It has successfully moved from the edge to the core; and is now considered a strategic imperative and a board level topic.

But adopting Cloud is far from simple. In fact, around 63% of Cloud projects fail to deliver expected or desired value. And in our experience, when this occurs one of three core scenarios play out:

Scenario 1:

Struggling to realise the full value of cloud

Historical cloud migrations & projects have struggled to deliver against the original business case. There may be some negative sentiment and/or a lack of confidence from technology leadership towards cloud, but the business continues to seek cloud orientated solutions.

Scenario 2:

Struggling to drive cloud adoption & scale

Historical cloud migrations & projects have delivered value in specific pockets of the organisation, however cloud centric “ways of working” are not being scaled across the wider organisation – with application teams reverting back to data centre centric and legacy practices.

Scenario 3:

Need to uplift cloud governance & compliance

Historical cloud migrations & projects have been successful, acting as a catalyst for organizational wide adoption of cloud. But limited standards or controls have been defined, leading to a growing challenge regarding cloud governance. Common examples we see include growing & uncontrolled cloud spend, limited standards & repeatability, and minimal compliance insight & reporting.