March 27, 2022

Are Businesses Implementing Cloud Solutions Correctly?

 

Cloud has become a business enabler that can deliver value and help an enterprise reach its goals as the technology and its capabilities have matured in recent years. These technologies have improve their IT organisations, helped customer experiences, and overall refined the business they are implemented in by creating more agile, sustainable, modern, and secure IT operations. Cloud solutions are also enabling the next generation of IT innovation by helping to release 5G, edge, IoT, and artificial intelligence technologies.

Before implementing a cloud solution to your organisation, you will need to determine the right placement of workloads and applications – which data should be held on-premises and what is OK or more secure to have stored in the cloud? You must also accurately predict how much it will cost to implement and operate both now and in the future. Finally, business leaders must establish the correct security position to ensure applications and data remain safe and protected no matter where they are located.

These considerations are part of a wider cloud enterprise strategy that you must ensure you are thoroughly crafting rather than implementing cloud “just because”. Assess your business needs and identify relevant use cases for these cloud solutions that better your current operations. Can using cloud technologies help you enter new markets? Can cloud applications improve agility, innovation, ways of working or your business’s reputation? Ensure the move to cloud drives optimal outcomes  [PDF] such as increasing speed, improving business value, or reducing costs securely.

Enterprise Cloud Solutions Diagram

Enterprises should ensure they are taking a “design to cost” approach that will allow them to optimised resources, consumption, and manage contractual obligations. IT leaders must define what good looks like to them in their organisation so that success can be quantified in discernible metrics and monitored carefully. Question how these cloud solutions are enabling better business outcomes, value, and employee experiences. Take a holistic approach and verify the right governance, technology, strategy, and talent are in place to take advantage of the technology and make the transition a success.

Organisations that take a more practical path to cloud adoption will see better results and support from their peers and businesses as they scale. Implementing the right strategy will ensure a more successful transition and a more optimised use of the cloud solutions.

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