{"id":16549,"date":"2021-11-08T19:51:46","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T14:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cigniti.com\/blog\/?p=16549"},"modified":"2021-12-16T17:12:11","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T11:42:11","slug":"assurance-solutions-cloud-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cigniti.com\/blog\/assurance-solutions-cloud-migration\/","title":{"rendered":"The Need for Assurance Solutions in Cloud Migration"},"content":{"rendered":"
Over 50% of the Fortune 500 companies from the year 2000 are now at stake. Which means that just in 2 decades, more than half the brands that were on the Fortune 500 list simply no longer exist. And in many cases, the failure to transform, the failure to adapt to the changing business conditions, is the reason these companies no longer exist.<\/p>\n
Now, Cloud enables us to move faster and transform our companies to meet whatever needs that market demands. World is transforming and our business need to transform too if we want to continue to succeed.<\/p>\n
Keys for Transformation Success<\/strong><\/p>\n Understanding the keys for transformation success is imperative and it begins with \u201cwhy\u201d. Then start small and look for early wins. Focus on cultural transformation and measure your progress. Build a stakeholder campaign and communicate.<\/p>\n Understand who your stakeholders are and who the people are who are making the changes. As we know, greater technologists are not greater communicators. We need to ensure we involve the whole team for transformation success.<\/p>\n Some of the transformation pitfalls include cultural inertia, lack of support from the top, lack of contributor buy-in, lack of sustained support, doing too much at once, and failure to communicate or track the value.<\/p>\n Enterprises find it hard to fully realize the desired outcomes and benefits of their cloud migration journeys. There have been several instances of major business disruptions due to improper cloud migration or its maintenance, as shown below.<\/p>\n The desired business outcomes and typical issues faced from cloud migration include<\/p>\n The top 5 challenges faced during Cloud Migration<\/strong><\/p>\n A cloud migration journey can present substantial implementation challenges. These risks potentially lower an organization\u2019s ability to achieve some of its critical business outcomes around flexibility, speed and agility (in terms of number and frequency of workloads), cost optimization, customer experience etc. The top 5 challenges include:<\/p>\n While we\u2019ve seen the top challenges encountered by organizations during their cloud migration journey, it is imperative to understand the focus areas for Assurance solutions.<\/p>\n Assurance \u2013 Focus Areas<\/strong><\/p>\n Stringent and diligent assurance is critical across the entire value chain of the cloud migration journey in order to ensure success.<\/p>\n The focus areas for Assurance solutions are broadly classified into 3 categories: Application, Infrastructure and Data (AID).<\/p>\n The application assurance focus area includes Functional testing, End-to-end business workflows, Workload Integration and business process testing, and Regulatory and Compliance testing.<\/p>\n The Infrastructure focus area covers Integrations, Scalability, Resiliency, Responsiveness, Configuration testing, and Multi-tenant system testing.<\/p>\n The focus area in Data includes validating that all database components have been migrated, Data flow, Data Security, and Security testing.<\/p>\n The testing types based on migration strategy are Baseline Testing, Functional Regression, Performance Testing (load and latency), Stress Testing, Security Testing, Database Testing, and Interoperability Testing.<\/p>\n The typical cloud migration journey is complex by nature as mentioned below –<\/p>\n Here is the link to access<\/a> the on-demand webinar that was recently conducted on October 21st<\/sup> on the challenges in cloud migration and the need for Assurance solutions.<\/p>\n Why Should You Watch the Webinar?<\/strong><\/p>\n This webinar is for you if you are looking for:<\/p>\n Drawing from years of experience, Raghuram Krovvidy, President & Global Delivery Head at Cigniti, and Sean D. Mack, Chief Information Officer and CISO at Wiley, have shared their insights on the role of digital assurance in developing a successful cloud migration strategy in this webinar. They have discussed real-world case studies and how you can overcome the challenges of moving enterprise products and services to the cloud without impacting customers.<\/p>\n Who should watch?<\/strong><\/p>\n QA and IT leaders in enterprises planning a cloud migration or beginning their cloud migration journey will find this webinar insightful.<\/p>\n Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n We’re here to help you through every stage of your digital transformation and help you become the greatest version of yourself. We recognize that successful Digital Transformation entails altering the heart of how a company is conducted, as well as its intricacies. We assist you in overcoming these problems and continually expanding your digital boundaries by focusing on quality and customer service.<\/p>\n Our IP-led digital assurance services<\/a> platform BlueSwanTM<\/sup> \u00a0enables you to always stay ahead of the curve by predicting and preventing unanticipated application failures, whether it’s foundational changes like implementing a robust digital platform across the enterprise, launching new products and processes, gaining insights into customer engagement, process improvement, and optimization leading to digital excellence. We also provide digital services including intelligent automation<\/a>, big data analytics<\/a>, cloud migration assurance<\/a>, 5G assurance<\/a>, and customer experience assurance<\/a>, among other things.<\/p>\n Visit www.cigniti.com to find out more about Cigniti Technologies Limited (NSE: CIGNITITEC, BSE: 534758). We are headquartered in Hyderabad, India, with offices in the USA, U.K., UAE, Australia, Czech Republic, and Singapore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Over 50% of the Fortune 500 companies from the year 2000 are now at stake. Which means that just in 2 decades, more than half the brands that were on the Fortune 500 list simply no longer exist. And in many cases, the failure to transform, the failure to adapt to the changing business conditions, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":16550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[136],"tags":[3879,3878,3873,3868,3876,3875,3869,3786,3861,3871,3870,3872,3874,3596,3595,3790,3877],"ppma_author":[3727],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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