Practical advice on how to de-risk and maximise value from your Cloud transformation journey

1. Value without compromise.
Cloud Transformation: what
you need to know before
engaging a provider
Alex Lal
Infrastructure Strategy and Solutions
Velrada

2. Your Cloud transformation journey
Building the benefits case
Aligning the organisation
Designing the solution
Planning the transformation
Today’s agenda

3. Established in 2009, Velrada is an award winning, Australian-owned,
business and technology consulting firm with strong experience in
resources around the Asia-Pacific region.
Alex is a Managing Consultant in Velrada’s Infrastructure Strategy and
Solutions Practice, with 10 years’ experience of major infrastructure
transformation projects in the Government, Utilities, Mining, Oil & Gas
and EPCM sectors.
In addition to our infrastructure consulting practice, we also have
strong capabilities in:
 Operational efficiency and process improvement
 Rick management and compliance
 Business change and transformation
 Information management, Business Intelligence and Big Data
 Web, mobile and social collaboration
 Systems architecture and integration
Alex Lal
Infrastructure Strategy and
Solutions Consultant
By way of introduction

4. Questions, questions, questions…
 Public, private or hybrid Cloud?
 Which provider?
 Which pricing model?
 How will this affect business critical application x or service y?
 How will it impact my network (performance and costs)?
 Where will my data be stored and how quickly can I retrieve it?
 What about ancillary services (BUAAS, DRAAS, MAAS, CAAS…)?
 Business Case
 Vendor Selection
 Service Design
 Migration Planning
 Integration
 Change Management
 Security
 Service Transition
 UAT & Training
 Purchasing & Billing
 Vendor Management
 Ongoing Maintenance & Support

5. Cloud transformation
delivers intended cost
savings, but little else due to
lack of alignment with
business objectives.
Migration effort is more
challenging than initially
envisaged, leading to erosion
of confidence and support.
Business critical applications
or services do not function as
well in your Cloud
environment as they did on
premise.
New ways of working require
new capabilities to be
developed within your ICT
organisation.
Common pitfalls

6. Are you prepared?
Your Cloud transformation journey
Strategy: build support
and momentum
through a business-
focused benefits case.
Planning: understand
your key metrics and
align your working
practices accordingly.
Design: create an
overarching design and
governance framework
to support decisions.
Execution: ‘prime’ your
environment and take a
risk-based approach to
migration.
Program management
Commercial management
Risk management
Change management
What you should know…

7. In order to leverage the benefits of
Cloud, we should understand and
focus on how it will create business
value, by aligning with
organisational strategies and
objectives.
Building the benefits case

8. DEMAND MANAGEMENT
Business
Partnering
Governance
Sizing and
Scoping
Pricing
Transparency
Translating ‘wants and needs’
into a set of high-level
solution or service
requirements
New role for ICT
organisation – more
‘service broker’ than
traditional IT shop
Understanding the ‘wants
and needs’ of the
business
Frequently overlooked, but
critical to ensuring
responsiveness and controlUnderstanding the costs
and providing visibility back
to the business
Aligning the organisation

9. 9
Designing the solution
‘Commodity’ Layer
‘Managed’ Layer
‘Utility’ Layer
Services that can be called
off by business teams or
users from a service
catalogue.
Services that are controlled
centrally by the ICT
department.
(Typically) infrastructure
services that are consumed
‘as a service’ by the
organisation as a whole.

10. 10
Planning the transformation
Asses
s
Design Plan Validate
Begin with a
comprehensive inventory
of current and planned
applications, infrastructure
services and data sets.
Work with partners to
build a picture of what
type of Cloud
environment(s) will
meet your needs.
Identify low-risk candidate
applications, services and
data for early migration to
test and prove transition
approach and processes.
Validate this with
the business to
build confidence
and trust in within
the organisation.

11. Look beyond TCO – seek alignment with business
(not just ICT) strategy and objectives.
Ensure key ‘pieces of the puzzle’ are in place
before engaging with your vendor.
Start with a comprehensive understanding of
your current environment and planned initiatives.
Be prepared to realign the ICT organisation to
manage the new environment.
Key takeaways

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