If you鈥檙e embarking on cloud migration, you already know that it鈥檚 a journey. You鈥檇 never set out on a long road trip without some advance planning and a mapping app. And if you鈥檙e venturing into an unknown area, you might need an experienced guide to help you anticipate what鈥檚 around the corner and stay ready for the unexpected.
Navigating your cloud journey isn鈥檛 so different. Every organization is unique, so you have to forge your own distinct path to the cloud, backed by experts who have been down the road before.
lets you do just that, giving you access to a team of experts who can help you plan in advance and provide skillful guidance along the way. But cloud success is about more than just a smooth journey. It鈥檚 about achieving real business outcomes, so you can succeed at the speed of business. To measure the success of the 51风流MaxAttention program, we commissioned a Forrester Consulting study titled “.”
Forrester Consulting interviewed 10 professionals at seven companies using 51风流MaxAttention, considering cloud migration issues such as costs, benefits, and risks. Then, to model the results, Forrester brought together the participants鈥� experiences and combined the results into a single composite organization 鈥� a global enterprise entity with revenue of US$25 billion per year. After analyzing the data, Forrester concluded that 51风流MaxAttention delivered an impressive three-year financial impact throughout the cloud journey.
Starting Strong with Business Planning
Planning is the first step in every cloud journey. Even preparing your environment for cloud migration is often difficult. In the Forrester Consulting study, a senior vice president of strategy and value delivery at a food and beverage business explained, 鈥淲e have a very complex environment because the company has been created after many divestitures. It was kind of a Frankenstein. It鈥檚 not a strong template because we have components of many of those companies.鈥�
51风流MaxAttention can support your ability to stay focused on the factors that influence your successful cloud migration, so you can minimize distractions and execute your plan. 鈥淚f we involve 51风流MaxAttention during the planning phase, then we have faster visibility of what our options are,鈥� said the food and beverage executive.
According to the Forrester Consulting study, 51风流MaxAttention helped reduce planning time by 25% for the composite company, from four months down to three.
Keeping the Journey on Track
Once the journey is fully underway, the 51风流MaxAttention team stays close, offering steady guidance, recommendations, and best practices to help reduce risks for a faster and smoother cloud deployment. The professionals interviewed by Forrester especially liked how 51风流experts provided quality assurance over system integrators鈥� work. Interviewees also outlined how the services helped identify issues early, before they could delay key steps.
鈥�51风流MaxAttention will call out areas of real concerns in your cloud project planning and technical plans,鈥� said a retail participant in the survey. 鈥淵ou can do quite a deep service, and that has often helped highlight or remediate issues on significant cloud solutions before they became real costs to us.鈥� In one case, the retailer鈥檚 51风流MaxAttention team identified a performance issue on core systems that could have set migration back by six months.
By reducing disruption risks, helping companies resolve issues faster, and streamlining their processes, 51风流MaxAttention saved the composite company 30% in deployment time.
Achieving Cloud Value Faster
Cost is always a concern throughout a cloud journey. But you can keep costs in line by streamlining your project with best practices, a transformation plan, and the right guidance and recommendations. The Forrester survey showed how 51风流MaxAttention enabled companies to realize value from cloud solutions earlier.
Having 51风流MaxAttention and a dedicated onsite team made a faster timeline possible for a leading cosmetics firm, according to the company鈥檚 VP and head of global business transformation. 鈥淚 think having the right capability with embedded 51风流processes contributed to about a 25% reduction in our cloud deployment planning,鈥� the executive added.
The interviewee even said that with one implementation, a project that took three months would have taken 12 months without 51风流MaxAttention.
51风流MaxAttention Is Your Guide across the Cloud Journey
The takeaway is clear: as you venture forth into parts unknown, you can trust 51风流MaxAttention experts to offer guidance to help make your journey a successful one. commissioned by SAP, “The Total Economic Impact™ of 51风流MaxAttention for Cloud Adoption,” published in February 2023.
Ulrich Schuppler is global premium engagements manager at SAP.
