Moving to the cloud takes a lot of planning, and it must start with a process that includes organizational readiness, application discovery, and assessments.

The goal is to obtain a gap analysis, so that you know what applications can be moved smoothly (retained as is) and which will require one of several solutions – re-factoring, re-hosting, re-platforming, re-purchasing, or retiring.

A cloud readiness assessment is a process, involving an itemized list of applications and data that you want to move to the cloud and whether these can be moved with minimal impact on your business operations, as the transition proceeds. The assessment will tell you what steps will need to occur in order for the migration to proceed smoothly.