A. Executive Summary
Migration Objective
Transition Cisco Azure billing from EA to MCA before enrollment expiration. This is a billing change only — Azure resources and subscription RBAC are unaffected. Hierarchy shifts from Enrollment → Department → Account to Billing Account → Billing Profile → Invoice Section.
Target State
- Commercial EA enrollment migrated to Cisco MCA billing account
- FedRAMP enrollment on separate MCA billing profile per ATO boundary
- Long-term consolidation under Splunk MCA agreement
- Cost pipelines updated for MCA APIs, Snowflake schema, and Cloudability
Team Responsibilities
- GPS Procurement — Contract, billing design, Microsoft engagement
- Cloudx Ops — Discovery, APIs, Snowflake, identity & access
- FinOps — Cloudability, chargeback, allocation governance
- CCTM — Invoice processing, AP, reconciliation, month-end close
- RunOn — Subscription provisioning platform & automation
- Cross-Team — Pilot, production cutover, hypercare
Microsoft Pre-Conditions
- Transition within 60 days of EA enrollment end date
- All EA credits consumed prior to transition
- Azure Plan enabled on target billing profile
- Enterprise Administrator + Billing Account Owner roles
- SQL Hybrid Benefit manually reassigned post-migration