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The cloud as a lever for your business - The cloud as a pragmatic tool!

The use of the cloud plays a major role in the development and growth of companies because it multiplies the means for digital transformation and encourages innovation.

48%

Percentage of French companies really committed to the cloud

54%

mention the lack of time to upgrade their skills

49%

mention fear of the costs involved

39%

mention the complexity of implementation

The Cloud, for simplified business transformation

The Cloud can lower these barriers, and enable :

provision of the scalable and instantaneous capacity needed to meet the performance requirements of business development,
removing time-consuming technical constraints (management, security, etc.) and overall management as well as software and hardware updates, all of which are delegated,
providing new, more agile, rapid approaches to testing applications (testing, MVP), to pool numerous business or corporate applications (accounting, human resources, etc.).

Freed from technical operations (implementation, maintenance, software and hardware, etc.), the company is able to develop its IT tools more easily.

Backed by new technologies, the Cloud is evolving and opening up new horizons for the innovation process, which will in turn be able to accelerate. The development of artificial intelligence (AI) is the best illustration of this, in particular thanks to its capacity to reinforce task automation and predictive analysis.The company can focus on its core business and envisage new, faster and more agile innovation cycles, insofar as technological resources are no longer considered as a constraint but as an accelerator.At the same time, the DevOps culture has made its entry into organisations, allowing for better collaboration between teams

These two complementary approaches ensure faster deployment and better coordination between teams.

Considering FinOps from the start of the Cloud strategic reflexion phase

With the cloud, it is no longer the business that adapts to the infrastructure, but the other way around. You can use different levers to adapt cloud solutions to your business needs.
So the choice of a cloud can be made at different scales - that of an application, of a specific service - it is then up to the sponsors to determine the key factors.
It then becomes essential, especially in the case of a multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environment, to learn the right processes and to call on the right resources to manage.
Because let's be pragmatic and look beyond the promises of reactivity, autonomy and flexibility that the cloud offers: it is necessary to keep a good grip on investments by remaining particularly vigilant. The ease of access to the various resources must be kept under control so as not to generate unnecessary costs.

Optimise consumption and expenditure, pay only for what is consumed, have a cloud that is kept up to date, have procedures for opening/closing instances for single use only...

These are the issues that companies are facing as a result of their migration to the cloud and the related new billing methods.
FinOps (the alliance between finance and operations), which consists of monitoring, understanding and optimising this new model, must be considered throughout the Cloud project.
From the audit and strategic plan construction phases, in order to define the expected ROI, define the scope of the migration and the first "test" use cases, to divide up the decommissioning of "on prem" systems and to plan - if necessary - the rewriting of applications in DevOps.
During the construction phases of the Cloud strategy, in order to instruct the choice of provider, the choice of architecture, to update the BCP/PRA and all the compliance tracking and finally to divide up the platforms in order to control (monitor, manage) future consumption as best as possible.