Swot analysis cloud services

Step 5: Prepare a SWOT Analysis In this step, you will apply the information gathered in the business analysis to assess the benefits and possible drawbacks of adopting cloud infrastructure for BallotOnline. Take Note What is a SWOT Analysis? Your supervisor, Sophia, recommends that you include a SWOT analysis in your presentation, since the BallotOnline company executives will want you to go over both the advantages and disadvantages of cloud adoption and any important internal and external factors that may influence the success of the project. Action Item Demonstrate your critical-thinking abilities by identifying the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of adopting cloud computing. First, articulate each of these areas for the SWOT analysis: 1. Identify the key strengths (advantages) of adopting cloud computing. 2. Identify the major weaknesses (disadvantages) of adopting cloud computing. 3. Are there any opportunities that cloud computing enables the organization to take advantage of? 4. What are the threats that an organization considering adopting cloud computing needs to consider? Next, evaluate how to achieve the following outcomes to add to the SWOT analysis: 1. How can you use strengths to take advantage of opportunities? 2. How can you overcome weaknesses to take advantage of opportunities? 3. How can you use strengths to avoid threats? 4. How can you minimize weaknesses and avoid threats? Use the SWOT analysis template to organize your ideas. When you have completed the SWOT analysis, move to the last step, which is the final presentation. Section 14: SWOT Analysis: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats from Chapter 3: Assessing Community Needs and Resources in the Community Tool Box is used under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States license. © 2016 Community Tool Box. SWOT Analysis Template OPPORTUNITIES 1. 2. STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES 1. 1. 2. 2. 3. 3. 4. 4. Opportunity-Strength (OS) Opportunity-Weakness (OW) Strategies Strategies Use the strengths to take advantage Overcome weaknesses by of opportunities taking advantage of 3. 1. 4. 2. opportunities 1. 2. THREATS Threat-Strength (TS) Strategies 1. Use strengths to avoid threats 2. 1. Threat-Weakness (TW) Strategies Minimize weaknesses and avoid threats 3. 2. 4. 1. 2. Step 6: Prepare a Presentation on Benefits and Possible Drawbacks of Adopting Cloud Infrastructure In this step, you will prepare your presentation for the BallotOnline executives. This presentation should present them with a compelling business case and cover the benefits and possible drawbacks of adopting cloud infrastructure, data on cloud economics, and a demo of some basic cloud capabilities. Take Note These asynchronous presentations must include an audio narrative. Your presentation will include an executive summary along with the following from previous steps: • Overview of cloud computing o summary of service and deployment models o summary of cloud compute and storage infrastructure components o • advantages and disadvantages economic analysis • IT business requirements (provide a concise description of what each bullet should ensure) • SWOT analysis When you are ready to submit the assignment for grading, upload your narrated presentation to the dropbox below. Before you submit your assignment, review the competencies below, which your instructor will use to evaluate your work. A good practice would be to use each competency as a self-check to confirm you have incorporated all of them in your work. • 1.8: Create clear oral messages. • 5.1: Evaluate the Business IT needs of an organization.