Cherry Bekaert Industry Solutions: Energy Transition Accelerator - Getting Started: 3-Wk Assessment & Roadmap

Cherry Bekaert works with Energy Transition innovators including Microsoft via their WW Energy and Climate Innovation Fund teams on the design, development, go-to-market launch, implementation, training, and managed service support of energy transition solutions involving Microsoft technologies. Our firm - a Microsoft Direct Partner (CSP, SI, ISV) - offers end-to-end services from strategy to portfolio management to go-to-market to compliance to cyber/infosec and more. We don't just work FOR your teams - we work WITH your teams. This allows you to quickly digitalize your IP and launch products while simultaneously upskilling your resources on Microsoft's technologies, agile methodologies, go-to-market scoping and in-market product management disciplines and more.

Our professionals bring decades of experience in cloud strategy, cloud migration, product management, product development, devops leading practices, app infrastructure design, app design, development, target operating model design for business model evolution, compliance, new product introduction, and go-to-market. As a Firm we have helped several clients with incorporating their IP into product designs that we then helped architect, develop, and then deploy on Microsoft's marketplaces (Azure Marketplace, AppSource).

A sizable portion of our business involves serving electric utility companies. We also help companies across industries with the implementation and integration of solutions. Cherry Bekaert was early to recognize the environmental and business implications of sustainability strategies including investing in and deploying energy transition products and solutions. As a result, we established service line departments focusing on renewables, with a practice offering Next Generation Energy Services (see attached 1-pager).

Our services support customers with getting started with, or extending their use of, Microsoft Azure and other Microsoft technologies.

Key services involved in this Energy Transition Accelerator offering are identified below.

Duration and cost can vary based on the size of the project and whether certain assumptions are met. Please contact us to discuss further. Thank you.

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Technology and IP Evaluation for Migration to / New Product Introduction on Azure (The Focus of This Consulting Service Offer)

• Evaluate Current Products and/or Digital Assets and IP
• Document Functional Architecture, and High-level Infrastructure Architecture, and Application Architecture
• Lay out an Approach for Rehosting / Migrating Your Solution Onto Azure
• Work with Your Product Management and Marketing Team on Commercial Model and Value Proposition Essentials
• Create a Deliverable Including Cost Estimates, Build & Product Launch Milestone Plan, and Key Gaps to Address as Keys to Success

Product Management

• Fractional Head of Product Management Services
• Requirements, Use Cases, UI Design
• Monetization & Differentiation Analysis
• Release Planning
• Integrated Launch Planning & Readiness Framework (see below)

DevOps

• Agile Methodology
• Development Methodology
• Story Pointing & Backlog Management

Development

• Infrastructure Strategy
• Infrastructure Architecture
• Application Architecture Design
• Application Design
• Development, Testing

Cybersecurity & Information Security

• Standards Applicability Per Product, Customer, Industry, Operations
• Gap Assessment & Remediation Planning (all services excluding attestations & audits for independence reasons)
• Testing (Various: Web Application Security Assessments; Penetration Testing; More)

Integrated Launch Readiness Framework

• Developed by Cherry Bekaert to Manage its Digital Transformation Operations in Concert with ePMO
• This Framework has been Applied in Numerous Client Engagements to Identify, Understand, Prepare for, then Manage the Scope of Work to be Performed – Across Organizational Departments – in Order to Enable Enterprise Capabilities and Manage Roles, Responsibilities, and Expectations in Preparation for New Product Introduction or Feature & Function Introduction.
• This Framework has been Applied for Mature to Scaleup to Startup Companies. As an Example, for a Startup Company, One Workstream was Focused on Product Requirements Definition and Solution Architecture Design; the Other Workstream Applied the Operating Model Establishment Components of the Framework to Create a Company Launch Milestone Plan Inclusive of Key Leadership Hire Milestones and Investment Tranches.

Marketplace Launch

• We Help You Navigate Microsoft to Obtain Necessary Credentials, Certifications, Designations
• We Work Leaders in Product, Marketing, and Commercial Ownership to Align Product with Mechanisms on the Microsoft Cloud Needed for Sales and Monetization
• We Help Finalize Product, Get the Offer Listing Prepared, Submitted, Incorporate Microsoft Feedback, and Ultimately Get Your Product Live on the Marketplace