The cloud is changing everything. Change occurs every day in the cloud services market. Changes to solutions, services, pricing models, consumption models, and locations all lead to different strategies, technology choices, economic impacts, and risk profiles.
Today, it is a normal process for the consumer to express what solution and solution components they require in the form of an RFI, RFP, RFQ, or some other type of requirements document, emailing a spreadsheet, for example. The consumer expresses what their experts need based on a mix of data sources, including business requirements, current state information, and the latest innovative articles read by a partially involved IT leader. Requirements are sent to one or more providers with the providers expected to respond to what is requested. Pricing is normally added and the response returned...