The lifecycle of Enterprise cloud computing implementation strategy

Is your company ready for cloud computing? The third chapter of the book, "Choosing the best Cloud implementation strategy for your business" by Pamela Isom and Kerrie Holley, will explore how companies can strategically plan their cloud implementation to target their specific business objectives, cloud computing standards, Best practices and future applications are included for consideration.

The key core of this chapter, "The lifecycle of your enterprise Cloud Implementation strategy" includes:

Initial cloud computing planning enterprise capability and cloud computing vision planning target architecture and cloud computing achieving key technology gap analysis and transition planning implementation planning governance the significance of service-oriented architecture (SOA) cloud computing standard

Corporate capabilities and cloud computing vision

It is important to understand your business development goals and objectives correctly. You need this information to facilitate the development of a true cloud computing implementation strategy, based on your Enterprise Architecture (EA) to achieve a high degree of corporate vision and cloud implementation vision, so that the relevant enterprise activities and results can bring great value to your business. Specifically, you need to understand your business development goals and objectives in the following ways:

in the next 12 months, the new capabilities that enterprises need to introduce to the market at present, there is a need to provide ubiquitous access to consumers, customers or devices, or demand for higher scalability, due to the time constraints that are not able to meet market demand or to use the opportunity to hold capital or to avoid running cost costs

Incorporating your understanding of business goals and requirements into your cloud vision planning considerations can provide a business environment base for your company to achieve cloud computing transformation. That is, by identifying and managing business risks associated with technology, companies can easily change by leveraging new technologies, while the IT industry can eliminate bottlenecks that hinder its development by creating new business capabilities.

All of this depends on your planning for managing the cloud implementation strategy, which ensures proper control of the enterprise's sustainable development and strategic layout implementation, so that the cloud computing project is fully compliant and serves your enterprise development strategy plan. The intervention of any new technology or technology paradigm will create pressure on the enterprise. Prior to that, the enterprise architecture might have evolved into a technology solution for internal problems, and it now extends to providing a unique solution in terms of providing agility, implementing a new business model, or simply retaining capital investment.

In this phase of the cloud computing strategy lifecycle, the following questions must be answered:

Does your business match your IT capabilities? If the answer is no, will cloud computing eliminate this adaptation to achieve a high degree of consistency between business and it? Does your application and it architecture support your company's changing market needs? Is your IT environment inflexible? How does your cloud implementation strategy support your company's strategic goals-Oh, your company's vision? How does your company take action-that is, if something doesn't work, will your company's performance be different? Can cloud computing make your processes more efficient and efficient?  What kind of cloud computing business implementation model suits your company's reality? Who is responsible for the decision to implement the cloud strategy?  Are your business capabilities ready for the implementation of cloud computing strategies? How will you ensure that your cloud implementation strategy is implemented properly?

You may have started preparing your business example in the previous step, most likely due to an investor's request for additional information to keep up with the original approved opinion. In the second phase, you need to focus on your overall ability to develop and expand your business operations to support private cloud computing, public cloud computing, hybrid cloud computing, and community cloud computing.

Access to information includes the convening of strategic seminars and capacity assessments. While pilot and/or conceptual validation can be selectively performed, we strongly recommend that the above work be done. Among them, key activities in the Enterprise Integrated Competency Assessment and strategy workshop include:

Develop your cloud computing decision Model: The fourth chapter introduces the development of cloud computing decision model: "Identifying candidate cloud computing". This model provides a business-strategic goal-based use case for cloud computing implementations.

The model is an essential tool for understanding the future of enterprise implementation of cloud computing. This decision model is based on optimistic realistic predictions of future conditions.

Develop your cloud business use case and ROI input: Business use cases and related investment return (ROI) models should be able to compare both: comprehensive cloud implementation and dedicated cloud implementation. In the case of most companies using intuition or guessing methods, it is not an easy job to conduct ROI analysis. You can also easily spend months or even a year on the necessary ROI analysis for business use case development. It may be helpful to use the following methods:

Create an interest value tree (for example, the first chapter: "Cloud computing implements the business value of the strategy" as described in the approach "to implement value-driven factors for cloud computing, such as holding capital, increasing time-to-market, new business opportunities, labor transformation, accelerating time-to-market and so on. For each value proposition, create a usage scenario or use case.

determines the applicable cost scenarios for each use case.  Calculate initial, simple ROI. Evaluate and select the cost scenarios for the second and subsequent implementations. Maintain the sustainability of benefits and calculate the return on investment for the second and subsequent implementations.

Evaluate your business's cloud implementation maturity: Understanding your target status, your cloud vision, and the current state of the gap is an essential step in the successful planning and implementation of the cloud computing strategy. With the idea of a traditional CMMI (Capability Maturity Model integration), organizations can easily determine whether they are in the formative phase or optimization phase of cloud implementation maturity. The model is shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1

This determines whether the support required for rapid development or the current speed is sufficient. You must plan for further ascension and incorporate it as a result of this assessment into your roadmap for development.

Choose your provider: from implementing your cloud implementation strategy, a vendor selection process is a necessary procedure for selecting partners and suppliers. In the cloud computing provider selection process, a team with a vested interest is essential.

The first task that the vendor selection team needs to accomplish is to provide a clear definition of the services, capabilities, and functionality required by the partner in writing. On the basis of further analysis, a more detailed definition set of business and technical requirements can be formed. In addition, the team needs to define the requirements of the vendor.

Finally, publish the document in the context of the vendor selection process and find the right internal collaborators and external suppliers. So far, you have prepared for the selection of suppliers.

Figure 2

Identify the assessment area to fully understand your ability to successfully implement cloud computing: Figure 2 describes the area of cloud computing capability assessment. The insights of the customer and cloud computing markets are the way forward for the future, and how to innovate independently for other companies and realize the divergence of cloud computing.

Areas that are expected to achieve business innovation must be evaluated and investigated. Are your enterprise architecture and/or SOA capabilities compatible with the successful implementation strategy for cloud computing? Self-assessment in these areas provides a solid foundation for improved and successful implementation of cloud computing strategies.

List your corporate cloud Governance strategy: Governance will be mandatory in order to implement your strategic goals for cloud computing. This includes the role definition and the responsibility definition of the collaborators who are critical to cloud computing implementation. Your enterprise Architecture governance process must be practical, because enterprise architecture is a key factor in accelerating the implementation of cloud computing. Your governance should include governance entities that can create and manage the following cloud computing environments:

Policy Process Organizational effectiveness accountability and reporting communication standards adaptation

(Responsible editor: Lu Guang)