Enterprise technology consultancy SADA Systems Inc. wants to help companies migrate to Google LLC’s public cloud platform with a full understanding of the costs involved.

To do so, it announced today that it’s offering a range of flat-rate managed migration services to Google Cloud.

Available for a fixed price, the services are meant to help companies move specific workloads to Google Cloud. The offers include Anthos First Step, Anthos Flat-Rate, Database Migration and VM Migration.

The first two relate to Google’s recently announced Anthos service, which is a hybrid cloud platform that runs atop the Kubernetes container orchestration software. It’s designed to host applications that can run unmodified on both existing on-premises hardware and public clouds, giving companies the option to choose the most suitable infrastructure for each one.

The main benefit of Anthos is that developers get to use a single set of tools to build and deploy their apps, and push through updates as necessary, no matter what infrastructure those apps are hosted on. Kubernetes makes it easier to manage large clusters of containerized apps.

In other words, Anthos simplifies modern app development. But SADA reckons that getting up and running on Anthos itself is no easy task.

“Anthos is going to be incredible for enterprise companies, but many are still trying to figure out how to use it,” Miles Ward, SADA’s chief technology officer, said in a statement. “Our new packages have been carefully designed to get customers to GCP on a fixed price and timeline. We think these services are going to be game-changers for every company using Google infrastructure.”

SADA’s Anthos First Step package covers the initial setup and includes installation of the necessary on-premises hardware and software components, plus Kubernetes training courses for information technology teams and a helpdesk service.

Anthos Flat-Rate builds on that, encompassing everything from Anthos First Step and adding a review of that implementation, identification of production goals, systems integration and validation. It also covers integration with networking, security systems and continuous integration/continuous deployment tools, and testing to ensure everything is working as it should.

Besides Anthos, SADA is also offering a Database Migration service, which is pretty self-explanatory, and a VM Migration service, which involves migrating customers’ virtual machines from their on-premises data centers or other public clouds to Google Cloud. Both packages cover the full migration, account setups, training and testing.

Constellation Research Inc. analyst Holger Mueller told SiliconANGLE that SADA’s flat rate offerings could prove enticing to many businesses that tend to shy away from uncertainty.

“Cloud migration hinges on a host of uncertainties,” Mueller said. “If the professional service side can get fixed with offerings like SATA’s, it takes one of those uncertainties out of the equation. But executives will need look at the fine print of this offer and ensure they end up with an outcome in line with their enterprises’ expectations.”

SADA is launching its Flat Rate offerings just months after deciding to go all in on Google’s cloud. Previously the company provided consulting services for both Google and Microsoft Corp.’s public clouds but recently decided to sell the latter business to focus specifically on the former.

SADA Chief Operating Officer Dana Berg appeared on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during the Google Cloud Next event in San Francisco in April to explain why the company chose to go all-in on Google:

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