Cloud Consulting Services to Maximize Benefits from the Cloud

Table of Contents:

• What is Cloud Consulting?
• What To Expect from Cloud Services Consulting?
• How Can We at Rishabh Software Help?
• Benefits of Cloud Consulting with Rishabh Software
• Our Success Stories

It refers to the process where a business leverages the benefits of cloud consultants to maximize returns on their investment. The consultants provide personalized recommendations for optimal cloud environment development, management, and maintenance. It helps accelerate business growth and innovation, drives agility, and transforms operational efficiency to ensure performance & security in the cloud.

Did you know?

• Fortune Business Insights estimates that the global cloud computing market will grow at a CAGR of 19.9% from USD 480.04 billion in 2022 to reach USD 1,712.44 billion by 2029.
• Gartner forecasts that the worldwide public cloud spending will grow 20.7% from USD 490.3 billion in 2022 to USD 591.8 billion in 2023
• Forrester predicts that cloud-native technologies will continue to attract investment in 2023. And cloud cost containment will be the top priority for tech leaders.

When working with a specialist cloud partner, you can expect the following:

• Assessment of your current IT infrastructure and identification of potential areas for improvement
• Analysis of your specific business requirements and recommendations for the most appropriate cloud services and solutions
• Implementation and deployment of the chosen cloud services, including data migration and integration with existing systems
• Ongoing support and maintenance of the cloud services to ensure optimal performance and security
• Assistance with compliance and regulatory requirements, such as data privacy and security
• Cost optimization and scalability solutions
• Cloud architecture and governance consulting
• Training & onboarding for your team to ensure they can effectively use and manage the new cloud services

As a cloud computing consulting services partner, we help organizations wherever they are in their cloud journey. Whether you are in your initial stages of planning and strategy, need assistance with managing multiple cloud environments, or desire additional value and innovation, we can help.

Here’s an overview of the cloud services we offer;

Cloud Migration

We seamlessly migrate databases, servers, business apps & business processes to cloud platforms that support organizations, and their workflow needs.

• Readiness Assessment
• Cloud-to-cloud movement
• Workload Migration
• Validation and performance testing

Cloud Development

We design, build, test, deploy, and support apps and data warehouses that are fully adjusted to the specific capabilities and constraints of cloud.

• Architecture Design & Development
• Cloud-Native App Development
• SaaS-based App Development

Cloud Integration

We help you across all stages of your cloud integration journey to ensure no hiccups by integrating APIs, processes, databases & network resources while enabling seamless data flow across different systems.

• Cloud Service Integration
• Cloud Data Integration
• Cloud Process Integration
• Cloud Application Integration

Cloud Managed Services

We manage your public & multi-cloud environments, including deployment on AWS and Azure, while helping you design, build & optimize applications. From basic application customizations to massive infrastructure migrations, our dedicated cloud architects can monitor and manage any IT environment that requires professional excellence.

• Maintenance and Monitoring
• PaaS (Compute, Database, Storage)
• Cloud Optimization

Read more about our cloud computing service capability, from tech consulting to deployment, maintenance & support.

Deployment Models, We Specialize

As a cloud computing consulting company, we provide cloud services by encompassing the public, private and hybrid cloud types. Though based on customer requirements, our team utilizes the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) service models.

• Public Cloud: The computing infrastructure is hosted by the cloud vendor (AWS & Azure) at the vendor’s premises.
• Private Cloud: It is dedicated to one organization and not shared with others organizations.
• Hybrid Cloud: Refers to a combination of private and public cloud services while orchestrating between the two.
• Multi-cloud: Leverages diverse cloud services from different providers for enhanced flexibility and platform optimization.

Looking to steer your strategic decisions with precision? Dive into our articles dissecting the differences between multi-cloud vs hybrid cloud and private cloud vs public cloud. Gain clarity on which cloud deployment model aligns best with your unique requirements and objectives.

Our Methodology

It includes a variety of assessments for cloud strategy development, cloud readiness, cloud migration, and implementation.

Cloud Strategy Development

We design a detailed strategy for your Cloud project. It includes:

• A thorough needs analysis of your business & project
• Assessment of your existing IT infrastructure
• Connecting your business goals to Cloud capabilities while identifying potential risks, opportunities, and costs that would impact your project
• Tailoring the best-fit Cloud strategy for your business

Cloud Readiness Assessment

The pick & drop strategy of moving apps could rarely help utilize the full power of the cloud. Every project involves some level of readiness for the cloud. At this stage, we help you in:

• Identifying changes required in the architecture & code of apps before migration
• Determining the requirements for creating new Cloud-native apps & Cloud data warehouse.
• Ensuring minimum business disruption while migrating data & apps

Cloud Migration Assessment

We help with the seamless migration of your apps & data to the cloud by:

• Determining Cloud feasibility while examining the IT environment & resources
• Ensuring that the components are amenable to a virtualized cloud deployment

Implementation Assessment

For successful Cloud implementation, we help you by:

• Addressing complexity associated with regulated, mission-critical workloads
• Assessing your Cloud preparedness qualitatively
• Training your workforce for Cloud processes & supporting your IT team

Technology Experience

You would agree that the different cloud providers work with diverse offerings. It is, therefore, often complex and time-consuming for an organization to pick out the best-fitting cloud & option. We at Rishabh Software are vendor neutral and weigh the pros & cons of all significant clouds – be it AWS or Azure to help you find the best solution to your unique business needs.

• Microsoft Azure: A  cloud computing platform from Microsoft, it provides access, management & development of applications and services. As a Microsoft Gold Partner, we’ve 8+ years of experience in utilizing a broad range of cloud services from Azure. We help organizations with cloud adoption & migration to build modern businesses.
• Amazon AWS: A subsidiary platform from Amazon, it helps manage on-demand operations like compute power, database storage, and content delivery, to help corporates scale and grow. We utilize AWS’s featured services to deliver end-to-end scalable & secure cloud solutions.

Working with us ensures accelerating operational efficiency, enhanced performance, and robust security in the cloud. Here are some of the significant business benefits:

• Cost Reduction: We provide individual strategies for every migration component, like apps and databases. It lowers your migration costs involving re-development. Further, we select the best-suited cloud services for your business and utilize optimal resource orchestration patterns like auto-scaling. It helps optimize your monthly cloud costs.
• High Development Speed: We help you leverage the benefits of ready-to-go cloud services and implement effective DevOps processes like continuous code integration, testing & delivery to accelerate the Cloud app development process.
• Reliability: Our team designs a fault-resistant, secure, and cloud Compliant architecture that ensures high reliability. We help you with performance management on the cloud by establishing best practices & training your IT team.
• Enhanced Security: We prioritize your business security on the cloud and recommend several safety measures. These could include establishing granular access control, data encryption both in transit & at rest, and more.
• Improved Technical Agility: Moving to the cloud involves modernization & better management of legacy applications. It also improves your control and visibility of business data. Further, Cloud migration enhances security & regulatory compliance.
• Elevated Workforce: Our consultants work closely with your employees to address gaps in expertise, as Cloud implementation could lead to new work practices. We collaborate with you to reskill & upskill them, enabling them to innovate & bring your ideas to life.

Having worked on numerous cloud projects across industries, our competent team, including Cloud specialists, ensures that our clients meet their business goals while optimizing ROI. Listed below are some case studies from cloud services consulting focus that helped our clients:

Case Study: Platform Consulting for e-Learning Solution

Our client is an Australian EdTech company offering digital learning solutions that wanted to expand its presence across the Australian region. It is while modernizing their web-based eLearning platform with cloud capabilities & newer features.

We recommended upgrading to .NET Core from the existing MVC architecture to offer seamless cross-platform support across devices. Being 30% faster enabled rapid modernization of the digital e-learning platform for the four user profiles – teacher, parent, child & admin. For cloud scalability, we consulted them to use MS Azure as the cloud computing platform for data management across the connected portals. It would allow them to leverage Microsoft’s ecosystem capabilities better.

Key Benefits:

• 50% reduction in costs compared to traditional forms of learning
• 2X increase in new student registrations
• 40% improvement in learning outcomes with the introduction of game-based learning

Read more about this case to learn how this revamped and fully responsive cloud-based e-learning platform today supports schools to enable students with an engaging curriculum that is aligned and targeted to their individual needs.

Case Study: Digital Ad Inventory Management System Modernization

A France-based leading outdoor advertising company wanted to streamline and upgrade its legacy ad inventory system, having manual processes across multiple disparate systems. It required processing millions of data sets to offer real-time inputs, enhance inventory use, and simultaneously address many bookings.

For data integration, we consulted & recommended AWS as the flexible and secure services platform. It enabled the collection & processing of information from various systems to track orders based on their live status & across diverse regions. The revamped ad inventory platform consists of several microservices that run on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances.

Benefits provided;

• 70% improvement in response time
• 100% inventory utilization
• 99% reduction in the site downtime instances

Read more about this case to learn how as their preferred big data solutions provider, we used the digital-first strategy to re-engineer the existing system into a customer-centric design.