Reduce the Risk of Cloud Migration
Organizations are under growing pressure to re-examine every aspect of their strategic and operational needs. This examination often leads to the decision to consume services in the cloud. As your identity solution evolves, cloud adoption can result in cost savings, new features, and greater flexibility for your admins and your users. But the key is getting it right and knowing the risks up front.
Like all customers that move their mission-critical Ping service from an on-premises, self-managed platform to the cloud, you're likely to have a range of questions:
- Can regulatory and compliance needs be achieved at the same level?
- Can tangible benefits be returned to the organization?
- Where are the potential challenges and how do we best overcome them?
What you need is a methodical approach that assesses and re-imagines your particular self-managed deployment moving to the cloud. This cannot be achieved with a cookie-cutter migration checklist that misses key elements of your unique situation. Handling this assessment on your own can be time-consuming and may lack the insight that outside expertise can bring to the task.
The Ping Cloud Migration Assessment Service is a workshop engagement designed to deliver detailed insights into what it would take to move your self-managed Ping Identity Platform to the cloud (SaaS).
This consultative service identifies opportunities for realizing greater benefits to your organization driven by cloud adoption. It identifies challenges and provides options for resolution. It explores options for improvement and shortens the time-to-value (TTV), so you can focus more on your business objectives.
Most importantly, you and your team are always in control. The final report assembled by Ping migration experts gives you comprehensive information to help you determine when — or if — the move to the cloud makes sense according to your priorities and timelines.
Key Benefits
The Cloud Migration Assessment Service at a Glance
Ping Identity Cloud Migration Assessment service is a consultative service that identifies opportunities for realizing greater benefits to your organization driven by cloud adoption. It identifies challenges and provides options for resolution. It explores options for improvement and shortens the time-to-value (TTV), so you can focus more on your business objectives. Most importantly, you and your team are always in control. The final report assembled by Ping migration experts gives you comprehensive information to help you determine when — or if — the move to the cloud makes sense according to your priorities and timelines.
The Pre-work
Before the engagement begins, the following artifacts are collected:
- High-level architecture and deployment diagrams
- An inventory of the integrated applications
- Additional information, such as required Ping software configurations, extracts, and associated customizations.
Any information shared with Ping Identity is treated with the utmost confidentiality.
The Engagement
A workshop engagement lasting 7–10 business days is kicked off. During the workshop, Ping experts work with the information provided, along with your team of experts, to develop a structured plan that covers all your business and technical goals. The schedule is set on your timeline and can be fine-tuned according to your specific engagement and resource availability. A sample agenda of the workshop typically looks as follows:
Kick-Off Meeting and Workshop Preparation
- Agenda and logistics review
- Pre-engagement checklist
Day 1
Before starting Day 1, preengagement checklist needs to be completed and verified
Offline/offsite
- Workshop prep
- Review of submitted artifacts
Day 2
- Session 1: Business and Technical Overview
- Session 2: Deployment Overview
Day 3
- Session 3: Object Modeling
- Session 4: Data Migration
Day 4
- Session 5: Journeys
- Session 6: Application Integrations
Day 5
- Session 7: UI/Theming
- Session 8: Operations
Day 6
- Session 9: Project Governance
Days 7–8
Offline/offsite
- Prepare report
- Prepare services proposal
Days 9–10
Deliverable
- Present report
- Share services proposal
Business Value
Upon completion of the workshop engagement, a Cloud Migration Assessment Report is produced for your organization.
This detailed report is customized to your particular deployment and may cover the following information:
Transition Plan
- Target Architecture
- Environment Mappings
- Proposed Timeline
- Go-Live Scope — MVP (Minimum Viable Product)
- Risks and Mitigations
IAM Domains
Functional domains:
- Object Modeling
- Data Migration
- Journeys
- Application Integrations
- Authorization
- UI/Theming
Non-functional domains:
- Operations
- Monitoring
Migration
- Current State
- Customizations
- Migration Strategy
- Transformations and Improvements
After review of the report, the next steps are up to you. Ping Identity Professional Services will assist in scoping the services necessary to maximize the potential for a successful migration from self-managed to PingOne Advanced Identity Cloud.