Many organizations are moving to the Cloud to save costs and increase productivity. Are you ready for your Transformation?
| Strategy | Governance | Scorecards | Training | Infrastructure as Code |
| The importance of Optimizing Infrastructure Spend and Minimizing Capital Expenditures through Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) adoption | Identify Cloud Transformation Levers and establish a delivery management function to drive execution | Setting targets and measuring to those targets through effective Scorecard Reporting | Learn the differences between Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) | How to optimize your current infrastructure and middleware support processes into Automated Scripts to drastically improve productivity |
| Opportunities to establish on-site or use external Cloud Database Services for commercial offerings such as Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server to increase utilization and reduce licensing costs | Establish a Cloud First Mindset and Culture of Development to reduce the usage of technologies that can not be migrated to the Cloud | The challenges and best practices of measuring Application Adoption of the Cloud | Establishing a training plan for your DevOps organization | How to have an effective Automated Operations approach to increase productivity, improve time to market and enhance reliability of your environments |
| Identifying Non-Strategic Platforms and establishing an approach for application retirement or application refactoring to Cloud technologies | Importance of Continuous Integration (CI) / Continuous Delivery (CD) process and tool adoption before or as you begin Cloud development | Measuring Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions for new vendor applications to prevent the need for on-premise infrastructure | Learn about the advantages of Docker Containers and how they make change management more efficient | How to build an Independent Automation Team to get you to the target state while still supporting the current state environment |
| Understanding the benefits and costs of deploying Development and UAT environments to the Cloud | How to leverage your architecture reviews to identify projects that are architecturally significant as Opportunities for Cloud Adoption | Incorporate adoption metrics and Cloud transformation Benefits into performance reviews and compensation practices | Understand the value of a Horizontal Scaling Architecture by contrasting it to legacy vertical scaling approaches | Opportunities to use Infrastructure as Code for Faster Restoration of Services and Elimination of Continuity of Business (COB) Environments |