ANALYZING ANTICIPATED VALUE AND EFFORT IN USING CLOUD COMPUTING TO PROCESS A SPECIFIED WORKLOAD

Workloads that are and are not appropriate for transformation and processing on a cloud computing environment are identified. A user entity is provided with a measurement of at least one of the value which will be realized, and the effort which will be required. A plurality of attributes are specified Input data represents the extent to which the user entity processing system possesses the given attribute. The input data for each attribute is employed to derive a corresponding numerical parameter value, which are to compute a final score.