Demonstrating the real enterprise value of cloud at Merck (PRT260)
summary
Merck’s BlueSky program uses AWS, Accenture, CICD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, automated testing and RDS to quantify and capture real value across a 39‑month plan targeting 275 million in annual savings. Every app is dispositioned into retire rehost modernize; modernization breaks into ~22 component activities, t-shirt sizes estimate effort, and a validation process with finance ties each dollar to licenses, labor and avoidance. Demos to executives confirm the approach works and budgets get reallocated.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Introduction to Merck
- 2:08Merck's purpose and pillars
- 3:50Blue Sky program overview
- 5:59Shifting focus to value
- 7:24Tranche execution strategy
- 9:31Future scaling and self-service
- 10:42Cloud migration categories
- 12:35Modernization factory approach
- 14:25Value capture and validation
- 17:00Scaling financial validation
- 18:43Hard savings and efficiencies
- 21:18Texas two-step strategy
- 23:27Modernization modeling
- 27:58Lessons learned in finance
- 29:41Top-down sponsorship
- 32:48Demo-driven advocacy
- 35:01Future business transformation
- 37:46Centralized IT model
- 39:53Conclusion and Q&A
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