Microsoft is offering an excellent framework to support cloud migration and adoption process –Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)
The framework defined an iterative process with the following phases:
- Define Strategy
- Plan
- Ready
- Adopt
- Govern
- Manage
For each of them, Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) provides us a list of templates, tools, and assessment mechanisms that can help us to improve the adoption and migration process. Let's take a look at the ones for Adopt.
Strategic Migration Assessment and Readiness Tool
When you want to adopt cloud you need to be aware of all the dimensions that are impacted by the migration. This tool allows you to do an assessment of where you are in under 10 minutes and identify the dimensions that need to be improved to be able to achieve the adoption in a SMART way.
The covered dimensions are:
- Business strategy
- Partner support
- Discovery & Assessment
- Business case
- Migration Plan
- Technical Skilling
- Landing Zone
- Migration Execution
- Governance
- Management
Azure migration guide overview
This guide is used during the Adopt phase to ensure that we cover all the steps from the process. For each step, we have the full list of steps, tools, and best practices that need to be taken into account, covering:
- Assess
- Deploy
- Cost control
- Release
Azure innovation guide overview
The last tool that we have available for the Adopt phase is Azure Innovation Guide Overview. The guide supports us to improve the way how we drive adoption, build solutions, and engage with customers.
A list of services and tools are provided that helps us to:
- Manage customer feedback: Set up tools and processes to manage the build-measure-learn feedback loop by using GitHub and Azure DevOps.
- Democratize data: Data alone might be enough to drive innovative solutions to your customers. Deploy common data options in Azure.
- Engage via applications: Some innovation requires an engaging experience. Use cloud-native application platforms to create engaging experiences.
- Empower adoption: Invention is great, but a plan to reduce friction is needed to empower and scale adoption. Deploy a foundation for CI/CD, DevOps, and other adoption enablers.
- Interact through devices: Create ambient experiences to bring your applications and data closer to the customers' point of need. IoT, mixed reality, and mobile experiences are easier with Azure.
- Predict and influence: Find patterns in data. Put those patterns to work to predict and influence customer behaviors by using Azure-based predictive analytics tools.
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