Windows Azure

Business Priorities Presentation

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Business Drivers / Challenges

Business Capabilities

Summary and Next Steps

Demonstration

Business Context "Windows Azure gave us a cost-effective solution where we only had to pay for what we used. Instead of investing in infrastructure, we were able to put funds into working media."

–David Schoonover,National Manager,

Kia Motors America

"What's most exciting about bringing Windows Azure into the Intuit Partner Platform is that developers now have a best-in-class 'platform as a service' to both build applications and deliver them to market."

–Alex Chriss,Director,

Intuit Partner Platform,Intuit

"We're always looking for better, faster, more cost-effective ways to provide services to our customers. Our interest in Windows Azure is based on the flexibility, scalability, and cost benefits it could offer."

–Rick McMichael,Vice President of Strategic

Architecture and Technology,

Fiserv

"We wouldn't exist if we had to build out this level of server capability ourselves. Windows Azure makes it possible for us to scale the service as needed, using—and paying—only for what we need."

–Sarim Khan,Chief Executive Officer

and Co-Founder,sharpcloud

Business Drivers

Focus on core value-added activities and stay competitiveRespond quickly to changes in business and customer needs

Business

Making business communications more recoverable after disasters and ensuring business continuity in case of unexpected eventsProviding flexibility and freedom from the physical IT investmentImproving service levels and controlling infrastructure costDriving productivity and efficiency in diverse work scenariosCost-effectively driving agility and flexibility in business operations Providing evidence of potential environmental sustainability

Challenges

Challenges

Providing unified management for applications and workloads on premises and in cloud environmentsEnsuring that applications run consistently on servers and in the cloudEnabling secure connectivity and messaging between on-premises IT applications and cloud-based servicesProviding the same development tools and technologies for on-premises and cloud environments Providing scalable IT infrastructure to meet changing business needs on demandSecuring data and applications that extend beyond organizational boundaries

ITChallenges

A solution should help… …by providing the ability to

FOCUS ON CORE VALUE-ADDED ACTIVITIES AND STAY COMPETITIVE

Focus on services that truly add value instead of simply maintaining the current environment by managing operational resources and constraints as usual

RESPOND QUICKLY TO CHANGES IN BUSINESS AND CUSTOMER NEEDS

Improve business agility and shorten time to market by taking advantage of existing skill sets and capital investments to expand service offeringsProvide a reliable, secure, and trustworthy platform to scale services to accommodate customer demands and business needs

Solution Support

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Summary and Next Steps

Demonstration

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Solution’s Business Drivers

FOCUS ON CORE VALUE-ADDED

ACTIVITIES AND STAY COMPETITIVE

RESPOND QUICKLY TO CHANGES IN BUSINESS AND CUSTOMER NEEDS

Phase 1Provides basic support for the most critical elements of the business driver

Phase 2Provides adequate, typical support for critical and priority elements of the business driver

Phase 3Provides thorough, streamlined support for the business driver that enables differentiated levels of performance

FOCUS ON CORE VALUE-ADDED

ACTIVITIES AND STAY COMPETITIVE

RESPOND QUICKLY TO CHANGES IN BUSINESS AND CUSTOMER NEEDS

Sophistication of the Solution

Range of Business CapabilitiesBusiness Driver: Focus on core value-added activities and stay

competitivePhase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3

Provide self-managing capability to provision data services for applications throughout the enterprise without adding to the support burden of the IT department

Provide the ability to build, modify, and distribute scalable applications through a combination of cloud and on-premises resourcesProvide the ability to bring ideas to market faster with near-zero capital and operational expenditures

Offer a systematic and secure solution that is deployed from the cloud, integrates with on-premises assets, and gives the IT organization oversight and control of distributed data assets along with a consistent development and management experience across the premises and the cloud

Range of Business CapabilitiesBusiness Driver: Respond quickly to changes in business and

customer needsPhase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3

Provide the ability to link existing on-premises data stores to cloud-based storage services that support on-demand computing and storage capabilities while ensuring a familiar and consistent application development modelProvide the ability to expose and consume applications and services over the Internet across firewall, domain, and network boundaries

Provide the ability to create new applications in the cloud without abandoning existing on-premises applicationsProvide the ability to create new applications in the cloud that can consume data that resides on-siteLower barriers to build composite applications, scalable and custom web applications, and packaged line-of-business applicationsProvide the ability to consume disparate data sets, imagery, and content in real-time by using virtually any platform, application, or business workflowProvide the ability to easily and flexibly configure users on different identity-management infrastructures while addressing a variety of security needs

Extend the availability of on-premises data to allow information to be easily shared with remote offices, mobile workers, and business partners through the cloud from multiple locations, desktop systems, and other devicesProvide the ability to secure applications that extend beyond organizational boundaries and exercise complete, customizable control over the level of access that each user and group has within the application

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Potential Business Benefits

Faster response to business needs and greater organizational agilityIncreased operational efficiency through streamlined and automated task execution and IT processes within the enterprise data centerUse of existing investments while maturing IT capabilities to use advanced cloud services Increased maturity of IT capabilities and transformation in the relationship between IT and the business from service provider to trusted advisorDecreased time-to-market and improved agility of applications and services that empower end users and developersRapid expansion of IT capacity by adding new services without needing to invest in the development of new skills or to deploy new hardware and softwareShift in focus of valuable IT resources from routine management tasks to core business initiatives that can deliver a competitive advantage

Next Steps

Discuss your priorities with ITMap to systems requirementsUnderstand what can be leveragedDevelop a high-level road map for deploying integrated capabilitiesTranslate back into business capabilities enabled/supported

Review the proposed business capability road map

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