Tech Equity

Transitioning to Cloud

We enable organizations to develop a clear cloud strategy and adoption roadmap for moving up the value chain.

We enable organizations to reduce costs and minimize risks associated with cloud technology implementation.

We enable organizations to maximize their return on investment in adopting and delivering cloud services to their clients.

Why Should Organizations Capture the Potential of Cloud?

  • How can I ensure that IT is aligned with the business?
  • How can I optimize IT costs?

Many organizations are seeking to improve the impact of IT on the business cost effectively. Inefficiencies in IT operations have been well documented in recent studies. In a US Department of Energy study, as much as 85 percent of computing capacity was found to be idle in distributed computing environments. According to an IBM funded study, seventy percent of IT budgets are typically spent maintaining current IT infrastructures and operations, and only 30 percent are spent on new capabilities. The most agile and innovative organizations are those able to benefit from IT infrastructures that are more dynamic.

As cloud computing experts, Tech Equity enables organizations to address the following questions:

  • Do I have the right balance of fixed and variable costs?
  • Is a cloud consumption model more appropriate for my organization?
  • How can I get started with cloud today?

Cloud Business Strategy

Tech Equity enables organizations to develop enduring competitive advantage by taking a holistic approach to building and integrating their cloud strategy with business imperatives and look beyond cost savings.

When designing strategies, organizations should take a holistic approach to developing a cloud strategy due to the broad impact cloud has on an organization’s business models, operating principles, processes, technology, and organization design. Our Tech Equity team includes business strategy consultants with significant experience in developing holistic business strategies and managing complex organizational change.

Our consultants have technology and business leadership experience. We work with our clients to meet their current challenges through key cloud value drivers. Cloud value drivers provide a framework for building business and IT strategies. A key value driver is the dramatic reduction of IT costs that is achieved with dynamic IT services delivery enabled by the cloud.

In addition to lowering the cost of IT, cloud can help provide access to new markets and enable new business models. The full potential of cloud is much more than a cost-focused return on investment model. Cloud game-changing value drivers include:

How Does Cloud Computing Create Business Value?

  • Shifting from a capital investment model to an operating expense model
  • Increasing asset utilization and lowering IT operating costs by standardizing applications, infrastructure, and service processes
  • Providing an open and elastic IT environment.
  • Removing IT complexity from end users
  • Enabling fine-grained IT services and faster provisioning
  • Enabling resources to be globally available in real-time

The manifestations of these value drivers are usually realized through the adoption and use of private, public or hybrid cloud environments.

Cloud Adoption Services

Tech Equity enables cloud service providers and consumers to develop cloud strategies, implement and adopt the most innovative cloud services, and realize the promise of cloud.

Enabling Cloud Adoption

Most clients contemplating investment in IT pose the following questions:

  • Should I consider cloud?
  • What is the right strategy and timeline to adopt cloud?
  • How do I get started with cloud?

We work with clients to determine the business case and the right starting point for cloud adoption. We consider the impact of cloud taking into account the size of the organization, industry dynamics, business performance gaps, existing IT capabilities, and service delivery costs. The initial assessment of the potential impact cloud may have on the business informs the cloud strategy. In assessing the potential impact of cloud, we evaluate both the impact on the core IT operations and the impact on the broad business model. Our goal is to ensure that cloud supports business innovation rather than simply reducing cost.

We believe that cloud computing is a major paradigm shift, and now is the time for IT organizations to start learning about cloud computing. We have developed an extensive capacity building program supported by an online platform, cloudclinique.com to support hands-on pilots. Pilots should be at the center of a comprehensive cloud strategy.

What is Cloud Computing?

Cloud computing is a new consumption and delivery model for IT and business services. The greatest impact of cloud computing comes from its potential to enable new service consumption and delivery models that support emerging business model innovation. Cloud computing is characterized by on-demand self-service, ubiquitous network access, location independent resource pooling, rapid elasticity and provisioning, and pay-per-use.

How Do I Get Started with Cloud Computing?

Tech Equity is fully committed to enabling organizations to successfully adopt cloud.

Tech Equity Ltd was founded by Dr Shiyghan Emmanuel Navti, a former IBM executive.

Dr Shiyghan Emmanuel Navti, Founder & Lead Cloud Consultant possesses a rare combination of business and technical leadership experience in EMEA. He is a Certified Cloud Trainer, Certified Cloud Architect, and Certified Cloud Professional. He holds a PhD in Computational modeling and is the Africa Cloud Ambassador for the Cloud Credential Council.

Cloud is a transformational and disruptive innovation. Organizations should develop a robust strategy and implementation plan for cloud adoption. Cloud should be embedded in the IT strategy and aligned to the business model and organizational strategy.

How Tech Equity Can Help

Step 1: Tech Equity assists clients in getting started with cloud. We explore challenges and how others are using cloud to overcome similar challenges. We share our own cloud experiences. We work with you to find answers to the following questions:

  • Understand business imperatives and target appropriate workloads that support those imperatives.
  • Evaluate cloud service model options for the pilot.

Finally, we assess how ready is my existing application architecture to move to the cloud environment? What cost savings can I expect by moving to cloud? How can I train my workforce on cloud?

In our experience, a cloud strategy must be driven from business requirements and not focus only on the IT efficiency benefits. A strategic approach to cloud addresses the process, services, and people aspects as well. That is why the Tech Equity team is composed of experienced business and technology strategy consultants.