Planning for Cloud: How enterprise architecture management can help drive your IT transition

Cloud computing is a smart IT delivery model that can enable your business to significantly reduce IT costs and complexities while sharpening your competitive edge. In order to create a strategic plan for Cloud and to plan Cloud deployment, organisations need a shared view of the current business and IT landscape - the enterprise architecture. This paper identifies best practices to assess cloud readiness, develop adoption strategies and identify business entry points through enterprise architecture management.