At a technical level, cloud integrates applications, deployments and networks to produce more seamless business solutions. At a strategic level, cloud creates opportunities for organizations to create new digital services for customers and employees, make workloads more cost-effective and efficient — and generally enable the enterprise to respond at speed to changing needs during periods of disruption. High inflation and the threat of recession are only increasing the focus on whether to accelerate the movement of workloads to the cloud.
Capturing the benefits can be challenging, however. If you move workloads to the cloud but neglect to modernize them, for example, you may actually increase operating costs and fail to improve business agility.
Make sure to determine the relative priority of different strategic goals before proceeding with migration. Such goals might be to create new revenue opportunities, expand the customer base, improve customer experience or optimize costs.