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<\/p>\nIf your Business Intelligence (BI) and Big Data solutions are still on-premises, you should really be analyzing the benefits of migrating to the cloud.\u00a0 Or, if you analyzed your cloud options last year and weren’t ready, then it is time to take another look – things really are moving that fast.<\/p>\n
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Microsoft Azure is quickly advancing and has created an improved collection of Platform as a Service (PaaS) data platform tools through the Cortana Intelligence Suite<\/a>.\u00a0 Through this collection of independent, but tightly integrated products, customers can create robust and scalable BI solutions that are entirely in the cloud and<\/em> fully accessible to employees and customers in a secure manner.\u00a0 As you go through and analyze your options, the top 5 things you\u2019ll want to consider are listed below.<\/p>\n The number one reason to move to a cloud architecture is because of enhanced agility and time to value.\u00a0 In an on-premises world, corporations must perform comprehensive solution sizing projects, go through long procurement cycles to purchase expensive hardware, sign Enterprise Agreements in order to purchase software licensing, and then pay someone to put it all together in the correct way.\u00a0 If that wasn\u2019t enough, you then have to do this every 3 years to upgrade and migrate your solution to keep up with new technologies.<\/p>\n If you’re tired of allocating your team\u2019s resources to the triennial on-premises refresh cycle, then the cloud might be right for you.\u00a0 The Azure Data Platform tools can be deployed in minutes, which allows your team to immediately begin creating business solutions, not worrying about hardware planning and refresh.\u00a0 Your team can also instantly throttle the solution up or down depending on the horsepower needed during its phase of life.\u00a0 This agility is valuable in situations when your data growth increases, or your solution becomes more popular.<\/span><\/p>\n Comparing cloud and on-premises pricing models is challenging.\u00a0 When looking at your all-in price for an on-premises solution, you have to factor in things like licensing, hardware, real estate, electricity, support cost, security, deployment cost, and depreciation.\u00a0 Cloud pricing is much different.\u00a0 You are typically paying an hourly price for a predetermined performance level.\u00a0 Performance levels can potentially even be flexed up and down depending on usage patterns, and sometimes paused depending on the tool being used.\u00a0 The equation for each firm will be different, but the cloud will almost always end up the winner by a small, but meaningful margin.<\/p>\n Microsoft is now operating in a product development cycle where all new product features are being pushed to the cloud prior to going to on-premises solutions. On-premises software refreshes generally happen about every 2 years.\u00a0 The new features and capabilities getting pushed to the cloud products are typically getting released every month.\u00a0 Additionally, customers are able to influence the priority of the product teams by voting and contributing feedback via sites like the Azure Feedback Forums<\/a>.\u00a0 While this may not seem that important, it is.\u00a0 The fixes, innovations, and new capabilities being pushed monthly add real business value and allow your teams to create solutions that are impactful to businesses and at a reduced cost.<\/p>\n In almost every industry and trade, having the right tool for the job is imperative for success.\u00a0 The Cortana Intelligence Suite has a collection of tightly integrated tools that each provide different capabilities for different jobs\/requirements your company might face.\u00a0 Each tool can easily be deployed and integrated in minutes, which gives your team the right tool for the job without having to provision their own on-premises solutions.\u00a0 As we’ll explore more in the next blog post of this series, this Swiss Army knife platform has a tool for just about\u00a0everything,\u00a0including real-time streaming solutions, Big Data processing, and Dare Warehousing at scale.<\/p>\n Most people would agree that security is the most unfun aspect of a solution to consider, but it is arguably the most important.\u00a0 Security is held in high regard in Azure which\u00a0is\u00a0reflected in the Azure Trust Center<\/a>, as Azure has the most certifications out of any cloud provider.\u00a0 The data platform tools in Azure are integrated with Azure Active Directory<\/a> (AAD) to provide authorization and data-level security, encryption of\u00a0data in motion and at rest, enable IP restrictions, auditing, and threat detection.\u00a0 While putting your data in the cloud for the first time can be very scary for most business leaders, Microsoft makes the transition easy with\u00a0its focus on security.<\/p>\n There’s a lot of cloud marketing out there that says migrating to the cloud is as easy as flipping a light switch.\u00a0 This series isn’t one of them.\u00a0 Migrating your BI solution to the cloud isn’t always a perfect match to on-premises, and it isn’t always straight forward, but we believe it is worth it.\u00a0 At 3Cloud, we help migrate our customers to the Azure cloud, as well as help them build green-field solutions starting out in Azure.\u00a0 We also eat our own dog food, so to speak, as our BI solution has been entirely in the Azure cloud going on 3 years now.\u00a0 In this blog series, I’ll walk you through the considerations for migrating\/building in the Azure cloud.\u00a0 Stay tuned and check out my next post to gain an understanding of what the Cortana Intelligence Suite is and what capabilities it has.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If your Business Intelligence (BI) and Big Data solutions are still on-premises, you should really be analyzing then benefits of migrating to the cloud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":14668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[260],"tags":[340],"class_list":["post-15936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-data-ai","tag-cloud-analytics","topics-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}1. Agility\/Time to Value<\/strong><\/h3>\n
2. Lower Total Cost of Ownership<\/strong><\/h3>\n
3. Innovations and Continuous Feedback<\/strong><\/h3>\n
4. Flexibility<\/strong><\/h3>\n
5. Security<\/strong><\/h3>\n