Capability 01
Tools Implementation & Management
20+ years managing enterprise-wide toolchains for one of the federal government’s largest user communities.
SiMU Group has spent over 20 years managing enterprise-wide tools for the Department of Veterans Affairs, supporting user communities of thousands and consolidating disparate legacy platforms into unified, well-governed toolchains.
Services Include
- Enterprise tool standards, licensing & third-party plugin management
- Legacy tool migration (IBM Rational, Oracle Primavera) into consolidated repositories
- Migration to GitHub Enterprise & Jira, with legacy tool decommissioning
- Custom PIV / single sign-on authentication for third-party tools
- CI/CD pipeline design & automation (IBM & approved open-source tools)
- Tools & compatibility matrix development
- Database administration & virtual server support
- Help desk & multi-environment support (dev/test/prod/training)
- Technical Reference Model (TRM) compliance
- Documentation, training & self-service knowledge base
- Onboarding management for new users & project teams
Why SiMU Group
Delivered the first VA integration of GitHub Enterprise with IBM toolsets, partnering directly with IBM.
Institutional, incumbent-level knowledge of Rational and Primavera that most competitors simply don’t have.