Cloud Strategy and Advisory Services

Cloud-based solutions can provide great value, but understanding how to use them most efficiently while balancing cost, risk and performance is no easy task. Cognizant provides the balanced assessment you need to sort it all out.
 

Cloud-based services are here to stay, but employing them judiciously and effectively requires a thorough analysis of your current environment, along with future corporate goals. Cognizant helps companies wade through what’s real and what’s hype, finding the right balance of solutions and methodologies that will provide the most value for your business.

Services Offered

We offer a host of strategy and advisory services, including:

  • Initial Work Session. During this phase, we begin to understand your current environment, what you want to change, and what capabilities you require.
  • Cloud Suitability Assessment. A full evaluation of your needs and goals, along with a technology and cost-benefit analysis of which applications are the best candidates for moving to the cloud. This segment ends with recommendations, allowing customers to choose from among viable alternatives.
  • Cloud Tool Evaluation and Selection. To show customers what’s possible, Cognizant offers customers the chance to visit our GTO Cloud Platform facility, a proof-of-concept lab that allows customers to see how we design private/hybrid cloud environments with the GTO Cloud Solution.

So how do our engagements typically proceed?

Here is just one example: A leading media company engaged Cognizant to find the best way to grow their company without service interruptions and customer issues. We analyzed its existing environment and systems, recommending a move from physical infrastructure to a private cloud. The final solution included a private cloud architecture and its associated bill of materials, allowing for interoperability with the public cloud as needed.