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State of Minnesota Contract

Planet can help you no matter where you are on the technical roadmap. Planet has partnered with more than 100 government agencies in moving data center workloads to the Azure cloud – That’s more than any other Microsoft partner in the entire United States! From strategic planning to on the ground execution, Planet is the go-to partner that you can depend on for all your needs.

Planet’s Services Offered:

 

Transition To Cloud (Azure or AWS)

Have you transitioned your collaboration and email tools to the cloud but are hesitant to dip your toes into infrastructure/datacenter in the cloud?

There are a lot of complexities and Planet has experience migrating workloads, operationalizing your cloud environment, or modifying your current disaster recovery plan to leverage the cloud effectively. As Microsoft’s four-time and only ever government cloud partner of the year (all three clouds all up), we can help.

Because you are eligible to use our State of Minnesota contract we can help you. 

If you are interested in finding out a bit more and understanding how this could impact your organization, please reach out.  We will get a 30-minute meeting scheduled to discuss what your objectives are and how you can use this contract to best achieve them.

M365 Security & Governance including Zero Trust

Whether you are going into full Zero Trust or just trying to understand where you are at. We can help you as you continue to transition workloads to the cloud, it is critical to implement security, controls, and governance across the Microsoft suite to be successful.  Understanding what you own and the best practices for each solution can be a difficult task.  Then you have to enable easy management and administration of each security solution.  It can be daunting, and many organizations just take a guess and hope for the best.

You don’t have to do that. We can help.

Because you are eligible to use our State of Minnesota contract we can help you – this makes you eligible for a no cost 90-minute Secure Score review of your current environment.  With our experience we will work with you and your team to review where you are today, what you already own (Microsoft G3/G5 etc.) and what gaps exist to further secure your organization from bad actors.  This is especially important if you have CJIS, NIST80053, HIPPA, or other compliance obligations.

Planet Technologies has migrated over 7,000,000 users to the cloud and making sure that these migrations have exceptional security and governance is a big part of what we do.

Please reach out if there is interest and we will schedule a call to walk you through how this program works and your eligibility.

App Modernization/DevOps

With Azure DevOps your development team will now be able to provide agile development with tighter tracking and testing controls. DevOps allows the team to better collaborate and manage projects to a successful conclusion.

Planet technologies has in-depth experience in helping customers along this journey.  Starting with a proof of concept we can work with you to target a handful of your applications and show the value of a cloud first model.  We will generally start by working with you to cover best practices, governance, and a pilot of 1-5 applications to help you understand how to bring those applications into a modern environment.

Together let’s pick a few from that tech debt list you have and show you how to enhance your employee and constituent experience and accelerate your time to market for these applications.

Because you are eligible to use our State of Minnesota contract we can help you. 

If you are interested in finding out a bit more and understanding how this could impact your organization or are interested in our App-in-a-Day program, please reach out.  We will get a 30-minute meeting scheduled to discuss what your objectives are and how you can use this contract to best achieve them.

Power Apps

Low Code no code is fantastic, but only if you can use it.  We can help you with modernizing your apps or just automating workflows.  Everything from Governance and guidance to fully functional constituent portals.

Planet technologies has in-depth experience in helping customers along this journey.  Starting with a proof of concept we can work with you to target a handful of your applications and show the value of a cloud first model. We will generally start by working with you to cover best practices, governance, and a pilot of 1-5 applications to help you understand how to bring those applications into a modern environment.

Because you are eligible to use our State of Minnesota contract we can help you. 

If you are interested in finding out a bit more and understanding how this could impact your organization or are interested in our App-in-a-Day program, please reach out.  We will get a 30-minute meeting scheduled to discuss what your objectives are and how you can use this contract to best achieve them.

Enterprise Reporting

We have been dealing with dirty data for a very long time. This has impacted our ability to provide interactive and insightful reports with current technologies.

With the adoption of Data Lakes and PowerBI this challenge has been addressed!

Planet Technologies has in-depth experience in helping customers along this journey.  Starting with a proof of concept we can work with you in discovering the best options for your organization and show the value of a cloud first model.

Because you are eligible to use our State of Minnesota contract we can help you. 

Modern Collaboration

Everything you need to do so that your employees can actually work together – Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, how they work, how you govern them effectively, how to actually use Teams as a Platform and not just for Chat. We can help you with anything related to this.

Because you are eligible to use our State of Minnesota contract we can help you. 

Organizational Change Management

Most often overlooked critical part to successful projects.  We have a full OCM team that can help interview your employees to better understand what the critical parts of a project actually are.  Doing this well helps the project not only be successful technically but also actually used by your customers.

Because you are eligible to use our State of Minnesota contract we can help you. 

Microsoft Adoption Services

Training and communication plans to help your employees use the full extent of the tools you have purchased for them.

Because you are eligible to use our State of Minnesota contract we can help you. 

Virtual Desktop

If COVID taught us anything, it is that we need to be prepared to allow our workers to work from anywhere at a moment’s notice. With Azure Virtual Desktop there is no more upfront commitment in terms of hardware costs and you can spin up these assets quickly and efficiently.

Planet technologies has in-depth experience in helping customers along this journey.  Starting with a proof of concept we can work with you in discovering the best options for your organization and show the value of a cloud first model.

Because you are eligible to use our State of Minnesota contract we can help you. 

If you are interested in finding out a bit more and understanding how this could impact your organization or are interested in our App-in-a-Day program, please reach out.  We will get a 30-minute meeting scheduled to discuss what your objectives are and how you can use this contract to best achieve them.

Compliance

We hear about security all the time but compliance is just as important if not more.  It’s avoiding internal risk and managing the threats that come with the explosion of digital data. We can help whether it’s CJIS, FERPA, SOX, Nist 800-XXX or just managing your FOIA requests and handling that liability in the best way.

Because you are eligible to use our State of Minnesota contract we can help you. 

Endpoint Modernization

While most organizations have been focused on collaboration and cloud initiatives many are now focused on making their endpoint management and security initiatives a major point moving forward. Reduce the burden on IT in maintaining endpoint updates and management with Modern Collaboration.

Because you are eligible to use our State of Minnesota contract we can help you. 

And more!

This is not a comprehensive list. Reach out and we are happy to help in any way we can!

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