The Secret to Accelerated Delivery and ROI: A Cloud Shift Success Story

For many business leaders, driving progress is a constant challenge. Data projects often take too long, cost too much, and fail to deliver on their promise, leaving organisations struggling to keep up. At Cloud Formations, we change this by blending our consulting expertise with open-source accelerators. Our approach reduces delivery risk, cuts costs, and shortens the path from strategy to execution.  

Our Cloud Shift Toolkit: The Complete Solution  

Our Cloud Shift Toolkit is what makes us unique. It's a flexible combination of products and services designed to help you unlock data value faster and at a lower cost. We use this toolkit to respond to your priorities, which, whether consciously or not, are framed around six core areas.  

When working on a project, one of the most critical factors is time. Cloud Formations helps reduce the time it takes to deliver a project, ensuring you meet your deadlines. This goes hand in hand with cost, as they aim to lower both the expenses of building and running a project. 

Another important priority is risk. Cloud Formations helps you avoid failure and makes migrations safer, giving you peace of mind. This builds trust, as it improves confidence in your data and the overall project. Ultimately, the goal is to show a clear value, demonstrating a strong return on investment and a tangible impact on the business. 

Finally, a major priority for many clients is capability. Cloud Formations helps to boost your internal team's skills, which in turn reduces your reliance on outside help. 

The Two Parts of Our Toolkit  

Our unique ability to leverage both products and services from our toolkit enables us to deliver for our customers faster, more cost-effectively, and with greater reliability.  

The Products: Our Accelerators   

Our products act as accelerators. They provide proven frameworks that reduce technical overhead and speed up delivery.  

• CF.Nimbus™: Our Legacy Interpreter helps you reverse engineer old systems, define requirements, and de-risk your migrations. 

• CF.Cumulus™: The Lakehouse Accelerator helps with data ingestion, transformation, and orchestration. 

• CF.Stratus™: Our Platform Assurance solution provides managed services, optimisation, and resilience for your platforms. 

The Services: Our Expertise   

Our services are where we tailor the solution to fit your unique business context. We ensure that transitions are smooth, and teams are fully supported.  

• Strategy (Data, AI, Tech): We help you define a clear roadmap.  

• Design & Delivery: We build and deliver the solution.  

• Adoption & Training: We ensure your team gains the necessary skills to be confident and self-sufficient.  

  
  

How It All Works Together  

We don't just build platforms; we deliver outcomes. The key is how our products and services are combined.  

Our products make delivery faster by providing proven frameworks and reducing technical overhead. This approach reduces technical overhead and gets you to market faster.  

Our services tailor the solution to fit your unique business context. What this means is that whilst our products provide the robust foundation, our services ensure that the foundation perfectly aligns with your specific goals, challenges, and operational requirements. 

Together, this combination delivers outcomes faster, more affordably, and more reliably than alternatives.  

The Outcomes We Deliver  

Our toolkit delivers measurable outcomes by focusing on your priorities.  

Core Outcomes  

• Faster Time-to-Insight: We cut delivery times with accelerators while ensuring the outcomes match your business priorities.  

• Lower Cost to Deliver & Run Platforms: We reduce build and running costs by avoiding vendor lock-in and streamlining operations.  

• Trusted & Compliant Data: We embed compliance and trust from day one, not as an afterthought.  

• Business Value & ROI: We help you realise a return on your investment through cost savings, risk reduction, and creating new value.  

• Internal Capability Uplift: We work with your team, leaving you with lasting skills and reduced reliance on us.  

  
  

Whilst our toolkit delivers these outcomes, there are usually secondary results seen across the business, such as: Sustainable Competitive Advantage, Innovation Enablement, Cross-Functional Collaboration, and AI Value Realisation. 

Examples of Our Approach in Action  

Here’s how our combined toolkit works to solve common challenges.  

Faster Time-to-Insight: We use our Cumulus product and Nimbus to accelerate data ingestion and capture requirements. Our Data Strategy, Data Visualisation, and Engineering & Delivery services then ensure the outcome aligns with your business priorities.  

Lower Cost to Deliver & Run Platforms: We build on the open-source framework of Cumulus and use Stratus for assurance and optimisation. Our Tech Strategy, Data Engineering, and Platform Governance services help reduce build and running costs.  

Trusted and Compliant Data: We use our Cumulus Privacy Store and Stratus for auditing and monitoring, supported by our Governance Advisory and Culture & Adoption services.  

Business Value & ROI: We use Nimbus to de-risk migrations and Cumulus to lower total cost of ownership. Our AI Strategy and Advisory services help you create new value and realise ROI.  

Internal Capability Uplift: All of our transparent, open-source products are delivered with our Training, Adoption, and Collaborative Support services, so we can work with your team, not just for them.  

Accelerate Your ROI Today  

Our approach is designed to help enterprises unlock data value faster and at a lower cost. We help you turn challenges into opportunities, leading to faster access to information and a lower total cost of ownership.  

If you're ready to get your data unlocked, contact us today.