IT Director for a financial organization Significant budget cut in her yearly IT spend Company looking to cut costs across the board About Susan Significant yearly costs for Microsoft Office; concern that they're "paying for more than we need" Infrastructure has too many platforms and content repositories - which require a lot of people to manage. Costly to update, upgrade, and deploy Content is spread all over the company requiring different skillsets during upgrades Compliance exposures? Desktop PCs need constant updating due to individual applications within departments Spending big money on web-conferencing Challenges Drive costs out of the infrastructure Find ways that the business can leverage their current solutions and investments at a lower cost Executive Mandate © 2009 IBM all rights reserved

IT Director for a financial organization

Significant budget cut in her yearly IT spend

Company looking to cut costs across the board

Significant yearly costs for Microsoft Office; concern that they're "paying for more than we need"

Infrastructure has too many platforms and content repositories - which require a lot of people to manage. Costly to update, upgrade, and deploy

Content is spread all over the company requiring different skillsets during upgrades

Compliance exposures?

Desktop PCs need constant updating due to individual applications within departments

Spending big money on web-conferencing

Drive costs out of the infrastructure

Find ways that the business can leverage their current solutions and investments at a lower cost

Deployed OpenOffice and Lotus Symphony (no charge) to 50% of user base. Lotus Notes 8 SmartUpgrades to help reducing time and money needed to maintain desktops -- and also easing deployment of Lotus Symphony. A single interface makes it easy and more cost-effective to use her primary repositories; single interface also means no upgrade to content management repositories. Compliance and content structure remains in place to ease executive's minds and meet regulatory/compliance restrictions Enterprise IM Lotus Sametime Unyte service-based web conferencing Solution Savings : spending less on Microsoft Office; deployed OpenOffice and Lotus Symphony (no charge) to 50% of users Savings : Lotus Notes 8 SmartUpgrades reducing time and money needed to maintain desktops -- and also easing deployment of Lotus Symphony. Potential Savings : forced upgrade to Microsoft Exchange 2007 provides reason to evaluate alternatives Extending existing investments : single interface makes it easy and more cost-effective to use her primary repositories; single interface also means no ECM upgrade required Compliance & content structure remains in place to ease executive's minds and meet regulatory/compliance restrictions Savings : IM leading to reduced costs to maintain voice and mail traffic Savings : using Lotus Sametime Unyte at a much lower cost; corresponding reduction in admin headcount Benefits © 2009 IBM all rights reserved

Deployed OpenOffice and Lotus Symphony (no charge) to 50% of user base.

Lotus Notes 8 SmartUpgrades to help reducing time and money needed to maintain desktops -- and also easing deployment of Lotus Symphony.

A single interface makes it easy and more cost-effective to use her primary repositories; single interface also means no upgrade to content management repositories.

Compliance and content structure remains in place to ease executive's minds and meet regulatory/compliance restrictions

Enterprise IM

Lotus Sametime Unyte service-based web conferencing

Savings : spending less on Microsoft Office; deployed OpenOffice and Lotus Symphony (no charge) to 50% of users

Savings : Lotus Notes 8 SmartUpgrades reducing time and money needed to maintain desktops -- and also easing deployment of Lotus Symphony.

Potential Savings : forced upgrade to Microsoft Exchange 2007 provides reason to evaluate alternatives

Extending existing investments : single interface makes it easy and more cost-effective to use her primary repositories; single interface also means no ECM upgrade required

Compliance & content structure remains in place to ease executive's minds and meet regulatory/compliance restrictions

Savings : IM leading to reduced costs to maintain voice and mail traffic

Savings : using Lotus Sametime Unyte at a much lower cost; corresponding reduction in admin headcount