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AHEAD, a leading provider of enterprise cloud solutions, has announced the formation of a dedicated unit to serve the mid-market segment, defined generally as organizations with under 2,500 employees and less than $1 billion in annual revenues. This new AHEAD unit will include a dedicated sales team and solutions engineering support model tailored to the specific needs of mid-market organizations.

With over 2,000 clients already in this segment, AHEAD sees potential for 30% annual growth from both expansion of existing client relationships and acquiring new accounts.  Further, the segment is a key priority of AHEAD’s largest partner, Dell Technologies, whose solutions will be a major point of emphasis in serving the segment.

Sales veteran Mike Kuehn will oversee the mid-market team as Senior Vice President, reporting to Tim Frank, AHEAD’s Chief Revenue Officer. Based in New Jersey, Mike brings 30 years of experience in B2B technology, and a track record of building high-growth software and services companies. In addition to his responsibilities for the mid-market, Kuehn will also lead AHEAD Sales University (ASU), the company’s sales professional development program designed to create the next generation of seasoned account executives. 

AHEAD, an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner and leading national provider of cloud, data and digital engineering solutions, announced today that it has achieved the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Healthcare Competency.

Achieving this competency differentiates AHEAD as an AWS Partner that provides specialized services that help healthcare organizations adopt, develop and deploy complex projects on AWS. To receive the designation, AWS Partner Network (APN) members must possess deep AWS expertise and deliver solutions seamlessly on AWS.

AHEAD has developed a comprehensive approach that empowers healthcare providers to accelerate digital initiatives, streamline operations, improve data accessibility and deliver more effective and personalized care.

AHEAD offers solutions within electronic health record (EHR) modernization, including Epic migration, and EHR-integrated imaging accessibility. By leveraging AHEAD’s Data & AI solutions, healthcare organizations can make data-driven decisions that directly impact patient care. AHEAD secures healthcare organizations through the construction of scalable, multi-site networks that adhere to AWS best practices and comply with HIPAA, HITRUST and NIST.

AWS is enabling scalable, flexible and cost-effective solutions from startups to global enterprises. To support the seamless integration and deployment of these solutions, AWS established the AWS Competency Program to help customers identify Consulting and Technology APN Partners with deep industry experience and expertise.

For more information on AHEAD’s partnership with AWS, visit https://ahead.com/partner/aws/.

Today, AHEAD has announced the launch of AHEAD Foundry, an IT infrastructure modernization and deployment solution to address these challenges. A key aspect of Foundry is the development of pre-fab units for data centers with constant monitoring and updates that helps optimize supply chain and extend lifecycle of deployed solutions.  

Organizations increasingly pursue digital transformation, and many are finding that modernizing their data centers is more challenging than ever before. The demands of edge computing, cloud adoption, and the need for rapid infrastructure updates are testing the limits of enterprise IT teams, which is why AHEAD stepped up to the plate with Foundry. 

You can read more details here.

AHEAD announced today that it has entered Los Angeles County’s Enterprise Systems Management Architecture (ESMA) program, a framework that helps manage and integrate various software applications and systems within the LA County government.

This agreement means that AHEAD meets the required criteria and has been chosen to contribute Information Management, IT Transformation Services, and Privacy Consulting Services to the ESMA program in LA County.

AHEAD can now help drive LA County initiatives in key areas, including infrastructure upgrades, cloud adoption, digital transformation, data management and analytics, cybersecurity enhancement, collaborative tooling and communication, mobile and remote access, and open data initiatives.

Pending approval within additional Privacy Compliance Consulting categories, AHEAD’s service offerings will also include breach and incident management, privacy audits and assessments, data inventory, classification and mapping services, and privacy rights and consent management services.

 AHEAD, a leading national provider of cloud, data, and digital engineering solutions, announces that it is engaged with Sharp HealthCare, a not-for-profit integrated health system based in Southern California, to define and implement a cloud strategy together with Amazon Web Services (AWS).

The AHEAD team was tasked with creating a 10-year total cost of ownership (TCO) / return on investment (ROI) of cloud services, including Compute, Storage, Backup, Disaster Recovery, Networking, and additional costs to provide Sharp HealthCare with a comparison to their pre-existing on-premises and co-location operating costs.

AHEAD then initiated the setup of an AWS cloud environment to extract data from a cloud-hosted Epic database to an AWS account and then load into Snowflake. Completing this rapid environment design and setup in six weeks led Sharp to choose AHEAD for the next phase of the project, which involved completing the build-out of their AWS landing zone.

Key benefits of the work completed by AHEAD include:

• A better understanding of the economics of Sharp’s cloud journey, creating the foundation on which targeted initiatives could be planned and executed.
• Technical guidance and mentoring that enabled Sharp’s development team to learn from AHEAD experts.
• The ability for Sharp to leverage the power of AWS without compromising on security, compliance, or operational efficiency.

Through AHEAD’s guidance and training, they have put Sharp HealthCare in an advantageous position to leverage the full spectrum of AWS services, including networking, governance, security, automation, and infrastructure as code (IaC). This enablement of Sharp’s engineering and development teams will pave the way for future innovation while delivering consistent value to their patients and stakeholders on AWS.