What are our cloud focus areas?

WhatAreOurCloudFocusAreas 

The business question What are our cloud focus areas? provides a top-down portfolio analysis to migrate your cloud portfolio using a strategic approach. The visualization highlights the applications that are best suited for migration based on their cloud relevance and cloud readiness indicators. Review the application scores when making decisions about your company's cloud migration 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 and consider which applications qualify as candidates to migrate or retire in order to meet modernization and rationalization goals.

The visualization shows a data table showing the cloud readiness and cloud relevance scores for cloud migration, highlighting the recommendation for cloud migration. A portfolio report visualizes the four quadrants Long Term Bets, Focus Area, Retain/Retire, and Quick Wins. The analysis looks at the cloud readiness and cloud relevance scores for cloud migration and places each application in one of the four quadrants to help you understand the degree of benefits vs. difficulty for the migration of an application to the cloud. The quadrants represent the following information:

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.

The portfolio report shows applications as bubbles analyzed across 4 dimensions. Point to an application to show a tooltip with the following information: Application name, cloud relevant score (CRel), cloud readiness score (CRead), Cloud Migration Strategy value, current year operational expenditure (OpEx).

Which applications should I migrate? Review the applications in the Focus Area quadrant. These applications are typically good migration candidates that may be potentially beneficial to keep in the application portfolio. Also look at the applications in the Quick Wins quadrant. This quadrant contains all the applications that are potentially suited for migration and could be easily migrated but have a lower potential value.

Consider redefining the Cloud Migration Strategy attribute for dark grey-colored applications in the Focus Area or Quick Wins quadrants. These are applications have the Cloud Migration Strategy attribute set to Retain/Retire but their indicator scores for cloud relevance and cloud readiness indicate that they 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 should potentially be sundowned? Review the applications in the Retain/Retire quadrant. Look for dark grey-colored applications and contact the authorized user to consider whether it is feasible to sundown the application.