How to Come Up with a Future Ready Cloud Strategy

In the previous 18 months, businesses have seen the future arrive quicker than predicted. They are being forced to transform at an unprecedented scale and speed. This is extremely difficult, especially in industries with a lot of technical debt. But the impetus to respond is excellent since putting off change damages development and competitiveness. Most have discovered a path with an immediate payoff—they are rapidly transferring workloads to the future-ready cloud to grow, save costs, and improve operational resilience. These companies must take a breather. They must shift their focus from short-term problem solving for the next 18 to 24 months to program thinking that lays the groundwork for long-term growth.

Our experience has shown that there are five essential aspects that an organization must consider during the future-ready cloud journey:

• Data quality and geolocation: Most businesses underestimate the investments necessary to make data, which drives product management and operations, useable. Their data is siloed, making it difficult to harness the full potential of insights. However, after data has been combined, cleaned up, enhanced, and made accessible, it can be categorized to drive precise industry-specific future-ready cloud strategy decisions about workloads and compliance-driven geolocations.
• Organizations that invest time and money in adopting a lifecycle approach to their cloud strategy will see benefits sooner rather than later. Ops staff, for example, are familiar with on-premise needs but must be trained on new architectures to handle cloud operations. Planning must also be business-oriented, considering the efforts needed for future growth. This includes investment in new technology platforms to accelerate the process and product change and measures to decrease technical debt through application rationalization.
• Ending the monolithic era: By deconstructing monolithic apps, organizations may reimagine how their showroom floor operates, how the supply chain behaves, and so on, and quickly develop new work capabilities employing cloud-native capabilities.
• Composability: Having all of the components, such as customer journeys, domain-specific blueprints, user stories, cloud-native architectural blueprints, policy marketplace, and so on, in one location is critical to becoming agile and future-ready. Once these building elements are available in a 'box,' the business may easily design services to meet changing client requirements, pandemic-caused interruptions, or regulatory changes.
• Focus on customized experiences: Curated and tailored experiences for consumers and staff based on personalities and outcomes have become a well-established trend. These experiences may be generated via real-time analysis of hundreds of data points. The data is spread across many systems, and the cloud helps bring it all together so that it can be evaluated in real-time for actionable insights.

These are essential benefits of future-ready cloud. They enable organizations to move beyond the purchase of scalable and cost-effective infrastructure. More importantly, they help to establish the groundwork for tomorrow's IT groups capable of delivering commercial value.