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Why Business is Better in the CloudOctober 2016
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About Perficient
Perficient is the leading digital transformation consulting firm serving Global 2000 and
enterprise customers throughout North America.
With unparalleled information technology, management consulting, and creative capabilities, Perficient and its Perficient Digital agency deliver vision, execution, and value with outstanding digital experience, business optimization, and industry solutions.
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Perficient ProfileFounded in 1997
Public, NASDAQ: PRFT
2015 revenue $473.6 million
Major market locations:Allentown, Atlanta, Ann Arbor, Boston, Charlotte, Chattanooga, Chicago, Cincinnati, Columbus, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Fairfax, Houston, Indianapolis, Lafayette, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, New York City, Northern California, Oxford (UK), Southern California, St. Louis, Toronto
Global delivery centers in China and India
3,000+ colleagues
Dedicated solution practices
~95% repeat business rate
Alliance partnerships with major technology vendors
Multiple vendor/industry technology and growth awards
Victor WoltersDirector, Enterprise Cloud Strategist
Joel ThimsenDirector, Cloud and DevOps
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Velocity of Business
Agility & Scalability
Cost savings
Faster Innovation
Cloud ROI
Q&A
Agenda
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“By 2020, a corporate ‘no-cloud’ policy will be as rare as a corporate ‘no-internet’ policy is today.”
- Gartner
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• Think short-term
• Multi-speed business
• Governance appropriate response to new opportunities
Velocity of Business
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SHORT-TERM THINKING• Combined with longer-term
strategy• Ability to fail fast
Cloud Business Velocity MULTI-SPEED• Some fast• Some slow• Some medium
GOVERNANCE• Appropriate response to new
opportunities• Built-in organizational support
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Big Picture for Cost Savings
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HARD SAVINGS• Reduced spending on compute, storage,
networking, security• Avoidance of hardware and software purchases
(CapEx)• Reductions in operational costs, backup, and
DR/DC• Reduction in operations-oriented personnel
Cost SavingsSOFT SAVINGS• Re-use of services and applications that allow you
to define and redefine solutions using the same cloud services
• Increase developer productivity• Improved employee morale based on the use of
cloud-based resources• Ability to change business processes quickly around
new and emerging opportunities• Increase global reach
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Cloud Enables Cost-effective Operations
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PROBLEMS WITH CONVENTIONAL DR APPROACH
• High capital costs to build DR sites• High cost of storage, backups, tape, tools • Difficult to verify DR approach • Typically limited to critical systems• Challenging to setup and manage, especially
remote regions• Low ROI
Disaster Recovery is Better in the CloudBENEFITS OF CLOUD DR APPROACH
• Lower up-front investment and overall costs• On-demand capacity and scale• Recovery automation• Eliminate physical storage (tapes, disks)
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Disaster Recovery Architecture in the Cloud
Web Server
AppServer
DBServer
WebServer
AppServer
DBServerData
Replication
DNS
Minimal Instance
Not Running
Users / Systems
Cloud Platform
Corporate Data Center
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Disaster Recovery Architecture in the Cloud
Web Server
AppServer
DBServer
WebServer
AppServer
DBServerData
Replication
DNS
Expanded Instance
Running
Users / Systems
Cloud Platform
Corporate Data Center
X
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Disaster Recovery Economics in the Cloud
2nd Site Cost Cloud Cost Demand
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Test Test Failover
Failback
Infr
astr
uctu
re C
ost
Time
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Agility & Scalability
Operational agility is a top driver for global cloud buyers, according to a Gartner survey.*
* http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2923217
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Cloud IT Agility Business Agility
Corporate Performanc
e
Cloud Enables Agility
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M&A is Better in the Cloud
* Thomson Reuters. “Mergers & Acquisitions Review. Financial Advisors. First Half 2016.”
** Deloitte M&A Institute. “M&A Trends Report 2015: Our annual comprehensive look at the M&A market.”
Global M&As hit
USD $7 trillionin 2015, up 25% from 2014*
Shrink time- to-
close Accelerate IT-
dependent
synergies
Reduce contractu
al requireme
nt
Support multiple buyersShift for
CapEx to OpEx
expense
Reduce team size required
to support M&A
Shift focus away from
potential IT issues
Speed integratio
n activities
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• Standards, secure, connectivity, speed “built-in”• Application portfolio management• Automated CI/CD• Continuous DevOps• Machine learning• Big Data analytics
Faster Innovation
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• Rapid prototyping• Minimum viable products• A-B testing• Quick market validation• Idea discovery to market testing in weeks
Innovation Speed
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Cloud ROI is More than Cost Savings
Cloud ROI
BUSINESSVALUE
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• Increase on-boarding of new customers through multi-tenant SaaS
• On-demand service provisioning: reduced wait time from weeks to minutes
Increase Velocity of App Development
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Self-service & Automation: Standard Infrastructure Lifecycle
Source: www.ibm.com
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Self-service & Automation
Source: www.ibm.com
Standard Infrastructure Lifecycle
Replaced by the cloud
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Shift Resource Focus Up the Value Chain
Custom solution which requires focus on low-value activities, increasing cost.
Bespoke platform
Cloud Platform
No automation
Highly automated
Custom solution with some focus on high-value activities but at an increasing cost.
Cloud platform allowing focus on high-value activities improving overall ROI.
Managed solution eliminates some– but not all –low-value activities, limited improvement in ROI
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Shift Resource Focus Up the Value Chain
Bespoke platform Cloud platform
No automation
Highly automated
Manual environment build
Automated provisioning
Operating system management
Establish new business channel
Create new business capability
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1. Strong perimeters and surveillance
2. Controlled access
3. Cyber security expertise
4. Thorough and frequent auditing
5. Inherent complexity of cloud
Security is Better in the Cloud
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