Digital transformation is an existential necessity. No Business Leader needs to be convinced of its importance, as they’re all looking to innovate faster, more securely and with greater efficiency. As such, organizations are turning to cloud infrastructure, platforms and services to evolve and remain competitive. But organizations must keep in mind that the apparent simplicity of adopting the cloud adds complexity through growing sets of data streams, applications and services to manage and secure. This is especially true considering that different parts of an organization can be at varying stages in the journey. If it’s not done thoughtfully and with a data strategy at its core,the adoption of cloud technology fuelling digital transformation can become a liability.
Dependent on the service and cloud platform requirements, we at YC can deploy bespoke solutions to meet individual project needs, apply templates to provide rapid deployment or in the case of our PaaS, provide pre-configured HANA resource modules to get you up and running in hours not weeks. For bespoke projects, the key to success is fulfilling the business needs while improving efficiency and effectiveness. Our Requirements and Design phases take the opportunity to re-validate all solution requirements and the historic design and build decisions.
During the Development phase, our highly experienced consulting team will work collaboratively with your team members, in accordance with the agreed project plan. Testing is approached with the client or partner to ensure the various testing phases are systematic and undertaken in an organised manner.
Deployment incorporates all activities necessary for system go live, including cut over to production, end user training where appropriate and appropriate support for a short period of time after go-live to ensure all user adoption issues are addressed rapidly and smoothly.
On-going support and managed services are available to those clients and partners that may benefit from after the deployment of the system. Our experts are on hand should you need it.
Formulate Strategy for Moving to the Cloud – At the start of the engagement we work with you to validate with you the rationale and benefits for moving to the cloud. Organizations should follow an analysis-based approach when migrating to the cloud based on the business objectives you want to achieve. This will help in prioritising which applications you migrate and when.
Mobilise Cloud Migration Team : Ensure that team is formed covering all keys company and external skills needed.
Determine Organizational Cloud-Readiness: Prior to initiating Cloud migration, we need to conduct a comprehensive business and technical analysis of your current environment, apps, and infrastructure. This covers aspects such as:
Design Your Cloud Environment: For Cloud hosting there are many variations available e.g., public, private, hybrid, or multi-cloud environments. This phase looks at ensuring that the Cloud Environment best meets the requirements of the business. Key elements that need to be covered in the design are:
Create a Cloud Roadmap : In this phase the business needs to decide on which components will make the move first based on business priority and migration difficulty. We will investigate if an incremental approach to the cloud migration process will work for your business and will return to your initial reasons for wanting to move to the cloud and highlight key areas that are priority items for your business. Map each phase of your cloud deployment to a resourcing schedule to ensure you have the right personnel available for the migration.
Application Cloud-Readiness: Decide on your Cloud migration model e.g. Lift and Shift (Rehost) or Rearchitect (Refactor).
Migrate Your Data to Cloud: Create a data migration plan to audit the data to prevent any unexpected issues, clean-up of any identified concerns, putting controls in place to ensure data quality, and proper governance through tracking and monitoring. Data migrations typically involve three basic steps: Extract data, Transform data and Load data. We will need to plan back-up activities before commencing a data migration and test the back-ups work as expected.
Testing and Switching to Production: Once your cloud environment is set up to your specifications, the application(s) are in the cloud, data has populated – the next steps in the cloud migration process is to cutover to the Cloud. We will work with the customer to manage this activity and ensure it is completed successfully.