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Business Analysis In Times Of Cloud
Ambarish Purohit
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Agenda
• Why is the CIO Smiling?
• Case Studies
• Opportunities and challenges cloud brings to business analysis?
• What should the BA do?
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Take Away
• What will I get to learn, by investing my time in this presentation
I. Fundamentals of Cloud computing.
II. Template to figure out current enterprise application adaptability for cloud movement.
III. To be or not to be on cloud.
IV. How can you suggest what type of cloud to move into.
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Why is the CIO smiling?
• How do they manage Millions of Hits in a matter of seconds? What’s the secret?
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Why is the CIO smiling?
• How do they manage Millions of Hits in a matter of seconds? What’s the secret?
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Why is the CIO smiling?
• How do they manage Millions of Hits in a matter of seconds? What’s the secret?
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Why is the CIO smiling
One Common Solution
The ability to respond to
Scaled up requests,
Trust worthy availability all times,
Manage change with no down time and all of this
At no upfront cost, and that’s why the CIO is smiling.
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Case Studies
• On Demand CRM
• Knowledge Management Application
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Case Study – On Demand CRM
• Background • No Single Version of truth data
available at all times.
• Problem • From customer lead to confirmed
projects all on excel documents.• Sales data, person dependent.• On demand data analysis not available.
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Case Study On Demand CRM
• Solution• SAAS - CRM
• Issues• Integration • Change management• Water fall changes on enterprise
apps• Stakeholders resistance
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Case Study – Knowledge Management App
• Background• Company getting type casted as
portal company
• Problem• Attrition in key verticals• Knowledge loss• Long time for new employees to
catch up
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Case Study - Knowledge Management App
• Solution• Google Apps for business
• Issues• High Cost• ROI • Vendor history of compromising client
data (NSA)• Implementation by third party vendors
adding additional layer for beaurocracy
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Fundamentals of cloud computing
Deployment Models
Service Models
I. SAAS – Software As ServiceII. PAAS – Platform as ServiceIII. IAAS - Infrastructure As Service
I. Private CloudII. Public CloudIII. Hybrid CloudIV. Community Cloud
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Opportunities Cloud brings to business
Scalability
Availability
Adaptability
Unlocking Local Hardware Limitation
Multi Touch Points
Automated Backup
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Challenges cloud brings to business
Security
Risk
Loss Of Control
Ownership Cost
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Challenges cloud brings to business - ctd
Breach
Data Protection
Disaster Recovery & Back Up
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What Should The BA’s Do?
Do you know what cloud is?How Cloud Works?
Cloud Pricing Models & Vendors
Tools• Development• Deployment• Testing • Monitoring
The emphasis here is to have a 360 degree view of cloud computing..so that you can make better decisions and provide meaningful and cost effective solutions to your business
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What should the BA’s do ? continued
What is the user base ? What is the profile of the user base? Application Stability.
What is the data sensitivity required? Application Availability
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What should the BA’s do ? continued
Terms & Conditions, Uptime & Downtime Legal aspects
Activity Level on application Interface limitations? Approval From Risk Office
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What should the BA’s do - continued
Is my enterprise cloud ready?
Cloud adoption for an Organization is • No more a strategic move. • Becoming an essential part of its existence & operational need.
The following template helps understand the current enterprise readiness for cloud adoption.
BusinessAnalyisInTimesOfCloud-Template.xlsx
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What should the BA’s do - continued
How to pick which application is suitable for Cloud?
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The applications circled are the candidate applications for cloud movement.
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What should the BA’s do - continued
How to select which type of deployment model
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These are scatter charts of applications rated on the following parameters on a scale of 1 to 10. Usability, Availability, Data Protection, Risk Rating
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What should the BA’s do - continued
Risk Office is watching you.
# App Name
Dependent Apps
CRO rating Data Entity Approval for Cloud Movement
1 High
Med
Low
Can be moved
Cannot be moved
Yes / No
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What should the BA’s do - continued
Make Or Buy Cloud based Application?
The make or buy decision of a cloud application will now include the additional analysis of
• Deployment Type
• Crowd sources Features
• WYSWYG
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What should the BA’s do - continued
Enough of cloud, get my application back.What if client wants to get the application
back on premise from cloud.
Plan to ensure the journey back to “on premise” is smooth.
As James Bond says “No matter how good a spy you are, always have a escape plan.
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Summary
While Ba’s get lured by cloud computing forLow up front costScalabilityAvailabilityAuto back up Attention needs to be given to Data protectionRisk of being not on premiseBreaches UsabilityEnterprise applications architecture stability
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• http://www.information-age.com/technology/applications-and-development/824632/cloud-computing-in-the-enterprise
• http://www.elementallinks.com/2009/09/29/cloud-computing-picks-for-business-analysts/• http://www.technologyreview.com/article/413981/conjuring-clouds/page/2/• http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/interviews/blog/business-analysts-will-be-
central-to-cloud-computing/?cs=45392&page=2• Concepts-Challenge-Opportunity Of Cloud-For-BA – Charu Agarwal – DOCS – Ajay kumar Garg college
Ghaziabad UP.
Credits
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