The business question What are our cloud focus areas? provides top-down portfolio analysis for cloud migration in order to understand the applications that are best suited for migration based on cloud relevance and cloud readiness indicators. This enables you to migrate your cloud portfolio using a strategic approach, driven by planning based on your company's needs to rationalization and modernization.

Applications for which the Cloud Migration Strategy attribute is set to Migrated and Architecture Type attribute is set to Cloud-Based are not considered for this business question. These objects may be cloud native or recently migrated to the cloud.

The business question What is our cloud migration strategy? supports the planning of a migration strategy for each application in your cloud portfolio based on an understanding of the impact of migration to business capabilities and the IT ecosystem. This Kanban report lets you understand and define the migration strategy for each relevant application in the IT portfolio.

Before making decisions about your cloud strategy, it is critical that an appropriate analysis of the impact of large-scale changes to your IT ecosystem is carried out. Ensure that your application portfolio is up-to-date and that all relevant data about the applications as well as their dependencies have been captured in Alfabet FastLane. Ensure that the application's information flows and the business data they transfer are documented. Ensure that the components that the applications use are documented.