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Introduction
ADAPT’s CIO Edge Survey from February 2022 shows that cloud-shift is accelerating; we forecast 50% of all workloads will operate in public cloud environments by 2023.
Increased adoption of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions underpins this trend, offering access to innovation that will benefit developers, corporate users, and the markets that they serve.
However, complexity remains. Without clear and realistic costs-to-value expectations, organisations’ ability to realise cloud-enabled outcomes is diminished. These challenges often manifest themselves in problems with governance, integration, and delivery.
Application leaders at large organisations can use these five best practices to develop the business case for SaaS, to identify and capture value in a complex application portfolio:
- Identify expected outcomes with scope for flexibility across the application portfolio.
- Investigate long-term cloud funding models to capture value for future change.
- Develop an overarching governance model to manage SaaS adoption effectively.
- Examine the SaaS integration model as a part of the overall application portfolio.
- Adapt existing delivery models to reduce risk and time to value.
