Cloud application assessment uncovers total cost of ownership and drives long-term cloud deployment strategy.
A financial services company wanted to conduct a cloud application assessment to determine the total cost of ownership (TCO) and advantages of transitioning to a public cloud delivery model.
ISG was engaged to validate, benchmark, and develop the costing structure to compare cloud providers, including Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.
In addition to the cloud application assessment, the company looked to ISG to create reusable pricing models to compare workload costs against different deployment models, including on-premises and the public cloud models, as well as different service models, including infrastructure-, platform- and software-as-a-service (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS).
ISG used technology provided through several partnerships and detailed proprietary cost models from our ISG Inform™ platform to assess the true TCO vs. just the cloud costs.
ISG applied our experience with SaaS- and IaaS-based solutioning and cloud sourcing best practices to determine the TCO for various cloud delivery and deployment models for both present and the future scenarios.
ISG collaborated with NPI and Gravitant, industry leaders of the ever-evolving cloud market, to ensure the company received the most current and representative pricing for various cloud services and had access to the latest thinking around cloud workload readiness and brokerage services.