Cloud Strategy and Innovation Consulting

Accelerating performance and rationalizing spend through cloud and hybrid IT approaches

Strengthen business and IT performance through strategic cloud assessment and adoption

Enterprise IT approaches that don’t incorporate public cloud resources are increasingly rare, and for good reason. A successful cloud strategy can deliver superior performance, security, and resilience, and the agility needed to support competitive advantage, business growth, and engagement with new markets. No less important, cloud adoption is essential to the integration and use of generative AI tools.  

Many organizations, however, lack the experience and insight needed to develop a successful cloud strategy. Without such a strategy, cloud adoption can be reactive and piecemeal, making it difficult to realize gains in business or financial performance, and creating the risk of diminished performance and user experience.  

In our Cloud Strategy and Innovation Consulting practice, we work with you to define the ways in which strategic cloud integration can improve business performance and IT effectiveness. BDO begins by working with you to assess the state of your IT ecosystem in the context of your larger business strategy. We then identify needs that aren’t currently being met, as well as areas in which business opportunities or digital innovations are limited by your current IT capability. 

With this assessment in hand, we will develop a cloud transformation strategy that can enable business agility, reduce risk, control costs, and enhance productivity — while helping transform IT from a limiting factor into a driver of competitive performance, enabling growth, streamlining acquisitions, and even freeing up financial resources that might otherwise go toward the maintenance of aging IT infrastructure. 

How BDO Can Help

Prepare for AI Adoption 

Generative AI tools require cloud-hosted data repositories. Accordingly, cloud adoption is a prerequisite for taking advantage of the capabilities and potential of AI. BDO can help you select and onboard the necessary cloud resources and support the necessary data migration.  

Amplify Business Agility 

The inherent flexibility of public cloud resources gives an organization the ability to rapidly scale capabilities as needed — supporting new initiatives, rapid growth, acquisitions, and more.  

Enhance Security and Resilience 

Public cloud resources are secured by the cloud provider, helping reduce the cost and effort required to secure traditional infrastructure. And the built-in resilience of cloud resources can support highly cost-effective recovery in the event of disruption or disaster.  

Reduce Capital Expenditure 

In shifting from traditional IT infrastructure to cloud resources, you can reduce the cost of IT hardware and maintenance, and reduce your obligations for periodic, lifecycle-based upgrades. In addition, the use of cloud resources can eliminate the need to overprovision IT against possible future needs.

Gap Analysis and Cost Reduction  

The cloud readiness assessment that’s part of our Cloud Strategy and Innovation Consulting offering can help identify gaps between the capability you need and the resources and infrastructure you’re paying for — with these gaps representing opportunities to realize savings. 

Rationalize Licensing Spend 

Our Active Insights assessment process includes licensing evaluation that can help identify areas in which your organization is not gaining full value from your licensed software and services, including cloud engagements. BDO can help you reduce unnecessary spend while increasing the adoption and use of the technologies you’re already licensing.  

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