Why Business is Better in the CloudOctober 2016

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About Perficient

Perficient is the leading digital transformation consulting firm serving Global 2000 and

enterprise customers throughout North America.

With unparalleled information technology, management consulting, and creative capabilities, Perficient and its Perficient Digital agency deliver vision, execution, and value with outstanding digital experience, business optimization, and industry solutions.

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Perficient ProfileFounded in 1997

Public, NASDAQ: PRFT

2015 revenue $473.6 million

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Global delivery centers in China and India

3,000+ colleagues

Dedicated solution practices

~95% repeat business rate

Alliance partnerships with major technology vendors

Multiple vendor/industry technology and growth awards

Victor WoltersDirector, Enterprise Cloud Strategist

Joel ThimsenDirector, Cloud and DevOps

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Velocity of Business

Agility & Scalability

Cost savings

Faster Innovation

Cloud ROI

Q&A

Agenda

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“By 2020, a corporate ‘no-cloud’ policy will be as rare as a corporate ‘no-internet’ policy is today.”

- Gartner

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• Think short-term

• Multi-speed business

• Governance appropriate response to new opportunities

Velocity of Business

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SHORT-TERM THINKING• Combined with longer-term

strategy• Ability to fail fast

Cloud Business Velocity MULTI-SPEED• Some fast• Some slow• Some medium

GOVERNANCE• Appropriate response to new

opportunities• Built-in organizational support

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Big Picture for Cost Savings

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HARD SAVINGS• Reduced spending on compute, storage,

networking, security• Avoidance of hardware and software purchases

(CapEx)• Reductions in operational costs, backup, and

DR/DC• Reduction in operations-oriented personnel

Cost SavingsSOFT SAVINGS• Re-use of services and applications that allow you

to define and redefine solutions using the same cloud services

• Increase developer productivity• Improved employee morale based on the use of

cloud-based resources• Ability to change business processes quickly around

new and emerging opportunities• Increase global reach

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Cloud Enables Cost-effective Operations

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PROBLEMS WITH CONVENTIONAL DR APPROACH

• High capital costs to build DR sites• High cost of storage, backups, tape, tools • Difficult to verify DR approach • Typically limited to critical systems• Challenging to setup and manage, especially

remote regions• Low ROI

Disaster Recovery is Better in the CloudBENEFITS OF CLOUD DR APPROACH

• Lower up-front investment and overall costs• On-demand capacity and scale• Recovery automation• Eliminate physical storage (tapes, disks)

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Disaster Recovery Architecture in the Cloud

Web Server

AppServer

DBServer

WebServer

AppServer

DBServerData

Replication

DNS

Minimal Instance

Not Running

Users / Systems

Cloud Platform

Corporate Data Center

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Disaster Recovery Architecture in the Cloud

Web Server

AppServer

DBServer

WebServer

AppServer

DBServerData

Replication

DNS

Expanded Instance

Running

Users / Systems

Cloud Platform

Corporate Data Center

X

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Disaster Recovery Economics in the Cloud

2nd Site Cost Cloud Cost Demand

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Test Test Failover

Failback

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Time

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Agility & Scalability

Operational agility is a top driver for global cloud buyers, according to a Gartner survey.*

* http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2923217

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Cloud IT Agility Business Agility

Corporate Performanc

e

Cloud Enables Agility

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M&A is Better in the Cloud

* Thomson Reuters. “Mergers & Acquisitions Review. Financial Advisors. First Half 2016.”

** Deloitte M&A Institute. “M&A Trends Report 2015: Our annual comprehensive look at the M&A market.”

Global M&As hit

USD $7 trillionin 2015, up 25% from 2014*

Shrink time- to-

close Accelerate IT-

dependent

synergies

Reduce contractu

al requireme

nt

Support multiple buyersShift for

CapEx to OpEx

expense

Reduce team size required

to support M&A

Shift focus away from

potential IT issues

Speed integratio

n activities

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• Standards, secure, connectivity, speed “built-in”• Application portfolio management• Automated CI/CD• Continuous DevOps• Machine learning• Big Data analytics

Faster Innovation

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• Rapid prototyping• Minimum viable products• A-B testing• Quick market validation• Idea discovery to market testing in weeks

Innovation Speed

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Cloud ROI is More than Cost Savings

Cloud ROI

BUSINESSVALUE

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• Increase on-boarding of new customers through multi-tenant SaaS

• On-demand service provisioning: reduced wait time from weeks to minutes

Increase Velocity of App Development

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Self-service & Automation: Standard Infrastructure Lifecycle

Source: www.ibm.com

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Self-service & Automation

Source: www.ibm.com

Standard Infrastructure Lifecycle

Replaced by the cloud

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Shift Resource Focus Up the Value Chain

Custom solution which requires focus on low-value activities, increasing cost.

Bespoke platform

Cloud Platform

No automation

Highly automated

Custom solution with some focus on high-value activities but at an increasing cost.

Cloud platform allowing focus on high-value activities improving overall ROI.

Managed solution eliminates some– but not all –low-value activities, limited improvement in ROI

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Shift Resource Focus Up the Value Chain

Bespoke platform Cloud platform

No automation

Highly automated

Manual environment build

Automated provisioning

Operating system management

Establish new business channel

Create new business capability

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1. Strong perimeters and surveillance

2. Controlled access

3. Cyber security expertise

4. Thorough and frequent auditing

5. Inherent complexity of cloud

Security is Better in the Cloud

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