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Cloud & Transformative  
Technologies Overview:

 

When dealing with Cloud and Transformative Technologies, it can be hard enough to keep up with the shifting landscape and marketplace, much less understand how to put these technologies to work for your business. Business leaders all over the globe are confirming that cloud computing has arrived as the next big disruptive technology.

 

StrataFusion’s Cloud & Transformative Technologies services help business and IT executives plan and execute Cloud projects as part of their overall business and IT strategies.  StrataFusion will help you transform your enterprise with Cloud strategic scenario and risk planning, Cloud market scans, Cloud vendor evaluations and strategic sourcing, and Cloud migration and transition plans.

Cloud & Transformative
Technologies Methodology:
 

StrataFusion’s proprietary and proven Cloud & Transformative Technologies implementation methodology represents a valuable toolkit that embodies our greatest asset: StrataFusion’s collective knowledge capital. It has been built over many years, across a multiplicity of engagements, and by the contribution of numerous seasoned management consulting  and IT thought-leaders.

 

Our methodology is used to bring StrataFusion's solutions to clients using a phased approach and proven best practices to deliver rapid returns and reduced risk.  It is empirical, comprehensive, and flexible with an underlying component framework that is mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive.  Our methodology lays out a distinct sequence and tasks for the completion of a Cloud and Transformative Technologies initiative optimizing the delivery of successful results.  For more details about our methodology, please contact Shevy Magen at smagen@stratafusion.com or +1 310 880 8788.


 
1.0 ASSESS

OVERVIEW

StrataFusion's Assessment stage helps optimize program decision-making by evaluating the current-state environment for all Cloud opportunities, their shortcomings, and the relative value of opportunities for each Cloud scenario under consideration for implementation.

SAMPLE DELIVERABLES (Partial List)

  • Strategic Cloud Drivers
  • Baseline Assessment(s)
  • Improvement Criteria
  • Scenario Analysis
2.0 DEFINE

OVERVIEW

The primary objective of StrataFusion's Definition stage is to create the definitive and authoritative position on the 'blueprint' for the program -- so that every individual and team is working towards the same goal, and that every stakeholder is expecting the same outcomes.

SAMPLE DELIVERABLES (Partial List)

  • Solution Requirements Functional Report
  • Conversion Data Models
  • Integration Diagrams
  • High-Level Action Plan
3.0 DESIGN

OVERVIEW

StrataFusion's detailed Design leadership translates requirements from the Definition stage into detailed specifications needed to support the Cloud transformation efforts including the applications configuration, system interfaces and data conversion necessary to ensure a successful program.

SAMPLE DELIVERABLES (Partial List)

  • User Interface Design
  • Business Component Design
  • Report Design
  • Data Mapping
  • Integration Design
  • Conversion Design
4.0 MODEL

OVERVIEW

StrataFusion's Model stage helps the project team focus on the implications generated by process gaps, which can be significant in terms of organizational cost and productivity loss. Therefore, it is imperative for the organization to execute comprehensive modeling and testing to ensure that the applications function properly prior to rollout.

SAMPLE DELIVERABLES (Partial List)

  • Solution Modeling & Test Approach
  • Executed Model Plans and & Test Scripts
  • Modeling & Testing Signoffs
  • Solution Acceptance
  • Contingency Planning and Documentation
5.0 MIGRATE

OVERVIEW

StrataFusion's Migration stage helps clients focus on the virtual Cloud transformation activities required for the organization to take ownership of the post-go-live production processes. We support execution against a pre-defined migration plan that coordinates the deployment of all solution components, including data, licenses, integration, and training.

SAMPLE DELIVERABLES (Partial List)

  • Executed Conversion and Integration Reports
  • Support Escalation Procedures
  • Inventory of Process Documentation
  • Contact and Support Procedures List
6.0 OPTIMIZE

OVERVIEW

StrataFusion's Optimization stage helps organizations to effectively manage the ongoing support of a Cloud solution, while ensuring that new business processes continue to meet targeted business requirements and are adopted effectively.

SAMPLE DELIVERABLES (Partial List)

  • Support Knowledge Base
  • Solution Evaluation Report
  • ROI Validation Report
  • Optimization Action Plan
PROGRAM / CHANGE MANAGEMENT

OVERVIEW

StrataFusion's Program Management leadership helps establish the creation of a Program Charter that articulates the purpose, scope, and operation of the PMO. StrataFusion's Change Management leadership helps to eliminate the program risk specifically associated with the human component of the change initiative by implementing methods for improving personnel acceptance and adoption.

SAMPLE DELIVERABLES (Partial List)

  • Program Charter
  • Program Management Standards
  • Communication Plan
  • Program Management Toolkit
  • Change Management Dashboard
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