Application Development & Integration

RAS Workforce Solutions has more than 50 years of collective experience developing and integrating systems across a broad range of enterprise systems. We use Agile programming tools and techniques, Project Management Institute’s Product Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) and IT Service Management’s Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) as well as other practices like DevOps to tailor and develop customized solutions for our customers.

We deliver end-to-end solutions including hardware, networking and application support, database support and analytics. Our software engineering approach benefits customers by lowering capital investment in software development, and providing maintenance and upgrades with modularized and reusable software components. We have successfully tailored our methodology to large and small software development projects in order to meet schedule and cost requirements while maintaining quality.

Application Development & Integration services include:
• Agile software development
• COTS integration
• Independent Verification & Validation
• Information Architecture
• Content Management
• Enterprise and data architecture
• Data analytics
• Business intelligence
• Big data analytics
• Enterprise Resource Planning
• Information assurance & cyber security

Cloud Solutions

RAS Workforce Solutions has extensive experience designing, developing, and operating cost-effective hosting solutions that provide our clients with a combination of performance, scalability, and availability. Our staff is skilled at identifying the most appropriate architecture to support each client’s computing needs. We have worked with major organizations and federal agencies to develop and implement hosting solutions for each organization’s Internet, intranet, or extranet environment.

Assessment
• Analyze existing application portfolio and identify suitable workloads for migration to the cloud.
• Provide a road map based on customers cloud vision, time line, cost and constraints which may include “Lift and Shift” migration to simply migrate all applications to AWS or Azure , “Hybrid” migration where applications are migrated selectively or to “modernize and re-architect” applications to leverage full cloud potential and AWS or Azure application services.

Enablement
• Create a phased migration plan to support the successful adoption and integration of the cloud

Implementation
• Deliver comprehensive implementation and deployment services for the cloud
• Install, develop, migrate, configure, integrate & administer your custom applications in the Cloud

Managed Services
• Deliver ongoing support, administration and management of your cloud deployment
• Optimize application performance and minimize cost

Enterprise System Engineering

RAS Workforce Solutions has extensive experience in the design, development, production, and operation of mission-driven government and commercial systems. Enterprise systems engineering uses techniques to increase the likelihood of favorable outcomes in complex environments that may change in unpredictable ways. It requires skills in designing for options and alternative solutions, strategies for early and continuous discovery, and strategies tailored to the volatility of changing needs and available technologies.

We have the technology expertise and legacy systems experience necessary to modernize and connect enterprise systems across organizational boundaries. Our services include architecture development, strategic planning, systems integration, and risk analysis to determine how well each individual system within the enterprise performs and how they affect each other’s performance and output.

Enterprise Systems Engineering approach incorporates:
• Systems thinking to create strategies, anticipate problems, and provides short and long-term solutions
• Comprehensive integrated solution that contributes to achieving the customer’s and other stakeholder strategic mission objectives
• Addresses interoperability and integration challenges across organizations
• Shapes enterprise evolution through innovation
• Balances technical feasibility with economic and political practicality
• Leverages breadth and depth of engineering with mission/business domain knowledge

Portfolio & Program Management Services

RAS Workforce Solutions provides comprehensive portfolio of program management support services to bridge the gap between agency missions and strategic business objectives. Our Program Managers and functional experts are Project Management Professional (PMP) certified and have industry recognized credentials such as Lean Six Sigma and Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL).

We help our customers modernize and streamline their program policies, procedures, systems and solutions, so they can maximize efficiency, cost-savings and performance outcomes.

Our specific services include:
• Strategic Planning & Management
• Change Management
• Configuration Management
• Risk Management
• Schedule Management
• Financial Management
• Resource Management
• Sprint Planning
• Sprint Review and Retrospectives
• Earned Value Management & Analysis
• Problem Management
• Incident Management
• Helpdesk Management

Business Process Transformation

RAS Workforce Solutions business process transformation services help federal customers create measurable improvement in their program’s efficiency and effectiveness. We have a proven and systematic approach to assess current performance, identify opportunities for improvement and produce validated and actionable plans while mitigating risks.

Our specific services include:
• Business Process Reengineering (BPR)
• Business Process Automation (BPA)
• Enterprise IT Strategy & roadmap development
• Enterprise IT security
• Cyber Security
• Lean/Six Sigma Training & mentoring
• Policy analysis and development
• Communications & Outreach
• Strategic consulting & planning