Transitioning to cloud business: Best practices for ISVs

DUBLIN: Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Transitioning to Cloud Business: Best Practices for ISVs" report to their offering.

The authors work with hundreds of ISVs indicates that for many software providers, the technical aspects of the transition to the Cloud are often fairly well understood - even if the roadmap for success may take some time. However, what is less understood, and more dangerous to IT providers, are changes that are required in other areas of the business that are typically much deeper and harder to execute, and often entail much more risk.

Among the key challenges in the move to the Cloud are:

- Executive/Financial

- Technology

- Operations

- Sales and Marketing

- Partnering and Alliances

- Organization and Culture

In fact, this is not merely a move to the Cloud but rather a transition to entirely new ways of doing business. An emergent business and IT architecture now enables a highly-interwoven, loosely-coupled business and IT environment that the author calls The Boundary-free Enterprise.

This Boundary-free Enterprise is driven by Cloud, and also by its sister business technologies:Mobility, Social and Advanced Analytics. Central to this future will be loosely coupled approaches linking systems, people and business processes on a dynamic, as-needed basis with hybrid Cloud and on-premises deployment models common for most business and IT environments.

This report provides guidance to ISVs in transition not just to the Cloud - but to entirely new ways of doing business, new requirements from customers and partners, and new opportunities that enable significant reward, and related potential risk. Thus the report shares not only the authors analysis of key market shifts, and the key challenges faced by ISVs in these transitions, but also provides ISVs with critical success factors and best practices from more than seven years of the authors research and business consulting with a diverse range of software providers around the world.