State of Georgia, Georgia Technology Authority (GTA)

NTT DATA holds several contracts with the Georgia Technology Authority, GTA Ready Program

Contract Number
GTA GETS Ready
98000-GETS Ready-RFQC-1647-NTT

Description

The GTA Ready Program allows customers to purchase items directly from a pool of GTA-qualified IT providers. These managed service contracts can accelerate technology procurements for most public entities in the state. Customers may choose from a provider’s standard catalog of services or request custom quotes. These services are purchased directly from the providers instead of from GTA. GTA qualified the pool of service providers and provides light governance over the contracts. Agencies negotiate directly with the provider and manage their relationship with the provider.

Who can buy GETS Ready services?

Georgia's public entities such as city and county governments, public universities, boards of education and agencies not part of the Georgia Enterprise Technology Services (GETS) program.

Services Offered

• End-User Compute (EUC) Services
• Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Services
• Mobile Device Management (MDM) Services
• Software Compliance 
• Software Consulting
  
  

End-User Compute Services

To benefit from the transition to user-centric services, enterprises need to change their approach to end-user computing. That’s why end-user experience and workforce enablement is at the heart of NTT DATA’s next-generation End-User Services. With a unique blend of capabilities, assets and experience, our desktop engineering services provide you with the skills, processes and technologies you need to remove the complexity in desktop engineering delivery, take advantage of cloud-based delivery models, and increase the reliability and efficiency of your end-user computing environment.

Ranging from application packaging to image and patch management, service desk, asset management and field services our methodologies and technologies maximize the use and benefits of automation and orchestration in overall workplace management. Our services are designed to enhance the end-user experience and to maintain high availability and performance while optimizing end-user device lifecycle management costs. With turnkey and custom solution capabilities, NTT DATA can help you optimize the management of your endpoint devices.

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Services

NTT DATA is pleased to offer our clients several desktop and application virtualization solutions:

• Turnkey Workspace-as-a-Service
  
  • NTT DATA provides both the virtual infrastructure and managed services for your images and applications, providing an easy interface for users to access business applications anywhere, anytime, from any device. Hosted virtual desktops and applications are delivered from NTT DATA’s global data centers.
• Virtual Workspace Services (VWS) Managed Services
  
  • NTT DATA will remotely manage and maintain an on-premise desktop and application virtualization solution, whether that desktop resides in your data center, a third-party data center, or even in a public cloud hosted solution. Our virtualization experts will manage the infrastructure and platform end-to-end and free up your resources to focus on business initiatives.
  • NTT DATA will deploy agents in your environments to capture metrics to help you understand environmental performance, and how your users consume applications and resources. The data returned from these agents will provide deeper insights into the overall end-user experience and helps ensure right-sized resource delivery.
• For the Workspace-as-a-Service and Managed Services offerings, we support solutions based on VMware and/or Citrix, Microsoft, and other virtualization architectures. NTT DATA believes that there is no one virtualization solution that can meet every requirement, so we have adopted a platform-independent virtualization practice, rather than focus on one product or technology. This approach allows us to maintain the flexibility needed to deploy virtualized desktops and applications to users in the way that makes the most sense on a case-by-case basis. 
  
  

Mobile Device Management Services

Smartphones and tablets are transforming the way we do business, allowing users to be more productive and responsive to business demands. In addition to corporate-liable devices, companies are opening access to employee-owned devices for email and enterprise access. Expanding mobility of devices and services can place a strain on your IT staff with challenges such as tighter security requirements, new mobile applications and high expectations from end users. Mobile Device Management Services by NTT DATA offer you the tools and expertise to reduce costs via our proven solutions.

Software Asset Management

NTT DATA’s Software Asset Management (SAM) solution team creates self-funding mechanisms by assessing existing software portfolios. The alignment of the approved software catalog to the software portfolio results in effective and efficient utilization of resources. Prioritizing the publishers in the corporate portfolio by total spend and agreement anniversary dates equates to software savings over time.

Software Compliance Risk Assessment Services

NTT DATA will assist in your software compliance process, which involves verifying adherence to the terms and conditions of a license agreement, and determining requirements for merging of multiple sources of information, including:

• Inventory data discovery 
• Hardware asset inventory 
• Procurement data HR/business unit data
• Contract terms and conditions (company/location use, right of second and multiple use)
• License types (freeware/shareware, single, named, and concurrent user, device- or machine-based, processor- or core-based, capacity-based, and site and enterprise
  
  

Software Audit Services

Software audit preparation services address software audit preparation services identified between software license entitlements and software products in use.

Software compliance audit defense and mitigation services addresses the audit defense and mitigation to assist and address an audit by a software vendor. These requested services require quickly and timely responses and detail knowledge of specific software vendors. Prevention and mitigation of any audit findings is a critical portion of these services identified between software license entitlements and software products in use.

Software purchase and renewal financial Analysis Services is identified as the market analysis of software products and the agency use of these products. Understanding the current market value of software products is key to the state optimizing funds used for software, whether a new purchase or a renewal of terms.

NTT DATA Contact Information

Brian Johnson
404-307-5352
brian.a.johnson@nttdata.com

Reference

GTA Ready (https://gta.georgia.gov/services-contracts)