# Implement Six Sigma in the Cloud with IAM Health Cloud
By Joseph Williams
Implement Six Sigma in the Cloud with IAM Health Cloud
Six Sigma, Lean IT, Lean, and Lean Six Sigma business principles and processes are standard at large enterprises in complex, high risk industries, and most of these companies run significant pieces of their technology stack in the public cloud—most of the time in Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure. Aviation manufacturing and pharmaceutical manufacturing companies, for example, are increasingly moving into AWS and Azure, with both Google and Microsoft specifically building and marketing solutions for both sectors.
Business managers rely on Six Sigma processes, procedures, and planning to run these types of complicated businesses—and Six Sigma processes cannot exist without accurate measurement of inputs, outputs, and movements. These measurements are extremely difficult to obtain when a complicated process enters the cloud.
AWS and Azure metadata is scattered and disorganized. Collection and measurement is complicated, and first party tools are wholly inadequate. Data arrives out of order and late, and is not centralized for proper analysis.
Advertised solutions to this problem are—ironically—themselves a gross violation of the core Six Sigma process. Companies sell siloed solutions managed inside third party software and interfaces. An entire new set of complexity, movements, and inefficiencies are instantly introduced when companies try to use these systems to track cloud information systems.
IAM Health Cloud is the only company that can effectively measure, define, analyze, improve, design, control, or verify cloud business processes in a timely manner without compromising improvements.
Our product measures important cloud metadata—including crucial cost and performance metrics—in real time inside of AWS CloudWatch Dashboards; a ubiquitous AWS interface familiar to every cloud professional. IAM Health Cloud enables new capabilities without forcing employees to learn new methods or operating modes.
IAM Health Cloud measures the system in its current state, monitors changes as you implement them, and tracks control metrics at the conclusion of a process change or deployment. All data is collected in real time, with no lag between an event happening and seeing its effects.
Out of the box, there is no way to see a company’s entire cloud infrastructure in a single location. Large companies are forced to track AWS and Azure assets in multiple dashboards and systems with no easy connection between them. Problems in exist in multiple locations within just one company, and cannot be found all at once.
IAM Health Cloud wipes out these gaps: It ingests everything about a company’s AWS and Azure cloud architecture and displays it in a single pane of glass. Cross-company metrics live in a central repository accessible by all stakeholders. Powerful AI empowers the entire team to explore important questions and analyze key data in natural language—without command line interfaces or special expressions.
Other companies slow systems down as they attempt to collect data—-IAM Health Cloud can track any metric imaginable and IMRPOVE performance all at the same time.
Process data that passes between multiple programs and interfaces stands still in a single, secure location. All data is private—IAM Health Cloud touches nothing and completely avoids the customer’s operating system and data layers.
IAM Health Cloud is the absolute best solution for managing business or manufacturing processes inside AWS. Nothing else approaches the flexibility, power, and careful integration it offers. Contact us today to find out how we can help your company.