What is our cloud migration strategy?

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The business question What is our cloud migration strategy? helps you to understand the areas to focus on and quick wins when you plan cloud migration. The visualization enables you to decide on a migration strategy for each relevant application in the cloud portfolio. Compare the strategic cloud migration recommendations that were made for each application with the real-world scores based on cloud relevance and cloud readiness. Consider which applications qualify as candidates to migrate or retire in order to meet modernization and rationalization goals and what the potential impact of migration will be on your company's business capabilities.

This business question visualizes a Kanban report. The visualization shows applications in lanes that represent the cloud migration strategy specified for each application. The following lanes may be displayed:

Rehost: The application is SaaS-enabled but is either outdated or would require rehosting to the cloud platform.
Rebuild: The application could be made cloud ready but would require a change in the build process to ensure seamless delivery. The concepts of CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous delivery) could be leveraged for these applications.
Rearchitect: The application requires additional effort to make it cloud enabled. For example, this might be due to application health monitoring, application security, data backup and policies, scalability and replication zones, disaster recovery, network utilization, multi-channel communication, or identity management.
Refactor: The application requires some changes in code to be eligible for migration to the cloud. The application can be modular or a self-contained application with services that can easily be refactored.
Retain/Retire: The application supports a business capability for which the Business Relevant indicator is set to Business Enabling or Business Operating and the application cannot be migrated to the cloud immediately. Or the application is at the end of its lifecycle and is about to be retired.
Unknown: The cloud migration strategy is not specified for the application.

Applications for which the Cloud Migration Strategy attribute is set to Migrated and the Architecture Type attribute is set to Cloud-Based are not considered for this business question. These objects may be cloud native or recently migrated to the cloud.

Which applications are recommended for migration: Click the Filter button and select Focus Area in the Cloud Focus Area field. These applications are suited for migration and have a higher potential benefit than other applications in the application portfolio. In some instances, migrating these applications might be difficult but the benefits of migration outweigh the cost of execution. PaaS applications are usually found in this quadrant. Change the Cloud Focus Area to Quick Wins. These applications are well-suited for migration but have lower potential value. These applications represent migration activities that could be easily carried out. They are usually SaaS applications that can potentially replace other cloud applications.

Consider redefining the Cloud Migration Strategy attribute for applications that are displayed in the Retain/Retire lane when you select Focus Area or Quick Win for the Cloud Focus Area field. The indicator scores for cloud relevance and cloud readiness indicate that these applications should be considered for migration to the cloud. To change the Cloud Migration Strategy attribute, click an application and click the Edit Applications button to open a data workbench where you can change the attribute to an appropriate value.

Which applications are recommended for retirement: Click the Filter button and select Rehost/Retire in the Cloud Focus Area field. These applications are harder to migrate and offer lower migration benefits. They are typically IaaS applications that are either retired or rehosted on the cloud. These applications are candidates for cloud migration but could be pursued at a later point in time.

Which applications should be considered for the long-term migration strategy? Click the Filter button and select Long-Term Bets in the Cloud Focus Area field. These applications are harder to migrate but offer high potential value. These applications are usually associated with operational activities in the organization and migrating them could be part of the company’s long-term strategy. Migration of these applications usually takes a long time and involves more than one organization.

Which applications will impact a specific business capability when migrated to the cloud? Click the Filter button and select Focus Area in the Cloud Focus Area field and select a business capability in the Business Capability field.

Check the data quality. Go to the Data Quality tab to assess the quality of the data used for this business question. Data quality issues occur if any of the following occur the application is not specified to support a business capability. Click the link to open the view to define the business capabilities that the selected application supports.