What are our cloud focus areas?
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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.
This business question includes an Applications by Focus Area dataset as well as a portfolio analysis that highlights the applications recommended for cloud migration. The Applications by Focus Area dataset lists the applications including their operational costs and assigned Cloud Strategy value. The dataset also shows the application's cloud readiness and cloud relevance scores and where the application lands in the portfolio analysis ( Long Term Bets, Focus Area, Retain/Retire, and Quick Wins).
The What are our cloud focus areas? portfolio analysis helps you to understand the degree of benefits vs. difficulty for the migration of an application to the cloud. The analysis looks at the cloud readiness and cloud relevance scores for cloud migration and places each application in one of the following quadrants:
- Focus Area: 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.
- 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.
- Retain/Retire: 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.
- Long-Term Bets: 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.
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).
- The bubble size indicates the application cost based on the current year operational expenditure (OpEx).
- The bubble color indicates the Cloud Migration Strategy attribute defined for the application
- The X-axis value is the weighted indicator score for Cloud Readiness
- The Y-axis is the weighted indicator score for Cloud Relevance
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.
How expensive are the applications I want to migrate? Go to the Applications by Focus Area dataset which shows the operating cost of the applications. To focus on applications that are quick wins, for example, click the header of the Quick Wins column to sort the dataset based on these applications.