As cloud-based systems become more de rigueur, financial companies are leading the way. However, over 50% of the sector has yet to develop an application assessment based approach to migration leading to inefficiencies and unexpected delays.

This Microsoft-CAST joint paper, put together based on the learning from numerous successful PaaS migration experiences attempts to answer questions around:

• What are the top challenges and pitfalls when migrating to PaaS?
• What are the keys to avoid these pitfalls?
• How to conduct your migration the “leaders and doers” way?