As one of many I'm looking for possible options in terms for possible cloud migration. OFC natural criteria is license cost. But I'd like to share with community some research which I did as part of preparation to choose one of options which we (users/admins) need to take. This is really non case specific as each admin will need to check his must have apps on each environment. Here is more generic set of data to have overview about app coverage.
Yes, I'm aware of:
- differences between environments (ignored as not part of that exercise)
- not all apps are equally important for users
- I'm ignoring app popularity in that exercise
Goal of that exercise was more general to get overview on whole picture.
What I was looking for is information about amount of all addons (including duplicates) for each environment per category.
Main question will be how many apps is available for each env?
| | Server | DC | Cloud |
| total apps | 7665 | 3029 | 4526 |
| % of server | 100% | 40% | 59% |
Next to that I checked coverage - what is percentage relation to Server (most mature env.)
Next question which I was trying to answer was: How many apps within each category is available. Knowing that I calculated coverage eg. within category Workflow Server has 361 apps while Cloud 228 - that gives 63% coverage of Server.
Based on above calculation I checked how many within each category is matching XX% level of Server ...
| | DC | Cloud |
| more than 50% of server | 3% | 70% |
| more than 60% of server | 0% | 57% |
| more than 70% of server | 0% | 27% |
| more than 80% of server | 0% | 19% |
What above mean for me?
To get real outcome I will check all my used apps for each application and will check is it available on DC/Cloud. Also I'll verify cost of each of those options. But it's little worrying, knowing that DC can provide 40% possibilities of Server same for Cloud (59%).
