Data Systems Analysts: Mission-Driven Consulting Solutions and Services

The United States Department of Defense (DoD) is continuing to increase its use of the Microsoft Product Suite to facilitate increasing collaboration and improving information sharing. The high-risk nature of the mission and associated data used by the DoD, including U.S. fighting forces, causes these information systems to be vulnerable to increased cyber threats, and CIOs and service providers are responsible for delivering Microsoft utility tools in a secure fashion. Data Systems Analysts (DSA) provides secure information management solutions to the Federal Government market. Substantially, the firm delivers Microsoft SharePoint solutions—including intranets, extranets, websites, collaboration and social media solutions, content management and flexible training to the DoD workforce and warfighters.

DSA is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner both in collaboration and content as well as hosting services including Windows Server, Azure and SQL Server. As an employee-owned company, the Microsoft Partnership program has proven to be a valuable resource to DSA and it has reflected directly to the success in helping its customer’s meet their mission of providing effective support to the U.S. Warfighter. “All of these competencies helped us gain greater insights into Microsoft’s latest technologies including training, pre-release software and other resources, and provided opportunities to host joint education clinics with Microsoft and other Gold partners,” asserts Kathleen Kirk, VP of DSA’s Strategic Solutions Group.

DSA designed, implemented and manages one of the largest SharePoint instances in the Army. They support over 10 major DoD Organizations in the use of Microsoft SharePoint and SharePoint add on products. DSA provides custom portal and workflow solutions that have significantly streamlined their customers operations. “We are often the first company to implement the latest Microsoft solutions in the DoD space. Examples of this include the upgrade to SharePoint 2013 across all the Organizations we support as well as the first to support the successful implementation of SharePoint Add-Ins (formerly known as the Microsoft App Model). This model will significantly reduce costs of future upgrades for all DSA customers,” adds Kirk.