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Cloud Strategy

Overcoming Cloud Strategy Challenges

Companies need a well-defined cloud strategy to promote efficiency, foster innovation, and achieve business goals. However, many organizations face challenges when trying to develop a formal strategy for progressing in their cloud transformation journey.

Alignment

Alignment

Companies don’t always find ways to align their cloud strategy with business goals and priorities.

Outcomes

Outcomes

To gain support from business stakeholders, companies need to define clear outcomes early in the process of developing a cloud strategy.

Cost Management

Cost Management

Organizations must map out cloud strategies that control or even reduce costs and generate measurable return on cloud investments.

Documentation

Documentation

A cloud strategy should be formally documented so it can guide cloud migration, implementation, and modernization processes.

Cloud strategy determines how the cloud functions within an organization by connecting cloud migration and implementation processes to business objectives. 

ProActive Solutions uses our consultative approach, expertise, and partnerships with leading cloud providers to develop cloud strategies that align with your business objectives and make the most of your cloud investments.

Assessment

Our team can assess the state of your current on-premises and cloud environments to determine your level of cloud maturity. We can identify any gaps in the current state of your cloud infrastructure, including security and governance issues, and propose ways to address them through your future cloud strategy. Our assessments include cloud-readiness and right-sizing assessments that are based on resource utilization, business goals, and budgeting parameters.

Business Case

We understand that progressing along your cloud journey requires buy-in from line of business. That’s why ProActive will work with you to develop a business case for your cloud initiatives as part of your cloud strategy. We can help you put together a budget that shows a return on cloud investments and demonstrates cost-efficiency. With our guidance, your cloud strategy will show clear alignment between business goals and proposed cloud initiatives and emphasize innovation and optimization of business operations.

Business Case
Roadmap

Roadmap

ProActive will work with your company to design a roadmap that clearly outlines your cloud strategy. This roadmap will explain the steps you will need to take in your cloud journey to adopt cloud models and services that enable you to achieve business goals. The roadmap will include migration and implementation plans with clear timelines and milestones, as well as plans for advancement in cloud-native application development.

Optimization

We can help you develop a cloud strategy that optimizes your current cloud infrastructure by adding to its agility and cost effectiveness. For optimization, your cloud strategy can include hybrid and multicloud management, cloud security, and automation. ProActive can work with you to adopt and deploy new cloud models, workloads, and cloud services as part of your cloud strategy. Other optimization options add business value to the cloud through collaboration and productivity solutions.

Optimization

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