Cloud Computing for the Digital Business
1h 34mBeginner2023-10-13
Authors

Thomas Erl
Course details
For the vast majority of businesses, becoming digitally enabled is not only necessary to remain competitive, it’s essential to their survival. To accomplish a transformation from a traditional business to one that is digitally capable requires the adoption of a range of new business practices and technology innovations. Modern cloud computing lies at the core of these new digital business automation environments. Understanding how, why, and to what extent a business should adopt and incorporate cloud computing features and resources are critical decisions that businesses must make. In this course, best-selling author Thomas Erl provides simple and clear guidance of how modern cloud computing should and should not be used for digital businesses to be successful.
Skills covered
Tech FoundationsCloud FoundationsBusiness StrategyCloud ComputingBusiness Analysis and StrategyLeadership and ManagementSoftware DevelopmentOne-Off
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Introduction
- 02 - What you need to know
1. Cloud Computing and the Digital Business
- 03 - A cloud computing primer
- 04 - A digital transformation primer
- 05 - Why a business needs the cloud to become digitally-enabled
- 06 - Why a business needs to prepare for the cost of the cloud
2. Cloud Computing Benefits for the Digital Business
- 07 - Making the business more innovative
- 08 - Making the business more automated
- 09 - Making the business more responsive
- 10 - Making the business more data-centric
- 11 - Making the business more customer-centric
- 12 - Enabling the business to become disruptive
3. Cloud Computing Strategies for the Digital Business
- 13 - When to store data in clouds
- 14 - How to put business applications in clouds
- 15 - How to position business application data in clouds
- 16 - When to use cloud AI
- 17 - Why and how to use multicloud
- 18 - How to think about cloud security
Conclusion
- 19 - Next steps