When we speak to IT leaders, a major concern they often have about the cloud is the lack of control they feel it can bring when it comes to ensuring the stability and functionality of their software. This feeling comes from two critical differences between an on-premise and a cloud deployment of your systems:
Moving from an on-premise to a cloud deployment will remove many of the customizations unique to your business. You can’t choose whether or not this happens; all you can do is work out how to adapt your business processes, perhaps using third-party integrations to mimic some of your old customizations, to fill the gap.
Your organization no longer decides when and how to take updates from your software provider. They choose when and how frequently you get updates. And for nearly every business we speak to, that means the frequency of updates is rising rapidly.
Of course, if you’re implementing third-party apps to keep the business running, those will all require updates too – so, really, the headline story is that software updates to your key applications are coming thick and fast. Which of course means that the amount of software testing your team has to do is also increasing – especially user acceptance testing, or UAT.