Measuring the Business Value of Infrastructure Migration to the Cloud

Pierangelo Rosati; Theo Lynn

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-43198-3_2

Measuring the Business Value of Infrastructure Migration to the Cloud

Pierangelo Rosati
, Theo Lynn

DCU Business School

Research output: Chapter in Book or Conference Publication/Proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

2 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) adoption typically require radical changes in an organisation’s IT operations and have widespread implications that go beyond simple cost savings. This chapter presents a practical framework for estimating the Return on Investment (ROI) for IaaS and PaaS from the customer perspective. The proposed framework aims to overcome the main limitations of commonly-used Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) calculators by including both tangible and intangible costs and benefits to provide a more comprehensive ROI estimation. The application of the framework is illustrated using a real-life case study of infrastructure migration.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Palgrave Studies in Digital Business and Enabling Technologies
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	19-37
Number of pages	19
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43198-3_2
Publication status	Published - 2020
Externally published	Yes

Publication series

Name	Palgrave Studies in Digital Business and Enabling Technologies
ISSN (Print)	2662-1282
ISSN (Electronic)	2662-1290

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

Keywords

Infrastructure-as-a-service
Platform-as-a-service
Return-on-investment

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