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AHEAD
Formerly Sovereign Systems + Data Blue

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What is AHEAD?

AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together cloud infrastructure, intelligent operations, and modern applications, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation.AHEAD was founded in 2007 and in 2019 merged with Sovereign Systems, and Data Blue.…

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Service Offering Details

What is AHEAD?

AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together cloud infrastructure, intelligent operations, and modern applications, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation.

AHEAD was founded in 2007 and in 2019 merged with Sovereign Systems, and Data Blue. The services formerly available under those brands is now available from AHEAD, LLC.

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The Sovereign Systems’ Cloud Management Platform (CMP) improves IT agility by automating and managing deployment tasks. Our CMP integrates best-of-breed solutions that help IT teams become an automated, on-demand service provider to the business.
From optimizing IT resources to modernizing data center infrastructure, Sovereign partners with VCE to provide best-in-class Converged Infrastructure solutions that support and drive many components of an overall data center strategy.
Begin to modernize your infrastructure and better align IT with business with Sovereign's Next Generation Data Center. Whether you're building your cloud or supporting data produced by the Internet of Things, Sovereign and Cisco have your solution.

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The most common users of AHEAD are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Great support for Turner

Rating: 10 out of 10
December 22, 2017
LH
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Very thorough with their help.
  • They integrate well with our company.
  • They bend over backwards to make sure that everything is done right and on time even when that is not their job.
  • Knowledgable support.
Cons
  • Sovereign systems is very tightly coupled with Turner Broadcasting in the purchasing and add tremendous value. I haven't seen anything that they need improvement on. Not to say that their isn't anything. Just at least in my experience there hasn't been anything.
Sovereign has a well rounded staff of technical people as well as technical sales people. They work tremendously well with Turner and their people bend over backwards for us. I needed a drive to help get a project done. Don went out of his way to make sure the drive was here when I needed it.

Sovereign Systems Customer Review

Rating: 9 out of 10
January 08, 2018
DW
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Excellent with the installation, configuration, and support of the EMC line of storage arrays.
  • Valuable resource in the decision-making process of purchasing and configuration of the VMware product suite.
  • Project management has been key to the success we have had with Sovereign Systems.
Cons
  • There isn't much depth in the Citrix arena. Unfortunately, this limits us from being able to consolidate with Sovereign Systems as our only partner.
I have only used Soverign Systems in regards to array storage, storage fabric, and miscellaneous software. However, I will say that for EMC, Brocade, and VMware related questions/support, they are typically where we turn to prior to even calling the product support team.

A mentioned previously in the survey, they are lacking in Citrix specialization, this forces us to use a different vendor for our licensing support. In addition to Citrix, we have used Dell Compute for legacy as well as our latest refresh of hardware, and Sovereign Systems has only recently (that I am aware of) started to specialize in the support and resell of Dell Compute with the recent Dell/EMC merger.

Solving problems with Sovereign

Rating: 9 out of 10
March 28, 2018
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • System configuration and development support
  • Project management
  • End-User training
Cons
  • Project timeline/estimations should be more conservative. Where the customer is being overly aggressive, Sovereign should be sure to schedule touch points/project milestones to level set expectations.
  • Sovereign should provide engagement customers with a detailed summary of hours consumed. Tying hours to executed Invoices would be helpful. That would keep the customer from having to do so.

Sovereign for Success

Rating: 10 out of 10
December 05, 2017
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Procurement of hardware. Getting the best rate for us instead of the best profit for them.
  • Services - by having an incredible team of experts they have a deep pool of people they can pull to bring the best possible solutions delivery.
  • Aftercare - they have been proactive in checking in to make sure that the projects they have worked on not only were successful on delivery but continue to deliver months after installation.
Cons
  • If I had to offer anything for an area of improvement I would ask that they offer more in the area of training services.
[For] SAN, server, backup and network from a hardware procurement install and service level they have been unmatched. We have used Sovereign Systems on several projects in the past 4 years and have been incredibly happy with the results and successful on the delivery. They have been incredibly efficient and accommodating with whatever outage schedules we have had along the way.

Sovereign Systems - A partner you can count on

Rating: 10 out of 10
July 20, 2017
MH
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Suggests the right technologies for the need not a technology with a specific vendor in mind.
  • Understands our culture and technologist so that recommendations fit into what we do best and can support.
  • Is always willing to go the extra mile to make sure we are happy and that our customers are happy.
Cons
  • Expansion of the media industry experts.
  • Continue to expand its vendors without losing sight of its small family feel.
  • Remember that they might not always be the answer for everything.
Knowledge of networking and storage systems has always been a strong point and while it continues I will go to them first to help guide decisions I make in the future. Continued expansion of their services that they provide will enable us to look at them for added resources that we need on new projects going forward. Always being there to assist and admit if mistakes are made by either side and help find the correct solution.
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