Applied Information Sciences is an employee-owned technology consulting firm headquartered in Reston, Virginia. Since 1982, it has focused on helping commercial and federal enterprises modernize on Microsoft cloud technologies, combining advisory, engineering, and delivery services across infrastructure, applications, data, AI, security, business applications, and modern work.
Applied Information Sciences positions itself as a transformation partner for organizations that need to migrate legacy environments, build cloud-native capabilities, and improve operational resilience without sacrificing governance. Its work is concentrated in complex, often regulated environments where repeatable delivery methods, secure architectures, ongoing managed support, and measurable business or mission outcomes are critical.
Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations
Applied Information Sciences organizes its work around six core solution areas: Data & AI, Security, Modern Work, Digital & App Innovation, Business Applications, and Infrastructure. Across those areas, it provides strategy and assessment services, architecture and implementation, migration and modernization, DevOps and automation, user enablement, and managed operations.
The company is tightly aligned to the Microsoft ecosystem, with delivery spanning Azure, Microsoft 365, and Power Platform technologies. Its capabilities emphasize cloud-native application development, low-code business process modernization, data platform engineering, AI adoption, compliance-oriented security, landing zone design, and operational support for environments that require strong governance and reliability.
Products and Services
- Data & AI: Data platform, analytics, and AI services focused on modernizing data estates and enabling cloud-native, AI-ready architectures.
- Security: Cloud security and compliance services covering secure architectures, Zero Trust enforcement, threat detection, governance, and regulatory alignment.
- Modern Work: Microsoft 365-focused services that improve collaboration, employee experience, governance, migration, enablement, and Copilot readiness.
- Digital & App Innovation: Application development and modernization services spanning cloud-native engineering, product development, integration, low code, and DevOps.
- Business Applications: Low-code business application services built around automation, integration, governance, and modernization on Microsoft Power Platform.
- Infrastructure: Cloud foundation and platform services for landing zones, migration, automation, and scalable infrastructure operations.
- Datalance™: A solution accelerator for secure, automated, transparent enterprise-grade data platforms using infrastructure-as-code and code-first delivery principles.
- Cloud Delivery Framework (CDF): A repeatable delivery framework with standards, templates, and tools for cloud strategy, landing zones, migration, data and AI, and security and compliance execution.
- Managed Services: Operational support services spanning network operations, security operations, monitoring, patching, backup, disaster recovery, automation, reporting, and cost optimization.
- Cloud Reseller Services: Microsoft cloud licensing and reseller support for Azure and Microsoft 365 environments, including commercial and government cloud scenarios.
- AI Knowledge Miner: An Azure Marketplace accelerator for extracting and structuring data from PDFs and other unstructured documents using AI-powered forms and workflow automation.
- Microsoft 365 Copilot Readiness Assessment: A consulting offer designed to prepare organizations for secure Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption across governance, security, compliance, integration, and change management.
- Power Platform Modernization: 10 Wk Implementation: A consulting offer that helps organizations modernize legacy applications and define a practical roadmap for Power Platform adoption.
Target Customers
Applied Information Sciences serves commercial and public-sector organizations that need to modernize legacy technology, strengthen security and compliance, and get more value from Microsoft cloud investments. Its commercial focus includes organizations in financial services and insurance, healthcare and life sciences, and energy and utilities.
Applied Information Sciences also targets government customers across civilian, defense, and intelligence environments, as well as adjacent mission and defense industrial organizations. The company is best suited to enterprises with complex application portfolios, regulated data, distributed workforces, or cloud programs that require disciplined execution from strategy through ongoing operations.
Cloud Integrations and Marketplace
- Microsoft AppSource: Applied Information Sciences maintains a presence in Microsoft AppSource with consulting offers tied to business applications and modern work, including Microsoft 365 Copilot readiness and Power Platform modernization services.
- Microsoft Azure Marketplace: Applied Information Sciences maintains a presence in Microsoft Azure Marketplace with Azure-focused consulting offers and solution listings, including AI Knowledge Miner and offerings related to migration, security, and data platform modernization.
Key People
- Larry Katzman: Chief Executive Officer & President
- Sri Mandava: President, Commercial
- Betsy Appleby: President, Federal
- Brent Wodicka: Chief Technology Officer
- Dan Ehrmantraut: Chief Financial Officer
- Nicole Peace: Chief People Officer
- Andrew Stringer: SVP, Strategic Growth Federal
- Lorna Sumy: Vice President, Operations
- Yared Tsegaye: Vice President, Cloud Modernization and AI Solutions
- Meredith Dost: Vice President, Infrastructure & Security Solutions
Key Facts
- Headquarters: Reston, Virginia, United States
- Employees: Approximately 780 employees
- Annual Revenue: $150M-$250M
- Parent Company: None
- Subsidiaries: Dorrean
- Publicly Listed: Not publicly listed; employee-owned
Analyst Recognitions
- Gartner: 2025 Midmarket Context, Global: Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud IT Transformation Services – Notable Vendor.
