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SPOT Framework

The SPOT framework of cloud governance enables easy understanding of how cloud governance can be established in an organisation.

SPOT stands for-

S- Stakeholders and Scope

Like the SOA governance, cloud governance also demands stakeholder and decision authority enablement. For instance, who is held accountable for the deployment of cloud? Who makes decisions on the procurement of cloud solutions? The cloud governance committee must be formed with the participation of employees from different departments such as IT, compliance, legal, audit, the particular line of business and risk management.

P-Policies and Processes

The “Policies and Process” part of the framework refers to defining and mapping of each governance policy and process to its respective dimension in the cloud governance lifecycle management. Legal contracts, SLA management, architectural processes and fault alerts are some of the processes established through this component of the SPOT framework.

O – Organisations

Cloud governance is an expense and a massive task for any organisation. Determining the different bodies that can undertake various responsibilities of cloud governance is an easier approach to achieving better results. This includes:
The Executive Team that takes care of the end-to-end operations of the cloud.
The Operations Team takes responsibility of all routine cloud activities with special attention to resource management.
The Cloud Working Group is in charge of all activities such as cloud pilot and R&D established before the adoption of cloud.
The Consumer Stakeholder Board is responsible for all activities needed to steer the cloud adoption process. Examples include pricing, accounting and so on.

T – Technologies and Tools

The field of cloud governance has a vast range of proven techniques and tools that must be deployed during various stages of the governance lifecycle. Some of the common tools used by enterprises are cloud contract tools, cloud management and monitoring tools and cloud services portfolio.

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