AMAZON WEB SERVICES

We are an Advanced Consulting partner with Amazon Web Services (AWS), and our team can help your organization gain the power to scale and grow. Leveraging our broad AWS infrastructure migration and operations experience, we are ready to help you realize the power of AWS to move faster, become more agile, and scale using our innovative tools and services.

Services

PeopleSoft on AWS

Your organization may use several applications for finance, human resources, payroll, and other business functions. Deploying applications in the cloud promotes cost benefits and enhances scalability and flexibility. We offer a bundled, SaaS-like, fully managed service, leveraging our FlexOps® automation to build, monitor, patch, support, and administer your most important applications using the AWS public cloud infrastructure.

AWS Migration Services

Transitioning your data center to AWS can provide agility, scalability, security, reliability, and operational efficiency. At Sierra-Cedar, one of our focus areas is data center assessments and migrations. Our end-to-end migration services include working with you to thoroughly analyze your organization’s current architecture, identify desirable migration strategies, verify system dependencies and data interfaces, and execute the cloud migration process.

Cloud Managed Services

Sierra-Cedar provides comprehensive Cloud Managed Services on AWS, focusing on infrastructure performance and reliability. Our services include auto-healing capabilities, reduced downtime for patching, 99.96% under our control application availability, fewer and shorter maintenance windows, and a 24/7 Cloud Services Help Desk. We deliver continuous automation, governance, utilization, and optimization to help your organization leverage AWS for increased efficiency and agility. Trust our expertise to manage your cloud infrastructure with precision and reliability.
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AWS Consulting Services

Sierra-Cedar’s AWS Consulting practice specializes in architecting and deploying workloads using AWS cloud-native services and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) technologies like Terraform, Scalr, and Open Policy Agent. With a strong DevOps foundation and Agile delivery, we help clients automate, scale, and secure their cloud infrastructure—whether modernizing existing systems or building new solutions—enabling them to achieve greater agility and efficiency and focus on driving innovation.

Blog: RAMP Initiative

Sierra-Cedar eliminated dependency on brittle data center space by moving to a stable cloud infrastructure provider in AWS. We set ourselves on the right path for further expansion into all things Cloud. In our latest blog, we outline the triggers for this move, lay out our plan and milestones, and identify the path forward.

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Client Success Story

Like many colleges and universities, College of the Holy Cross is under increasing pressure to remain agile in today’s competitive Higher Education landscape. Holy Cross chose to re-platform its PeopleSoft applications in the AWS Cloud. This allowed the college to take advantage of cost savings and rethink how it can work more efficiently in the cloud. Read the success story to understand the challenges the university faced and the benefits it achieved.

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Blog: Four Customers Who Said, “Goodbye Data Center, Hello AWS”

Saying ‘goodbye’ to your data center and moving to the Cloud is a big deal. It is like allowing someone else to take care of your car – you own it, you drive it, but someone else cleans it, maintains it, and powers it! The hardest part of moving your data to the Cloud is knowing where to start. Here is a glimpse into what led four Sierra-Cedar customers to the Cloud and the benefits that followed.

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Testimonials

"Working with AWS and Sierra-Cedar, the College of the Holy Cross has scaled our infrastructure to meet our peak period requirements during student enrollment. Course enrollment confirmations that previously took up to a minute are now completed for students in seconds running on AWS.”

Brian Bergeron, ERP Manager

- College of the Holy Cross

"Sierra-Cedar has been an important partner in helping ASU make significant progress toward our goal of enabling student success in ASU’s ongoing evolution toward the New American University by successfully migrating ASU’s PeopleSoft Campus Solutions and Human Capital Management systems to the AWS Cloud. Sierra-Cedar’s ERP and AWS expertise and their high level of professionalism made it easy to complete the migration ahead of schedule."

Jess Evans, Ph.D., Chief Operating and Digital Transformation Officer

- Arizona State University

"The execution was flawless, and the migration was completed without interruption to our faculty or students. I could not have asked for anything more.”

Derrick Griffin, Systems & Security Engineer

- Lake Michigan College

"Our experience with Sierra-Cedar has been excellent. They not only helped us plan and execute the migration of Hyperion Planning and Budgeting application to AWS but also guided us to get the full benefit of all AWS services."

Vijay Badal, Director Application Services

- DOTComm

"Sierra-Cedar was instrumental in assisting K-State with restoring our production HR System and migrating the system to AWS, allowing us to meet our immediate payroll deadline. They have also assisted us in staging other ERP systems for DR/BC capability in the future."

Gary L. Pratt, Chief Information Officer

- Kansas State University