Which comes first, the cloud migration or the upgrade?

More organizations are migrating their existing on-premise solutions to the cloud than ever before. They've received good value from commodity cloud services like email and collaboration and now see a pathway to get out of the datacenter business. They want to put as much as possible into the cloud, and they want their cloud service provider to handle the maintenance tasks, so they can focus their time on being more aligned with the business. As part of these transitions to the cloud, organizations are also evaluating if it's a good time to upgrade to the latest versions of their applications. 

For some solutions, a transition to the cloud is a great time to upgrade, but for more complex workloads like ERP or CRM it may not be the right decision. In order to det...

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