What are the CxO challenges before cloud adoption?
| Role |
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) |
Platform as a Service (PaaS) |
Software as a Service (SaaS) |
| CEO |
Why did we invest in our own datacentre capacity? What’s the roadmap? |
Why do we not go direct to SaaS? |
Does this improve our business agility? Can we change business processes more quickly? |
| CFO |
How do we forecast the costs if they are variable? |
Does this impact our CapEx/OpEX planning related to licencing? |
Does this impact our resource costs or do we simply need more business analysts instead of IT Technicans? |
| CTO |
How do we integrate 3rdparty tools to make sure we can manage end to end? |
How can we rationalise the dependencies on platform variations across the estate? |
How do we define the business architecture and select the appropriate SaaS vendors?How do we integrate between multiple providers and internal systems? |
| COO |
How do we mitigate the risk of loss of availability? |
How do we handle governance to ensure the business demands do not drive us away from platform standards? |
How do we mitigate vendor lock in? |
| CIO |
How do we mitigate the risk of data loss? |
Does this help us abstract business processes and data from systems? |
How do we manage our requirements across the business and manage change? |