LucidPoint uses our 5 phases to provide a prescriptive process for adopting cloud services

​Strategic Phase

• Stakeholders, leaders and engineering teams alignment
  
• Near and long term outcome mapping
  
• Business case and cost modeling
  
• Staffing and services projecting
  

Assessment Phase

• Align best of breed IT services to business goals
  
• Maximize value of existing assets through hybrid cloud
  
• Cost modeling and governance defined
  
• Confirm migration strategy
  

Planning Phase

• Organizational checklist for transformation development 
  
• Security requirements defined and detailed
  
• Elasticity and On-Demand Mindset Analyzed
  
• Application and Data Lifecycle Confirmed
  
• Auto Scaling and Business Continuity Defined
  
• Future workloads Mapped
  

    
Implementation Phase

• Cost Governance aligned to budgets
  
• Simple security inheritance and least privilege boundaries 
  
• DevOps Practices - Move faster with continuous integration and templates
  
• Tools-based approach for repeatable predictable outcomes
  

Operations & Support

• Centralized logging and alerts
  
• Scan and run with stability across a global footprint
  
• Automated maintenance identified and in place
  
• Best practices, self service and change management training 
  
• Continuous improvement philosophies defined and implemented
  
• Performance monitoring & optimization strategies
  
• Ongoing cost optimization