- What is it? - Why is it important? - What can I expect out of it?
A Cisco® Cloud Collaboration Readiness Assessment (CCRA) service enables you to understand the implications and necessary drivers in moving existing on-premise Collaboration solutions to Cisco’s Cloud Collaboration platform. During the engagement, we walk you through essential areas for your transition to the cloud, or a hybrid cloud and on-premises deployment. We then assist you in creating a cloud strategy that identifies the necessary architecture, deployment models, processes, and tools to successfully create a collaboration platform that optimizes your business objectives.
The CCRA service consists of three key focus areas:
Complete migration or adopting a cloud-first mentality for collaboration is a good starting point to determine what you need to do and how you go about doing that. A CCRA takes that goal and works backwards to determine: the best path forward, the changes involved, and the impact on all areas of the business, including:
Figure 1: Characteristics of a Cloud Collaboration Readiness Assessment
A CCRA service is advisory and lightweight in nature, providing stakeholders necessary data to support migrating to cloud collaboration. Figure 1 displays the key tenets of the service.
Figure 2: Benefits of implementing a Cloud Collaboration Readiness Assessment
During our assessment engagement, we work with you to:
Figure 2 offers an overview of some benefits customers can realize in doing a CCRA.
