Define Your Cloud Vision for the Insurance Industry

Ensuring accurate transfer of data can be highly complex.
System incompatibility poses a significant challenge as older systems may not easily communicate with modern software solutions.
Traditional systems lack consistent data models resulting in an issue for technical architecture and business rules.

Our Advice

Critical Insight

Base your migration decisions on the specific characteristics of the cloud; if your only justification is to move your workload out of the data center, it’s time to reconsider.
A successful migration requires proactively addressing potential risks in the planning stages.
While the shift to the cloud changes roles and demands new skill sets, the need for effective operations remains a constant.

Impact and Result

Enhanced IT alignment with organizational goals and leadership priorities.
Improved operational efficiency and stakeholder collaboration.
Sustained value through strategic digital transformation and cost management.

Define Your Cloud Vision for the Insurance Industry Research & Tools

1. Define Your Cloud Vision for the Insurance Industry Deck – A detailed document that walks you through understanding the cloud, assessing cloud workloads, identifying and mitigating risks, and building the foundations of a cloud vision.

This storyboard walks readers through the process of generating, validating, and formalizing a cloud vision for the insurance industry, providing a framework and tools to assess workloads for their cloud suitability and risk.

2. Cloud Vision for the Insurance Industry Workbook – A tool that facilitates the assessment of workloads for appropriate service models, delivery models, support models, and risks and roadblocks in the insurance industry.

This workbook comprises several assessments that will help you understand what service model, delivery model, support model, and risks and roadblocks you can expect to encounter at the workload level.

3. Cloud Vision for the Insurance Industry Executive Presentation – A document that captures the results of the exercises, articulating use cases for cloud/non-cloud, risks, challenges, and high-level initiative items, specifically for the insurance industry.

This executive presentation template for the insurance industry captures the results of the vision exercise, including decision criteria for moving to the cloud, risks, roadblocks, and mitigations.

Define Your Cloud Vision for the Insurance Industry visualization

A strategic approach to migrate to cloud.

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What Is a Blueprint?

A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your IT problems.

Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.

Table of Contents

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Guided Implementation 1: Understand the Cloud

Call 1: Discuss current-state, challenges, etc.
Call 2: Identify goals, drivers, and current state.

Guided Implementation 2: Assess Your Cloud Workloads

Call 1: Conduct cloud suitability assessment for selected workloads.

Guided Implementation 3: Identify and Mitigate Risks

Call 1: Generate and categorize risks.
Call 2: Begin the risk mitigation conversation.

Guided Implementation 4: Bridge the Gap and Create the Vision

Call 1: Complete the risk mitigation process.
Call 2: Finalize vision statement and cloud decision framework.

Author

Arzoo Wadhvaniya

Contributors

Christine West – Senior Managing Partner II, Global Services, Management & Enablement, Info-Tech Research Group
Chris Kenyon – Executive Counselor, Global Services, Info-Tech Research Group
Yasemin Sezer – Executive Counselor, Global Services, Info-Tech Research Group
Tessa Culbertson – Marketing & Communications Lead, Parametrix Insurance
Janusz Janiszkiewicz – Enterprise Solutions, Decerto Insurance
Pawel Tucholski – Cloud Solution Architect, Decerto Insurance

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Last Revised: March 31, 2025