Planet Technologies Solutions for the Public Sector

Our Enterprise Cloud Readiness (ECR) is a high-value, fixed cost and prescriptive program delivered by Planet Cloud Solution Architects. We explore multiple areas of your organization as candidates for cloud services and provide strategic guidance on specific digital transformation action plans. The end results are typically delivered in 4-6 weeks and provide documented guidelines that serve as a blueprint for your organization while providing a level of implementation to get you started. Analysis includes the following:

• Infrastructure and Identity
• Re-platforming
• Security and Compliance
• Dev/Ops
• Automation & AI
• Organizational Change Management and Process Analysis

Planet has partnered with more than 100 government agencies in moving data center workloads to the Azure cloud – more than any other Microsoft partner in the entire US. There are a lot of complexities and uncertainties in migrating workloads, or disaster recovery to the cloud. From strategic planning to on the ground execution, Planet is the go-to partner that you can depend on for all your Azure (or other cloud) migration needs. You will walk away with a deeper understanding of the environment, tools, and governance framework needed to successfully move forward and avoid some of the common pitfalls.

In all journeys to the cloud, one step is transitioning your applications, processes and data management. This will improve your organization’s performance and leverage built-in security solutions. Planet technologies has in-depth experience in helping customers along this journey. Starting with a proof of concept we can work with you to target a handful of your applications and show the value of a cloud first model. We will generally start by working with you to cover best practices, governance, and a pilot of 1-5 applications to help you understand how to bring those applications into a modern environment.

Each of Planet’s managed service offerings can be tailored to meet the unique needs of our government clients, ensuring that we are an extension of your team and helping to fill any technical or strategic gaps. Put your trust in a government cloud partner with more than 20 years government knowledge and experience in its back pocket that understands the unique compliance requirements of government.

• Azure Advantage
• Sentinel Advantage
• Compliance Advantage
• Microsoft 365 Advantage
• Cloud Administration Support
• Cloud Operations Support
• Strategic Consulting

Planet has been leading from the onset when it comes to Azure deployments in federal, state, and local government. Planet is responsible for moving the greatest number of agencies to the Microsoft cloud from strategic planning, migrations and to day-to-day support – Planet is there through multiple stages on the journey to the cloud, ensuring our customers have the support they need, right when they need it.

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• Compliance Expertise and Workshops
• NIST 800-171 and 800-53
• ITAR
• CJIS
• DFARS
• HIPAA
• IRS 1075
• CMMC-AB RPO
• Security Assessments and Workshops
• Secure Score
• CMMC and NIST-based Security Risk Assessments and Gap Analysis
• MS Purview (e.g., Secure Score, eDiscovery, Compliance Manager)
• Shadow IT
• Windows 10 and Windows 11
• Zero Trust Enterprise Cloud Readiness (ECR)

Planet Technologies was one of the first Microsoft Approved AOS-G authorized license resellers for GCC Gov Con and GCC High. Planet Technologies can work with and support federal contractors to achieve technology requirements within the GCC High cloud solution no matter the size of their business or work nature.

As you continue to transition workloads to the cloud, it is critical to implement security, controls, and governance across the Microsoft suite to be successful. Understanding what you own and the best practices for each solution can be a difficult task. Then you have to enable easy management and administration of each security solution. It can be daunting, and many organizations just take a guess and hope for the best. You don’t have to do that. We can help.

• Microsoft 365 Advanced Security Workshops
• Microsoft Operations Management Suite
• Microsoft Identity Management and App Security
• Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics (ATA)
• Microsoft Defender for Office 365
• Microsoft Defender for Cloud
• Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS)

Planet Technologies combines our expertise in process automation, decades of industry experience and modern technology to build long range capabilities for our clients. Planet’s Robotic Process Automation approach leverages our experience in rapid deployment to demonstrate immediate value, reduced risk and significant savings. Aligning your process with the latest in automated process improvement.

• RPA workshops
• Identifying and recommending best use case scenarios
• Azure Cloud integration, SQL
• Bot development and integration
• Process review, coordination, and development

Our experience includes a significant understanding of how to analyze, act and automate data to personalize information for making informed and real-time decisions.

Our expertise includes:

• Using data lakes to help customers gain insight into complex and disparate data sources
• Complete and working knowledge of the Microsoft Power Platform – Power BI, Power Apps and Flow
• Full complement of Azure Analytics knowledge for use with Machine Learning, IoT, Data Warehousing

Microsoft 365 is the central piece of many organizations’ IT strategies, a core solution expected to provide multiple services to users connecting them to each other and empowering them to do more. New features are pushed to the services regularly and through consistent use, true digital transformation can occur within any organization. Planet’s 25-year history of working with government agencies and organizations has uniquely positioned us to develop a deep understanding of how users typically work within the Microsoft stack and how they can be most effective adopting new ways of working together.

Since the very first implementation of SharePoint Server, Planet Technologies has been helping agencies and organizations find creative ways to solve business problems with SharePoint. From Intranets and Document Management to fully customized business applications, Planet works with your team to understand how you work and how to make SharePoint work best for you.

• Implementation Design & Strategy
• Office 365 Migrations
• Application Modernization
• Environment Health checks & Best Practices
• Security, Compliance and Secure Score Assessments

Our Microsoft Dynamics CRM team tailors’ solutions to suit the unique needs of our clients. We have supported more than 60 government and corporate customers in areas such as:

• Fleet Management
• Grants Management
• Public Records Management
• Adoption Placement Services and Tracking
• Sales and Customer Tracking
• Integration with other solutions
• Dynamics CRM training and support plans

We provide an extensive amount of knowledge transfer in our consulting engagements so that should the client want to continue to support the deliverable on their own, they will have the resources to do so effectively.

The harsh fact is that approximately 70 percent of change initiatives fail. Statistics show that 33 percent of management behavior does not support change and 39 percent of employees are resistant to change. The Cloud and services associated with it are accelerating change in process and the demands on people and resources in government and business at light speed. Planet’s team of OCM consultants, cultural change agents and certified adoption specialists can support organizational change to ensure your people are guided through the change journey and make the experience great for you and your entire organization.

Evolve 365 is a micro-learning, on-demand training solution that provides short, bite-sized chunks of information to learners. Evolve 365 is designed to be easily accessible and consumable in small amounts of time, often 5-10 minutes at a time. Evolve 365 can be delivered through various channels such as video, interactive tutorials, quizzes, ,infographics and Webinars. This approach helps learners to focus on specific skills or tasks and retain the information better than traditional macro learning. It also allows for flexibility in terms of when and where the learning takes place, making it ideal for busy employees or those who are working remotely.

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