Data requirements for "What are our cloud focus areas?"

This business question provides a top-down portfolio analysis for cloud migration in order to understand the applications that are best suited for migration based on cloud relevance and cloud readiness indicators.

MM_WhatAreOurCloudFocusAreas

To have meaningful data for the business question What are our cloud focus areas?, you must capture the following information about the applications, information flows, business capabilities, and servers in your company.

Class	Attribute	Mandatory	Explanation
Application	Name		Necessary for the visualization.
	Version		Necessary for the visualization.
	End Date	x	The end date of the application is used to calculate the Application End of Life indicators for the cloud readiness score and the cloud relevance score.
	Cloud Migration Strategy	x	The strategy to migrate the application to the cloud. Values include: Retain, Rehost, Rearchitect, Rebuild, Migrated, Unknown
	Architecture Type	x	The architecture type is used to calculate the cloud readiness score. Values include: Unknown, Mainframe, Distributed, Client Server, Stand Alone, Cloud-Based, External Webpage
	Authentication	x	The authentication type is used to calculate the cloud readiness score. Values include: Unknown, Multi-Factor & SSO, Multi-Factor, Client Server, SSO, Basic Access, Autonomous, No Authorization
	Subject to Compliance Regulation	x	Indicates whether the application is subject to compliance regulations. Used to calculate the cloud relevance score.
	Peaks in the workload	x	Indicator used to contribute to the cloud relevance score.
	License Portability	x	Indicator used to contribute to the cloud relevance score.
	Current Year OpEx	x	The application's current year total operational expenditure (OpEx) is defined as the sum of the application costs for the current year.
Business Capability	Business Relevance	x	Indicates how relevant the business capability is for the business. Contributes cloud relevance score.
	Application	x	Application providing the business capability
Information Flow	Object State		Describes the operational status of the information flow. Information flows with a retired object state are ignored.
	Source Application, Target Application	x	An information flow requires an application that is the source and target of the connection. The number of information flows for which the application is the source or target contributes to the cloud readiness score.
Virtual Server	Physical Server		The virtual server runs on a physical server. Whether the application is running on a virtual server impacts the cloud readiness score.
	Object State		Describes the operational status of the virtual server. Virtual servers with a retired object state are ignored.
Physical Server	Object State		Describes the operational status of the physical server. Physical servers with a retired object state are ignored. Whether the application is running on a physical server impacts the cloud readiness score.