Cloud Assessments
Analysis and Planning from Industry Experts
Typical deliverables from a SkyPeak Assessment include
- Maturity Assessment - Compares organizations maturity vs. similar organizations in same vertical.
- Key Findings - Details of key findings including red flags, opportunities and issues.
- Low Hanging Fruit / Quick Wins - Analysis of found opportunities for immediate positive impact.
- Recommend Strategy for long term infrastructure transformation.
Assessment Focus Areas
Typical Skypeak Assessment Focus Areas Include
Infrastructure Review
- Establish baseline of current infrastructure
- Determine impact/opportunity as related to infrastructure initiatives such as IaaS or DaaS
- Determine immediate opportunities to meet short term cloud objectives
- Recommend strategy for long term infrastructure transformation as appropriate
Platforms and Software
- Perform baseline analysis of in-place platforms/ line of business applications
- Determine immediate opportunities for cloud adoption
- Example: Document management / knowledge management / content management
- Recommend Strategy for long term platform transformation as appropriate
Data
- Develop baseline analysis of data storage including:
- Governance
- Data retention requirements
- Data privacy requirements
- Capacity / scalability requirements
- Compliance needs and requirements such as rights management or DLP
- Determine immediate opportunities for cloud adoption
- Recommend strategy for long term platform transformation as appropriate
Business Process
- Develop baseline analysis of business processes and interdependence on IT services
- Determine immediate opportunity to adopt cloud services to better meet needs of existing processes.
- Example: Elastic cloud capacity to bulk process documentation reducing overall process time while saving expense
Business Drivers
- Baseline analysis of business drivers
- Develop weighted matrix of business requirements
- Examples are expense, return on investment flexibility, time to market, end user experience, risk, competitive advantage, capital vs. operational cost
Security / Risk
- Baseline analysis of current accepted risk
- Call-out of immediate risks w/ proposed remediation plan
- Call-out specific compliance concerns with respect to HIPAA or similar regulatory acts.
