Teodora Spasova
Systematization of the Cloud Migration Approaches and Calculation of the Economic Efficiency from its Implementation in Bulgarian Corporations
Summary:
Large corporations have specific features which make their cloud migration difficult. Systematization of different approaches to transition from on-premise system to the cloud can facilitate the selection of a strategy by the management if the organization decides to make a migration step.
Migration to the cloud is generally profitable for organizations, but in order to justify the decision it is necessary to make preliminary calculations of some financial indicators. It is necessary to consider all possibilities for hidden costs, to evaluate the material and non-material benefits of migration.
The aim of the article is to classify and compare cloud migration approaches, to calculate performance indicators and to outline cloud service challenges to help managers in cloud migration decisions.
