Fitting cloud technology to business requirements
We are moving business into the cloud because of the required agility and, of course, to control our costs.
The next two questions will be: with what and how? Before we explore the how and basically the roadmap, we will discuss the first question: with what? A cloud migration plan starts with business planning, which covers business processes, operations, finance, and lastly the technical requirements. We will have to evaluate the business demands and the IT fulfillment of these requirements.
When outsourcing contracts, the company that takes over the services performs a so-called due diligence. As per its definition, due diligence is "a comprehensive appraisal of a business undertaken by a prospective buyer, especially to establish its assets and liabilities and evaluate its commercial potential" (source: https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/due_diligence). This may sound way too heavy of a process to get a cloud...
