Understanding a business’s mindset for cloud adoption

Business is the main driver for any application modernization program. Therefore, a business must establish its priorities and understand the current application and workload estate. Business executives need to have a clear understanding of the application estate. Here is a list of characteristics that have a clear relationship with ROI:

• Application and data have dependencies on enterprise complexity and vice versa. Therefore, adopting modern technology and cloud-native features will help an enterprise reduce its functional complexity and define the functionality with a combination of much simpler microservice and event-driven technologies. For example, a bank has a single transaction that needs 27 minutes to complete, which is not acceptable for a good customer experience. This transaction performs a sequence of functions and services and it takes a long time, as it has some heavy operations such as governance and...