Problem
You have been hired as a software development manager for Paradigm, an organization that provides integration services to large online retail sellers. You manage a team of IT professionals who maintain the organization's IT infrastructure. The organization currently hosts their servers at a company-owned data center that houses several servers. The site is fully staffed 24 hours a day to ensure uninterrupted service to your business customers. The organization's infrastructure has expanded over the last year, and in turn, data center maintenance and expansion costs have sharply increased. As a result, the leadership team has decided to move forward with migrating to a cloud-based environment.
The executive leadership team asked the former manager to research cloud-based systems to see if a migration from a company-managed data center to a cloud environment would solve the growing data center costs (e.g., salaries, updating of servers, real estate). The former manager created an ineffective presentation to communicate the findings to the whole organization. You will review the former manager's presentation, familiarize yourself with technologies that might be involved in moving to a cloud-based environment, and explain how or why the presentation is not appropriate for all the organization's employees. You will then need to determine what kind of technical communication deliverable (e.g., PowerPoint, email, social media post) would be most effective to communicate your findings to three different stakeholder audiences so each stakeholder audience understands how they may be affected. You will also be asked to reflect on your audience analysis and the deliverables you created and document how each deliverable meets the needs of its stakeholder audience.
Create a technical communication deliverable for current and potential business customers that explains how the business customer will benefit from the move from a company-owned data center to a cloud environment that includes two graphics (i.e., chart, graph) that support the benefits outlined in the deliverable.
• In a separate document, justify how the content, structure, and design principles used in this deliverable meet the specific needs of current and potential business customers.