Skip to content
CTP is part of HPE Pointnext Services.   Explore our new services here →
  • The Doppler Report
Cloud TP Logo
  • Thought Leadership
  • Clients
  • Services
  • Careers
  • Contact Us

Cloud Technology Partners

CLOUD SERVICES

  • The Cloud Adoption Program
  • Application Migration
  • Software Development
  • Infrastructure Modernization
  • DevOps & Continuous Delivery
  • Cloud Security & Governance
  • Cloud Strategy Consulting

TECH DOMAIN

  • Amazon Web Services
  • Google Cloud Platform

ABOUT US

  • Company Overview
  • Leadership Team
  • Partners
  • News & Recognition
  • Announcements
  • Weekly Cloud Report
  • Client Case Studies
  • Events

CAREERS

  • Join Us
  • Job Opportunities
 Cloud Technology Partners
  • Doppler Home
  • Client Case Studies
  • Podcasts
  • Videos
  • White Papers
  • Quarterly
  • Events
  • Subscribe

7 Cloud Software Development Projects that Consistently Get Funded

To move your software development project forward, look beyond cost savings.
Erik Sebesta Former CATO, Co-Founder
December 11, 2015September 7, 2016 THE DOPPLER
Share this 
doppler_mail1

For more content like this, Get THE DOPPLER
email every Friday.
 
Subscribe here  chevron_right

Pitching costs savings alone is rarely enough to get cloud development initiatives funded. Instead, focus on the strategic benefits of cloud software modernization and development including improved agility, increased performance and faster time to market.

Here are 7 types of cloud development projects that we’ve seen consistently receive funding and move forward successfully.

1) Quick wins to show it can be done

Proof of concepts and quick wins involve minimal risk while showing clear business value. For example, an electronics provider wanted to combine billions of data points with Google Cloud and BigQuery to create a clear picture of their worldwide device manufacturing. We built a working prototype in 3 weeks to demonstrate the viability and business value of handling Big Data analytics on Google. Once executives saw the prototype, they funded and implemented a full project.

2) Applications supporting global business growth

Public clouds are great for global deployments of applications with modern, mostly cloud-ready architectures. These applications gain significant improvements in both performance and uptime when properly deployed on the cloud. For global customer facing applications, even modest performance improvements deliver far-reaching downstream benefits.

3) Security, monitoring and management solutions

Legacy security monitoring and management solutions are being replaced by a new breed of SaaS offerings that are globally scalable, high speed, and provide near-real-time analytics. Plus, these leading-edge solutions integrate data from multiple systems to reduce business and operational risk. They are very good candidates to get the green light for funding.

4) Key applications with frequent unplanned outages

Mission-critical applications that suffer from frequent outages and poor SLA compliance are major blockers to business growth and therefore prime candidates for modernization. We worked with a Fortune 100 insurance provider to assess a list of their 50 most troubled applications. The assessment produced very good candidates for modernization which aligned business with IT in the justification to move forward.

5) Software handling large user bases with little automation

This type of application modernization project focuses on DevOps, automation and streamlined user onboarding. Assessing applications with large user bases, high usage rates, and low user satisfaction frequently uncovers valuable opportunities for business process automation. One client’s legacy application used to take 85 days to onboard new customers. After automation, we reduced onboarding time to 20 days, cutting the number of required resources in half.

6) High business value applications with spiky traffic

Traditionally, applications that deal with highly variable traffic required business workarounds to throttle incoming requests to what systems can handle. Modernizing applications to run on the cloud removes these throughput barriers. Facing huge spikes in traffic during the holiday shopping season, one client was limited to 20 transactions per second on their ecommerce website. We re-architected their application to handle 2,000 transactions per second, enabling an additional $5,000,000 in revenue on Cyber Monday.

7) Batch analytics applications

When collecting and analyzing near-real time data is critical for business productivity, modernizing batch analytics applications is a must. An agriculture co-op wanted to provide their farmers with an integrated application for analyzing field and crop data, so we designed and built a data exchange platform on Google Cloud Platform. Because farmers and retailers no longer had to manually enter crop data, their productivity skyrocketed.

Although most enterprises are committed to embracing a holistic move to the cloud, IT leaders must still present compelling reasons to justify the investment. For the strongest business case, look beyond the cost savings and focus on how modernizing your applications will enable you to be more agile, more secure, more scalable, more productive and, ultimately, more competitive.

Share this


Related articles

 

5 Steps to Building a Cloud-Ready Application Architecture

 

Feeding 10 Billion People

 

Using Drones to Make Our Railroads Safer

Related tags

Application Development   Digital Innovation

Erik Sebesta

Erik Sebesta is the former Chief Architect and Technology Officer (CATO) and co-founder of CTP.

Full bio and recent posts »

Find what you're looking for.

Visit The Doppler topic pages through the links below.

PLATFORMS

AWS
CTP
Docker
Google
IBM
Kubernetes
Microsoft Azure
OpenStack
Oracle
Rackspace

BEST PRACTICES

App Dev
App Migration
Disaster Recovery
Change Management
Cloud Adoption
Cloud Economics
Cloud Strategy
Containers
Data Integration
DevOps
Digital Innovation
Hybrid Cloud
Managed Services
Security & Governance

SUBJECTS

Big Data
Blockchain
Cloud Careers
CloudOps
Drones
HPC
IoT
Machine Learning
Market Trends
Mobile
Predictive Maintenance
Private Cloud
Serverless Computing
Sustainable Computing
TCO / ROI
Technical "How To" Vendor Lock-In

INDUSTRIES

Agriculture
Energy & Utilities
Financial Services
Government
Healthcare
Manufacturing
Media & Publishing
Software & Technology
Telecom

EVENTS

CES
DockerCon
Google NEXT
Jenkins
re:Invent


 

Get The Doppler

Join 5,000+ IT professionals who get The Doppler for cloud computing news and best practices every week.

Subscribe here


Services

Cloud Adoption
Application Migration
Digital Innovation
Compliance
Cost Control
DevOps
IoT

Company

Overview
Leadership
Why CTP?
News
Events
Careers
Contact Us

The Doppler

Top Posts
White Papers
Podcasts
Videos
Case Studies
Quarterly
Subscribe

Connect

LinkedIn
Twitter
Google +
Facebook
Sound Cloud

CTP is hiring.

Cloud Technology Partners, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, is the premier cloud services and software company for enterprises moving to AWS, Google, Microsoft and other leading cloud platforms. We are hiring in sales, engineering, delivery and more. Visit our careers page to learn more.

CWC-blue-01

© 2010 - 2019 Cloud Technology Partners, Inc., a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. All rights reserved. Here is our privacy policy CTP, CloudTP and Cloud with Confidence are registered trademarks of Cloud Technology Partners, Inc., or its subsidiaries in the United States and elsewhere.

Do Not Sell My Personal Information

  • Home
  • Cloud Adoption
  • Digital Innovation
  • Managed Cloud Controls
  • The Doppler Report
  • Clients
  • Partners
  • About CTP
  • Careers
  • Contact Us
  • Most Recent Posts
  • All Topics
  • Podcasts
  • Case Studies
  • Videos
  • Contact
Our privacy statement has been changed to provide you with additional information on how we use personal data and ensure compliance with new privacy and data protection laws.  
Please take time to read our new Privacy Statement.
Continue