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Enabling your cloud transformation by design

Leverage cloud to supercharge your digital journey

DELIVER DIGITAL AT THE SPEED AND SCALE OF CLOUD

To empower the digital objectives of your business, it is essential to define where and how cloud can deliver maximum benefits. Cognizant Cloud Consulting enables and structures your cloud journey to help you achieve business agility and digital transformation.

With software vendors now offering subscription-based services instead of licensed products (e.g., Microsoft Office365, Salesforce.com and Workday), enterprises are adopting multiple cloud services across the organization. They are also seeking additional cloud services to reduce datacenter investments through infrastructure and functions as a service (e.g., Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure Active Directory). In addition, the increasing number of industry-specific cloud services gives enterprises a way to modernize their digital operations.

On the flip side, enterprises now face maturation issues, where cloud governance, costs, security, compliance, privacy, DevSecOps and management are fragmented across the organization. Cognizant Cloud Consulting offers forward-looking points of view, industry benchmarks and frameworks to align cloud operations to the digital objectives of the enterprise. 

Cognizant Cloud Consulting’s key tenet is Cloud Transformation by Design. This starts with cloud-first, innovation-first, capability-first and secure-first aspects that define the relevant principles on which enterprises can build the most effective cloud operating model. Then, the transformation phase aligns and optimizes cloud initiatives and operations across the enterprise to achieve higher levels of maturity. Change management, along with selected professional and managed services from Cognizant’s extensive cloud portfolio, deliver successful outcomes.

OFFERINGS

DIGITAL SUCCESS, LED BY CLOUD

Cognizant Cloud Consulting continuously leverages extensive client engagements to construct modernization frameworks, benchmark operating models and refine change management for successful end-to-end cloud deployment and utilization.

  • CLOUD TRANSFORMATION BY DESIGN

    ASSESS AND RECOMMEND

    Strategy 

    • Develop customized end states for cloud-first, agile-first, capability-first and secure-first


    Assess & recommend

    • Calibrate ability to ramp up on cloud programs across people, process, application suitability, infrastructure, DevSecOps, organizational/financial and risk management
    • Develop roadmaps for supporting customer success


    Governance

    • Design charter, build turn-key models and run Cloud Business Office that undertakes a unified responsibility across governance, investments, program management, progress monitoring against key success factors and communications.
    • Orchestrate the cloud program across three tiers:
      • Enterprise—where clouds support the enterprise digital agenda, M&A integration and financial re-engineering of technology and operating models 
      • Programs—where specific functional initiatives such as clouds for industry, CRM, SCM, HCM and datacenter-like capabilities, are transformed across divisions 
      • Project or Platforms—where specific IaaS, PaaS and SaaS clouds, such as Salesforce, O365, Workday, AWS and Azure, as well as deployment, optimization, security or compliance are undertaken
  • RIGHT-SELECTED CLOUD MIGRATIONS

    PATTERN AND PARTNER

    Cloud Steps 

    • Patterns IT landscape across applications and infrastructure and applies Cognizant’s proven 6R methodology for migration strategy and plan


    Partnered fitments 

    • Custom strategies aligned to our partner platforms (AWS, Azure, Google, VMware, Salesforce, SAP, Oracle, Microsoft and many more)
    • Develop a migration execution plan for public, hybrid and private clouds
  • EFFICIENT CLOUD OPERATIONS

    OPERATIONS AND SERVICE

    Operating model 

    • Enablement of cloud business office that manages the alignment of operational model and platform strategies with continuous improvement of service levels


    Service management

    • Design and plan for resources fitment, user consumption and thresholds, billing and chargeback, and consistent SLAs across cloud providers
  • CLOUD SERVICE ASSURANCE

    ENHANCE AND MODERNIZE

    Capability enhancement 

    • Design considerations for continuous automation, faster deployment of apps


    Modernization of DevSecOps 

    • Adoption of cloud-native approach with microservices and containerization


    Service integrity 

    • End-to-end approaches for performance, scalability, resiliency, security and DR
  • TRUSTED SECURITY AND COMPLIANCE

    RISK MANAGEMENT AND REAL-TIME ASSURANCE

    Tiered security architectures 

    • Assessments and design approaches for tiered security between platforms and services, leveraging in situ, third party and SaaS


    Policy persistence 

    • Information risk management and security component policy orchestration and design


    Near-real-time compliance  

    • Approaches for automation of controls to enable real-time assurance

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Informatica
Google Cloud
Microsoft
Oracle
Pega
Salesforce
SAP Global Partner
ServiceNow

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May 27, 2020
Cognizant recognized as a Leader in Gartner's 2020 Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud Infrastructure Professional and Managed Services, Worldwide

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