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
ECAR working group paper offering guidance and suggestions for making smart, informed decisions about IT investments |
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Framework developed by the ECAR TCO working group to help compare on-premise costs with cloud costs |
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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. |
Help with information security related to finance issues. |
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EDUCAUSE Library page on Compliance | EDUCAUSE articles, papers, and presentations to help you create reliable structures and measures to ensure success and minimize failure |
Current IT policy issues affecting higher education, including many with fiscal implications |
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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