Business Drivers, Metrics, and Use Cases

There are many ways to evaluate projects from a financial perspective. Cloud solutions, like most IT projects, are easily compared with ROI metrics. However, ROI does not typically tell the whole story. The cloud can pull many financial levers as well as optimize and increase efficiencies in several related, but not necessarily direct, inputs to ROI calculations. This section looks into some of the considerations when looking at the economic impact of cloud solutions.