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Data & Technology Consulting to Modernize and Scale

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Aykut Cakir · NMS Consulting

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Quick Answer:
Prioritize a small set of use cases tied to cash impact, stand up a product-oriented platform, and add guardrails for cost, reliability, and risk. Ship in ninety days, measure weekly, and scale on shared tooling.

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Signals and Benchmarks

  • $3T+ cloud value identified by McKinsey. source
  • DORA’s four keys: deployment frequency, lead time, change fail rate, restore time. source
  • Uptime Institute reports high-cost incidents. source
  • CNCF shows strong cloud-native adoption. source

Foundations: Platform, Data, and Controls

  • Product Platform: internal developer platform with golden paths for build, test, and deploy. reference
  • Data Foundation: governed data products with lineage, retention, and access control.
  • Reliability and Cost: SLOs, chaos drills, and FinOps as code in CI/CD. reference reference

30/60/90 Modernization Playbook

First 30 Days: Pick Use Cases and Baselines

  • Shortlist three use cases with clear cash impact.
  • Capture baselines and targets. Track the four keys and SLOs. reference
  • Draft the platform backlog and a golden path for a seed service.

Days 31 to 60: Platform Rails and Data Products

  • Stand up the platform with identity, logging, metrics, and deploy. Add budget policies in pipelines. reference
  • Publish two data products with lineage and contracts.
  • Run reliability drills to reduce high-cost failures. reference

Days 61 to 90: Production and Scale

  • Ship the first use cases with SLOs, rollback, and runbooks.
  • Publish a weekly value dashboard tied to finance.
  • Expand with a second golden path and self-service templates.

Use Case Types and Metrics

Use Case, Metric, and What To Track
Use Case Metric What To Track
Software Delivery Platform Lead Time and Deployment Frequency PR to prod, batch size, change fail rate, time to restore ref
Analytics for Pricing and Mix Gross Margin and Win Rate Price realization, discount leakage, segment lift
Contact Center Assistant Deflection and AHT Containment rate, customer satisfaction, refund rate
FinOps Automation Spend per Workload and Waste Idle resources, rightsizing, budget policy pass rate ref

Frequently Asked Questions

Where Should We Start?

Pick one revenue, one cost, and one risk use case that can land in ninety days. Build on a shared platform to avoid one-off tooling.

How Do We Control Cloud Spend?

Move budgets and policies into code and enforce them in CI/CD. Track unit costs per product and per customer. reference

What Reliability Targets Make Sense?

Set SLOs based on user experience. Use error budgets to guide release pace and reduce major incidents. reference

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Sources

  • McKinsey. Cloud insights and value at stake. https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/mckinsey-digital/cloud/cloud-insights/all-insights
  • McKinsey. FinOps as code. https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/mckinsey-digital/our-insights/everything-is-better-as-code-using-finops-to-manage-cloud-costs
  • DORA. Accelerate State of DevOps 2024. https://dora.dev/research/2024/dora-report/
  • Google & DORA. 2024 Report PDF. https://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/2024_final_dora_report.pdf
  • Uptime Institute. Annual Outage Analysis 2025. https://uptimeinstitute.com/uptime_assets/d7c049ef5b02a6e0a15540a3e5cb8fbf742c7fa54a1af6caeaaab32b7c15d443-GA-2025-05-annual-outage-analysis.pdf
  • CNCF. Cloud Native 2024 Annual Survey. https://www.cncf.io/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/cncf_annual_survey24_031225a.pdf




About the Author

Aykut Cakir

Aykut Cakir

Aykut Cakir, Senior Partner and Chief Executive Officer, has a demonstrated history in negotiations, business planning, business development. He has served as a Finance Director for gases & energy, pharmaceuticals, retail, FMCG, and automotive industries. He has collaborated closely with client leadership to co-create a customized operating model tailored to the unique needs of each project segment in the region. Aykut conducted workshops focused on developing effective communication strategies to ensure team alignment with new operating models and organizational changes. 

 

 

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