Cloud Strategy Paving your path to the cloud with confidence Looking to modernize and innovate by leveraging the cloud? Establishing a strategy is about more than just moving data and applications to the cloud. We help organizations create a cloud strategy that aligns with their business priorities, create solutions to optimize performance, and realize returns while managing costs. Create a Cloud Strategy that Drives ROI Pro Briefcase Develop and Refresh a Cloud Strategy What is the best way to leverage cloud capabilities in your company? Align them with your business objectives. We help organizations establish an initial strategy or refresh an existing cloud strategy, including what, who, and how the cloud will drive value. Pro Building office Assess Cloud Readiness Identify the benefits and risks of expanding in the cloud, learn common strategies, and understand the stages of the Cloud Adoption Framework to inform, educate, and identify where your organization resides in cloud maturity and readiness for your cloud journey. Pro Document Consent Establish Cloud Governance and Control Take control of cloud growth and adoption. Establish standards to deploy cloud solutions in an automated, secure, and cost-effective manner. We’ll assess current—and design new—cloud controls and policies as needed to adhere to changing regulations and environments. Pro Document Stack Optimize Cloud The rapid expansion of cloud adoption can often lead to underutilized capacity and increased cloud cost. We help you analyze your system usage and architecture to understand if there are opportunities to increase cost, resource, or performance efficiency. Pro Legal Briefcase Manage Cloud Spend Juggling multiple cloud providers, various tiers (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), and chargebacks from your cloud environments? Implement automated monitoring and processes that enable analysis, planning, and optimization of cloud platform spend. Pro Location Globe Cloud Sustainability Progress your Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) goals via smart cloud service selection and architecture. We help organizations leverage Cloud ESG data for reporting and gain visibility and control of their ESG impact. Pro Rightmark Square Cloud Audit & Remediation Have a list of audit findings or preparing for a regulatory audit of your cloud environment but don’t have the resources to prepare or respond quickly? We know what it takes to audit a cloud environment and remediate findings to satisfy auditors and regulators. Our Approach Our focus is to ensure all stakeholders align with the cloud strategy Our focus is to ensure all technology and business stakeholders align with the cloud strategy. We ensure they understand the intended business outcomes and maintain consensus through processes such as architecture steering committee and various governance models. This will enable accelerated cloud adoption while balancing risk with the realization of business objectives. Our focus is to ensure all stakeholders align with the cloud strategy Key Partners We believe our partnerships play a key role in driving collective success for our customers. Therefore, we partner with the largest cloud service providers and use leading cloud tools to support your technology modernization journey. Our professionals are digitally native with extensive skills and experience and stay up to date in cloud technologies. Collectively, this combination of expertise and partnerships enables us to better understand your business challenges and provide integrated, holistic solutions that support your goals and deliver value through our complementary strengths. Leadership Randy Armknecht Randy Armknecht is a Managing Director currently leading the Global Cloud Advisory practice within Enterprise Cloud. Randy partners with clients to improve the value of their cloud environments. This includes: stronger governance, operational resiliency, and well ... Learn More David Kissane David is a managing director and Protiviti’s global enterprise cloud solution lead. His primary focus is driving the growth and implementation of our cloud services across the globe. David has over 22 years’ experience across a variety of industries and senior IT ... 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