When designing and building a business case for a cloud computing solution, the following metrics can assist with aligning a prospective solution with the business or mission need:
- Time: Cloud solutions optimize time required to deliver or execute business processes by decreasing the time required to provision resources or time required to consider multi-sourcing options. It can also decrease the time required to achieve specified goals associated with information technology services. This value also leads to a faster realization of reduced IT total ownership costs.
- Cost: Cloud computing can optimize ownership use by reducing the application portfolio total cost of ownership. This is realized through license cost reduction, open source adoption, and SOA reuse adoption. Cloud also optimizes the cost associated with delivering a specified IT service capacity by aligning...