How to Evaluate a Move to a Vendor Cloud

Moving a project-critical application to the cloud can reduce infrastructure and application management demands on internal IT. But moving to a software vendor’s cloud can also affect how much control you retain over your data, integrations, customizations, and future hosting options.

Before moving applications such as Oracle Primavera P6, Autodesk Revit, Octave Sequence Enterprise (EcoSys), or other project-critical software to a vendor cloud, understand the tradeoffs. The right hosting model should support not only the application, but also the way your organization needs to access, integrate, manage, and protect it.

5 Questions to Ask Before Moving to a Vendor Cloud

Will you retain access to your data?

Understand what level of access you will have to your application data and databases after migration. Ask whether you can access the data directly, how it can be extracted, and what happens to it if you decide to change hosting models later.

What happens to your customizations?

Applications such as Primavera P6 are often configured around an organization’s processes and requirements. Determine which customizations and configurations can move with you, which may need to be rebuilt, and whether the vendor cloud imposes limitations on future changes.

Will your integrations and APIs continue to work?

Project applications rarely operate in isolation. Identify every system that exchanges data with the application and confirm how integrations, APIs, authentication, and automated workflows will function in the new environment.

What visibility and control will you have?

Moving infrastructure out of your data center does not eliminate the need for governance. Understand what visibility your IT and application teams will have into administration, security, application performance, monitoring, backups, and support.

How difficult will it be to move again?

Your requirements may change. Before migrating, understand how your application and data can be moved to another environment in the future, including what assistance the vendor provides and whether there are technical or contractual limitations on portability.

Vendor Cloud vs. Managed Application Hosting

A software vendor’s cloud is not the only way to move project-critical applications off premises.

With managed application hosting, organizations can move applications to the cloud while a managed hosting provider takes responsibility for infrastructure and ongoing application operations.

LoadSpring Managed Hosting includes infrastructure, application deployment, security, monitoring, backups, administration, updates, and 24/7/365 support. LoadSpring supports Primavera P6 and more than 200 other project and business applications, allowing organizations to reduce the operational burden on internal IT without limiting their cloud strategy to a single software vendor.

For organizations evaluating Oracle Primavera P6 specifically, learn more about Primavera P6 Managed Hosting.

Make the Decision Before You Make the Move

The best cloud model depends on your applications, integrations, security requirements, internal resources, and long-term technology strategy. Evaluating these questions before migration can help uncover restrictions, additional costs, and operational requirements before they become problems.

Download the guide for the complete checklist of questions to ask when evaluating a move to a vendor cloud. How to Evaluate a Move to a Vendor Cloud