Building the modern institution: how Jisc can support your cloud-based digital transformation
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The document discusses how Jisc can aid UK public sector organizations in their digital transformation through cloud adoption, highlighting the importance of organizational culture and strategy over mere technology use. Key benefits of digital transformation include improved agility, teamwork, innovative practices, and better student outcomes. Jisc offers various support services and emphasizes understanding stakeholders' needs and motivations for transformation.
Building the modern institution: how Jisc can support your cloud-based digital transformation
- 1. Building the modern institution: how Jisc can support your cloud-based digital transformation Andy Powell – Cloud CTO, Jisc
- 2. • Public Sector Cloud Adoption Report • Eduserv & Socitm – Sept 2018 • Based on the 633 responses received from UK local councils, HE institutions, public bodies and emergency services “Universities and public bodies, which are mainly driven by scalability and agility, are the first and second heaviest cloud adopters in the public sector – 36% and 29% of cloud usage, respectively”
- 3. The use of digital technology to transform the way an organisation does its business What is Digital Transformation / the Modern Institution? Modern Workplace Modern Institution • More agility • Flexible working • More innovation • Better teamwork • Greater collaboration • Ultimately… serving customers better • Student experience • Flexible delivery of teaching and learning • Better learning outcomes • Student retention • Research efficiency • Intelligent campus • Using data to drive decision-making
- 4. An approach to digital transformation Understand your culture and appetite for change Understand what you are trying to achieve Understand your compelling events Understand your application estate Understand your stakeholders
- 5. None of this is really about technology Digital transformation Cloud adoption
- 6. What are you trying to achieve? Cost savings More control / up- skilling Greater agility New ways of working Better student experience Improved research outcomes
- 7. What are your compelling events? • Data centre closure? • Hardware end of life? • Support end of life? • These are usually poor drivers of transformation
- 8. Understand your estate • Applications, applications, applications • Work with your software vendors • Don’t get bogged down in the details of your infrastructure too early • At some stage you will need that detail • But don’t let the infrastructure tail wag the application dog
- 9. Understand your stakeholders Students Postgrads Staff (lecturers & researchers) Senior management IT staff
- 11. Oh, yes… and finally the technology. You are going to have to think about the technology!
- 12. The Gartner 5 Rs… Replacing by SaaS Refactoring / Rebuilding using native cloud features Rehosting in a lift-and-shift type operation
- 13. Or, to put it another way SaaS PaaS IaaS before before
- 14. The hybrid question… Public Cloud On-premise / colocation
- 15. All that other technology stuff… • Connectivity • Security • Data protection • Managing spend • Up-skilling • Etc.
- 18. Jisc Cloud Solutions: Our capability Assessment & strategy Optimisation & support Implementation Consultancy Professional Services Managed Services What are we trying to achieve? How ready are we? What’s our cloud strategy? What cloud services should we use? How do we design a robust solution? How do we make sure it is secure? How do we keep things running smoothly? How do we keep it secure? How do we minimise our spend? How do we track new features AWS, Azure & Office 365 (inc. re-sell via G-Cloud & GÉANT)
- 20. Summary • Digital transformation is at least as much about leadership and culture as it is about technology • Therefore need to start with understanding why you want to change • Adopting public cloud is a common consequence of digital transformation but is not a driver of change in its own right • Jisc can help you with a range of consultancy, professional services, managed services and public cloud re-sell
- 21. Thank you