1. Why Optimization?
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2. At most locations per report
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3. IT operating expense reduction allows more headroom for Capex
Typical
IT
Spending
ratio
~20%
-­‐30%
Op-­‐ex
Cap-­‐ex
~80%-­‐
70%
Change the ratio to your advantage
Op-ex includes Maintenance, Operations, and Ongoing support of Systems and Equipment. Cost savings from Op-ex can support future
Cap-ex investments in value added initiatives.
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4. Need for IT Rationalization
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5. Typical Business Environments at Organizations
Organizations often do not know
• Which are the overlapping IT resources with other Business Units
• Which resources have overlaps within each Business Units
• Which resources are rarely used or obsolete
• Which resources are specific to the Business Unit and has no overlap either the
Business or other Business Units
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6. Environment, we expect it to be.
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7. Aligning IT with Business.
• Global, Standardized IT Processes to align with Business Strategies
• Simplified security requirement
• Simpler integration of new technology
• Centralization of management and maintenance,
• Better utilization of skills across a unified environment and being Consistent
• responsive to various service levels and quality assurance as a result of standardization of processes
• Enterprise Collaboration
• Is becoming the need of the hour specifically post this economic change that has altered the boundaries of the
world specifically in the scale and complexity of tasks are exceeding the limits of the traditional command-and-
control approaches to integration org wide…these are the factors leading to the emergence of a model of
enterprise collaboration to achieve the goals of integration for various BU in an organization
• Enterprise Shared Services
• Hence systematic approach towards Centralized computing Vs Consolidated infrastructure is what that leads to
moving from a dynamic environment to a rationalized environment in an enterprise shared service model
• Real-time Transactions
• A real-time infrastructure Is more or less based on pay-as-you-kind of services
• An IT infrastructure shared across customers, business units and applications Dynamically driven by business
policies and service-level requirements
• Automatically configured and optimized ( tera-architecture )
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8. Why Optimization is Important.
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9. Capacity Variance.
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10. Capacity Variance.
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11. Capacity Variance.
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12. Capacity Variance.
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13. Capacity Variance.
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14. Operational efficiency with ITSM processes
• Challenge
• Reducing the cost of managing complex ICT environment and at the same time
increasing their efficiency
ITIL has now emerged as the de-facto set of best practices for IT operations
processes.
• Benefit
• Assess your service management processes vs. industry best practices, and perform a
revealing gap analysis
• Establish formal benchmarks for measuring service risk and process maturity
• Identify potential availability and performance shortfalls in your mission-critical
infrastructure
• Spotlight top-priority areas for improving service effectiveness, delivering greater
business value and cutting costs
• Evaluate your supplier-management practices
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