BLUE CANOPY GROUP, LLC
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Expertise:
Expertise: 1
Current expertise 1 out of 5, based on 78 rated contributions out of 37 total contributions.
Unparalleled Vision. Measurable Results.
Member Since:
April 21, 2008
Founded:
2001
Location:
Reston, VA
Web Site:
Size:
100 - 500 Employees, $10M - $100M in Revenue
Socio-Economic Status:
Small Business, Woman/Women Owned
Industry:
541330 Engineering Services, 541511 Custom Computer Programming Services, 541512 Computer Systems Design Services, 541513 Computer Facilities Management Services, 541519 Other Computer Related Services, 541611 Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services, 541612 Human Resources Consulting Services, 541614 Process, Physical Distribution, and Logistics Consulting Services, 541618 Other Management Consulting Services, 541620 Environmental Consulting Services, 541690 Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services, 541930 Translation and Interpretation Services, 541990 All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services, 561210 Facilities Support Services, 561320 Temporary Help Services, 611420 Computer Training, 611430 Professional and Management Development Training, 611699 All Other Miscellaneous Schools and Instruction, 611710 Educational Support Services
DUNS Number(s):
100364152
Contact:
Brad Schwartz, 703-896-4001
Company Qualifications
Socio-Economic Status:
- Small Business
- Woman/Women Owned
Organizational Certifications:
- Not provided.
Facility Security Clearances:
- Active Secret
- Active Top Secret
- Active Top Secret/SCI
Staff Security Clearances:
- Active Secret
- Active Top Secret
- Active Top Secret/SCI
Contracts:
- Not provided.
Company Solutions
Company Past Performance
Company Employees
Brad Schwartz, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Sheryl Schwartz, Partner Chief Operating Officer Chief Administrative Officer
Eric Husebo, Partner, Government Services
Amel Korjenic, Senior BA
Robert Perry, Business Analyst
Company Address & Contact
Address:
11710 Plaza America Drive, Suite 950, Reston, VA 20190, us
Contact:
Brad Schwartz, 703-896-4001
Company Details
About Us
Our Mission
Our mission is to help our clients and their organizations execute with precision, predictability and innovation.- By focusing on outcomes that make a difference
- By combining technology along with process excellence to provide the right information at the right time to the right individual
- Through governance and visibility into the processes and projects that can impact overall performance
- By striving towards excellence through continuous and far reaching improvement
Our Values
Formulating the foundation of Blue Canopy, the core values shape who we are, how we conduct our business, and how we interact with all of our stakeholders. We place a premium value on:- People who create an Extraordinary Customer Experience
- People who Go The Extra Yard To Help Others
- Straight Talk - Open and honest communication with our teams and our partners
- Speed with Purpose - acting with high passion and energy; having a do it now and do it right attitude
- Our passion to Reward our People and Shareholder
What We Do
Enterprise Integration Services
Organizations are demanding more from IT departments as they look to leverage IT as a source of competitive differentiation. Integrating existing enterprise applications and technologies, while introducing new technologies such as web services presents unique challenges to IT departments and functional business units. In addition regulatory compliance and cost reduction initiatives place additional pressure on IT organizations. Our Enterprise Integration Services and vast experience successfully implementing solutions for our clients uniquely position Blue Canopy help you today.Enterprise Solution Services
Designing and implementing enterprise solutions that align with and improve existing business processes is critical to achieving operational effectiveness and competitive positioning.We offer a broad spectrum of enterprise solution services to address complex business and technology challenges:
- Assess and design enterprise-wide architectures
- Develop strategies and solutions to integrate disparate legacy systems
- Support the implementation of enterprise wide applications such as ERP systems, business warehouses, web-based portals, dashboards, compliance automation solutions and workflow solutions.
ERP Services
Organizations must effectively extract and utilize information housed in ERP systems to improve business processes and implement effective internal and application controls. Our ERP capabilities address this by focusing on aligning IT assets and business processes while addressing corporate governance and regulatory requirements.We provide SAP implementation and upgrade services by combining our business and industry knowledge with our implementation experience to address clients' key business needs. We offer skilled resources in the following areas:
- Technical architects
- Portals, dashboards, business analytics and intelligence
- Functional module support
- Data architecture, integration and management
- NetWeaver and web integration services
- Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC)
- PMO support
We are a Certified SAP Consulting Partner, SAP Service Alliance Partner and a member of SAP's DoD Small Business Alliance Partner program
Enterprise Performance Management - 4pi™ Solutions
Organizations continuously strive to align their key business processes and service delivery models with business goals and objectives. Achieving and maintaining sustained performance improvement requires a process-driven framework with key performance measures well defined and visible across the organization.Blue Canopy has developed and deployed a proprietary solution framework to assist organizations in assessing and measuring key business processes. Our 4pi Solution Suite is comprised of process management framework, activity models, metrics and executive dashboards providing organizations an effective, efficient and productive way to manage business processes and IT service delivery.
Our solution provides authoritative insight and powerful technology that integrates and manages all of your service delivery processes into one, centralized interface. In essence, it provides turnkey solutions that help you:
- Create full predictability for maximized IT service delivery
- Lower cost of managing your operational environments
- Generate "glass pipeline" visibility through our performance dashboard, incorporating industry best practices, processes, and metrics
- Utilize operational key performance indicators (KPIs) to continuously optimize service quality, generate specific best practices, and maximize collaboration
- Manage service level agreements (SLAs) and operating level agreements (OLAs) involving various partners and stakeholders
- Improve communication and coordination through defined standards and interfaces
- Continuously improve efficiency and overall service quality by refining service level tolerances
- Manage IT Compliance proactively for Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and other regulatory mandates.
Our 4pi Solution Toolkit transforms your IT reliant business into an effective, measurable, and process-driven organization.
By linking your service delivery performance to definable business goals, we'll help you finally realize a true, measurable return on your IT investment.
Program and Project Management
Today´s rapidly changing technology environment continues to challenge your technology departments and functional business units. You are forced to deliver results in a timely and cost effective manner. You must strategically align your portfolio of projects to meet the overall business goals and objectives. Program and project management discipline is becoming more crucial to ensuring this strategic alignment and associated business results are realized.
Program Management Services
Our program and project management services focus on translating program vision, goals and objectives into executable operational plans. We apply proven program/project management discipline and techniques to manage program performance while controlling scope, risk, and cost and schedule performance. We logically group our techniques and tools into a repeatable program management framework utilizing collaboration and project management tools, performance based metrics, and executive reporting and dashboards.Our Program Management Services can deliver the following solutions turnkey:
- PMO Deployment
- Portfolio Management
- Product Management
- Change Management
- Governance Risk and Control
Our consultants leverage their years of experience and our program management framework to provide the right level of discipline, structure and coordination to your projects. Specifically, our approach to project management:
- Ensures projects meet stated goals and objectives
- Manages project costs effectively
- Ensures project schedule and deliverable dates are met
- Facilitates communications and information
Earned Value Management Services
In delivering our Earned Value Management (EVM)services, we utilize a set of business best practices and focus on a combination of processes, people and tools for enterprise project planning and control. We help our clients in three core areas:1. Earned Value Process Consulting
- EVM process consulting
- VMS Org-Assessment services
- Validation Review (VR) preparation
- EMO (EV Management Office) development
- Surveillance & Project Controls support
2. Earned Value Process Training
- Compliance Training
- Process and Regulations
- Validation and Ongoing Governance
3. Deltek Implementation Services
- Cobra
- Open Plan
- wInsight
- WelcomHome
- EMP Tool and Process Integration
IT Services
Organizations are constantly challenged with integrating legacy applications to meet changing business processes and needs, as well as new organization structures and governance models. As legacy applications and environments age, efforts to integrate and align them become increasingly difficult and costly.
System Integration Services
Our systems integration resources leverage proven techniques and technologies to minimize risk, reduce complexity and reduce the cost of developing and integrating applications and systems. Specifically, our systems integration services cover all phases of the life cycle including:- business case development
- requirements design
- systems design and development
- implementation support
- training
- software selection support
- COTS implementation support
- outsourcing analysis and support
We also provide independent assessments and reviews to ensure existing systems meet documented goals and objectives, and the systems development methodologies are consistent with established SDLC methods and guidelines, including compliance with governance requirements such as Sarbanes-Oxley and OMB A-123 guidelines.
Quality Assurance Services
Our experience has led us to acknowledge the fact that the role of testing within the application development lifecycle has become a vital part of quality assurance. We consult with many companies involved with software development and have found that testing early in the lifecycle, along with adequate planning from the beginning of development, are all necessary to help alleviate issues and promote a competitive edge. Our SQA services are used to measure software products and determine how well they are built. They occur throughout the Software Development lifecycle and include:
- Functional and Regression Testing
- Performance Testing
- Defect Management
- Software Change Control
- Acceptance Testing - including but not limited to Alpha Testing, Beta Testing, Smoke Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- Functional Testing - including but not limited to Black Box Testing, User Interface (UI) Testing, User Experience Testing, End to End (ETE) Testing, Regression Testing
- Independent Validation and Verification (IV&V) - including but not limited to previously described Acceptance and Functional type tests, on demand tests for 508 (UI testing for the visually impaired), Accessibility and Stop Gap Testing
Process Quality Assurance (PQA)
This category of services measures software engineering activities to determine how well they are being done. Many of the practices of PQA are similar to SQA; however, where SQA is about a product, PQA is about the process and organizational change. We use business standards like CMMI and engineering standards like ISO 12207 and 90003:2004 to conduct deep analysis of the client organization. We evaluate people, processes and technology. Our process includes:- A thorough discussion of goals
- A complete step-by-step methodology
- A detailed timetable
- Setup and configuration instructions for any necessary test beds
- Quality Assurance - SDLC Component Assessments (for Requirements Engineering, Design, Construction, Testing, Maintenance), Best Practice Alignment Assessments, Mentoring, Compliance Assessments, and Artifact Assessment
- Business Analysis - Support for Business Requirements Engineering, Change Management (including Build, Version, and Release Management)
- Risk Analysis - Assessment, Plan Development, and Remediation (for Environment, People, Budget, Schedule, Security)
Additional Federal Services
Mission Training
Preparing our US Armed Forces to operate and deal with an overtly hostile force is essential to military success and the continuing success of our nation. World events today demonstrate that training - especially focused realistic training, is more crucial now than ever. Our adversaries are unlikely to afford us a sterile combat environment. Interaction with civilians and situational awareness is as big a challenge for our soldiers as contact with an organized enemy force, and is certainly a more diverse, complicated requirement.Blue Canopy has masterfully introduced civilians into the traditionally sterile training environment aimed to prepare soldiers and units for the non-traditional environments they will confront. We accomplish this goal by replicating a realistic training environment and by providing superior Role players, both Civilians on the Battlefield (COB) and Cultural Role Players - realism such that soldiers will think they are dealing with practicing Government officials, officials from Non Government Organizations (NGO's), local indigenous personnel, dislocated civilians, religious leaders and insurgents. Close, continuous coordination with scenario writers and sustained Role player training are imperative to achieving that end. We achieve the customers training objectives by our flexibility and thoughtful task organization that permits agile scenario modification and attention to detail.
We recognize the key principles for successful execution are:
- Understanding and respecting the criticality of success - We realize our work can save lives!
- Achieving success requires people with the right skills, experience base, and dedication - Our Team is fully committed to providing experienced and proven personnel to meet all contract requirements.
- Employing proven methodologies based on both military unique and commercial best practices and perform in a culture of quality and continuous process improvement.
- Planning, scenario development and EXCON
- Civilians on the Battlefield (COB) operations with quality Cultural Role Players (CRP) from the target country
- OPFOR delivery with blank firing weapons and RPG´s (US, former SF personnel using insurgent tactics)
- Cultural Awareness, History, Religious overview
- Foreign language key phrase usage
- Use of Interpreters - key to success in-country
- Bilateral negotiations - tailored to different countries/cultures
About Us | What We Do | Who We Serve
Who We Serve
Clients
Partner with Blue Canopy and you'll quickly discover we're an unsurpassed, trusted leader in all we do. Below are just some of the organizations we serve:Commercial
- Accenture
- AOL
- AT&T
- Avendra
- Bank of America
- Bank One
- Capital One
- Comcast
- CSC
- Duke Power
- Fannie Mae
- Hyatt
- MeadWestvaco
- Sprint/Nextel
- Textron
- Toyota
- UPS
Public Sector
- Department of Defense (DOD)
- Department of Energy (DOE)
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
- Federal Reserve
- Intelligence Community (IC)
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- South Carolina Ports Authority
- Treasury Department
- US Army
- US Army Reserves
- US Marine Corps (USMC)