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 the impact of migration on the business capabilities and IT ecosystem. This Kanban board enables you to decide on a migration strategy for each relevant application in the IT portfolio.

To open this business question, go to the left navigation panel, click to expand Business Questions, click to expand Cloud Migration and click What is our cloud migration strategy? 

The Kanban board shows applications in any of the following lanes:

• Retain: The application supports a business capability for which the Business Relevant indicator is set to Business Enabling or Business Operating and the application cannot be migrated to the cloud immediately. Or the application is at the end of its lifecycle and is about to be retired.
• Rehost: The application is SaaS-enabled but is either outdated or would require rehosting to the cloud platform.
• Refactor: The application requires some changes in code to be eligible for migration to the cloud. The application can be modular or a self-contained application with services that can easily be refactored.
• Rearchitect: The application requires additional effort to make it cloud enabled. For example, this might be due to application health monitoring, application security, data backup and policies, scalability and replication zones, disaster recovery, network utilization, multi-channel communication, or identity management.
• Rebuild: The application could be made cloud ready but would require a change in the build process to ensure seamless delivery. The concepts of CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous delivery) could be leveraged for these applications.
• Migrated: The application has been migrated to the cloud successfully.
• Unknown: The cloud migration strategy is unknown for the application. This may be the case for applications for which the Architecture Type attribute is not set to Cloud-Based.

Understand which applications are owned by a specific organization. Select an organization in the Business Owner filter field to view the applications where the organization has the role Business Owner for the application.

Understand which applications belonging to a specific application portfolio. Select an application group in the Application Group filter field to view the applications per application portfolio.

Understand which applications are recommended for migration:

• Select Focus Area in the Cloud Focus Area filter. These applications are better suited for migration and have a higher potential benefit than other applications in the application portfolio. In some instances, migrating these applications might be difficult but the benefits of migration out-weigh the cost of execution.
• Select Quick Wins to understand which applications are well-suited for migration but have lower potential value. These applications represent migration activities that could be easily carried out. These applications are usually existing SaaS application that can potentially replace other cloud applications.
• Select Long-Term Bets to display applications that are harder to migrate but offer high potential value. These applications are usually associated with operational activities in the organization and migrating these could be part of the company’s long-term strategy. Migration of these applications usually takes a long time and involves more than one organization.
• Select Rehost/Retire to understand which applications are harder to migrate and offer lower migration benefits. These are typically IaaS application that are either retired or rehosted on the cloud. These applications are candidates for cloud migration but they can be pursued at a later point in time.