18 © FORRESTER RESEARCH, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. What else can M&E firms do to improve their use of the cloud? Key Recommendations Create a federated cloud strategy to tackle larger cloud problems. As M&E firms have adopted cloud, emergent need has frequently driven implementation. This might have been guided by things like a central cloud strategy, but IT and the business have been adopting in silos, resulting in repeat work, fragmented security posture, and a lack of available skills. As cloud strategy matures and adoption accelerates, your M&E firm will need to mature its practice, with IT focusing on platform enablement and platform engineering and the business becoming more effective at coordinating initiatives. Leverage partner networks and marketplaces to fill in key capability gaps. Key to an effective cloud strategy is prioritizing the development of business differentiating capabilities. Marketplaces and partner networks help businesses refocus on this, meeting broader vertical- and production-specific needs with specialized cloud apps and capabilities and resulting in a faster time to market than the usual build-ityourself approach.
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