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Innovative Solutions Accelerates Growth in 2024 by Providing Unique AI Solutions to Businesses of All Sizes

The company is positioned as the leading Premier Tier AWS Partner for growing businesses following a 1900% year-over-year growth in GenAI Related Projects

ROCHESTER, NY, December 17, 2024 – Innovative Solutions, a leading provider of cloud services solutions for growing businesses and a Premier Tier AWS Partner with Generative AI competency, today announced that it has expanded its customer base by more than 85 percent year-over-year in 2024. The company added more than 350 companies to its client roster this year by providing innovative AI and data management solutions that deliver real business outcomes. As a result, the number of projects that leverage GenAI saw a 1900% year-over-year increase and accounts for nearly a third of the company’s revenue.

This impressive growth highlights a year in which Innovative Solutions grew transactions through the AWS Marketplace by 60%, became the first AWS partner to offer Amazon Nova through its Tailwinds platform, and follows the company’s highly successful tri-party agreement with AWS and IBM. Through this partnership, Innovative Solutions enables IBM software, including IBM watsonx, to be seamlessly leveraged on the AWS cloud. View Innovative’s AWS Marketplace listings

“There is no question that AI technologies can deliver significant ROI for all businesses, so we have made it a priority to provide these companies with the guidance and support to build a customized solution at an affordable price point,” said Justin Copie, CEO of Innovative Solutions. “Our team has proven to be the best partner to help these companies leverage the industry-leading platforms developed by AWS, IBM, and Anthropic. As a result, our customers are implementing platforms that add significant value and benefits, including increased efficiencies within their organizations, the automation of outdated manual processes, and new avenues for revenue growth.”

A Leading AWS Premier Tier Partner

This year, Innovative Solutions achieved significant milestones as an AWS Partner. When AWS Nova was launched during AWS re:Invent 2024, the company became the first AWS Partner to offer the new platform to customers through Tailwinds. Tailwinds, Innovative Solutions’ flagship product, empowers customers to harness the power of AI with best-in-class software, including IBM watsonx, as well as foundational models like Nova and Anthropic, all powered by Amazon Bedrock.

Additionally, AWS selected Innovative Solutions to be recognized as one of its first partners to achieve its new Generative AI Competency and Small and Medium Business Services Competencies, which were both introduced this year. As a Premier Tier AWS Partner, Innovative Solutions now holds seven AWS competencies and more than 190 active technical certifications.

“AWS has built the industry’s leading partner network to help growing companies successfully implement new technologies that drive meaningful impact for their business,” said Copie. “In 2024, the number of customer opportunities we co-sold with AWS increased by 240%. We are thrilled to continue expanding our partnership with both AWS and IBM to further support our customers’ growth and transformation.”

A significant number of these deals were generated through AWS Marketplace. In 2024, Innovative Solutions experienced a 60% year-over-year increase in transactions through AWS Marketplace. The company is set to offer 30 products by the end of this year, including Tailwinds, and software from IBM, AWS, and Anthropic.  “We integrated AWS Marketplace into our product strategy three years ago, and it has truly paid off,” said Copie. “AWS has built strong trust with business leaders by delivering cutting-edge technology solutions and connecting them with partners who can tailor these products to meet their unique needs.”

Copie also highlighted the impact of recent enhancements to AWS Marketplace’s intuitive purchasing and billing processes. “By simplifying and streamlining these functions, we were able to double the number of new companies we signed through the AWS Marketplace, with the majority of them being onboarded in less than 24 hours,” Copie explained. “Looking ahead to 2025, we anticipate a 60% year-over-year growth in transactions through AWS Marketplace.”

Building the Model for GenAI Implementations

Innovative Solutions has not only delivered hundreds of successful GenAI projects for customers but has also implemented customized GenAI-driven programs internally to optimize team processes. These programs have resulted in significant efficiencies across many departments, including software engineering, finance and accounting, human resources, project management, sales, and managed services. As a result, the majority of the company’s employees have received certifications for driving business value through AI solutions.

A notable example of these successes has been Darcy, a tool that is leveraged by the company’s pre-sales engineering team to streamline the development of customer scopes of work. Darcy leverages GenAI and internal data to automate this process, reducing the time required to deliver these documents from four days to four hours, which is eight times faster than previous processes.

“GenAI implementations have delivered real business outcomes that have been delivered through for both our company and customers,” said Travis Rehl, Chief Technology Officer at Innovative Solutions. “We are fully embracing these technologies internally for all of our teams to ensure that we are delivering the most efficient and cost-effective solutions. This enables our team to provide our customers with the best possible support for accelerating their growth.”

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Innovative Solutions Announces the Availability of Amazon Nova Through Its Tailwinds Platform

Innovative is the first AWS Partner to provide its customers with access to Amazon’s new cutting-edge platform for building multimodal AI models

ROCHESTER, NY, December 3, 2024 – Innovative Solutions, a leading provider of cloud services solutions for growing businesses and a Premier Tier AWS Partner with Generative AI competency, today announced that companies can now offer access to Amazon Nova following its launch at AWS re:Invent this morning. Innovative Solutions will provide access to the new family of GenAI multimodal models through Tailwinds, the company’s new platform that accelerates the adoption and implementation of GenAI solutions for businesses of any size.

“Amazon Nova is going to be a game-changing offering for companies to enhance their GenAI capabilities, and we are excited to be the first AWS Partner that can offer access to this new technology to companies of any size,” said Justin Copie, CEO of Innovative Solutions. “In leveraging our industry-leading Tailwinds platform, our customers have already experienced the faster speed that GenAI solutions can bring to enhance their business. With the enhancements brought to market by Amazon Nova, companies will be able to further accelerate their AI initiatives and drive more impactful results.”

Amazon Nova represents a new generation of foundation models (FMs), capable of processing text, images, and video as prompts. Built on Amazon Bedrock, the new technology powers generative AI applications that can understand and generate multimedia content, including videos, charts, and documents, offering transformative capabilities for businesses leveraging multimodal AI.

Tailwinds will support Amazon Nova through its Amazon Bedrock integration, empowering businesses to:

  • Build enterprise-grade AI applications with enhanced performance
  • Leverage Amazon’s latest large language model (LLM) technologies within existing workflows
  • Maintain data privacy and security by using AWS infrastructure

Tailwinds is an advanced platform from Innovative Solutions that helps companies accelerate the adoption and implementation of GenAI solutions, allowing businesses to scale AI capabilities quickly and effectively to produce business results. To learn more about Tailwinds, visit www.tailwindsai.com.

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Innovative Solutions Announces the Launch of Tailwinds to Simplify and Accelerate GenAI Implementations

The New Platform Accelerates the Speed of Gen AI Implementations by 100 Percent for Businesses of Any Size

ROCHESTER, NY, December 2, 2024 – Today at AWS re:Invent 2024, Innovative Solutions, a leading provider of cloud services solutions for growing businesses and a Premier Tier AWS Partner with Generative AI competency, announced the launch of Tailwinds, a groundbreaking platform designed to accelerate the adoption and implementation of Generative AI (GenAI) solutions for businesses of any size. Tailwinds simplifies the process for creating Al-powered applications, Al agents, workflows, chatbots, and APls, and enables users to build GenAI Proofs of Concept (POCs) by up to 100 times faster than traditional methods, and at 1% of the price. This empowers leaders at any company to leverage new GenAI solutions that can advance their business goals without the inherent risk of investing substantial resources and costs.

“Tailwinds represents a pivotal moment in the democratization of AI technology,” said Justin Copie, CEO of Innovative Solutions. “By providing a user-friendly, visual interface for AI workflow creation, we’re making advanced AI capabilities accessible to businesses of all sizes. Companies can now go from concept to working prototype in days, not months, and at a fraction of the cost.” Prior to launching the general availability of Tailwinds, Innovative Solutions conducted a beta round of the product with 75 companies. The customers who participated in this beta phase leveraged the platform to easily build proof of concepts and quickly determine the impact of implementing new GenAI solutions on their business.

“Tailwinds has been an incredible tool for our organization, enabling our team to rapidly POC new ideas, validate concepts, and identify the business value of AI quickly”, said Bruce Sharpe, Chief Product Officer at Humach. “Our work with Innovative Solutions has led to an 18% increase in overall customer satisfaction and a 20% increase in call automation efficiency.”  Read Humach’s Full Success Story

Tailwinds has been described as “The UI for AI” because of its intuitive visual workflow builder for creating complex AI processes without coding. The platform is built on scalable and secure architecture leveraging AWS services and IBM watsonx. It can be easily integrated with popular AI tools and cloud services, including AWS and Anthropic’s Claude, Weaviate, and others.

Tailwinds has been prebuilt with dozens of premade use case templates that enable companies to quickly implement AI solutions that are tailored to the needs of their specific industry. This allows for rapid deployment across many vertical industries, such as healthcare, financial services, and manufacturing, among others.

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Tailwinds is available immediately on the AWS Marketplace, with flexible pricing options to suit businesses of all sizes:
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Innovative Solutions and IBM Collaborate to Bring IBM Software to Customers via AWS Marketplace

Innovative Solutions to open new office in Boca Raton, Florida with professionals skilled in watsonx to support expanded collaboration

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (May 6, 2024) – Innovative Solutions today announced an expansion of its collaboration with IBM to bring Generative AI (GenAI) solutions, AI-infused managed security services, and an AI-infused observability platform for cloud-based applications and businesses to customers. Available on AWS Marketplace, customers can more easily access offerings developed by Innovative Solutions that embed IBM technology such as watsonx, IBM’s AI and data platform with AI assistants, to help modernize their business.

Through this expanded collaboration, Innovative Solutions will work with IBM to deepen its expertise and skills on watsonx to help scale AI adoption among small businesses (SMBs). Innovative Solutions also plans to open a second headquarters in Boca Raton, Florida on May 1, 2024 and is projected to add up to one hundred new jobs by 2026 with emphasis on SMB digital transformation. “Our services combine best-in-class software from IBM with best-in-class cloud infrastructure from AWS, providing real-time value that can’t be found anywhere else,” says Justin Copie, CEO of Innovative Solutions. “We’re already based on the East Coast, and are excited to bring more jobs to Boca Raton, which has a rich history in technology.”

“In selecting Boca Raton as the location for this corporate headquarters, Innovative Solutions joins more than 500 other corporate headquarters in the county, strategically aligning itself with Palm Beach County’s thriving tech sector comprised of 2,000 technology companies. Positioned within the evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, we anticipate Innovative Solutions with long-term growth and innovation from its new location in Boca Raton,” said Kelly Smallridge, President and CEO, Business Development Board of Palm Beach County (BDB).

The core products Innovative Solutions will focus on for SMB clients include:
Innovative TailwindsInnovative Tailwinds, designed to help organizations rapidly drive business efficiency and growth through Generative AI technologies with IBM watsonx, as well as Amazon Bedrock, Anthropic, and Cohere. Learn More
Managed Security ServicesInnovative Managed Security Services, leveraging IBM security technology deployed on AWS infrastructure such as EKS, EC2, and purchased through the AWS Marketplace. Learn More
Innovative MAPInnovative MAP, leveraging IBM Instana and AWS data transfer and migrations technologies, to monitor and effectively manage workloads as they move onto AWS. Learn More
Managed Cloud ServicesManaged Cloud Services to help customers with Infrastructure Observability using IBM Instana, supported by access to expert engineers — discounted on AWS services. Learn More

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MacStadium, a private cloud services provider and SaaS leader that delivers cloud solutions to simplify Mac for business, recently partnered with Innovative Solutions to build and test a new virtual assistant enabled by IBM watsonx Assistant and underpinned by Amazon Bedrock.

“The IBM and AWS collaboration offered a unique combination of leading AI, cloud, infrastructure and open-source technologies that enabled us to scale AI workloads quickly. With our new AI Assistant, we will be able to have an ‘expert’ available to help developers in the moment they need it. Early implementation has led to an increase in staff efficiency and enhanced implementation speed, and we’re excited to continue to scale how we embed AI across our operations,” explains Chris Chapman, Chief Technology Officer at MacStadium.

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“Enterprises of all sizes are searching for impactful and trustworthy AI-powered solutions to help modernize their business,” said David La Rose, general manager, IBM Ecosystem, Sell. “Through our collaboration with Innovative Solutions, we’re helping develop the deep expertise of a trusted partner to scale adoption of watsonx on the AWS Marketplace and our portfolio of AI and hybrid cloud offerings with clients on multiple environments. It’s a prime example of meeting clients where they are through the power of the IBM Ecosystem.”

As Innovative continues to focus on providing the best customer outcomes, it all comes down to keeping customer needs at the forefront and finding solutions to meet those needs. “Collaborating with IBM and AWS helps us flip the script on managed services, giving our customers the power of IBM watsonx AI and data platform and AWS AI in a highly secure, managed way that allows them to expedite their growth,” says Copie.

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Innovative believes that every company will become a technology company, and we’re here to help. Recognized as an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner. With an army of cloud experts and the Innovative Cloud Runbook utilizing leading cloud technologies, Innovative gives businesses of every size the confidence to grow in the cloud with generative AI, application modernization, cloud migrations, AWS cloud hosting and resale, managed cloud services, cloud cost optimization, cloud security monitoring, and IT consulting.

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Innovative Solutions Achieves the New AWS Generative AI Competency

 
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (March 6, 2024) – Innovative Solutions, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Premier Tier Services Partner, announced that it has achieved the AWS Generative AI (GenAI) Competency. This specialization recognizes Innovative as an AWS Partner that helps customers and the AWS Partner Network (APN) drive the advancement of services, tools, and infrastructure pivotal for implementing generative AI technologies.

Acquiring the AWS Generative AI Competency differentiates Innovative Solutions as an AWS Partner that has achieved technical proficiency and proven customer success, as demonstrated by their 10+ case studies. Innovative Solutions possesses the experience and expertise demonstrated through successful projects addressing customer challenges using generative AI solutions, predominantly in the healthcare and financial services industries. These solutions enable digital transformation strategies for augmenting the customer experience, delivering hyper-personalized and engaging content, streamlining workflows, and delivering actionable results powered by generative AI technology from AWS.

Travis Rehl, SVP of Product and Services at Innovative Solutions, says, “We are so excited to achieve the AWS Generative AI Competency as proof of our excellence in the generative AI space. It’s a testament to the maturity and agility of our organization and how it has strategically aligned with industry and market demand.”

The AWS Competency Program aims to assist customers in connecting with AWS Partners who possess extensive knowledge and technical expertise in using AWS technologies and best practices to adopt generative AI. These AWS Partners facilitate the seamless integration and deployment of AWS-based solutions to meet the unique needs of all customers, from startups to global enterprises.

AWS’s recognition of Innovative’s expertise has resulted in new ways to address customer challenges. This includes a customer growth initiative with IBM to provide service offerings that combine software from IBM with cloud infrastructure from AWS.

Tailwinds, Innovative Solutions’ packaged offering launched on AWS Marketplace, is just one example. Tailwinds is built on the IBM watsonx AI and Data platform, powered by Amazon Bedrock, using the large language models (LLMs) – Anthropic and Cohere. It enables small businesses and startups to rapidly and cost-efficiently adopt generative AI technologies, allowing them to be technology leaders in their space by saving money through staff efficiency gains while providing new products and services to their end customers.

“We can offer a packaged solution to our customers on AWS Marketplace and already have dozens of production customers and systems in place. Achieving the AWS Generative AI Competency makes it clear that our customers can trust Innovative as a vetted and experienced AWS Partner for generative AI — and move quickly with us to find a solution,” says Justin Copie, CEO of Innovative Solutions.

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Innovative believes that every company will become a technology company, and we’re here to help. Recognized as an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner. With an army of cloud experts and the Innovative Cloud Runbook utilizing leading cloud technologies, Innovative gives businesses of every size the confidence to grow in the cloud with generative AI, application modernization, cloud migrations, AWS cloud hosting and resale, managed cloud services, cloud cost optimization, cloud security monitoring, and IT consulting.

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Managed GenAI is here and Innovative is leading the pack with Tailwinds ChitChat and MDS

We are excited and immensely proud to unveil Managed Service for Generative AI –  MDS (Managed Data Services). MDS is our commitment to innovation and excellence in the realm of AI-driven data management. At Innovative Solutions, we recognize the transformative power of AI and the critical need for streamlined data services.

MDS is engineered to transform small to medium-sized businesses and startups, giving them a formidable tool to propel their growth and solidify their competitive edge in the market.

Empowers SMBs and Startups on Their GenAI/Data Journey

Envision your business, confidently launching sophisticated AI applications, diving deep into BI reporting, and fine-tuning ML models. MDS equips you with the assurance that your data infrastructure is not just robust but also scalable, evolving effortlessly with your burgeoning ambitions.

Crafting Your Data Narrative

Businesses have unique requirements, and MDS is structured to meet an organization where they are in their life cycle. Our tiered approach—Good, Better, Best—is designed to mirror the unique chapters of your business’s growth story.

Whether you’re establishing the foundation with our essential services or scaling new heights with advanced capabilities and committed support, MDS is crafted to align with your expansion, smoothing out the traditional bumps of scaling data pipeline teams and tools.

MDS navigates the complex web of data integrations with finesse, enabling you to focus on steering your business’s core operations. More than just a managerial tool, MDS is an engine for innovation, powering strategic decision-making with actionable data insights. This strategic approach doesn’t just sustain your business but launches it into new territories of innovation and value creation.

IBM + AWS, best in breed, and nothing less

MDS brings together the capabilities of IBM and AWS, providing SMBs and startups with a solution that stands out in the market for its reliability and scalability.

IBM’s time-tested expertise in complex data analytics merges with the dynamic, expansive cloud infrastructure from AWS to deliver a service that’s fast, flexible, and future-proof. This integration means that MDS users gain instant access to the best of both worlds: robust analytics and machine learning tools from IBM, and the vast computing resources of AWS.

It’s a combo that accelerates the path from data to actionable insights, ensuring our customers can react swiftly to market changes and business opportunities.

Our commitment materialized: Tailwinds ChitChat Managed Services AI Assistant

Tailwinds ChitChat

ChitChat is a free service to all Innovative Managed Services customers, including MDS.

ChitChat has a number of key features tuned for our Managed Services customers….

  • Access to a number of documentation sources such AWS Docs, HIPAA and PCI requirements.
  • ChitChat has the ability to create architecture diagrams, step by step workflow diagrams
  • Access to tools like Email so you can say “write me a step by step workflow and email it to Joe”.
  • Integrates with Innovative NOC and SOC teams so you can directly open tickets summarizing your conversation or need for assistance.

Over time, we plan to build out multiple integrations with other Innovative Managed Services technologies such as monitoring systems, CI/CD pipelines and more. Creating connective tissue for our customers in one package.

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A Trusted Ally in Your Digital Voyage

As an organization evolves their of AI and BI objectives, Innovative MDS becomes an integral part of your team.

Innovative views this new offering as a partnership that empowers SMBs and startups to harness the full potential of Generative AI without the overhead of managing complex data infrastructures.

It’s a commitment to enabling growth, fostering innovation, and ensuring that our clients are not just keeping pace with the advances in AI and data analytics, but are setting the pace themselves. Join us as we embark on this exciting journey, redefining the possibilities for businesses in the AI era.

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Innovative Solutions Launches Tailwinds on AWS

New offering allows businesses to build AI applications with AWS and Anthropic’s Claude

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (July 26, 2023) – Innovative Solutions, a leading provider of cloud services for growing businesses, announced today that it has launched its Tailwinds product on the Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) marketplace. Built by Innovative and based upon technologies from both AWS and Anthropic, Tailwinds allows business leaders and software engineers to use generative AI technology within their applications without the complexity, high cost, and time associated with traditional software development. This new tool enables small to midsize businesses to seamlessly adopt AI technologies in their applications.

“We’re proud to introduce Tailwinds to the market,” said Travis Rehl, SVP of Product and Service at Innovative Solutions. “We’re pioneering a path to make generative AI accessible and efficient for all businesses, empowering them to enrich their products, services, and workflows without the need for deep AI expertise. Tailwinds is the easy button for building apps with generative AI.”

Tailwinds includes three components that application developers and product managers can use to accelerate product development using AI technology: (1) a comprehensive, plug-and-play reference architecture, based on Infrastructure as Code; (2) an API library for utilizing Anthropic and AWS’s AI technologies; and (3) a serverless environment for testing and sharing use case examples during the development process.

Scott Burklund, CIO of Preverity, a company that helps healthcare businesses and technology companies manage, analyze, and model healthcare data, is one of Innovative’s first customers on the platform: “Leveraging Tailwinds is a game-changer for us at Preverity. We’re thrilled to unlock new opportunities by integrating this Innovative’s AI solution into our data analysis processes. With Tailwinds, we’ll use AI to support our growth and deliver even more value to our clients.”

Anthropic, the creators of the generative AI technology named Claude, and Innovative have partnered to support Anthropic’s Claud AI technology on AWS, bridging the technology gap for companies looking to leverage generative AI without the hurdles of integrating the technology themselves. Tailwinds is targeted specifically at HealthTech, FinTech, Manufacturing, and SaaS companies.

“Innovative Solutions, one of our first Generative AI Partners, has indexed heavily on customer obsession and is focused on guiding our customers along an AI Journey that will deliver them transformational outcomes,” said Chris Sullivan, General Manager World Wide System Integrators at AWS. “They have leveraged Amazon Bedrock, and other cutting edge AWS technologies, and brought to market Tailwinds. Like Amazon, Innovative Solutions is democratizing gen Ai, making it accessible to companies without the requirement for deep technical resources and elevated costs. More and more customers will now be able to take advantage of this transformational technology.”

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Innovative welcomes Chief Revenue Officer to drive 400% growth

Arrian Mehis brings 29 years of technology experience to the fastest growing Amazon Web Services Premier Tier Services Partner

ROCHESTER, NY, June 28, 2023 – Innovative Solutions, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Premier Tier Services Partner, announced today the recent appointment of AWS alumnus Arrian Mehis as Chief Revenue Officer. Innovative is rapidly expanding its services across North America in partnership with AWS to help serve small to midsize businesses and startups accelerate cloud adoption. Arrian will oversee the revenue organization, including solutions architecture, business development, direct sales, and marketing.

Mehis joins soon after Innovative signed a Strategic Collaboration Agreement with AWS. “Our mission is to enable every startup and SMB customer to leverage the power of the cloud. Technologies like generative AI and the need for modern application development, are being explored by nearly every business today. Arrian joining our team enables us to help more customers, and deploy these technologies broadly, starting immediately.” said Justin Copie, CEO of Innovative Solutions.

Innovative has been serving the technology needs of businesses for more than 34 years. As demand for cloud services has increased, the business has experienced exponential growth, onboarding more than 60 new IT professionals in the past 10 months. This expansion included hires in cities such as Austin, Denver, Toronto, Calgary, Seattle, Los Angeles, Tampa, and Chicago.

“I am thrilled to join Innovative sharing the same passion of helping customers achieve business outcomes using AWS as an enabler on their journey to cloud. The benefit of cloud has become immutable in a market that is not only massive but still growing where customers increasingly value the depth and breadth of expertise and managed services that Innovative delivers.” said Mehis.

Mehis has held various positions in tech since in the past 25 years. His most recent leadership post was leading Professional Services sales for the United States at AWS, where he was responsible for driving a transformational sales strategy to help customers adopt the AWS cloud.

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Innovative Solutions Named 2023 AWS Canadian Consulting Partner of the Year

Innovative recognized as the 2023 AWS Canadian Consulting Partner of the Year award winner

ROCHESTER, NY, and TORONTO, ON — Amazon Web Services (AWS) has named Innovative Solutions as the 2023 AWS Canadian Consulting Partner of the Year, recognizing leaders playing a key role helping customers drive innovation and build solutions on AWS in Canada.

“This award recognizes the tremendous dedication of our entire team to helping Canadian businesses leverage the power of the AWS cloud,” said Justin Copie, CEO of Innovative Solutions.  “We weren’t the first partner in Canada, but we are excited to be counted among the best as we are recognized as the partner of the year in Canada for the second year in a row.”

“AWS Partners are at the center of unlocking greater business value for Canadian customers, across a wide range of industries,” said Eric Gales, AWS Canada Country Manager. “The 2023 Canadian AWS Partner awards celebrates partners that share our customer obsession, providing a deep knowledge of AWS services to help customers scale their business, accelerate innovation and deepen digital transformation.”

The AWS Partner Network (APN), is a global program, focused on helping companies build successful AWS-based businesses or solutions by providing business, technical, marketing, and go-to-market support. The APN includes independent software vendors (ISVs) and systems integrators (SIs) around the world, with AWS Partner participation growing significantly during the past 12 months.

 

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Innovative Solutions Signs Strategic Agreement with AWS

New agreement supports Innovative’s growth as cloud migration and management experts.

ROCHESTER, NY, January 3, 2023 – Innovative Solutions (Innovative), a leading provider of cloud services for growing businesses, announced today that it has entered into a multi-year strategic collaboration agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS). As a result of this collaboration, Innovative Solutions and AWS will tightly align their sales, marketing, and delivery teams to effectively accelerate the adoption of cloud services in the small- and medium-sized business (SMB) and startup industry segments with a key focus on software, fintech, life sciences, and retail industries. Innovative will enhance their customer’s cloud journey experience through managed services offerings as well as the company’s ability to support customers through the full digital transformation lifecycle; migration, modernization, data strategy, and machine learning (ML).

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“We’re thrilled to work with AWS on this remarkable opportunity,” said Justin Copie, CEO of Innovative. “This SCA helps us achieve our vision of helping every SMB customer become a technology company. The size and scale of this agreement, and how it will help us accelerate, is without precedent.”

The agreement between Innovative and AWS drives key investments in several areas that address the growing demand for AWS products and services across Innovative’s base of 600+ SMB customers, as well as with new customers in US and Canada. Innovative will expand their migration and modernization practice, managed services offerings and build out new practices in data analytics and ML to support the advanced stages of its customers’ journey to the cloud. Innovative will also invest in the development and scale of its portfolio, listing the company’s solutions in AWS Marketplace to help SMB customers quickly procure and further accelerate migration to AWS.

Separate from the agreement, to meet growing demand for cloud expertise and helping businesses achieve their objectives with technology, Innovative expects to hire more than 200 additional employees in the next four years.

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“Talent acquisition and growth is a central part of our strategy,” said Jaime Eisenhauer, Chief People Officer at Innovative. “We provide our customers with proven experts, so we have aligned both our recruiting and training programs to provide our services with the best talent in North America. It starts with a solid foundation, and every employee at Innovative – from administrative support to accounting to sales to the executive team – has earned an AWS certification.  From there, we go deep with AWS Solutions Architects, DevOps engineers, and specialties that match the needs of our customers.  Working at Innovative is like getting a graduate degree in the cloud.”

As an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner, Innovative has rapidly expanded by adding specialized services for businesses wishing to migrate their server infrastructure to AWS and managing a customer’s cloud operations thereafter. With this new agreement, Innovative Solutions plans to accelerate growth and customer satisfaction by creating four practice groups: Migrations, Modernization, Data Engagements, and Machine Learning. Each will serve as their own lines of business and be responsible for increasing the depth, scale, agility, and reach to provide the best customer experience to Innovative and AWS’s mutual customers at all stages in their digital transformation.

Kevin McGrath

“Innovative’s growth and strategic relationship with AWS is a testament to the quality of service they provide their customers,” said Kevin McGrath, vice president and general manager of Spot by NetApp. “NetApp is proud to be working with successful service providers like Innovative to together help our joint customers take full advantage of the power of AWS.”

Innovative’s growth plans include the expansion of its Managed Cloud Services (MCS) line of business. MCS customers are more confident when growing on the cloud because their infrastructure is managed for cost, security, and compliance with a combination of tools and services. One foundational capability included for all MCS customers, at no additional charge, is CloudCheckr, a cloud management product in Spot by NetApp’s portfolio for cloud operations. In concert with Innovative’s cloud experts, CloudCheckr provides visibility and intelligence to better manage costs, make infrastructure more secure and in compliance, and optimize resources in use.

Ruba Borno

“Over the last 24 months, we have seen a significant rise in demand and adoption of cloud solutions as small and medium size business businesses look to grow their digital offerings,” said Ruba Borno, vice president of Worldwide Channels & Alliances at AWS. “We are excited to expand our relationship with Innovative Solutions and help businesses broaden their customer base and bring new products to market and continue on their cloud migration journey.”

Next year, Innovative is on track to continue hiring and opening offices in both the United States and Canada while remaining headquartered in Rochester, New York, where it was founded. As part of its commitment to the regional economies of its offices, Innovative recently announced that the Rochester Red Wings will now play at Innovative Field, with more investments expected in the future in other regions as well.

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Innovative believes that every company will become a technology company. Innovative uses its cloud expertise and technology to help businesses migrate to and manage their IT infrastructure in the cloud. With an army of experts and the Innovative Cloud Runbook utilizing the leading platforms and technologies, Innovative gives businesses of every size the confidence to grow in the cloud.

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