Agile and highly scalable, flexibly configurable, and with automated availability – the cloud fits all the requirements for the digital transformation. Competitive advantages and time-to-market are the primary goals lining the route to the cloud.

If your company too is to utilise this potential, the right cloud strategy is required. Since companies in different industries are confronted with different (regulatory) requirements and processes, an appropriate overall package needs to be put together from a variety of technologies, concepts and providers. A package that best suits the company’s own business requirements, strategies and framework conditions.

Your business is unique. So is your path to the cloud. That’s why adesso offers you custom-fit and tried-and-tested solutions to migrate your IT to the cloud. We support you in establishing a cloud centre of excellence as part of a cloud adaption programme. The cloud centre of excellence ensures an optimal cloud strategy that can be supported by all stakeholders involved throughout the company.

The goal is clear: to benefit from the advantages of a well-designed cloud platform – from flexible resources to reduced costs. At the same time, all governance and compliance regulations must be met.

To help your company achieve these goals faster and more securely, we have developed a broad set of competencies and technologies with the adesso Cloud Platform Factory. The Cloud Platform Factory bundles together a host of technologies, project methods and best practices. Thanks to this standardised and automated framework, the path to an individual cloud infrastructure is safer, cheaper and also faster.

adesso supports you in mastering the complexity of the process with a systematic approach to setting up and implementing cloud projects. To do so, we rely on a four-step process that creates a strategic framework and facilitates operational implementation.

Cloud migration transformation initiatives align a growing number of people, processes and technologies. A track record of numerous successfully implemented cloud computing projects have made us a proponent of a holistic cloud readiness approach. We don’t just focus on the technological aspects.

Technology cloud readiness

adesso offers you frameworks and proven methods for the implementation of cloud transformation projects. State-of-the-art cloud technologies, services and products are complemented by the security of the technological cloud readiness perspective. Security is of top priority to us and we approach it as a job-zero task. We support you in successfully shaping the paradigm shift with regard to IT security. Cloud computing, container technologies, DevSecOps and IaC (Infrastructure as Code) are examples where modern security policies are required and conventional solutions – such as firewall rules – do not offer sufficient protection.

adesso possesses expertise in the following areas to help make your company cloud-ready:

• Cloud technology selection and feasibility
• Implementation and establishment of blueprints and technology stacks
• Cloud-based architectures and design principles (such as micro services and reactive systems)
• Realisation of IaaS and PaaS for the cloud transformation
• Implementation of the target platform (public/private/hybrid cloud platform)
• Enterprise cloud organisation (multi-accounts, multi-stage, landing zone)
• Compliance, security and audit

Business cloud readiness

The Business Cloud Readiness concept is designed to fine-tune IT to and align it with your business needs. This ensures that cloud-based IT developments can be attributed to verifiable business results. Cloud business case, cloud computing KPIs and risk management are examples of areas of expertise that are built and adapted in the cloud readiness business perspective. Our experts combine the business perspective with broad and specialised industry know-how.

Organisation cloud readiness

Managing the impact of business, structural and cultural changes that cloud computing entails is an organisational task. Accordingly, organisation cloud readiness is focused on organisational changes and human resources in the company. Qualification and further training measures – in addition to sourcing and vendor management – ensure that your employees have the necessary skills for cloud-based IT. We support you in this area with knowledge management approaches based on strong customer orientation and flexibility.

We rely on the in-depth dialogue we have with our technology partners, who help us to meaningfully enhance our range of services. In this way, we guarantee that the best and most effective provider is used in your cloud project.

adesso stands out thanks to its wide-ranging expertise and certified partner programmes with various cloud providers. These include:

• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Microsoft Azure
• Google Cloud
• Powercloud
• IBM/Red Hat OpenShift
• Salesforce/Mulesoft
• GAIA-X / IDS

We are networked with various research and teaching institutions and have a strong practical focus. These allow our experts to recognise future trends at an early stage and implement them successfully.