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Business Value of a Cloud Adoption Strategy | p. 1 |
Ten Expectations of Your Cloud Adoption Strategy | p. 2 |
Create Your Cloud Vision | p. 4 |
Identify Child Use Cases | p. 10 |
Drive Business Innovation | p. 12 |
Define Business Outcomes and Projected ROI | p. 13 |
Determine Opportunities for Cloud as a Fifth Utility | p. 15 |
Specify Cloud Ecosystem | p. 17 |
Determine and Publish Stakeholder Involvement | p. 18 |
Develop Metrics | p. 19 |
Define Governance | p. 20 |
Develop Roadmaps | p. 20 |
Harvesting the Value | p. 21 |
Summary | p. 22 |
Endnotes | p. 23 |
Business Value of Incorporating Cloud into Your EA | p. 25 |
Your Integrated Business and IT Strategy | p. 26 |
Business Benefits of the Convergence | p. 29 |
Developing Your Enterprise Cloud Adoption Strategy | p. 35 |
What If You Do Not Use EA? | p. 39 |
Effective Business Transformation | p. 40 |
Reducing Costs and Redundancies | p. 41 |
Validating and Forming Your Enterprise Cloud Adoption Strategy | p. 41 |
Summary | p. 42 |
Endnotes | p. 43 |
The Life Cycle of Your Enterprise Cloud Adoption Strategy | p. 45 |
Initial Planning | p. 46 |
Enterprise Capabilities and Cloud Vision | p. 49 |
Target Architecture and Cloud Enablers | p. 61 |
Business Architecture (BA) and Business-Process-as-a-Service (BPaaS) | p. 62 |
Information Systems and SaaS | p. 68 |
Technology and Infrastructure, PaaS and laaS | p. 75 |
Gap Analysis and Transition Planning | p. 78 |
Implementation Planning | p. 81 |
Governance | p. 82 |
The Significance of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) | p. 83 |
Standards | p. 84 |
Summary | p. 85 |
Endnotes | p. 88 |
Identifying Cloud Candidates | p. 89 |
Your Cloud Decision Model | p. 90 |
Top-Down Analysis | p. 91 |
Bottom-Up Analysis | p. 95 |
Cloud Discovery Workshop | p. 96 |
Business Scenario: Cloud Decision Analysis for Distributors, Inc | p. 97 |
Summary | p. 100 |
Endnotes | p. 101 |
What About Governance? | p. 103 |
Governance Is Essential for Cloud | p. 104 |
An Enterprise Cloud Governance Framework | p. 105 |
Principles and Policies | p. 106 |
Organizational Structure | p. 107 |
Financials | p. 112 |
Processes | p. 112 |
Metrics and Tools | p. 115 |
Establishing Ownership | p. 116 |
Governing in the Presence of Outsourcing | p. 118 |
Governing Cloud Service Brokers | p. 120 |
Governing Innovation | p. 123 |
Business Scenario: Innovation and Cloud Provider Company | p. 125 |
Summary | p. 128 |
Endnotes | p. 130 |
Mitigating Risk | p. 133 |
Cloud Risk Management and Response Strategies | p. 133 |
Enterprise Adaptation | p. 137 |
How Do We Select Cloud Providers That Are Conducive to Our Business Strategy? | p. 138 |
What If We Are Not Equipped to Make Sound Cloud Completing Choices? | p. 142 |
How Do We Mitigate the Risk of Stakeholder Rejection? | p. 143 |
Information Privacy and Transparency: Striking the Right Balance | p. 146 |
Service Level Management (SLM) | p. 149 |
Performance and Quality of Service | p. 153 |
Globalization | p. 156 |
Summary | p. 157 |
Endnotes | p. 159 |
Planning the Transition | p. 161 |
Relating Transition and Implementation Planning | p. 161 |
The Business of Cloud | p. 163 |
Self-Service | p. 165 |
Speed, Rapid Development, and Service Delivery | p. 165 |
Flexible Pricing Pay Per Use | p. 168 |
Cafe-Style Services | p. 169 |
Leaner | p. 169 |
Practical Experiences and Lessons Learned | p. 171 |
Proof of Concepts and Pilot Programs | p. 171 |
Organizational Change | p. 171 |
Workload Considerations | p. 176 |
Outsourcing Considerations | p. 177 |
Buyer and Seller Considerations | p. 178 |
Test Strategy Considerations | p. 180 |
Enterprise Cloud Transition Plans and Roadmap Examples | p. 180 |
Summary | p. 183 |
Endnotes | p. 184 |
Financial Considerations | p. 185 |
Communicating the Financial Benefits and Implications | p. 186 |
Managing Your Money | p. 189 |
Do Opportunity Costs Matter? | p. 195 |
Cloud Workloads and Business Profitability | p. 195 |
Key ROI Metrics and Business Agility Indicators | p. 199 |
Time Value of Money (TVM) and Net Present Value (NPV) | p. 200 |
Business Scenario: Brand, Inc | p. 201 |
Summary | p. 204 |
Endnotes | p. 205 |
Epilogue Thinking Beyond the Race | p. 207 |
Augmenting Your Delivery Model with Cloud | p. 243 |
Cloud Case Studies and Common Questions | p. 267 |
More on Cloud Business Trends | p. 299 |
Glossary | p. 311 |
Index | p. 331 |
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