Cloud Professional Services Advise: Strategic clarity before commitment
Build the right cloud strategy, understand your application landscape, and create a reliable foundation for migration decisions.
Cloud transformation starts with the right decisions. Advise helps organizations create strategic clarity, assess readiness, and build a fact-based foundation before investing in migration or modernization.
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Why organizations start here
Many cloud initiatives slow down before they begin. Common challenges include:
No clear cloud strategy
Limited visibility into applications and dependencies
Uncertainty around migration effort and costs
Missing stakeholder alignment
Lack of a reliable business case
Advise helps organizations answer these questions before committing significant resources.
What you achieve with Advise
Strategic direction
Align cloud initiatives with business goals and establish a clear roadmap for transformation.
Better decision-making
Create transparency around applications, dependencies, risks, and opportunities.
Reduced risk
Identify challenges and migration requirements early, before execution begins.
A foundation for migration
Build the insights and business justification needed for successful cloud adoption.
The Advise portfolio
Cloud Advisory: Define the right cloud strategy
Develop a cloud strategy, governance model, and target architecture aligned with your business objectives and transformation goals.
Typical outcomes
Cloud strategy and roadmap
Governance recommendations
Target operating model
Strategic guidance for cloud adoption
Best suited when: You are defining your cloud strategy and need guidance on the right direction.
Cloud Discovery: Understand your application landscape
Gain visibility into applications, infrastructure, dependencies, and operational requirements to establish a clear starting point for cloud transformation.
Typical outcomes
Application inventory
Dependency analysis
Infrastructure insights
Migration readiness assessment
Best suited when: You need a comprehensive understanding of your current environment before planning migration activities.
Cloud Assessment: Build a data-driven migration business case
Evaluate workloads, migration options, costs, and potential benefits to create a solid foundation for investment decisions.
Typical outcomes
Migration recommendations
Workload prioritization
Cost and effort estimates
Migration roadmap
Business case foundation
Best suited when: You need a clear and validated basis for migration planning and investment decisions.
Which service fits your situation?
Your challenge
Recommended Service
We need a Cloud-Strategy
Cloud Advisory
We need visibility into our environment
Cloud Discovery
We need a migration business case
Cloud Assessment
What’s next?
Once strategy, discovery, and assessment are complete, organizations typically move to the next phase of their cloud journey. At this point we recommend our Design Services: Validate assumptions, test architectures, and gain confidence before scaling investment.
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Start your cloud journey with confidence
Whether you are defining a strategy, evaluating workloads, or preparing migration decisions, our experts help you establish a clear path forward.
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