An Integral Framework For Realising Control During Cloud Transition

Abstract

Digitisation of businesses and keeping up with technological trends has become a pivotal factor for organisations to remain competent in the current market. Owing to the array of advantages that the Cloud offers many businesses have been moving towards cloud-based environments. A technological transition like Cloud adoption is often not restricted to a technological change but also influences every other aspect. Because of the agile nature of the process, it is often complex and convoluted. Given the large spectrum of possibilities, multiple organisations and academic researchers over time have explored this line of interest to create generic frameworks to help companies move from on-premise to cloud. This scientific research was also directed towards creating a generic framework for the cloud transition. The goal of this research is “To develop an integral framework to assist companies in realising control while moving their applications to the cloud”. The integral framework is aimed to function as a generalised document by integrating various aspects, actors and factors to help organisations plan end-to-end strategies and thus to realise control. The framework includes a governance module that addresses 5 broad aspects required to formulate an End-to-End strategy, namely, Business and IT Drivers, Cost, Security, People and Resources and Platform and Operations. There are about 15 agile steps in the hybrid cloud transition process. For every step in the critical path, the governance module is considered. The possible challenges and boundary conditions are addressed and included in the framework design. The detailed steps- and aspects-based organisational measures list is made with best practice guidelines to increase transparency. Finally, the integral framework is evaluated at organisational contexts and conclusions are derived.