Deliver Your Cloud Strategy
Produce a boardroom-ready Cloud Strategy that helps your customers transition from on-premises to the cloud.
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If you don’t get a handle on your cloud strategy, you can expect:
- A consistent, organization-wide approach to the cloud, that accounts for your organizational requirements
- A set of principles that can be applied to decisions about workloads, speeding up the cloud transition process
- A framework for discussing and iterating on key components of the cloud strategy
- Formal governance around cost, provisioning, integration, and more
By delvering a formal cloud strategy, you will derive the following benefits:
- Alignment between IT and the business on the right use of cloud services within the organization
- The right processes and procedures for governing the cloud
- High stakeholder satisfaction
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Onsite Workshops offer an easy way to accelerate your project. If you are unable to do the project yourself, and a Guided Implementation isn’t enough, we offer low-cost onsite delivery of our Project Workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a road map in place to complete your project successfully.
Book NowModule 1: Answer "so what?"
The Purpose
Understand and document your cloud vision and its alignment with your other strategic priorities.
Key Benefits Achieved
A complete understanding of your strategy, vision, alignment, and a list of success metrics that will help you find your way.
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| 1.1 | Discuss cloud mission and vision. |
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| 1.2 | 1.3 Discuss alignment with other strategic plans. |
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| 1.3 | Discuss guiding principles. |
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| 1.4 | Define success metrics. |
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Module 2: Define the IT target state
The Purpose
Key Benefits Achieved
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| 2.1 | Discuss skills and roles. |
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| 2.2 | Review culture and adoption. |
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| 2.3 | Discuss a cloud governing body. |
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| 2.4 | Review architecture position. |
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| 2.5 | Discuss integration and interoperability. |
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Module 3: Assess the IT current state
The Purpose
Key Benefits Achieved
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| 3.1 | Discuss cloud operations management. |
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| 3.2 | Review cloud portfolio management. |
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| 3.3 | Discuss cloud vendor management. |
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| 3.4 | Discuss cloud finance management. |
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| 3.5 | Discuss cloud security. |
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Module 4: Bridge the gap and create the strategy.
The Purpose
Key Benefits Achieved
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| 4.1 | Review and formalize data controls. |
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| 4.2 | Design a monitoring approach. |
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| 4.3 | Document the workload provisioning process. |
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| 4.4 | Outline migration processes and procedures. |
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Module 5: Next steps and wrap-up.
The Purpose
Key Benefits Achieved
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| 5.1 | Populate the cloud strategy document. |
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