AHEAD, formerly Sovereign Systems + Data Blue Reviews

This company has been the only one that I’ve worked with, so I don’t have much to compare it to.

We worked with Patrick Webb from Sovereign. He was very professional and consistently kept things moving forward.

Our relationship with Sovereign Systems with respect to project management is new. We have just kicked off a new project and the first meeting with Sovereign Systems was led by a project manager who described the level of project management support we'll get with Sovereign Systems. And this project manager works closely with our sales rep, so we have good communication between all parties there.

I have only used Soverign Systems in regards to array storage, storage fabric, and miscellaneous software. However, I will say that for EMC, Brocade, and VMware related questions/support, they are typically where we turn to prior to even calling the product support team.

A mentioned previously in the survey, they are lacking in Citrix specialization, this forces us to use a different vendor for our licensing support. In addition to Citrix, we have used Dell Compute for legacy as well as our latest refresh of hardware, and Sovereign Systems has only recently (that I am aware of) started to specialize in the support and resell of Dell Compute with the recent Dell/EMC merger.

We are currently engaged in a project with Sovereign Systems. Our project includes new storage arrays, storage migrations, storage fabric migrations, and directors. In addition to that, we are also building a DR solution from scratch. Sovereign Systems has been a part of the project from purchase to install and now configuration. We have received timely updates and their onsite engineers have been methodical with their planning and roll out through the entire project.

Sovereign Systems is well suited in scenarios where Information Technology decision makers need a solid project execution, starting with requirements gathering that dig deep into the root of the challenges, to then articulate an architecture and an implementation approach that will meet and exceed the technology and business needs around the opportunity.

Based on comparable examples and external references, their reputation for project execution was solid, providing a high level of confidence in the execution of a technology implementation.

Configuration, matching the technology, lowering costs.

We leverage Sovereign Systems mainly for professional services in and around IT and service automation. Sovereign Systems has helped us with Puppet, VMware vRealize Automation, and ServiceNow.

PMs have been solid, however, one of our projects did get derailed. There were many factors but there was an instance where the Sovereign PM dropped the ball. We identified the disconnect. The PM rectified the situation before timelines slipped too far.

Sovereign Systems is an indispensable partner in helping us to achieve goals. They help us to vet out solutions to our challenges and help us to wade through the details and choose the best technology to meet our needs. When it comes time to implement the solution that we have selected their implementation engineers always see things through to completion and make themselves available to answer questions and to assist if needed down the road.

Project managers always follow up with detailed meeting notes and action items for me and handling the background details so that we do not get bogged down in the details of the project and we are able to focus on creating a solution that our organization can benefit from.

In my experience Sovereign Systems fits well into larger more technical IT shops, where the need is for competitive and accurate pricing and delivery, but not where a solution needs to be created from scratch. This may only be for NetApp solutions, but that's the limit of my work with them.

I do not have any experience with them dong Project Management

Well suited to their work-good with large partners and integrators.

Great experience on time within budget.

We have worked on several projects throughout the years working with the Sovereign team. These projects range from simple upgrades to more complex SAM migrations. Sovereign understands our environment and is able to complete and overcome obstacle's that may arise.

Sovereign has a well rounded staff of technical people as well as technical sales people. They work tremendously well with Turner and their people bend over backwards for us. I needed a drive to help get a project done. Don went out of his way to make sure the drive was here when I needed it.

I haven't had any experience with the project management capabilities of sovereign systems, but if it is anything like what I've experienced so far with their other staff I'm sure it is great service.

VMware and storage are the core competency that I needed.

Does a 10 need an explanation?

If you have an environment that has a large ESX environment, they will work well with you. They not only offer expertise and knowledge in the VMWare area, they also have great services to come onsite and work with you in whatever capacity is needed. If you are implementing new technology, they are a great resource for information and manpower.

Sovereign Systems does a great job of outlying the specifics of projects. They are very good at specifying timelines for the project. If there are any issues or problems, they are very easy to contact and work with to get the problem resolved. There is always a plan "B" in case it is needed.

They are easily our go to company for anything revolving around VMware suite, whether that is infrastructure related, automation related, or monitoring related. It's a no brainier to get their assistance with a lot of tasks as they can competently implement complex designs. Also on the storage architecture side they are great.

I'm sure there is much more but for my team we mainly leverage them in these areas.

Solid, Patrick always does a good job staying on top of things and keeping us in the loop on resource availability. I know sometimes we can be demanding but he always goes out of his way to make scheuldes mesh up as best as possible.

Sovereign Systems is well versed in data center infrastructure - from the usual server, storage, switch configurations to a true hyper-converged solution.

Knowledge of networking and storage systems has always been a strong point and while it continues I will go to them first to help guide decisions I make in the future. Continued expansion of their services that they provide will enable us to look at them for added resources that we need on new projects going forward. Always being there to assist and admit if mistakes are made by either side and help find the correct solution.

I have not used them very much for project management in the past but when I have they are always aware of our dates we have to meet and will always get resources however they have to to make sure we meet those dates. They understand the nature of our 24 hour business and will commit to do whatever it is that needs to be done to get the job done.

I think of Sovereign as a heavily engineering oriented consulting partner. Their strengths are in needs assessment, solution planning, and implementation. Any Dell/EMC storage or backup platform project, any VMware or VMware Control Center deployment, or virtual server platform deployment would be ideal situations for Sovereign. I think they could beef up their training and documentation services to provide greater value to their clients but I have absolute confidence in their ability to execute on the planning and engineering end and would recommend them to anyone on those grounds.

I rate Sovereign very highly in this area because of their attention to detail and their ability to bring multiple resources to bear on an issue with relatively little notice. They also offer a consistent team to their clients, using the same people on multiple projects which insures there will be a strong partnership between them and the customer. I do think there could be more communication between scheduled meetings.

I have used Sovereign Systems for storage, data center, cloud computing.

They have been excellent and setting expectations, and driving the projects that I had with them forward.

Overall Sovereign was great to work with. They were very committed to making sure the project was done right the first time.

Detail oriented

All the projects that I've been part of with Sovereign Systems have been successful. I am more than happy with the services provided and would recommend Sovereign Systems to anyone that asks.

I've only worked with one of their Project Managers and he's done a great job managing our projects. It's tough finding a good project manager that will follow up when needed, can understand technical jargon, and keeps the project moving to hit target dates.

I have worked with them closely for years; primarily in the storage and virtualization arena. They have expanded their sales footprint in my organization and have branched out to other areas such as ServiceNow and continue to bring in other vendors that would be a good fit in our organization.

Appropriate:
Storage, Virtualization, Automation, ServiceNow.

I have only worked with them on storage related projects for project management but have been very pleased with the outcome of every project that I have had them engaged.

Sovereign Systems is well suited for any scenario requiring a high level of technical expertise.

The project manager kept the engineers on task and made sure that everything was completed in a timely fashion.

Sovereign Systems is well suited for selling, deploying, and training for storage products such as NAS, backup storage, and direct attached storage.

During all of our major products with Sovereign Solutions, we have had a project manager assigned which proved to be invaluable in making the project progress in an orderly, timely manner and finish on time.

Sovereign Systems is very open and can provide engineers for networking and storage. I feel it would be less appropriate to use them for any kind of desktop scenarios or deployments.

Every project I have been on with Sovereign Systems has been excellent. Weekly calls, if not more, are set up and everyone involved has always been in attendance, even sales. The PM and engineers always have their info together and organized. I have been extremely impressed with how they run the projects that we been involved in.

Great at product purchase and implementation.

[Our] project was completed ahead of schedule with the 30-day proof of concept.