Process

Identify the needs

• What are your pain points?
• What risks do you want to mitigate?
• What task can be automated?
• What would help you move faster?
• What is limiting you from growing or being scalable?

System Integration

• Is there data from an external source that would be nice to have?
• Are you manually entering data that you could automate?
• Is there data you would like to push into Facebook, Google, Outlook

Web Applications and APIs

• Need a web application to allow customers to enter data or orders?
• Need an application for internal users to use and share data?
• Are you storing data in Excel that should be in a shared web app?
• Do you have data that other systems could use to integrate with you?

Tools & Automation

• What tasks take away from you doing more important things?
• Where are errors occurring that automating it could prevent them?
• What data or process would speed you up if you didn't have to wait?
• Would it be useful if you could automate or control a switch or valve?

Reporting & Monitoring

• Anything that you would want to be notified or alerted about?
• Can reporting and data anlysis help you make better decisions?
• How can you distribute those reports or data?
• Would the ability to monitor or analyze a sensor help you?

Azure Cloud Computing

• Can the cloud reduce risk or increase performance?
• Can your development team take advantage of improved DevOps?
• Is your existing system scalable if demand grows?
• Is improve redundancy and system monitoring useful?