Executive Summary
Intense pressure is being placed on enterprise IT departments to develop an adaptive, simplified IT that can create an advantage for their businesses to compete. Transforming legacy IT assets to next-generation to gain an innovation edge while continuing to support their current business is no small order, but achievable and necessary. To achieve this IT transformation-on-the-go, enterprises realize most value when transformations are pursued in a systematic and iterative manner, incrementally learning and adapting to challenges that primarily arise from change management, and from the need to balance conflicting long term goals with short-term mandates. As enterprises undertake these continuum of transformation cycles, there is a recognized need to base these activities on a platform that serves as a centralized management medium to assess and measure the incremental benefits of each cycle and perform any necessary course correction.
This paper proposes to position m2Cloud as the focal of enterprise transformation, and be that platform to drive and manage individual, iterative transformation cycles. Offering capabilities such as asset meta-data repository, a self-service tools with global accessibility, and intuitive dashboards, m2Cloud platform can provide the foundation for assessment process automation and to aid in decision making. Additionally, m2Cloud could allow sharing of its data with other 3rd party tools across enterprise to promote consistency, maximize efficiency, and unlock insight that can only be drawn from collective, integrated data.
On the technical front, a distinctive feature of m2Cloud is that it is cloud-native application built on multi-tiered architecture, enabling it to intrinsically support required scalability and multi-tenancy. In addition, m2Cloud’s services can be offered as a service to clients, thus eliminating any need for upfront investment or IT footprint on the client side.
In general, leveraging appropriate tools such as m2Cloud, coupled with adoption of best practices and proper process governance, helps to accelerate activities, improve service efficiencies, and ensure that interim outcomes are cohesive with larger vision.
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m2Cloud as Focal of Enterprise Transformation
Mahesh Alampalli 