Business

We help you identify business outcomes that are concise, defined, and drive observable results or change in business performance, supported by a specific measure.

Rationalize your Digital Estate

We evaluate your assets to determine the best approach to hosting them in the cloud. We then provide a recommended approach to begin the cloud rationalization process.

Architecture

The development of a comprehensive cloud architecture seeks to transform application capabilities and services into component designs to reap the full benefits of cloud computing, including agility, scalability and availability.

Governance

Most enterprises should implement a holistic cloud governance structure to guide and rationalize application services deployed onto the cloud in a risk-sensitive, secure, economical and compliant manner.

Deployment Readiness

Organizations need to determine whether their existing application services are sufficiently componentized to be able to take advantage of service-oriented architecture (SOA), application programming interfaces (APIs), cloud computing models(CCMs) and other leading standards.

Cloud Adoption Plan for DevOps

We recommend a set of cloud-based tools for customers who manage iterative projects. It also includes tools for managing deployment pipelines and other important aspects of DevOps.

Skills Readiness Plan

We assess the skill-sets within your organization. We then develop the skills needed to prepare an actionable migration plan. This includes business justification and other required business-planning and technical skills.

Business Value Consensus

We guide you to define your business value through our customized assessment. We then support you in identifying how innovation can drive business value.

Risk Management

We guide you to define an effective risk management program to ensure that data integrity, data privacy, regulatory compliance, data segregation, vendor due diligence and third-party disclosures are all being managed appropriately.

Capacity and Operational Excellence

The use of current technology components must be optimized to ensure that agreed service levels are provided to the customers in an economical way. Equally important is the due diligence and capacity planning discipline required to better anticipate peak and growing workload demands.

Vendor Selection

Organizations need to consider if they are being locked into a proprietary framework and/or platform with the cloud service provider. Future and current vendor contracts must be coordinated and managed according to enterprise risk management standards.

Process Improvements

We understand your migration motivations. We help you establish a vision of your end state before starting your migration efforts and we guide you through the processes that can be applied to any cloud migration.

Team Establishment

The nuclear of all cloud adoption efforts is the cloud adoption team. We support you in establishing this team which drives the technical changes that enable adoption.

Data and Privacy

Protecting confidential and regulated data is a fundamental responsibility. We guide you identify important safeguards.

Access Management

Protecting a cloud platform begins with managing access to it. Firms need to first determine user entitlement: Who has access to the cloud and how is that access is granted? Role-based access also needs to be considered.

Regulatory Compliance

This can pose a challenge for cloud vendors in terms of multi-tenancy, cross-border data sharing, and outsourcing of regulatory and compliance requirements. Standardized controls or frameworks to facilitate data, identity management, information security and governance should be developed and embedded in the design and approach under strategy, implementation and service assurance.

Incident Management

Firms need to have an organized approach to addressing and managing the aftermath of a security breach or attack. The foremost considerations are response times and incident responsibility.

Core Refresh

We help you identify cloud adoption opportunities to redesign your application architecture to address challenges related to legacy applications.

Platform Interoperability and Vendor Management

We guide you in reinventing your IT function to be a “service broker” that can navigate between cloud and non-cloud platforms with confidence in order to orchestrate delivery of the best available services to its end users.

Data Portability

Legacy data conforms to corporate policies and standards, whereas cloud data often does not or cannot. Additional challenges that need to be addressed include data encryption applied by cloud service providers, as well as data latency.

Best Practices for Cloud Migration

We map out a migration strategy, create a cloud governance framework, optimize your network, automate where possible and monitor cloud usage.

Benchmark Assessment

We provide you with a personalized report that outlines the difference between your current state and business priorities, along with tailored resources to help you get started.

Organizational Alignment

We guide you in delivering an effective operating model for the cloud through defining the right organizational structure, cloud functionality, teams with clearly defined roles.

Operating Model Alignment

We understand your strategic direction, people organization and governance, risk and compliance needs to help define your future state cloud operating model. We then provide a variety of architecture and implementation options to support your operating model.