Washington, DC – December 11, 2023 - The London-based Assetspire has signed with IDCA to undergo the IDCA's new SDS (System, Design, Service) audits and certifications. According to the agreement, IDCA will conduct a thorough efficacy assessment of the Assetspire's SPIRE™ asset management platform, to highlight possible weaknesses as well as strengths in the company’s offered solution. This Certified Service Certification engagement will enable Assetspire to identify areas of improvement in its existing platform and ensuring offered services to its customers. Ultimately, the use-case, and application of the of Assetspire's SPIRE™ asset management platform will be certified as to where, when, and how the company’s services can be applied to a customer digital infrastructure. The certification will also involve the criticality level of the infrastructure that Assetspire’s system and services can be applicable to in a safe, secure, efficient, operatable, reliable, and scalable manner.

SDS audits incorporate and build upon IDCA's existing Grade-Level (G-Level) certifications, which rate applications, platforms, IT systems, sites, and topology layers. G levels span a range from Grade Level Zero (G0- the highest rating) to Grade Level Four to certify risks, inefficiencies, vulnerabilities, and chances of failure within the entire application delivery stack, including cloud portfolios and data center facilities and complexes.

“SDS audits validate the interoperability of a complex system, design, or service for complex and mission-critical environments,” said IDCA CEO Mehdi Paryavi. “They also certify a given System, Design, or Service's application and use-case per the critical level, scale, and scope of the environment their provider aims to serve.”

“The SDS certification process greatly benefits our SPIRE™ asset management platform and our industry, which we believe delivers smarter ways of working to empower businesses with the visibility and insight they need to make more intelligent strategic decisions and more effectively manage the lifecycle of their assets,” said Assetspire CEO Steve Beber. “We're looking forward to serving customers through the recommendations we will be receiving to improve and enhance our system and service offerings and ultimately obtaining IDCA’s stamp approval, upon achieving compliance.”

The SDS Certification
IDCA SDS (System, Design, Service) certification is intended to validate the interoperability of a complex system, design, or service with complex and mission-critical environments and certify their application and use case per the critical level, scale, and scope of the environment their provider aims to serve.

The System component of an SDS audit evaluates and certifies tools, systems, components and technologies across the application ecosystem from software applications to virtual and physical IT infrastructure, site, and facility infrastructure equipment.

The Design component offers design, concept, and architecture certification routes for complex systems, tools, software, and infrastructure across the application, compute, platform, IT infrastructure, site facility infrastructure, site, and topology.

The Service component evaluates and certifies service delivery, operations, management, and maintenance certification for quality, reliability, security, efficiency, safety, and effectiveness of such services across the application, compute, platform, IT infrastructure, site facility infrastructure, site, and topology.

For more information visit: https://idc-a.org/certification

The new agreement is now in effect. Service providers, innovators, and vendors can contact IDCA directly to learn more details about SDS certifications and validating their offered solutions for the mission-critical industry (Kurtis Friesen, kurtis@idc-a.org / +1 (425) 591-6078 or the IDCA SDS Unit, sds@idc-a.org).