1. 1 Envision 3 Outline 4 Design
Our experience tells us that a successful cloud initiative is comprised of steps that produce these key outcomes during the journey.
1 Envision
2 Evaluate
3 Outline
4 Design
Identify cloud opportunities
Cloud service
delivery strategy
Cloud design
Gap analysis
Business case
Determine the opportunities cloud offers your business based on your industry
Incorporate cloud and a service delivery approach Into your IT portfolio decision process
Define the conceptual and operational design of your cloud solution
Analyze where you are and where you need to be in areas critical for cloud success
Define the total cost of ownership, return on investment , business value or full business case of your cloud
Cloud direction and scope
Architectural decisions
Management framework
Prioritized workloads
Governance and
organizational impact
After thousands of engagements with clients and cloud, we have seen that a successful cloud initiative is comprised of several steps that produce these key outcomes.
At IBM Cloud Advisory Services, we take a collaborative approach. We weave together business insight, advanced research and technology to help give you a distinct advantage in today’s rapidly changing environment. Our integrated perspective on cloud consulting, design and implementation can turn strategies into action.
Whether it is envisioning the opportunities cloud can offer your business, analyzing your gaps and infrastructure readiness, building your cloud implementation roadmap, or prioritizing what workloads you put on the cloud and how they will perform – we can help. We can also help you determine how to adjust to new services in your organization, how to make strategic systematic decisions on those services, define you architectural requirements and decisions, understand how cloud impacts your organization and governance, build your business case, design your conceptual and operational cloud and define the management framework or operating model.
Composable business is the new way forward – As is composable services offered by IBM. This will enable you to have a more personalized experience geared to your needs and your point on your cloud journey and make better decisions moving forward. To accomplish this, we use a composable model. We can help you at any step in your cloud journey. This “building block” approach allows you to build the solution you need.
Envisioning success in the cloud
Evaluating where you are, where you need to be and which workloads to migrate:
Through gap analysis
Prioritization of workloads
Outlining your service delivery strategy and technical blueprint
Defining your service Delivery Strategy
Architectural Decision and requirements
Designing your roadmap for success
Your roadmap will guide the journey from vision to success in the cloud. Key elements include:
Business Case
Cloud design
Governance and Organizational Impact, and
Management Framework
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The chart depicts the four steps of the Cloud Advisory Services composable model and the capabilities in each step. The capabilities in each step are shown in parentheses here:
Envision (Identify cloud opportunities, determine cloud direction and scope)
Evaluate (Perform gap analysis and prioritize workloads)
Outline (Determine cloud service delivery strategy and architectural decisions)
Design (Cloud design and definition of the management framework)
Define or revalidate the role and direction your organization will assume with cloud
Determine and document overarching architectural decisions and requirements
Define the management framework for the operational environment
Examine new and/or existing workloads for cloud suitability and remediation
Define the governance and organizational impact of cloud
Pilot feedback
Pilot feedback
Pilot feedback
Initial roadmap
Current state
Updated roadmap
Portfolio planning
Technical decisions
Transition plan
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2. Provider Relationship Model
2 Evaluate
3 Outline
4 Design
1 Envision
Determine your organization’s cloud role and scope and the relative impact to your delivery model.
High
Provider Relationship Model
Provider researches, recommends and implements technology to enable quantum leap in business capability
Utility
Commodity
Provider works with others to develop a service and provide resources/skills necessary to support the service
Provider of a quality service at a cost equal to or lower than the competition
Provider of an adequate service at a cost lower than the competition
Partner
Enabler
Future target
Current target
What we offer
Define what success in the cloud means for your enterprise
Determine your organization’s cloud role (consumer, provider, or broker/integrator)
Define (or review) your cloud strategy and goals
What you get
Cloud direction and scope, validated and socialized
Scope of cloud project(s) – now and future
Delivery model
Cloud role framed by scenarios
Organizational scope
Increasing level of structure and standards
Cloud service layers
Enterprise
cloud
Exploratory
Exclusive
Dynamic
Departmental
Consumer
Integrator
Provider
Public cloud
Private cloud
Platform cloud services
(PaaS)
Business cloud services
(BPaaS)
Application cloud services
(SaaS)
Infrastructure cloud services
(IaaS)
Consumer (and Integrator) utilizes a service at a given layer AND is accountable for all issues in any higher layer.
Provider offers a service at a given layer AND is accountable for all issues in any lower layer.
It is important to develop a successful strategy and roadmap to use cloud to drive not just cost savings, but also revenue and growth. It is even more critical to first define what success means – it is easy to stand up a cloud – but what defines a successful cloud project to you. Here we use a series of analytics to help define your role and direction with cloud, ensuring it supports your business and IT drivers.
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There are 2 images on the slide. The top image is a chart titled Provider Relationship Model. The x-axis is not labeled and the y-axis is labeled and ranges from Low to High. The chart shows the relationships (from lowest to highest):
Commodity
Utility (labeled Current Target)
Partner (labeled Future Target)
Enabler
The second image is labeled Organizational scope on the bottom and shows options for Private cloud and Public cloud for IaaS, Paas, SaaS, and BPaaS. The left side of the chart is labeled Cloud Service Layers and Increasing Level of structure and standards. The chart includes 2 explanatory tags. They are:
“Consumer (and Integrator) utilizes a service at a given layer AND “is accountable for all issues in any higher layer” .
“Provider offers a service at a given layer AND is accountable for all issues in any lower layer.”
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