Cloud Blazers: Drafting your "Cloud Partner A-Team"

Cloud Blazers: Drafting your "Cloud Partner A-Team"

In the spirit of draft season, let's discuss preparing your cloud strategy and roadmap. The right partnerships drive you in a more intelligent, agile and automated fashion. Building your cloud strategy with a Partner A-Team in drives success in the short term and will ensure that you are ready for the added benefits that will come from technologies such as 5G and artificial intelligence.

Ultimately, drafting the best "A Players" on your team improves your results. Just like a coach designs best plays with the right skilled talent, cloud strategy supported with a team enhances the infrastructure, efficiency and most importantly, service to customers.

Draft Your A-Team of Cloud Partners:

Your Cloud Partner A-Team optimizes the digital advantage to create value. It is one of the most significant overhauls that an organization can undertake.

Here are some of the Top Picks to Draft:

Cloud application providers develop business applications that they want to deliver via a cloud as a service. Such applications are typically charged for on a subscription basis.

To reap the maximum benefits of Cloud– which includes flexibility, agility and increased productivity – you will need to adopt new behaviors to make the most of these technologies. Drafting your Partner A-Team will enable new levels of agility and flexibility allowing your business to embrace new opportunities.

Cloud transformation is not an easy process, and if handled incorrectly, it can be difficult to sustain in the long term. Deployment and maintenance can be costly, both in time and money; legacy systems need to be integrated or replaced; and talent needs to be constantly upskilled. As increasing amounts of data are created and communicated, security and privacy become even more crucial than before, both for employees and customers.

Solution: Draft and leverage strong, well-defined cloud partnerships.

Selecting the correct partner(s) allows your team to focus on what it does best. It also offers the necessary expertise, experience, and support to deliver business results for digital transformation.

Building Your CLOUD TEAM: Multiple "Players" with Diverse Skills

All the expertise and experience for cloud transformation may not reside with one single partner. Businesses need integrated solutions for complex transformation projects.

“Not only do strong cloud partnerships provide integrated solutions and enable organizations to overcome their technical limitations, they can also help businesses grow revenues and reduce costs.”

Your Cloud A-Team will create value, lowering deployment time and reducing total cost of ownership, improving customer experience and enabling borderless growth by opening up new markets across the globe. This often needs a strong base built on seamless digital IT services and digital infrastructure.

Rather than using a one-size-fits-all approach, Cloud Blazers suggest you work with strategic partners to build end-to-end integrated solutions. All of these solutions may be tailored for each customer depending on their needs, whether they work in manufacturing, retail, financial services and insurance, consumer packaged goods, high-tech or utilities.

Contact me, Grace Perry, to learn more!