Fortune 500 companies and Government agencies need to manage the entire information infrastructure participating in the delivery of the organization’s products and services. Organizations require skilled engineers to provide flexible, end-to-end coverage of enterprise assets, from legacy mainframes to the latest smartphones. As an enterprise grows, its IT infrastructure becomes more complex and many organizations face the following challenges:

• Defining and discovering what needs to be "managed"
• Supporting a greater range of information architectures and elements
• Implementing industry best practices like Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) processes to minimize infrastructure costs

K3 Solutions helps organizations manage their rapidly changing business environments by building infrastructures that form the foundation for business opportunities. Our services range from custom network and systems management to security solutions. Our work covers the full lifecycle including:

• Help Desk/ Desktop Support
• End User Management and Support
• Network Engineering, Integration and Installation
• Systems/Servers Administration
• Information Assurance and Security Quality Assurance
• Database Administration
• Asset Management
• Performance Optimization
• Secure Web Hosting

Our solutions are focused on delivering value to our customers; we first gain a solid understanding of a customer’s current environment and what service enhancements they need to achieve their goals. Then, based on our proven domain experience in IT services implementation, we tailor specific solutions that reduce costs through the use of repeatable, measurable standard practices; improve customer satisfaction by providing reliable, consistent service to end users; comply with required industry standards and guidance, such as ITIL, CMMI, and ISO 20000 Capability; and align IT goals with overall business goals.

In today's digital and network-centric environment, information has never been so plentiful or so easy to acquire. What's important now is not simply access, but the ability to manage information - to interpret, move, and manipulate vast amounts of data - to anticipate critical situations. Fortune 500 companies and Government agencies often require experienced engineers and developers to help maintain a sophisticated array of software applications to meet diverse administrative, management and mission needs.

K3 Solutions’ software engineering team designs, develops, integrates and implements software and Web applications that enable our clients to achieve their business goals. Our consultants are highly skilled in various life-cycle methodologies and specialize in delivering service-oriented architectures on a J2EE platform.

As an SEI partner, our software engineers follow a structured design and development approach that combines SEI/CMMI Level 3 and ISO 9000 standards. We are committed to building the highest quality products using repeatable, proven processes so we can successfully deliver against budget and scheduling requirements. We begin each project with a rigorous analysis of business and user needs to clarify requirements before selecting, building or implementing a solution. Because we emphasize user-centric designs, our products require minimal learning and increase user productivity and satisfaction. Through our proven methodology, we consistently deliver highly scaleable, full system lifecycle solutions that meet client needs and expectations.

A recent Gartner study of CIOs confirms project management tops the list of most desired skills by IT departments. In order for enterprises to support, sustain, and grow a business, organizations need to be able to overcome the following challenges:

• Align the IT strategy with the business strategy
• Communicate strategy and goals throughout the enterprise
• Properly measure IT performance
• Effective risk management

To improve performance, organizations must assess the people and processes that create both opportunity and risk. Clients require project management services that blend strategy with technical and human factors to create the ideal climate for success.

K3 Solutions provides experienced project managers to complement agency staff on a project or program-level basis. Our Project Managers have proven experience in yielding superior quality control, improved efficiencies, and bringing discipline to agency initiatives. An integrated approach to resource, time, and cost management combined with an in-depth understanding of the project’s technology roadmap are key enablers of success. Our Project Management team consists of Project Management Institute (PMI) certified professionals who consistently exceed our clients’ expectation of managing and measuring projects to baseline goals. By following Earned Value Management standards and proven, repeatable processes for every customer engagement, K3 Solutions completes IT projects on time, within scope, and on budget. This enables our clients to focus on their core business operations.

As organizations grow and mature, they need to be redefined, reengineered and aligned for optimum performance in order to remain competitive in the marketplace. Many IT organizations lack a clear, well-defined plan for implementing efficient processes to improve results and gain competitive advantages in the industry. K3 Solutions assists organizations implement technical solutions across the enterprise by introducing IT governance frameworks.

Our consultants have extensive experience in process improvement and can help you introduce efficiencies in your process to help you achieve your business goals. Our full-service approach focuses on the following:

• Process efficiency assessment – review of your organizational processes to determine the effectiveness of your implementations and execution
• Process architecture design and deployment—creation/enhancement of processes that will help you improve the quality of your services
• CMMI Training—we offer SEI Authorized CMMI training periodically and can also accommodate cost-effective on-site training as needed
• CMMI Appraisals—we have SEI certified SCAMPI lead appraisers that can conduct SCAMPI Class-A, Class-B, and Class-C appraisals on-site

Our process management solutions combined with our experience in project management and IT governance improves client’s strategic alignments, performance measurements, risk management, value delivery, and resource management.

Government consulting is more competitive than ever, with nearly half a million active vendors registered to do business with the federal government. Relying on the strengths of your product or service is not sufficient to secure the win. Competitive proposals level the playing field, increasing the need to demonstrate your team’s ability to perform. In our experience, the most committed always win.

To develop a successful government strategy and win business, IT companies require a partner that can provide you with comprehensive federal market intelligence and analysis, and a deep understanding of the government's unique buying processes. Winning contractors deliver on time and meet capability requirements at acceptable life cycle costs. Developing an actionable, compelling win strategy is critical to managing all of the customer’s risk elements. This requires leadership, a dedicated team, a standardized process, allocation of the proper resources, and an early start on a manageable proposal schedule.

K3 Solutions provides consultants, processes, tools, and leadership that augment our clients existing resources to win competitive proposals for commercial and government procurements. Our consultants are trained in the Shipley Methodology and work closely with our client’s capture management team to provide the following support:

• Manage your proposal effort - our consultants are passionate about winning. We allocate the appropriate resources to help you plan and develop realistic schedules and deliver a winning proposal.
• Reinforce your team with a network of expertise in systems engineering, infrastructure management, and project management – to provide technical leadership throughout the effort, and detailed content reviews.
• Simplified fee structure – helps avoid the cost of changes in Request for Proposal (RFP) schedules. Our standard pricing offers flexibility to adapt to variations in the Government's acquisition schedule. We start and stop as required to address interruptions and delays in the procurement lifecycle.
• Provide post-submission activities - Our proposal managers will continue to be available to help you successfully complete post- submission activities including oral presentations, demonstrations, competitive discussions, questions and answers, evaluation notices, best and final offer (BAFO) and Final Proposal Revision (FPR).