BTA's 4-phase AI engagement model. Policy automation, SASE migration, and data center modernization. Cisco MINT-certified for AI Solutions, AI Infrastructure, Networking, and Data Center.
BTA architects, deploys, and trains your team to take AI workloads from readiness assessment to production with fixed-price phases and fixed exit gates. Policy debt goes down. Compliance sign-off speeds up. Engineers get their time back.
Each one consumes engineering hours and slows the business down. BTA's Optimize engagements address all three.
Firewall and access policy grows with the business. Reviews fall behind. Rules accumulate that nobody can attribute to a use case.
Compliance reviews stall because rules and changes are not in business intent. Engineers translate by hand. Audit timelines stretch.
Cloud, SASE, and data center migrations stall in dependency mapping and testing. Cutovers slip. Operating teams lose momentum.
Each use case below is a discrete engagement BTA can scope, deploy, and hand off. Click any one to see the architecture, deliverables, and outcomes in detail.
BTA's 4-phase engagement model bridges the 42% gap from AI pilot to production. Fixed-price phases anchored to Cisco MINT Compute SolutionsPlus. Phase 1 readiness, Phase 2 lab validation in the BTA AI POD, Phase 3A scoped PoV in customer environment, Phase 3B mentored install. Customer team mentored to self-sufficiency.
Explore use caseTranslate firewall rules from IPs to business intent. Cut audit prep from weeks to hours with PAE.
Explore use caseMove secure-access workloads to a cloud-delivered model without breaking branch operations or compliance posture.
Explore use caseRefactor or replace legacy DC architecture. Reduce footprint, raise utilization, ship without surprise outages.
Explore use caseStop talking IPs. Start talking business.
The Policy Automation Engine (PAE) is BTA's policy automation platform. It translates raw firewall rules into business intent so security, compliance, and engineering teams operate from the same source of truth across hybrid and multi-vendor environments.
Explore PAEOptimize engagements run on SIMPLE, BTA's six-stage delivery framework. Each stage has a defined deliverable, with measurable time-back metrics by close.
Define the operational drag to reduce: audit cycle time, engineer hours, migration timeline. Set success metrics.
Inventory current policy, change processes, and migration scope. Identify the highest-leverage points to automate first.
Design target-state automation. Define what stays manual and why. Validate against compliance and operating constraints.
Pilot on a contained scope. Demonstrate audit cycle compression and engineer time recovered before scaling.
Roll out in waves. Run side-by-side with legacy workflows until the team is operating the new path.
Hand off. Train operations. Define quarterly policy hygiene and migration review cadence.
Concrete, customer-side results we measure to.
Some teams want the full BTA delivery from architecture to handoff. Others bring us in for a single advisory window or a fully managed operations contract. Pick the model that fits and adjust as the business changes.
Strategy and senior guidance. Architecture reviews, technology assessments, and roadmap design for teams that own their own operations.
Learn moreBTA runs the system day to day under your governance. Monitoring, change management, escalation paths, and SLAs for teams without Day-2 capacity.
Learn moreImplementation-only engagement. Faster than the Full Service Lifecycle when the customer team will not own operations afterwards.
Learn moreRefresh and refine an existing environment. Performance, automation, and refactor work for platforms already in production.
Learn moreSIMPLE-driven Quickstart programs that deliver a specific Cisco capability into production on a known timeline.
Learn moreCapability transfer for teams adopting a new platform. Pair-programming, custom training modules, and Cisco MINT-aligned curriculum.
Learn moreA representative engagement showing how BTA scopes, deploys, and hands off.
After a major merger and a $200M EMR investment, Ballad Health consolidated five data centers into two while integrating thousands of endpoints across 21 hospitals and 250+ clinics. BTA delivered the migration on Cisco ACI under SIMPLE, on schedule.
Three principles every BTA engagement runs on. Visible in the work itself.
Every engagement is end-to-end. We design the target environment, deploy it in stages, and remain on hand through the operational handoff.
Training is part of every engagement. By the close of an engagement, your operators can run, maintain, and defend the system to an auditor.
An engagement closes when your team is operating the solution without us in the room. SIMPLE methodology enforces this exit criterion on every project.
Direct answers from BTA architects who run Optimize engagements.
Bring your hardest architecture problem. We’ll tell you what we’d do, what it costs, and how long it takes.