Let’s start making the cloud work for you!

You have already started on your cloud transformation journey, a brave and necessary step towards strengthening your security and compliance, reducing your infrastructure, and improving efficiencies and cost savings.

You are now at a critical point where you need to make sure you have the capacity and capabilities to fulfil your vision. We have been through this before and know that a key element for success is identifying and communicating a strong, defined goal to guide your cloud transformation journey. Cloud transformation is about your business and culture, not just the technology. If you are only focused on IT migration, you are missing out on a massive opportunity to drive value for your business

Our approach will deliver on your cloud objectives because we are considered leaders in business-led transformations, ensuring that your business outcomes are at the center of what we do. Our approach is divided broadly across four phases namely Discovery, Prepare, Transform and Operationalise.

• Discovery: Involves cloud maturity assessment, application and infrastructure discovery report, cloud regulatory support and limitations report, designing cloud migration and transformation office, gap analysis, validating the case for change.
• Prepare: Includes foundational checklists, operating model validations and roadmap
• Transform: Involves implementing the cloud operating model, launching a cloud service catalogue, automating foundational procedures, establishing operations processes, building, migrating, and integrating applications and validating migration success.
• Operationalise: Includes enhancing policy definitions and enforcement, enhancing monitoring and alerting capabilities, scaling training and awareness initiatives and ramping up cloud support.

PwC’s cloud strategy, assessment and migration are based on PwC’s transform methodology and are fully aligned with Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF). This cloud offering is designed to span across the customer's entire cloud adoption lifecycle which encompasses our three key offerings cloud strategy and assessment, cloud infrastructure setup and migration and managed services. This framework consists of areas including assess, design, construct, implement, operate and review. Each of these areas are elucidated in detail below:

• Assess phase – This phase deals with identifying the business objectives, key drivers for cloud adoption and the IT challenges faced currently. A current state assessment is performed to understand the IT landscape from a cloud readiness perspective.
• Design phase – Cloud readiness of the applications in the IT landscape is determined using PwC’s proprietary application profiler tool. Once cloud readiness is identified, the business value of cloud is determined through TCO analysis. Other areas of cloud strategy like cloud security framework and standards, cloud adoption roadmap, operating model, governance model and DR & BCP strategy are defined in this phase
• Construct phase – In this phase, the target cloud architecture is constructed, and Azure cloud readiness guide is designed. Validation is also performed in this phase to ensure that the best practices are incorporated.
• Migration Phase – This phase deals with migration workloads, expanding the blueprint according to the designed strategy. The governance and reporting structure to communicate progress is prepared as a part of this phase
• Operate and review – In this phase, the setup is reviewed to ensure that the expected Azure environment is achieved. The other activities are ensuring best practices validation and performing testing for validation and handing over to operations/managed services team after going live.

This tried and tested methodology has been leveraged in several successful engagements for our clients. Our solutions have enabled leading companies transition on to cloud seamlessly and successfully which has given their business an edge over competitors. We at PwC, help customers in their cloud adoption journey by providing end-to-end services from cloud assessment and strategy to cloud setup & migration and managed services. This solidifies our presence in the cloud market and helps us leverage our strong network for catering to our client’s needs

Making changes to the heart of your business - the ERP Systems - is never a pleasant and easy experience. Moving the entire system to the cloud can often be met with uncertainties from all spheres of influence such as regulatory, economics, performance, cyber risks, user acceptance, deployment models (IaaS / PaaS / SaaS) etc.

PwC have helped multiple clients navigate these uncertainties across multiple stages of their cloud journey. We have helped client with their strategy, deployment and managed services in this area. Our cloud migration framework has been used to accelerate the entire process and execute the project with well-defined milestones and risk profiling.

We also do not shy away from involving industry experts into the project when required to help client with regulatory and legal obligations specific to their domain. We have expertise in migrating popular ERPs such as SAP, Oracle and Lighthouse. We have also migrated custom-built ERPs to the cloud. Migrating ERPs across models such as legacy hardware to SaaS models too.

Key Highlights:

- Microsoft SAP on Azure Certified Partner

- Premium Partners of SAP, Oracle, Lighthouse and Microsoft

- Expertise in migrating SAP ERP and SAP HANA based systems both on Brown and Green field implementations

- Notable client profiles

• A large mining company in India
• One of the largest retail companies in India with a global footprint
• One of the largest agro-chemical companies in India

One of the largest mobile phone manufacturers in India

We undertake end-to-end management of environments spanning hybrid and cloud native scenarios. PwC can extend their governance frameworks to be put in place to manage the entire lifecycle of the resources along with business continuity and security frameworks. Managing your applications on cloud with focused consulting on best practices and resilience assessments, PwC is in a position to offer a wide range of offerings. Following is an overview of the same:

• Deployment:
  o   Dev-Test POCs
  o   Application performance testing
  o   Auto-scale design and deployment
  o   Deployment automation
  o   Self-service and administration
• Planning and Optimisation:
  o   Usage and spend analytics
  o   Usage forecasting
  o   Tagging and audit trail
  o   Capacity planning
  o   Resource optimisation
• Operational Support:
  o   Uptime and incident management
  o   IT service management
  o   Monitoring
  o   Consumption report
  o   Service improvement

PwC DevOps high velocity IT solution offering enables enterprises to achieve a connected DevOps tool chain for end-to-end application release thereby enabling reliable releases and faster time to market.

Clients are facing continued pressure to develop applications faster, cheaper, and with ever increasing complexity. These pressures can lead to insecure products (e.g., applications, firmware, IoT products, etc.) when security requirements are not identified and implemented during development.

Our offering emphasises communication, collaboration, integration and automation, removing bottlenecks in software development and ensuring agile delivery with feedback mechanism to foster innovation and reduce time to market.

Our Devops transformation model consists of 24 capabilities, four persona and nine capabilities. These capabilities which drive outcomes map into nine competencies that are core to a DevOps transformation and maturity

Continuous assessment and planning

• Continuous integration
• Continuous delivery
• Continuous testing
• Continuous deployment
• Continuous operations
• Continuous insights
• Continues security
• Continuous collaboration

Offerings:

Devops assessment

Devops implementation

Managed Devops services

Notable Client Profiles

• Global Software Company
• Fortune 500 US based airline
• Leading insurance carrier
• Top 10 software company
• High tech commercial bank

Nearly half (48%) of organisations have a multi-cloud strategy. On average, organisations use three different cloud service providers (CSP), and 28 percent are using four or more. While using more than one CSP may be necessary and even beneficial, doing so can make security seem more challenging. Cohesive governance is key: Each CSP may have different security abilities and requirements. And frequent releases of new features and updates means that, like the clouds in the sky, your enterprise cloud environment is continually changing.

PwC’s Cloud Risk framework can help. It involves components such as

• Identity and access management
• Cloud infrastructure and platform hardening
• Data protection and privacy
• Network security
• Logging and monitoring
• Threat detection and response
• Application security and DevSecOps
• Threat and vulnerability management.