Cloud Migration

ProHub Comment

This case tests the candidate's ability to structure a financial analysis, identify relevant cost components (CapEx vs. OpEx), and calculate ROI across a multi-year horizon. The candidate must proactively ask for missing data, perform accurate calculations across three years with varying migration percentages, and articulate both financial and strategic benefits.

Estimated Time 15 minutes
Difficulty Hard
Source PeterK
50 / 100
Boards is a visual analytics platform for B2B clients. Given recent trends, they’d like to build a cloud version of their platform. What would be the 3-year ROI of migrating all of their 1,000 servers to cloud?

Clarifying Information

  1. Exhibit 1. Project Execution Plan and Server Costs
  2. Expected cost savings from cloud migration are 30% of annual server costs
  3. The life cycle of a server is 10 years