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Cloud Sourcing

Alsbridge's Cloud Sourcing practice has helped organizations leverage cloud computing to avoid millions of dollars in capital expenditure and cut operating costs by as much as 70% - all while improving the scalability of their IT infrastructure and applications. Our cloud advisors use our database of cloud contract pricing and terms to give our clients the transparency and leverage necessary to make and execute informed business decisions. Alsbridge's data-driven cloud sourcing methodology can help your organization assess the unique risks and overcome the challenges to adopting cloud computing. Our experienced cloud advisors can help you overcome the technical challenge of assessing an application portfolio and IT architecture coupled with organizational challenges around building stakeholder consensus and a business case for moving to the cloud.

The existing technology market is being destroyed to make way for the new, faster-moving cloud services world. But an immature market provides both opportunities and pitfalls for today's IT executive. Every organization has unique risks and challenges to overcome before adopting cloud sourcing. Cloud services must coexist with existing delivery models, IT infrastructure, service provider relationships and internal processes. And once you move forward - which cloud service provider is the best fit for your organization? There are a multitude of emerging players in the market each offering very different services, but calling them all "cloud".

Alsbridge's suite of cloud sourcing services includes:

• Cloud Alignment Workshop
• Cloud Benchmark
• Strategy and Business Case
• Risk Assessment and Mitigation
• Application Suitability Assessment
• IT Architecture and Design
• Vendor Selection
• Prototype and Pilot(s)
• Contract Negotiation
• Organizational Change Management

Experienced Team

Alsbridge's team of cloud advisors includes former CIOs of Fortune 500 companies and senior executives from leading cloud service providers. We have an unmatched depth and breadth of experience in helping clients through an unbiased assessment of their options for buying cloud services. Our team of cloud advisors averages 20+ years of experience and includes experts in Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Business Process as a Service (BPaaS). Alsbridge's insider knowledge can provide transparency to the market and help mitigate the risks posed by leveraging cloud services. Every client receives a team of cloud advisors with deep experience in their industry vertical and subject matter expertise in the relevant cloud services being considered. Every one of our cloud advisors has received comprehensive training in the use of our methodology, tools and templates and is required to contribute back to our knowledge repository to ensure continuous improvement of best practices.

Methodology

Our data-driven cloud sourcing methodology, CloudSourceâ„¢, ensures consistent outcomes at each Alsbridge client. Our tools, templates and processes for each service offering have been honed over the course of 100's of engagements conducted over the years. Every Alsbridge cloud advisor is extensively trained in our methodology and contributes to its continuous improvement based on evolving market conditions and best practices. Our methodology provides the structure for efficient engagements with consistent outcomes while allowing for the flexibility needed to accommodate each individual client's situation and preferred approach.

CloudSourceâ„¢ is used to rapidly align organizational stakeholders around the selection and execution of one or more pilot projects that utilize one or more of the four basic cloud sourcing solution models. Cloud technologies provide the opportunity to turn up, transition and terminate service with relatively low start up costs enabling well chosen pilots to demonstrate the true benefits to the organization. Further, a pilot will pair a specific client application to a specific cloud solution provider or providers. The phases of CloudSourceâ„¢ are designed to educate stakeholders, identify potential pilot candidates, filter through them to select the best choices and related providers, and ultimately to execute the pilots and set a roadmap for the organizations future with cloud technologies.

Information Databases

Alsbridge's Cloud Sourcing 100 Index is an independent review of the service offerings and capabilities of 100 leading cloud service providers.  The content on each cloud services provider is derived from Alsbridge's primary industry research including many in–depth interviews with both CIOs and provider representatives. The system is not a ranking of the providers included, but rather is a classification system intended as a guide for identifying the cloud solution type, provider type, degree of customer control and unique features and characteristics of their respective delivery models and companies. Alsbridge cloud advisors also leverage our cloud benchmarking database to provide clients transparency into the different prices and pricing structures offered by cloud providers enabling an apples to apples comparison with other cloud providers as well as traditional IT services.

The Alsbridge Difference

Alsbridge does not sell cloud services nor do we take fees – or compensation in any other form – from cloud providers. Our team is completely unbiased ensuring we recommend the right vendor for you, not the vendor paying us behind the scenes. The breadth of the functions and products around which Alsbridge provides sourcing advisory services – IT infrastructure services, application services, network carrier services, business processes, hardware and software – positions us as one of the few firms that can take a holistic perspective and advise on the impacts to all of the components that will be affected by cloud sourcing. Our database has more data, our team has more experience and our methodology ensures consistent outcomes. Leveraging all three ensures you get to the optimal outcome in the shortest amount of time.

Contact us today to learn more about how Alsbridge can help you achieve your objectives.