07 Nov 2019
3 mins read
In part one, we evaluated why a separate Cloud strategy is not a must, but a strategic view on Cloud is obligatory and cannot be skipped.
A quick summarization of the discussion regarding the Cloud strategy is as follows.
Having summarized the contents of a Cloud strategy let us delve deeper into the Cloud architectural view.
After discussing the advantages of the cloud Strategy and the Approach, next let us realize the dimensions of a Cloud strategy.
We will approach the following dimensions and discuss how they matter.
Additionally, there are two more dimensions, Security and Finance/Budgeting, for which are not going into details to avoid straying from the focus of this article.
In fact, architecture ensures a high degree of integration with the business strategy to. For those who are wondering what is meant by this, let us take a look at the architectural breakdown:
This Architecture layer depiction clearly shows that architecture is driven top-down. This is an important point as in the world of Cloud, architecture is often discussed as being bottom-up and there is a disconnect between infrastructure architecture (sometimes also application architecture) and the layers above.
The reason for the disconnect is twofold.
This disconnect is critical, so let’s not sugarcoat this! The digital applications do not stand in a separated world of their own, but they want to access, interact and integrate with the existing data and applications. Therefore, they are part of the bigger enterprise architecture picture but try to scale the fence rather than entering through the gate.
The other reason why this disconnect of infrastructure architecture is highly critical is a financial one. There is only a limited amount of budget available. The answer on how to spend the estimated allotted funds should be driven by the question of the biggest positive impact to the business. The best way to determine this and to set the priorities right is by aligning the investment priorities to the business strategy and the only way to approach this in this context is through the business architecture.
The results could look quite different industry wise or even for a single enterprise. While HR might be a supportive or as per the above stated logic a commodity process for one company could be the core business process for another one. This drives the digital approach (SaaS vs. self-developed) as well as the customization level (standard vs. individually customized).
In the first two editions of this blog series we have evaluated why a separate Cloud strategy is not a must but a strategic view on Cloud is obligatory, the approach for the strategy definition and the Cloud Architecture the concluding part will concentrate on the strategic side of the Organization and people. Stay tuned for the concluding segment on how Cloud execution is driven to success.
About the Author
Matthias has more than 20 years of IT experience. He is dedicated to Cloud services fulltime since 2007. He has a unique set of experiences in areas including consultancy management through portfolio management, creation of cloud products, and classic data center delivery. Matthias is focused on enterprises adopting “modern delivery” as a standard way of working. In doing so, he works with customers on strategy, organization, processes and technology.
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