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DXC Cloud Advisory Services

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Adopt the right platforms at the right time to accelerate your cloud transformation

DXC Cloud Advisory Services help you create and plan your business’ end-to-end cloud strategy roadmap. Our data-driven approach leverages proven methodology and purpose-built tools for complex transformation programs and harnesses the talent of our skilled infrastructure experts to provide recommendations for migrating workloads to the cloud for IT and applications modernisation. Count on DXC to guide you to an efficient and scalable cloud strategy that ensures you make the right investments to meet your business goals in the alloted timeframe.

What's included

modernize your IT ecosystem correctly with our methodologies | DXC Technology

World-class advisory & insight

Use a tried and tested methodology focused on operation strategy, minimum viable product (MVP) and more. We can help you modernise your IT ecosystem correctly with our tailored tools such as the Modernisation Decision Accelerator (MDA).

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Project acceleration & execution

See your complex projects delivered on time and on budget, with minimal business disruption. Accelerate your modernisation programs by transforming and adapting your enterprise cloud and IT infrastructure.

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Support for pre-sales solution & delivery

Make investments in the right areas in line with your cloud strategy, with the help of our cloud spend analysis, with independent IT advice drawn from customer insights about aims and challenges.

Cloud Advisory Services Features

Our Clear Foundation process captures and analyzes IT portfolio data from documents and interviews with senior decision-makers, enabling data-driven conclusions and auditability of recommendations.

Our tailored service helps you make the right decision, every time, to break through common business issues that slow down your modernization efforts.

We help build a coherent, holistic view of applications and infrastructure using existing data alongside data from discovery tools. This starts with a rapid discovery workshop and engineering of existing data sources, by focusing on applying advanced data engineering techniques to clean, transform and process raw data about your IT estate. Once this step is complete, we conduct a detailed analysis for IT change.

We provide data-rich, data-driven support and best practices, using business-centric services to help you make smart decisions about managing IT costs and realize the benefits of IT transformation initiatives.

Our FinOps Advisory services can help you develop a customized plan for deploying, operating and optimizing cloud-based platforms and the technology estate, with a comprehensive analysis of current processes and systems.

Get real-time views of responsibilities, progress and delays with data-driven decisioning, template-driven plans and burn-up backlogs that provide the scale that traditional methods just can't.

Up to 40%

identified cost savings

39,400

cloud-certified engineers

113,000+

workloads under FinOps services

Who can benefit

Consider DXC Cloud Advisory services for your business if:

You lack effective business intelligence about your applications and infrastructure, which creates obstacles to effective cloud strategy decision making, thereby reducing agility and increasing risks.
You are struggling to deliver or maintain cloud solutions in accord with ever-evolving governance, regulatory and compliance requirements.
You have significant concerns about experiencing a serious data breach within your cloud-centric ecosystems and about your ability to protect sensitive information.
Your cloud migrations have stalled and you are falling behind your anticipated schedule.
Your cloud service provider bills are getting larger than expected due to unanticipated spend.

Why DXC

Leading businesses choose DXC for our global partner ecosystem, ability to address the challenges of implementing technology change in highly complex environments and relentless focus on value. Here’s what you can expect when you work with us:

Data engineering

With close to 40,000 certified cloud engineers, DXC transforms and leverages existing data alongside data from discovery tools to prepare detailed analyses for cloud-based IT change.

Seasoned practitioner advisors

DXC has highly experienced buy-side leaders who have delivered technology change in multiple sectors and are adept at rapidly identifying your strategic path to transformation. Achieving this includes leveraging underlying observations, analysing strategic documentation and instilling best practices.

Cost and benefit management

DXC will provide recommendations for cloud implementations that align with your overall business strategy to deliver better financial results.

ISG named DXC a Leader in the 2023 Microsoft Cloud Ecosystem Provider Lens report for APAC, UK and US.

Partnerships

DXC delivers Cloud Advisory services alongside leading partners.

Accelerate modernisation and migration, manage costs and leverage advanced solutions from Generative AI to IoT platforms.

Ensure reliability for mission-critical systems, migrate and secure data more efficiently and deploy cutting-edge applications.

Modernise data and applications to leverage advanced Generative AI, IoT and platform-powered solutions for real business value.

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Alstom lays groundwork for more sustainable transportation

DXC developed a clear cloud strategy and implemented a flexible, efficient infrastructure for Alstom, advising the manufacturer to move some workloads to public cloud while keeping others on-premises, based on specific business cases.

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Commonly asked questions about DXC Cloud Advisory Services

DXC advisors will support you as you seek strategic guidance and actionable recommendations to analyze problems and enable transformational changes. They actively listen to develop a deep understanding of you and your business’ challenges.

Our expert cloud advisory team brings real-life industry experience — including extensive knowledge about specific sector regulatory and security requirements — and uses proven methodologies and tools to achieve successful business outcomes.

In the travel and transportation industry, for example, our cloud advisory experts helped provide operational support for Alstom's compute, storage, database, security and SAP infrastructure. In the manufacturing sector, DXC’s expertise in providing cloud advisory services helped one leading manufacturer reduce 62% of critical IT incidents over the past three years.

Our Cloud Advisory methodology is an iterative process, based on Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). Our experts begin projects with a rapid analysis to build a backlog of applications, databases and servers (also known as workloads) to be migrated and modernized through a series of sprint and wave activities.

At initiation of the engagement, DXC will work with you to create a program to guide the migration process. This includes determining the migration strategy approach, defining program roles, forming a communication plan to keep all stakeholders informed and engaged, establishing program governance and drafting the data collection plan.

Yes! The lessons of the public cloud apply to the modernization of on-premises systems — mainframes, networks and infrastructure. DXC’s Cloud Advisory experts can help you move with the speed of the cloud on-prem as well.

DXC Cloud Advisory uniquely provides the people, processes and tools with demonstrated success in these complex environments. We provide independent IT advice and recommendations to help DXC’s customers achieve their strategic objectives, deliver value and create long-term trusted relationships. We offer tailored strategic guidance and actionable recommendations to enable transformation change and problem analysis. We also help to define strategic direction, identify areas of future innovation and value creation in IT, and approaches to modernization and change. Finally, we help to support operating model transformation and culture change.

Have more questions? Meet with one of our experts to learn more.

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