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AWS Account Factory for Terraform vs. AWS Landing Zone Accelerator
Following a 2021 USM CIO’s office audit, Bowie State faced a time-sensitive challenge - by July 1, 2022, Bowie State needed to move off its current Financials system which was no longer supported by...
3 Ways DevOps Helps Achieve Cost Control at Scale
The trend toward cloud transformation continues to build momentum as more companies move their workloads to the cloud in pursuit of increased efficiency, agility, and reduced risk. Gartner forecasts...
Infrastructure-as-Code Tools: How to Scale Up Your Cloud Infrastructure with Terraform
If you’re deploying public cloud infrastructure at scale in your organization, you’ve likely encountered challenges when addressing issues such as security, policy governance, drift control, and...
Sierra-Cedar’s Customer Journey With Scalr
Sierra-Cedar’s DevOps Services division assists clients in planning, implementing, migrating, and managing Infrastructure-as-Code in AWS and other major cloud service providers. Sierra-Cedar...
Sierra-Cedar Debut of On Cloud 9 Conversations Featuring CFO of Wichita Public Schools
Last month Sierra-Cedar launched a video program called, On Cloud 9 Conversations. The broadcast is meant to give a candid view into the Cloud journey of a Sierra-Cedar customer by having the client...
Six Higher Education Institutions Make Strides with Oracle Student Financial Planning
Despite facing daunting challenges over the past 18 months, our friends in higher education continue to strive for improvement. They aim to provide students with high visibility into their programs,...
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,...
Preparing for a SaaS Cloud Transition
Are you running on-premise back-office applications such as PeopleSoft, E-Business Suite, Lawson, JD Edwards, etc.? Are you looking for a strategy to move to a SaaS (Software-as a-Service)...
How Optimizing PeopleSoft Can Support Your Institution’s Strategic Direction
Higher Education IT leaders know they need to innovate. I know because I felt the constant need to support and improve systems of engagement as an IT leader for a public university system with an...
Realizing the Beauty of PeopleSoft’s Fluid User Interface
When PeopleSoft was born, the cell phone was a telephone the size of a brick, and PeopleSoft was manually installed on individual PCs. Fast forward a couple of decades, a cell phone is called a...