Case Study
Building a Business Case for Migrating Apps to the Cloud
1 BACKGROUND One of our clients, a large U.S. bank, sought to realize the financial and productivity benefits offered by cloud computing such as the ability to: Building a Business Case for Migrating Apps to the Cloud OUR SOLUTION T o determine the best approach for migrating the client’s applications to the cloud, Candid developed a targeted, comprehensive business case with the client. The process began with identifying and assessing the client’s applications already in use and determining which are ready to move to the cloud. This stage was accomplished by using the client’s application inventory systems to catalog and filter out applications that were not cloud candidates such as vendor hosted, ready-to-retire, tools, desktop and legacy mainframe applications. This analys