Enterprise Preparation for Cloud Migration: Assessment Phase
Hela Malouche, Youssef Ben Halima, Henda Ben Ghézala · 2017
Today, operational and business agility within organizations need to be improved to deal with the new challenges and seize the opportunities. Cloud computing is proving to be the key to achieve these goals. This technology allows to meet the organizations requirements and to benefit from virtually unlimited resources. However, the migration of information systems from the organization to a cloud environment is not trivial and requires considerable effort. The organization must follow a comprehensive process to ensure the migration of its information system. An exhaustive analysis and planning is required to ensure successful migration. Different cloud migration processes are proposed. However, we notice the lack of a migration process that is based on a detailed analysis of the information system and all its components, and that takes into account all the issues encountered during the migration. For this reason, in this work we propose a methodology to assess information systems components in order to help organizations make decisions during their journey towards cloud migration.