A cloud strategy ensures your cloud solution is valuable
Moving to the cloud can seem like a big step. With a strong cloud strategy, the transformation becomes both manageable and value-creating. It ensures that your cloud solution is not only technically strong - but also adds value to your business. Today and tomorrow.
What is a cloud strategy?
A cloud strategy is your plan for how you utilise cloud technology to achieve your goals. A good cloud strategy provides clarity and direction so you can make decisions that make a real difference to your business .
A cloud strategy typically comes before a cloud solution. But it can also come afterwards .
Why is a cloud strategy important?
A cloud strategy assesses the value of moving your services to the cloud. It sets the direction for your cloud and digitalisation journey. Without a clear strategy, your cloud journey can become unnecessarily expensive and risky .
With a cloud strategy, you avoid:
- Unforeseen costs: Cloud can be expensive if not used correctly.
- Security issues: Lack of visibility can lead to data breaches.
- Loss of flexibility: Wrong choices can lock you into inefficient solutions.
A strong cloud strategy ensures that your cloud solutions are aligned with your organisation's overall strategic goals, that investments in the cloud live up to your expectations, and that they meet compliance and security. Both now and in the future.
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Aligned with strategic goals
A cloud strategy ensures that the cloud solutions your organisation chooses are aligned with overall strategic goals. And that they address compliance and security considerations and legislation.
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Ensure focus
The possibilities are endless with cloud. That's why it's essential to define why and how cloud should be used in your organisation - and what you want to achieve. Without a well-considered strategy, you will lack direction and risk not realising the full benefits of the cloud.
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Competitive advantage
A cloud strategy identifies which technologies can give your organisation a competitive advantage. The strategy helps you select and deselect tools from CSPs (Cloud Service Providers) based on how you want to turn technology into a competitive advantage.
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Setting goals for departments
The strategy helps set goals, direction and critical success factors for how the different departments in the company should work with and utilise the cloud.
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Better collaboration across the organisation
The strategy ensures that the organisation is moving in the same direction. This leads to better cross-collaboration and more flexible working.
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Long-term planning
By defining ambitions for cloud transformation, you can better plan for the future. This ensures you are ahead of the curve with skills and organisation.
How we help you create a cloud strategy in 4 steps
Getting started with a cloud strategy should be straightforward. When you choose us as your cloud partner, you get a thoughtful approach and process. We combine deep technical knowledge with strategic insight to create a robust and future-proof cloud strategy.
Our process goes through four steps:
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Analysis and evaluation
We start by understanding and mapping your current IT infrastructure to identify and assess how cloud can support and optimise your business.
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Transformation and implementation
Together, we develop a roadmap for your cloud transformation that takes integration, security and scalability into account.
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Security and compliance
We make sure all your cloud activities meet current data security standards and comply with legislation such as GDPR.
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Optimisation and innovation
Cloud is an ongoing process. We are constantly working to improve your cloud structure and ensure you benefit from the latest technology.
We tailor the strategy to your business (of course)
Do you want to succeed with your cloud solution? Then of course the cloud strategy needs to fit your reality.
We've helped numerous companies build a cloud strategy and process that fits their needs and goals. Should we help yours too?
With us as your cloud partner, you don't just get technologically powerful solutions - but also solutions that create real value for your business.