The business enterprises of today are undertaking massive transformation exercises at their end, to enable business success in the marketplace. As the business of today is transitioning from a value chain model to an ecosystem model, there is a lot of interconnectedness built at each layer of value creation, whether it be products or services. The organizations of tomorrow are collaborating with their ecosystem to generate and deliver value to their end customers.
For such collaboration and value exchange to take place, the enterprises are relooking at their existing infrastructure and application environment to design a future state that works for their businesses. The transition from static infrastructure to cloud-based, scalable infrastructure is becoming imperative for the ecosystem to come together in a common technology space and undertake transactions of value creation. The on-premise, controlled, limited infrastructure with custom applications limits the level of collaboration that the businesses could do with their value partners. This would also mean that the data generated from such collaboration doesn’t lie with the organization, limiting the possibility of enhancing their products or services.
In the interim, while the transition to the cloud is underway, enterprises are adopting SaaS-based solutions to allow for such exchanges to happen and make sure that the business continuity and competitiveness are intact. This leads to the juggling of multiple elements of the technology function simultaneously: legacy infrastructure, custom applications, cloud-based SaaS applications, and migration to the private cloud. To ensure that all these elements culminate in
accelerating the transformation journey, the key stakeholders of such transformation needs to take care of two critical aspects of this journey: clarity of end-state and timing of each transition.
To undertake the journey with a clear end state enables enterprises to make the most of what they undertake. Based on how they approach, they could keep delivering value with each leg of the journey. The simplest way to do such is to begin the journey of cloud migration in phases, and prioritize the business process with the maximum impact of data and business metrics. Generating data on the cloud for each business process and making use of it for intelligent
a business decision can set the tone of transformation.
The marriage of infra, application, and services to deliver business value is critical, and cloud brings in the mobility in infra that is required from traditional static IT infra, to enable digital and transformation for businesses.
