Technological advancements like AI are pushing businesses to modernize, level up, and scale their operations faster than ever. But with companies reporting they use an average of 22 legacy systems and applications, siloed operations, tool sprawl, fragmented processes, and complex workflows have become the norm.
This sprawl creates technical debt that slows businesses down. It also prevents effective modernization: 69% of executives agree that tech debt will make some initiatives financially untenable, and 85% say it’s a significant barrier to gaining a competitive advantage with AI.
As a result, cloud migration is quickly becoming non-negotiable. By migrating to the cloud, businesses can stay competitive, foster innovation, build customer trust, and maintain governance and control over their systems.
But cloud migration isn’t just about technology. The most successful migrations have a solid strategic foundation that drives operational resilience and agility. With the right partner and solution, companies can minimize risk and optimize value to accelerate scaling and build an anti-fragile ecosystem that future-proofs their business.
Why Legacy Solutions Are Still Around
From highly-regulated industries like financial services, healthcare, and insurance to manufacturing and media, legacy systems have remained the center of companies' operations for decades, even as 34% of C-Suite executives believe their legacy infrastructure is a barrier to fully realizing cloud value. So why do companies stick with legacy systems? It boils down to several key factors:
- Lack of expertise: IT departments are stretched for resources, and those who have maintained legacy systems may lack the expertise needed for cloud migration and management.
- Cost: While maintaining legacy systems is expensive, many companies believe the cost of cloud migration and maintenance far exceeds it, struggling to see the cloud’s immediate ROI.
- Highly customized environments: Legacy systems are highly customizable, and many companies have decades of use and integrations, leading teams to doubt the cloud can match these capabilities.
- Vendor lock-in: Legacy providers are known for their lengthy contracts. Because organizations have been dependent on these systems for so long, it can feel impossible to attempt migration.
- Compliance and regulatory requirements: Companies in highly-regulated industries have traditionally resisted cloud migration due to data sovereignty and regulatory constraints. Cross-border workflows and legal boundaries make cloud adoption feel unattainable and risky.
- Security risks: On-prem environments are often seen as more secure than the cloud. Companies feel they have more control over their data and sensitive customer information when it's on fully segregated data centers and legacy systems.
- Immature infrastructure: In the past, cloud providers lacked the failover, redundancy, resilience, or geographic coverage that companies needed to stay compliant and serve customers.
- Disruptions or service downtime: Cloud migration is a large undertaking. Companies often fear that the transition will lead to service disruptions or downtime, negatively impacting the business.
Moving to the Cloud: The Foundation of Anti-Fragility
While organizations have long believed that using the cloud is unrealistic and unsafe, it is now critical for modernization, risk reduction, scaling, and innovation. Leveraging the cloud not only unlocks a company’s full potential but also provides the operational resilience needed to remain competitive. Perhaps most importantly, it’s also key to enabling AI integrations and capabilities.
But effective cloud migration isn’t about adopting a “lift-and-shift” approach. It requires a strategic framework and solid change management strategies. Without this, your organization is likely to lose the measurable benefits the cloud offers.
Unlocking Operational Resilience With Atlassian Cloud
To achieve long-term success, companies need to find the right provider that can empower teams across an organization to do their best work. And that’s not possible without unifying fragmented workflows, connecting teams and context, reducing tool sprawl, and adopting AI.
With Atlassian’s Cloud Platform, companies gain a single solution that unites their entire organization without risk. Adopting Atlassian’s Cloud helps drive businesses forward and redefine the future of work, rather than being constrained by their toolchain. Atlassian Cloud also breaks through many of the hesitations companies have about the cloud by:
- Unifying data across the Atlassian ecosystem and third-party apps to streamline workflows.
- Having built-in security measures for data protection and threat mitigation.
- Adhering to data residency and compliance requirements across regions.
- Offering AI capabilities directly in apps and tools for easy adoption.
- Providing robust infrastructure that ensures resilience, reliability, and performance at scale.
- Delivering instant context across teams to boost productivity and collaboration.
- Leveraging the Teamwork Graph to connect context, tools, and teams within a single platform.
But while Atlassian’s ecosystem provides a strong foundation for operational resilience, unlocking the full potential of the cloud requires an expert partner and solid strategy.
Valiantys as a Strategic Partner
Seeing the benefits of the cloud for enterprises means measurable business outcomes. But with 86% of executives believing the cloud is essential for their business, and only 42% reporting they’ve achieved the full benefits, this is easier said than done. An ineffective migration can lead to disruptions, increased costs, and operational chaos, so working with a strategic partner can ensure cloud migration moves beyond “lift-and-shift” to true digital transformation.
As Atlassian’s most experienced global partner, Valiantys has certified experts to align your migration with real value. Valiantys aligns Atlassian’s platform with your business’s specific needs and goals to power innovation and agility from day one. Some of the measurable outcomes Valiantys delivers include:
- Accelerated ROI
- Up to 25% app waste reduction
- Accelerated team adoption
- 99.9% data fidelity
- Enterprise-ready governance
- Impactful AI adoption
This all happens through Valiantys Precision Framework. Through four phases, Valiantys ensures your cloud migration is successful and delivers results. These phases are:
- Diagnostics and business case: After deep technical due diligence, we build a strategic roadmap that aligns with your business needs and goals and outlines your total cost of ownership.
- Migration accelerator: We manage the full lifecycle of migration, ensuring it moves beyond lift-and-shift. Our framework adds a strategic layer that unlocks real value and delivers immediate ROI.
- Transformation and scale: Once migration is complete, we drive team adoption, help streamline legacy workflows, consolidate complex tools and configurations, and reduce waste. We also help set the foundation for scalable, agile growth.
- Managed services: Instead of one-and-done consulting, we offer ongoing training, platform management, and support. We work to keep your environment secure and consistently aligned with your business’s needs.
Operational resilience means staying one step ahead. If you’re ready to prep your business for what’s next, get started with us today
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