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UMass Broke the Reporting Bottleneck for 70,000 Students
Aging infrastructure made routine answers slow and expensive. Pythian helped UMass move analytics to Oracle’s cloud without disruption—and put self-service reporting in staff hands.
Laura Barger's Long Game: Make Finance Feel Like It Was Built for People
Before she marketed wealth infrastructure, Laura Barger learned to see the person at the far end of the product. Her career is a study in making complicated systems legible - and making their promises answerable to evidence.
The 30-Year-Old Google Cloud Shop That Stopped Selling Hours - and Started Selling Birds
Onix spent decades helping enterprises move into Google Cloud. Then it bought a flock of migration tools, rolled them into Wingspan, and made a pointed bet: the next consulting giant will need fewer billable hours and more software that remembers what the consultants learned.
Kanerika Wants to Turn the $80 Change Request Into a 12-Week Migration
The Austin consultancy built software to automate the least glamorous work in enterprise tech. Its real test is whether FLIP can make migrations faster without turning governance into cleanup duty.
Muhammad Haq Is Betting the AI Boom on the Boring Part
The OnStak founder spent more than a decade in enterprise infrastructure. Now he argues that AI's decisive contest will be won after the demo - in the untidy work of data, governance and organizational change.
The Cloud Was Supposed to Cut Costs. Escala 24x7 Built a $50 Million Business Making Sure It Did.
Alejandro Planas spotted the cloud's hidden catch early: renting infrastructure was easy, but running it safely and economically was not. Thirteen years, 19 countries and a majority acquisition later, Escala 24x7 has turned that gap into an enterprise cloud-operations business.
EXL
EXL spent a quarter-century learning the unglamorous machinery of claims, payments and customer service. Now it is using that operational memory to turn enterprise AI from a promising demo into work that survives contact with the real world.
Business Technology Integrators
Business Technology Integrators (BTI) is a Washington, DC-based Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) with more than 25 years of experience delivering secure IT solutions to U.S. federal agencies. BTI focuses on cybersecurity, cloud migration, digital transformation, and data modernization, backed by ISO certifications, CMMI Level 3, and CMMC Level 2, and delivers work through vehicles such as GSA MAS, OASIS+ SDVOSB, and NASA SEWP VI.
Coastal Cloud
Coastal Cloud is a US-based consulting firm founded in 2012 that helps organizations get more value from Salesforce, data, and AI. A top-tier Salesforce Summit/multi-cloud partner headquartered in Palm Coast, Florida, it delivers strategy, implementation, integration, analytics, and managed services across Sales, Service, Marketing, Revenue/CPQ, Commerce, and Data Cloud, extended by Snowflake, Tableau, and MuleSoft. With roughly 570 employees, thousands of Salesforce certifications, and work spanning healthcare, financial services, education, nonprofit, manufacturing, and the public sector, Coastal was acquired by Tata Consultancy Services in a $700 million all-cash deal announced in December 2025.