Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework

The Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure is a collection of documentation, technical guidance, best practices, and tools that aid in aligning business, organizational readiness, and technology strategies. This alignment enables a clear and actionable journey to the cloud that rapidly delivers on the desired business outcomes.

The Cloud Adoption Framework contains detailed information to cover an end-to-end cloud adoption journey.

It begins with setting the business strategy, which should align to actionable technology projects that deliver on the desired business outcomes.

It then describes how the organization must:

  • Prepare its people with technical readiness.
  • Adjust processes to drive business and technology changes.
  • Enable business outcomes through the implementation of the defined technology plan.


Define strategy

Organizations adopt the cloud to help drive business transformation, such as processes and product improvement, market growth, and increased profitability. Let’s look at the most common motivation triggers for cloud adoption.

Motivations


Organizations find different triggers to adopt new technologies like Azure. Some triggers drive the organization to migrate current applications. Other triggers require creation of new capabilities, products, and experiences.

Some common migration and innovation triggers include:
  • Preparation for new technical capabilities
  • Gaining scale to meet market or geographic demands
  • Cost savings
  • Reduction in vendor or technical complexity
  • Optimization of internal operations
  • Increased business agility
  • Improvements to customer experiences or engagements
  • Transformation of products or services
  • Disruption of the market from new products or services
How does Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework help us?

Where ever you are on this Cloud Journey, CAF will undoubtedly have some value to add, obviously its difficult to pick out one main thing where is can help, however, what I have found incredibly useful are the resources and tools that Microsoft have made available for each section of CAF. See the here:https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/reference/tools-templates

The Microsoft Docs articles will help guide you through the options that you can consider and will get you on the right track for the types of questions you should be asking yourself or the business in order to develop your strategy that will form the basis of a successful first project into the Cloud.

Microsoft has developed the Well architected framework and Landing Zone Blueprints to help get you started with a way of working!

I hope this has been informative and thank you for reading!

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