Infrastructure Optimization Assessment
Our Infrastructure Architects and Experts provide the following IT Consulting Services
Where an organization ranks today along the IO model How the organization compares to its compares in terms of IT maturity How the organization can advance to a more mature state
The quantifiable benefits and business value of migrating to a more mature state.
Our experts use Microsoft Best Practices and Tools to look at various processes in the following five capabilities to determine where the company being assessed stands within the framework, for each IO capability.
The Core Infrastructure Optimization model (IO)
helps customers develop a roadmap to achieve a more secure, well-managed and dynamic core IT infrastructure.
1. Identity and Access Management: Describes how organizations should manage people and asset identities, solutions that should be implemented to manage and protect identity data (synchronization, password management, and user provisioning, to mention few), and how to manage access to resources from corporate mobile users, customers and partners outside of a firewall.
2. Desktop, Device and Server Management: Describes how organizations should manage desktops, mobile devices, and servers as well as how to deploy patches, operating systems, and applications across the network. It also includes how customers can leverage virtualization and branch office technologies to improve their IT infrastructure.
3. Security and Networking: Describes how customers can strengthen IT infrastructure to help guarantee that information and communications are protected from unauthorized access. Provides a mechanism to protect their IT infrastructure from denial attacks and viruses while preserving access to corporate resources.
4. Data Protection and Recovery: Provides structured or disciplined backup, storage, and restore management. As information and data stores proliferate, organizations are under increasing pressure to protect that information and provide cost-effective and time-efficient recovery when required.
5. IT and Security Process: Provides proven best practice guidance on how to cost-effectively design, develop, operate, and support solutions while achieving high reliability, availability, and security.
Analysis for Application Platform Infrastructure Optimization (APO)
Conducting an Application Platform Infrastructure Optimization (APO) assessment can help deliver a more flexible and scalable application platform, so that IT can:
- Provide the infrastructure, technologies, and tools needed to build connected and adaptable systems.
- Align IT more effectively with business needs and demands.
- Present better business choices that add greater value to the company.
- Our experts uses the Microsoft APO model to help identify areas of investment where IT optimization will not only deliver efficiencies and lower costs, but can help IT become a stronger partner in driving the business forward. Following the APO model can help business growth through investment in five key areas:
- Increase the performance of applications with reliable, scalable data infrastructure and management processes.
- Business Intelligence: Make more informed business decisions by providing data people need at every level of the business.
- Improve predictability and agility by establishing flexible, repeatable, and connected business and IT processes within service oriented architecture.
- Respond to business priorities by offering the right level of visibility, collaboration, and control within the software development process.
- Deliver a customizable and superior user experiences to drive employee productivity, customer loyalty, and business growth.
Our experts look at the features existing within the organization and map the processes with the peer group to place the client company along the APO maturity model. Then, we calculate the value of advancing the Infrastructure Optimization level in all capability areas to generate total annual savings. These savings are then compared against estimated investment costs required to implement the proposed practices and technologies.
Analysis for Business Productivity Infrastructure Optimization BPIO
The BPIO model helps streamline the management and control of content, data and processes across all areas of a customer's business. It helps simplify how people work together, makes processes and content management more efficient and improves the quality of business insight while enabling IT to increase responsiveness and have a strategic impact on the business. BPIO areas of focus include:
1. Collaboration and Unified Communications: Offers information workers powerful tools for collaborating and communicating while using familiar Microsoft Office programs. Optimizing Collaboration and Unified Communications will give IT departments robust, scalable, server-based capabilities that help protect their existing infrastructure investments.
2. Enterprise Content Management: Identifies investment opportunities to improve web authoring, forms, record management and web content management processes.
3. Business Intelligence: Evaluates reporting, analysis, and performance management capabilities that can improve business insight.
4. Enterprise Search: Considers value of a robust enterprise search solution that improves the ease by which users access relevant content for business decisions. Describes how customers should integrate this information with standard search capabilities that integrate different formats and data sources from a central and standard repository.
Our experts use Microsoft’s Best Practice and Assessment Tools to analyze the labor productivity, service level and business agility impacts of adopting Infrastructure optimization best practices. The business benefits of adopting these best practices and moving to the next level of Infrastructure Optimization are clearly showcased.