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Application Modernization

Woolpert Digital Innovations' Application Modernization service updates and improves legacy applications to take advantage of modern cloud computing architectures, capabilities, and best practices.

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) offers a suite of tools and services designed to facilitate this transformation, enabling organizations to improve their applications' agility, scalability, and maintainability. Below is an overview of the key components and strategies involved in application modernization on GCP.

Assessment and planning: Evaluating the current state of applications, identifying modernization opportunities, and creating a roadmap.
Microservices architecture: Breaking down monolithic applications into smaller, loosely coupled services that can be developed, deployed, and scaled independently.
Containerization: Encapsulating application components and their dependencies in containers to ensure consistency across environments and portability across compute resources.
Orchestration and automation: Utilizing orchestration tools like Kubernetes to manage containerized applications and automating deployment processes using CI/CD pipelines.
Serverless computing: Leveraging serverless platforms to run application components without managing the underlying infrastructure.
DevOps and agile practices: Implementing DevOps practices to enhance collaboration between development and operations teams while adopting agile methodologies for iterative development and continuous improvement.
Observability and monitoring: Implementing comprehensive monitoring, logging, and tracing to gain visibility into application performance and health.
Security and compliance: Ensuring that modernized applications adhere to security best practices and compliance requirements.
GCP services for Application Modernization

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Data Analytics & Artificial Intelligence

Woolpert Digital Innovations' data modernization practice helps transform an organization's data architecture and processes to leverage modern technologies and practices, enabling better data management, analytics, and insights. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) provides comprehensive tools and services to facilitate data modernization.

Below are the key components, strategies, and GCP services involved in data modernization.

Scalability: Modern data architectures that easily scale to handle growing data volumes and increased query loads.
Real-time processing: Process and analyze data in real-time to support timely decision-making
Data integration: Seamlessly integrate data from various sources to provide a unified view.
Data governance: Implement policies and practices to ensure data quality, security, and compliance.
Advanced analytics: Leverage machine learning and AI to derive deeper insights from data.
Self-service analytics: Empower business users with tools to explore and analyze data without relying on IT.

Each data modernization engagement follows the Woolpert Digital Innovations data modernization methodology:

Assess and plan: Conduct a thorough assessment of the existing data landscape, identify modernization opportunities, and create a strategic roadmap.
Data migration: Migrate data from legacy systems to modern, scalable platforms like BigQuery and Cloud Storage. Use tools like Database Migration Service for seamless transitions.
Real-time analytics: Implement real-time data processing and analytics using Dataflow, Pub/Sub, and BigQuery.
Data integration and ETL/ELT: Use data fusion to build and manage data pipelines that integrate data from various sources, transform it, and load it into target systems.
Advanced analytics and AI: Leverage BigQuery ML, AI Platform, and AutoML for advanced analytics and machine learning capabilities.
Data governance and security: Implement robust data governance policies using tools like Cloud Data Catalog for metadata management and IAM for access control.
Self-service analytics: Empower business users with self-service analytics tools like Looker and Data Studio for data exploration and visualization.
Optimize and monitor: Continuously monitor and optimize data infrastructure and pipelines to ensure performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness

Location-Based Services

Location-Based Services (LBS) is a broad term that refers typically to applications that combine the positioning sensors of a mobile phone with communication technologies to provide space and time-critical information and awareness. LBS solutions are beneficial across various industries–from transportation and logistics to hospitality and guest services. The use cases for LBS applications are broad and far reaching. Examples include:

Indoor and outdoor navigation
Geomarketing
Tracking
Augmented reality

As a Google Premier Partner for location-based services, Woolpert Digital Innovations offers advisory and consulting services to build solutions for LBS use cases using Google Maps Platform and Google Cloud APIs, SDKs, and services. With extensive experience solving location-based and geospatial-oriented problems with Google technologies, our professional services include LBS mobile app development for Android and iOS, web application development, and backend services.

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Infrastructure Modernization

Woolpert Digital Innovations' infrastructure modernization practice involves transforming traditional IT infrastructure to leverage modern cloud-based technologies and practices, enhancing scalability, reliability, and efficiency. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) provides a comprehensive set of services and tools to facilitate infrastructure modernization. This overview outlines the key principles, strategies, and GCP services involved in modernizing IT infrastructure.

Scalability: Scale resources up or down based on demand.
Flexibility: Support a wide range of workloads, from traditional applications to cloud-native microservices.
Automation: Automate repetitive tasks to improve efficiency and reduce human error.
Cost efficiency: Optimize resource usage to reduce costs while maintaining performance.
Security and compliance: Ensure robust security measures and compliance with industry regulations.
Resilience: Build fault-tolerant systems that can recover quickly from failures.

The Woolpert Digital Innovations’ infrastructure modernization methodology will ensure a successful transition into GCP:

Assessment and planning: Evaluate the current IT infrastructure, identify modernization opportunities, and create a strategic roadmap.
Migrate workloads to the cloud: Use Compute Engine for VM-based workloads and migrate containerized applications to GKE or Cloud Run.
Implement serverless solutions: Move suitable workloads to serverless platforms like Cloud Functions and App Engine.
Adopt DevOps and automation: Establish CI/CD pipelines using Cloud Build, automate resource management with Terraform or Cloud Deployment Manager, and integrate with source repositories.
Modernize data storage: Transition data storage to scalable solutions like Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, Bigtable, and Firestore.
Enhance observability: Implement logging, monitoring, and tracing using Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, and Cloud Trace to gain insights into infrastructure performance.
Ensure security and compliance: Adopt GCP’s security services and best practices to secure modernized infrastructure and ensure compliance with relevant regulations.
Optimize costs: Monitor and optimize resource usage to achieve cost efficiency without compromising performance.

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Support

With Woolpert Digital Innovations, customers have a partner that understands their business and prioritizes their success. We’ll leverage our more than a century of multidisciplinary experience and apply innovative solutions to achieve organizational goals. Our team is equipped with the experience and best practices to help devise an effective strategy that best suits business goals, budgets, and timelines—regardless of where the customer is in their journey.

Our team of Google-certified customer success managers and customer engineers is devoted to helping customers make the most of their Google Maps, Cloud and/or Workspace investment.

24/7/365 assistance: Easily submit help tickets and search for self-help articles in our customer support portal.
Tips and best practices: Access one-on-one consulting based on extended expertise and an exclusive knowledge base beyond standard Google documentation.
Implementation reviews: Gain Google footprint insight with a check-in cadence that works best, ensuring the implementation is always optimized.
Insightful tools: Leverage standard GCP billing tools and our custom-built insight portals to proactively monitor usage and identify any abnormalities or areas of risk before monthly invoices hit.
New product updates: Be the first to know about new features, solutions, and important announcements from Google.

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