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With a broad array of industry and market experience,
Emerging Sun is uniquely positioned to support our corporate and government clients in the following areas:

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IT Strategic Services

Our IT Strategic Services allow IT leadership to have increased visibility into the performance of its IT assets and projects, to make sound investment and management decisions. These services enable the agency to “do more with less” and to deliver upon government-wide goals to maximize returns on IT investments.

Many government agencies and private organizations have a large and dispersed IT infrastructure. Emerging Sun offers comprehensive IT Modernization and Portfolio Management services to allow government agencies and private organizations to properly and objectively assess the strengths and weaknesses embedded in the organization’s current IT portfolio and maximize returns on their technology investments.

Legacy Assessment

Our team gathers data from our clients to assess the current state of their technology infrastructure, by evaluating the performance of existing systems, their strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities.

Analysis of Alternatives

Emerging Sun conducts research to identify potential solutions and evaluates these alternatives based on their ability to meet our clients’ needs, their ease of implementation, as well as their cost and functionality.

Modernization Strategy

We also help our clients develop a strategic plan for IT Modernization. We take into consideration critical factors such as success, a case for change, organizational alignment, and cultural impact.

Implementation Roadmap

To implement this strategy, we design a roadmap that defines the overall timeline, activities and resources required, as well as cost estimates.

IT Capital Investment Planning

For continuous improvement, we help our clients evaluate the core components of the IT investment lifecycle, from the upfront investment decision, through IT governance and measurement of portfolio performance.
Optimize Performance

Project and Program Management

Emerging Sun provides leading program management tools, structures, and processes to enable success, and the ability to adapt these tools and approaches, applying our strategic business acumen to meet the unique challenges that the Program Management Office (PMO) faces on a day-to-day basis.

Our Enterprise Program Management Review (EPMR) framework focuses on developing a centralized management function that injects thorough planning, disciplined program management control, and transparency principles to allow for better communication, quality, and consistency across different task activities, and effective risk management through close attention to dependencies across interrelated projects. Using this framework, we bring leading practices and our team’s proven PMO Toolkit to support the program management areas. Our Program Management thought leadership is backed by experience. We quickly acclimate and work with our clients to fit our expertise and accelerators within their environment on large IT PMO contracts across the federal government. Emerging Sun has successfully stood-up and managed large-scale PMOs at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the U.S. Army, the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
Superior Insight

Data Analytics

Emerging Sun specializes in conducting data analysis and building databases that provide our clients better insights into how they have performed in the past and how they could seek better opportunities in the future. We even go as far as to design experiments to evaluate future states across various response metrics that are driven by input factors such as demands, supply chain performance, and diminishing manufacturers sources of material supply where inherent uncertainty may exist. These qualitative relationships between input factors and resulting outputs generate predictive models help see the bigger picture of complex operations and take timely corrective action that will control costs and enhance performance.

Emerging Sun recognizes that every project is unique, and therefore each client engagement will require a customized process for data collection, statistical analysis, and performance measurement to achieve the desired outcomes. Our team’s predictive modeling capabilities enable us to evaluate strategies for program design, maintenance, and management using comparative methods for measuring the relationship between costs and performance. Our areas of expertise include: data discovery, ETL (Extract, Transfer, Load) Management, data aggregation, data visualization, modeling & analysis, business Intelligence.
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Financial Management

Emerging Sun has extensive experience in financial management services to deliver high quality support across the full lifecycle of fiscal and budgetary management tasks. Our team can efficiently support our clients’ financial management requirements and achieve operational efficiencies while also identifying potential opportunities for cost savings.

Emerging Sun provides fiscal support to include financial analysis, business analysis, data analysis, and process automation, to include developing automated tools to support our work analyzing and reviewing financial documents and transactions.

Financial Modeling

Emerging Sun produces financial models to deliver customizable yet repeatable scenarios which account for costs, resources, risks, and variances, using various modeling techniques.

Budgetary Spreadsheets & Reports

Our team supports budget development based on analysis of program funding and expenditures. We work with leadership to identify financial metrics that are relevant for periodic reporting.

Spend Analysis & Reporting

We thoroughly review the organization’s spend, including spend history, trends, and pricing variability, to produce periodic Expenditure Reports and Spend Plans and identify corrective actions needed to enhance asset performance.

Transaction Management & Monitoring

Emerging Sun performs transaction monitoring, reviewing, tracking, and reporting of federal funds. Our Financial Analysts strengthen the organization’s capacity to address unexpected events, finance new opportunities, and realize strategic goals.

Cost Control

Our team supports cost control activities primarily focused on executing the processes, and understanding variances, to ensure our client’s program is being executed within the approved funding profile.

Contract Surveillance

We enable our clients to aggregate performance information from vendors across the portfolio, providing an unprecedented ability to strategically conduct contract surveillance on targeted suppliers and improve execution across the enterprise.
Reduce Costs

Strategic Sourcing and Procurement Management

Our Procurement Support services are core competetencies of Emerging Sun and our services enable clients to clearly understand their supplier spend data in order to optimize procurement decisions and improve supplier performance. Ultimately, our services help clients maximize value from the procurement process. The typical outcomes from our project engagements are the achievement of operational efficiencies and measurable cost savings. Our methodology leverages our experience, widely-recognized best practices and proven approaches to address our client’s requirements and produce tactical recommendations.

Emerging Sun understands that federal government agencies and commercial enterprises have continuous needs for contractors to provide support for all facets of the acquisition life-cycle management (“cradle-to-grave”) to include administrative support of policy, market research and source selection (i.e. acquisition planning, pre-post award, closeout and final records disposition), contract administration, compliance support, cost/price analysis, and award review and approval activities. These support services will augment the current Federal contracting workforce to meet current and future contract and contract related requirements. Emerging Sun leverages our proven methodology for Procurement Support services to deliver support across the full lifecycle of the acquisition process. This includes spend analysis, opportunity identification, RFP and SOW development, vendor negotiations, and implementation support. The typical outcome from our acquisition support engagement is the efficient management of the entire acquisition lifecycle as well as the achievement of measurable cost savings.
Talent Management

Professional Development

Emerging Sun leverages best practices from our training and professional development offerings based on first-hand experience working with the federal government and the commercial sector. We provide professional development and training services across a variety of categories including, financial and spend analysis, business process improvement, category management, procurement transformation, project management, organizational health and collaboration.

Emerging Sun supports our clients by creating content and facilitating training workshops both on and off site. Our service offerings fall within three core categories:

Preparation

We meet with industry leaders to assess their needs as we set out to develop training materials that are effective and valuable for team building opportunities.

Facilitation

Once we’ve developed the training materials, we facilitate these workshops by engaging with participants in exercises that are designed to achieve a set of programmatic goals.

Reporting/Debrief

At the end of every workshop, we produce a summary, outlining lessons learned and best practices for our clients to use at training sessions in the future. In addition, we also provide training and communications planning workshops across a range of topics such as financial and spend analysis, business process improvement, category management, procurement transformation, and project management.

We provide professional development and training services across a variety of categories including, financial and spend analysis, business process improvement, strategic sourcing, procurement transformation, project management, organizational health and collaboration. In addition, we also provide training and communications planning workshops across a range of topics such as financial and spend analysis, business process improvement, strategic sourcing, procurement transformation, and project management.