IT analyst at BallotOnline, a company providing electronic voting solutions worldwide. Your proposal to begin migrating systems to the cloud has been approved.
BallotOnline has now initiated the procurement process to migrate its web services to the cloud by posting a request for proposal (RFP) to an internet RFP repository for potential cloud vendors and has given prospective vendors three weeks to submit proposal responses to that RFP.
In this project, instead of acting as an employee at BallotOnline, you will switch and become the bid and proposal manager for a cloud migration service vendor interested in helping BallotOnline migrate the company's web services to the cloud. Your final deliverable will be a Cloud Migration Proposal in response to BallotOnline's RFP.
graphic showing that your organization, which is the cloud migration service vendor, is an intermediary between the the customer, BallotOnline, and the AWS cloud service provider.
Check the Project 1 FAQ thread thread in the discussion area for any last-minute updates or clarifications about the project.
Now that you are aware of the requirements for this project, click on Step 1 to get started. The project will take about four weeks to complete.
When you submit your project, your work will be evaluated using the competencies listed below. You can use the list below to self-check your work before submission.
Step 1: Review the Procurement Process
1.7: Create neat and professional looking documents appropriate for the project or presentation.
5.1: Evaluate the Business IT needs of an organization.
5.2: Propose strategies the organization can employ using cloud solutions to enhance organizational effectiveness.
6.1: Articulate the systems architecture of the cloud - cloud infrastructure, cloud service, cloud platform, and cloud storage.
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