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7 Things to Know About Migrating to the Cloud

Category:   Strategy & Business Case  Cloud Computing  Cloud Sourcing

There are significant benefits to adopting a cloud sourcing strategy. Economic viability is seen by many companies as a front-runner in making the determination to move forward with cloud sourcing.

While shifting from a CAPEX to an OPEX model is justification enough for some, there are seven not-so-common factors you should consider before adopting a cloud sourcing strategy, including:

1. Understand your current outsourcing relationships - Be conscious of the effect adopting a cloud sourcing strategy may have on your current provider relationship as that level of change could potentially be seen as a bad thing.

2. Determine gaps in support - Is your current service management operation able to cope with adding more vendors with various SLAs into the matrix?

3. Focus on the right services - Focus on commodity and niche services in the short term (these are considered the low hanging fruit within IT)

4. Examine current cost models - Most cloud vendors base their cost models on a consumption basis, so for test and development workloads, where the load is actually hours per week/month, the cost is significantly less

5. Determine the right delivery model - Focus on private cloud or virtual data centers

6. Identify commodity hardware - In most cases, migrating the workload from old to new hardware is simple, fast, and extremely reliable.

7. Conduct an employee current skills assessment - Adopting a cloud sourcing strategy will stress the existing enterprise architecture teams, and vendor management organizations to a great degree

This article covers, in detail, those seven not-so-common factors to consider before adopting a cloud sourcing strategy.

Creating Your Unique Cloud Roadmap

Category:   Strategy & Business Case  IT Infrastructure & Applications  Cloud Computing

One size does not fit all when it comes to determining your unique Cloud sourcing strategy. Before moving into the world of Cloud computing you must first gain a holistic view of your current IT environment and future business objectives. This way you will have a better understanding of the current realities and future possibilities available to your organization in the Cloud.

Shared Services - The Pros, Cons, and Where They're Heading

Category:   Strategy & Business Case  Finance & Accounting Services  Shared Services...

Shared Service Centers (SSCs) and outsourcing are the two most commonly adopted solutions today by businesses as part of their back office process sourcing strategy. However, this has not always been the case.

In this article, Alsbridge offers insights into the pros and cons of SSCs and where the market is heading.

Service Level Agreements for HRO

Category:   Strategy & Business Case  HR Services  Outsourcing

One of the key elements to successful HR Outsourcing is the development and maintenance of metrics to manage service performance. But developing and agreeing appropriate metrics seems to be difficult for HR services. Why might this be?

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