
This article was co-written with Ian Tewksbury.
However you define it, a cloud is simply another tool for your users to perform their part of your organization’s value stream. It can be easy when talking about any new paradigm or technology (the cloud is arguably both) to get distracted by the shiny newness of it. Conversations can quickly devolve into feature wish lists set off by a series of never-ending questions, all of which you probably have already considered: