Client is a prominent healthcare system of 8 hospitals and 5,000 physicians located in the upper Midwest and sold their primary data center and needed a fast  migration plan, due to hard location exit deadlines. They saw the cloud as a solution to their data center challenge and as an opportunity to grow. They needed help compiling a CMDB to quantify assets and analyze current cost structures at the application level.

AHEAD engineers analyzed Client’s environment and created a robust CMDB, including application mapping and a recommended portfolio disposition strategy. Once a model was established, AHEAD built a 5-year baseline financial model, by application, with consideration for depreciation and amortization cycles, accounting treatments, and Client-specific growth trends.  AHEAD also delivered a technical roadmap with detailed comparisons that calculate total cost of ownership (TCO).

Client also needed expertise in modeling costs for location vs. IaaS vs. public cloud workload options and building a technology roadmap aligned to financial benchmarks.