Celebrating 25 Years of Innova Solutions: A Leader in Digital Innovation Focused on Accelerating Client Success

“Our vision is to be each client’s most valuable technology services partner, to operate as an industry thought leader, and to generously give back to the communities in which we operate.”

In 1998, Raj Sardana founded Innova Solutions (then American CyberSystems) as an information technology consulting firm. The company has since expanded to employ approximately 50,000 professionals worldwide and now reports an annual revenue approaching $3 billion. Through global delivery centers across North America, Asia, and Europe, Innova delivers strategic technology and business transformation solutions to clients, enabling them to operate as leaders within their fields.

Innova provides digital transformation solutions for businesses in various industries, including communications and media, energy and utilities, manufacturing, transportation and logistics, retail, banking and financial services, healthcare, life sciences, insurance, and hi-tech. The company is certified as a Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) and Corporate Plus member by the National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC).

Innova’s robust offerings include digital product engineering, customer experience, cloud services, data and insights, intelligent automation, cyber security, managed service provider services, talent solutions, direct sourcing, and business process outsourcing. The company is a top partner of fellow industry leaders, including AWS, Automation Anywhere, Databricks, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Pegasystems, Salesforce, Snowflake, and UiPath.

The Silicon Review reached out to Mr. Sardana, Innova’s Chief Executive Officer, and here’s what he had to say about the company’s vision and recent verticalization efforts:

“Our vision at Innova is to be each client’s most valuable technology services partner, to operate as an industry thought leader, and to generously give back to the communities in which we operate. To enhance client success through continued innovation, Innova adopted a vertical business strategy in 2022. Working closely with clients to gauge their evolving needs, we identified a desire for a wider range of industry-specific offerings to guide businesses throughout the journey to Digital-First. To do this, we introduced strategic business units (SBUs) to provide segment-specific offerings tailored to generate business value for clients across key industries.”

In the near-future, Innova anticipates a significant expansion of its business units—including the further development of its new Hi-Tech SBU—helping propel the organization towards its targeted goal for future revenue growth. In addition to the expansion of its vertical strategy, the company is focused on scaling-up global capabilities to meet the changing needs of clients across different geographies. For example, Innova recently opened new offices in Europe and India to service clients in those regions.

Within its SBUs, Innova leverages several accelerators to enhance client success through continued innovation, including Cloud Ecosystem Management via the Digital Architect and a Data Science Platform (iDSp).

The company accelerates the journey towards multi/hybrid cloud with its proprietary IT operations platform—the Digital Architect. Built on next-gen technology, it replaces today’s high-touch, “white-glove” managed services model with productized and automated service delivery. Leveraging the Digital Architect, Innova centralizes cloud service provisioning, consumption, management, and orchestration, resulting in the streamlining of disparate Infra-IT-FinOps tools into end-to-end business processes.

Innova’s Intelligent Data Science Platform (iDSp) utilizes automation, robotics, and artificial intelligence to help organizations achieve business outcomes faster and with minimal risk. It enables business teams to provide better digital experiences, gain AI-driven insights for decision support, and provide self-service solutions. With iDSp, enterprises can efficiently optimize their operations—increasing revenue through digitization, improved decision support, and self-service enablement solutions.

Clients Speak: Testimonials

“Innova Solutions has been a key partner in our journey to turn our manufacturing machine data into actionable information. Innova helped us design a data streaming architecture that leveraged the best of on-premise IoT Gateway technologies, as well as AWS native cloud capabilities.

The ability to see our machine performance in near real-time across our global facilities has allowed us to accomplish multiple goals—not only can we understand local performance, but we can now share global best practices to optimize our manufacturing output. The expertise and flexibility provided by Innova proved to be a key-driver in our ability to deliver this capability.” — Shawn Eads, CIO at PennEngineering

Raj Sardana | Founder & CEO

Raj Sardana is a successful entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience working with multinational companies across several industries, including investment and workforce management.

Throughout the growth of Innova Solutions, Raj has remained committed to giving back to communities around the globe. Along with his wife, Nita Sardana—Vice President of Community Outreach and Corporate Giving—Raj has led Innova in its support of local U.S.-based non-profit organizations, including the YWCA’s Teen Girls in Technology Program, Women in Technology (WIT), and the Atlanta Food Bank. In India—where Innova has several offices and delivery centers—the company supports the Earth Saviours Foundation, an NGO located in Delhi that works to promote social consciousness and environmentalism.

Prior to founding Innova, Raj served as President and CEO of Applied Communications, Inc., a multi-media and technology company in Atlanta, Georgia. He also served as President and CEO of a multi-million-dollar private equity group with a diverse and extensive investment portfolio in the real estate, retail, and service industries. Raj also has experience working in the aviation, defense, venture investment, and financial services industries.

Raj graduated from the Delhi College of Engineering with a BS in Mechanical Engineering. He also earned a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech and an Advanced Management Certification (AMP) from the Wharton School of Business (University of Pennsylvania). Raj is an active member of the Forbes Business Council and the Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council.

“Working closely with clients to gauge their evolving needs, we identified a desire for a wider range of industry-specific offerings to guide businesses throughout the journey to Digital-First. To do this, we introduced strategic business units that provide segment-specific offerings tailored to generate business value for clients across key industries.”