Fairfax, VA – September 10, 2019 – Pyramid Systems is proud to announce the successful recertification of our International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 20000-1 and ISO 27001 accreditations. Together with our ISO 9001 and Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)-Dev ML3 models, these well-known standards ensure the highest of quality service delivery and innovative solutions to our…
Read MoreBUSINESS NEED Our client conducts hundreds of audits each month to ensure the soundness of the country’s financial system, and ultimately the safety of our economy. The agency needed a solution to support the secure transfer of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and other sensitive financial data between its auditors and other stakeholder organizations during their…
Read MoreFairfax, VA – August 27, 2019 – The Washington Business Journal has honored Pyramid Systems’ President and Co-founder, Sherry Hwang, with its 2019 “Women Who Mean Business Award.” Since 1999, the annual “Women Who Mean Business Awards” have recognized local women for entrepreneurship, professionalism, civic engagement, and community leadership. With more than 300 nominations, 25 women were…
Read MoreBy: Mike Shields There are two types of applications: those that have moved to the cloud and those that have yet to move to the cloud. Bold claim? We don’t think so. The US Government created and began implementing the Cloud First policy in 2010, and software as a service, which has deep roots in…
Read MoreWe are at a tipping point: Aging infrastructure, systems and processes pose an existential risk for federal agencies in executing their mission. This white paper lays out the milestones to reach for new and early adopters of DevSecOps.
Read MoreBUSINESS NEED - Data analysts at a large federal government agency needed to use a legacy application to conduct financial analyses and access financial data analytics in the form of canned Statistical Analysis System (SAS) reports. These canned reports (prebuilt with a fixed set of topics) were convenient when they satisfied users’ analytical needs but…
Read MoreBy: Chuck Harris Introduction While serving in multiple roles in both the government and private sector, I developed a deep level of empathy and respect for contract and program management professionals. These experts consistently meet mission priorities while ensuring legal reliability, which is a delicate and difficult balance to strike. Anyone who has walked in…
Read MoreBUSINESS NEED – Our client used a decade-old system to perform thousands of audits to ensure the reliability and health of the country’s economy using a legacy tool. Consequently, audits often took months or up to a year. The legacy tool was struggling to keep pace with the increasing volume of audits. The agency wanted…
Read MoreIn an effort to demonstrate the power of Augmented Intelligence powered by ChatBots and Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Pyramid Labs designed and built a Meeting Messenger Bot, capable of executing certain voice commands, transcribe meetings, extract minutes and deduce sentiments. Leveraging Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services and UiPath, we implemented the ability to identify individual speakers,…
Read MoreBUSINESS NEED – One of our client’s missions is to ensure the health of our economy. Their public-facing website (.gov) provides critical information to stakeholders about institution trends, statistics, and regulations. The majority of the agency’s website was hosted on Cloud.gov, a General Service Administration (GSA) Platform as a Service (PaaS) cloud solution using Amazon…
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