comprehensive range of global cloud services, including Advisory, Engineering and Optimization, is geared towards ensuring your successful transition to the cloud and maximizing its benefits for your business. Leverage Cloud to Take Your Business to New Heights Pro Briefcase Cloud Advisory Are you getting value from the cloud? We help you create a comprehensive cloud strategy, from planning and readiness assessments to defining governance, operations and cost management optimization. Pro Building office Cloud Engineering Modernize your legacy applications with the power of AI and grow your business through cloud migration and transformation. We help you adopt cloud with purpose and accelerate innovation for continuous value delivery to your business. We design, build and remediate. Pro Document Files Cloud Optimization Our experts pragmatically leverage tested frameworks, pathways and methodologies to meet you where you are in the cloud, align business goals to desired outcomes and continuously mature your cloud offerings to maximize the value out of your cloud investments. Pro Document Consent Cloud Security Protecting your most valuable data — the confidentiality, integrity and privacy of individual data subjects — is critical. We help you understand, address and actively manage the risks of successfully operating your business in a secure cloud. Our Cloud-First Approach There is a notable increase in demand for enterprise cloud services and strategies. The future of work, including new models of distributed and virtual workforces, the demand for improved customer experience and the necessity for new products, are driving urgency for greater computing needs. Organizations are moving to the cloud to provide virtual service delivery, new processes, new applications, optimized costs and improved agility to rapidly adapt to business priorities such as embracing Artificial Intelligence. Therefore, today’s technology strategy must include cloud as a key component for organizations looking for a rapid response to change, disruption and enhancing business resiliency for systems, programs, people and technology.Organizations need an experienced partner to help them achieve the value that cloud can offer.Protiviti’s Enterprise Cloud services help organizations wherever they are in their cloud journey. Whether they are in initial stages of planning and strategy, need assistance with managing multiple cloud environments or desire additional value and innovation from mature cloud deployments, Protiviti can help organizations to adopt cloud capabilities throughout their cloud journey that align with defined business outcomes.Our heritage and expertise in audit, security and data privacy ensure that your cloud environment is safe and governed. As a partner with the major cloud vendors (Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud), we work to ensure you get the most out of your cloud environment and investment. Leadership David Kissane David is a Managing Director and Protiviti’s global Enterprise Cloud lead. David has over 24 years’ experience across a variety of industries and senior IT roles, including: Partner at Deloitte Technology Consulting, Group Infrastructure and Operations Director at ... Learn More Randy Armknecht Randy Armknecht is a Managing Director currently leading the Global Cloud Engineering practice within Enterprise Cloud. He has over 20 years of experience in a variety of roles from developer to global architect. Randy is a frequent speaker on the topic of cybersecurity ... Learn More Will Thomas Will is a Managing Director currently leading Protiviti’s Cloud Optimize practice within the Global Enterprise Cloud segment and serves as the Global Microsoft Azure lead, collaboratively partnering with Microsoft across solution and account teams to participate in key ... Learn More Powerful Partnerships We believe our partnerships play a key role in driving collective success for our customers. Therefore, we partner with the largest cloud service providers to support your technology modernization journey. Our professionals are digitally native with extensive skills and experience and stay up to date in cloud technologies. This combination of expertise and partnerships enables us to better understand your business challenges and provide integrated, holistic solutions that support your goals and deliver value through our complementary strengths. Featured insights BLOG Leveraging FinOps in Private Equity This is the second in a two-part series around controlling cloud cost challenges in FinOps. Part 1 can be found here. FinOps provides organizations with a strategic framework for optimizing cloud costs while fueling growth initiatives. By adopting... INSIGHTS PAPER Technology-modernization projects must define and deliver tangible value to justify investment Unleash growth with technology modernization. Drive value, lower costs, increase flexibility and meet regulatory requirements effectively. BLOG 5 Tips to Navigate Security in Agile Development In today's fast-paced digital landscape, DevOps practices have revolutionized software development and deployment, allowing organizations to achieve greater efficiency and agility. As DevOps teams embrace cloud-based infrastructures like Amazon Web... BLOG Insights into Cloud Resilience: Ensuring Robust Infrastructure and Operations In the fast-paced world of modern cloud computing, ensuring infrastructure resilience is a paramount concern for enterprises worldwide. As businesses increasingly rely on cloud services to power operations, the ability to withstand disruptions and... BLOG Energy and Utility OT and IT Convergence Efforts Bring Opportunity Amid Challenges and Risk This blog was originally posted on The Protiviti View. Like companies in other industries, energy and utilities (E&U) organizations want to more efficiently leverage data generated in the field by conducting real-time analysis. Why it... BLOG Controlling Cloud Cost Challenges in Private Equity: How FinOps Leads the Way According to the Flexera 2024 State of the Cloud report, 84 percent of organizations cite cost optimization as their top cloud initiative. Private equity firms are experts in identifying and exploiting growth opportunities in their portfolio... Button Button Global banking forecast? Plenty of cloud. Protiviti MDs on accelerating banking transformation Protiviti Managing Directors David Kissane, Global Leader of Enterprise Cloud, and Alex Setchin with Enterprise Cloud in Australia, sat down with Joe Kornik, Editor-in-Chief of VISION by Protiviti, to discuss some of the trends and investment priorities they are seeing in the financial services industry, including insights from Gartner’s Future of Cloud Computing in 2027: From Technology to... Read More Manufacturer optimizes supply chain analytics with Azure Machine Learning This global manufacturer of batteries and portable lighting products had well-established, but manual, ocean freight shipping processes in place and was unable to nimbly respond to pricing spikes, increased scheduling lead-time and port backups caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More From legacy systems to cloud-based native microservices: finding success with AWS Successware is an end-to-end business management solution for the home service industry that supports both independent and franchise owners of the three trades brands franchised by affiliates of its parent company, Authority Brands, Inc. Successware Classic is a legacy software system built with Citrix, VDI, and SQL server hosted in a data center. Read More Case Studies Large Government Agency Develops a Cloud Roadmap Problem: A government agency, despite having some presence in cloud platforms, needed a comprehensive strategy to transition their IT infrastructure and applications from an on-premise datacenter to the public cloud.Solution: Protiviti developed an ICT Cloud Roadmap as a solution, conducting a deep-dive into the IT infrastructure for cloud compatibility, mapping servers to applications and identifying opportunities for rationalization and network dependencies. The team also consulted with application owners to assess readiness for cloud migration and determine custom migration methods.Value: This project's outcome gave the client an understanding of their current application landscape and IT infrastructure, along with a clear plan for moving these elements into the public cloud efficiently and cost-effectively. The client also gained insight into expected transition and operational costs associated with the move, aiding in more informed business case creation. Global Medical Company Automates a Secure Cloud Workspace for Workload Deployment in Azure Problem: The client needed a secure, automated cloud workspace in Azure for hosting and deploying workloads. The required solution had to rapidly provision secure workspaces, support workload segregation, be fully documented with tagging features for chargebacks and integrate with Identity and Access Management tools including Multifactor Authentication and Conditional Access. It also required integration with Automated Monitoring and Analysis Tools and comprehensive audit trails.Solution: Protiviti developed the solution using Infrastructure as Code (IaC), custom Azure Arm templates, scripts, Azure Automation for the OPS Pipeline and Azure DevOps for tracking work items. They integrated FireEye for threat detection, LogicMonitor for system monitoring along with Okta, Thycotic and Saviynt for IAM.Value: This project allows the client to effectively track departmental spending while maintaining full compliance with an available audit history when required. Engineering and Construction Services Leader Develops Azure Government Tenant with Landing Zones Problem: The client, a leading engineering and construction services firm, sought to bid for government contracts requiring Azure Government tenant with landing zones for Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI).Solution: Protiviti, with its cloud security, architecture and governance expertise, developed the landing zone design using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and deployed these into the Azure Government environment. They also provided ARM templates for deploying additional landing zones and a comprehensive deployment guide.Value: The result was an operational Azure Government environment compliant with CMMC standards that allows handling federal contracts. Additionally, they provided reusable ARM templates for future environment expansion. The successful completion of this project enabled the client to achieve their 3PAO certification for CMMC. Large Commercial Bank Aligns Cloud with Business Strategy Problem: A large commercial bank sought to integrate cloud technology into its core business strategy for cost reduction, increased revenue, innovation and accelerated market entry.Solution: Protiviti stepped in, developing a multi-year roadmap that included Legacy Modernization and Cloud Transformation and Rationalization. This roadmap not only aligned the bank's cloud strategy with business priorities but also addressed critical technology debts while refreshing important technologies. Additionally, they established foundational cloud platforms and capabilities to enhance service stability.Value: Protiviti's support enabled optimization of both cloud and non-cloud services through cloud sourcing, service optimization and leveraging technology investments. The bank could thus leverage cloud services responsively to environmental changes, gain insights from strategic focus area reports and realize business outcomes enabled by their transformation of the cloud. Global Financial Services Company Optimizes Cloud Costs Problem: A global financial services company facing cloud cost optimization issues due to failed FinOps efforts engaged Protiviti. Their previous attempts had led to a monthly cloud expenditure of over $5M without substantial financial accountability.Solution: Protiviti established a Cloud FinOps program strategy, which included reviewing current finance processes, creating a scorecard for improvement and offering high-level cost optimization recommendations. They also worked on the design of the Cloud FinOps structure and roll-out across business units.Value: As a result, the client not only gained confidence in their new FinOps team and strategy but also saw significant savings on cloud spend — reducing costs by $2M within the first 30 days.
