Budget Strategies for the Cloud

Adapt your budget strategy for the cloud. A cloud services strategy needs to include financial considerations that focus on a transition from capital expenses to operating expenses, changes in implementation costs associated with enterprise projects, and a close examination of ways to increase efficiency and maximize value.

Enterprise IT Case Studies

In this set of EDUCAUSE Review case studies, see how two institutions have handled a situation that calls for shifting budget strategies as a result of cloud migrations.

 

Adjust Your Funding and Budgeting Strategy

Aligning IT Funding Models to the Pace of Technology Change: Enabling Financial Flexibility for Core, Flexible, and Transformative Service	ECAR working group paper offering guidance and suggestions for making smart, informed decisions about IT investments
TCO for Cloud Services: A Framework	Framework developed by the ECAR TCO working group to help compare on-premise costs with cloud costs
Calculating the Costs of Distributed IT Staff and Applications	ECAR working group paper that Identifies barriers to calculating costs, suggests strategies to overcome barriers, and defines a distributed IT expense
EDUCAUSE Analytics Services	EDUCAUSE Analytics Services provides higher education leaders with insights on peer institutions and benchmarks.
Cybersecurity Program	Help with information security related to finance issues.
EDUCAUSE Library page on Compliance	EDUCAUSE articles, papers, and presentations to help you create reliable structures and measures to ensure success and minimize failure
Policy Spotlight	Current IT policy issues affecting higher education, including many with fiscal implications
EDUCAUSE Library Budgets Page	EDUCAUSE resources on budget issues in higher education IT
EDUCAUSE Library IT Funding Page	EDUCAUSE resources on IT funding issues

Recommended Reading

Background

• Assessing your Fiscal Bandwidth: Current Practices for Measuring IT Costs in Higher Education
• The Financial Implications of a Cloud-First Strategy
• IT Investment Drivers and ROI
• Don't Forget the "e" in IT
• Advancing Without New Resources
• Business Model Innovation: A Blueprint for Higher Education
• Federal Indirect Costs Affect Total Cost of Ownership

Implications Across the Institution

• 10 Things Your Business Manager Wishes You Knew
• The CIO-CBO Partnership
• Foundations of Administrative Systems: Balancing Cost and Value. An EDUCAUSE Executive Brief.
• Key Questions for Administrative Systems: Balancing Cost and Value
• 2015 CDS Benchmarking Report