Cloud Center of Excellence

A Cloud Center of Excellence (CCOE) is a centralized Enterprise Architecture (EA) function that leads and governs cloud computing adoption within an organization. The CCOE allows central IT to: 

  • Oversee the development and execution of the organization's cloud strategy. 
  • Establish and provide cloud governance for all types of cloud service models - infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS) through appropriate guidelines and guardrails. 
  • Enable the business to choose the best solutions by acting as a cloud broker. 
  • Provide change leadership for cloud-related transformation and adoption of cloud best practices

For more information on the Cloud Center of Excellence please contact ccoe@uoguelph.ca

The Three Pillars of CCOE

The model is a business outcome driven EA function that provides capabilities across the three pillars of cloud enablement: 

Decorative

Cloud Governance

Cloud strategy, policies and guidelines

Decorative

Cloud Brokerage

Procurement, reference architecture, solutioning

Decorative

Cloud Adoption

Community of practice, best practices, self-serve, training