A Forrester Total Economic Impact Study , January 2019
The Total Economic Impact Of IBM Multivendor Support Services (MVS) Cost Savings And Business Benefits Enabled By IBM MVS
TEI of IBM Information Management SolutionsIBM Analytics
Originally Published on Dec 11, 2014
In October 2014, Forrester Consulting worked with IBM on a commissioned study to analyze the total economic impact that IBM’s Information Management solutions have on three specific big data use cases to help its customers solve important business problems. Through interviews and data aggregation, Forrester concluded that IBM Information Management solutions have the following financial impact on a representative organization: ROI – 148%; total benefit (PV) - $3.2 million.
Eighty percent of organizations are affected by a privileged access policy violation each year, exposing the most sensitive business systems and data to misuse, damage, or piracy.
These slides—based on the webinar hosted by leading IT research firm EMA—cover emerging challenges and solutions to enable privileged access management (PAM). Revealed in the presentation are key findings from EMA’s primary research on “Advancing PAM to Address Modern Business Requirements.”
Forrester report Digital Fuel IT financial management case-studyyisbat
This document summarizes an article about how Nationwide Mutual Insurance implemented IT operations financial management to increase transparency and collaboration between IT and business units. It discusses how Nationwide collects financial data on IT costs, allocates costs to business units based on services consumed, and provides reporting to help business units optimize their IT spending. This transparency has helped Nationwide transition IT from a cost center to a collaborative business partner and driven better joint decisions to control costs while meeting business needs.
Industrializing Zero Application MaintenanceCognizant
This document summarizes an article about industrializing zero application maintenance. It discusses how applying a rigorous, automated approach to supporting applications can reduce costs, improve repair accuracy, minimize technical debt, and free up resources. The key is establishing structured processes to identify and categorize issues incurred by applications over time and remediate them through automation. This includes integrating with IT tools, using machine learning to categorize issues, creating automatic fixes, prioritizing problems, analyzing application portfolios, and benchmarking performance metrics. The benefits are minimizing maintenance costs, increasing strategic investments, improving service levels, and enhancing business outcomes.
Optimizing IT Operations with Natural Language ProcessingCognizant
As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly mainstream, natural language processing techniques are emerging to help IT teams gain enhanced understanding of their operations landscape and to further optimize the ticket management process.
Creating a Unified Data Strategy for Risk-Adjusted PaymentsCognizant
Taking a holistic approach to addressing tighter Medicare data requirements and new risk models will help payers optimize data accuracy for risk-adjusted payments as well as improved operations, patient health and regulatory compliance.
This document discusses how IT organizations can improve operating leverage through cost transparency and IT business management practices. It describes how IT business management helps bridge the gap between business and technology by providing visibility into IT costs and demand. This allows IT to better plan services and transform from a cost center to a true service provider that can scale back costs during economic downturns. The document contains several articles that discuss approaches like software as a service, service-oriented architecture, and selective sourcing to optimize operating leverage through more variable costs.
This document analyzes the total economic impact of deploying VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) for a healthcare customer. Key findings include:
- The customer achieved a 122% ROI over 4 years, with an 8 month payback period, through savings from reduced PC and support costs, increased productivity, and electricity savings.
- Benefits were quantified for PC replacement savings, reduced IT support staff needs, improved worker productivity, and electricity savings from thin clients. Additional qualitative benefits included improved security, user experience, and business continuity.
- Over 4 years, the total benefits were $3.8 million compared to total costs of $1.7 million, for a net savings of over $2 million
TEI of IBM Information Management SolutionsIBM Analytics
Originally Published on Dec 11, 2014
In October 2014, Forrester Consulting worked with IBM on a commissioned study to analyze the total economic impact that IBM’s Information Management solutions have on three specific big data use cases to help its customers solve important business problems. Through interviews and data aggregation, Forrester concluded that IBM Information Management solutions have the following financial impact on a representative organization: ROI – 148%; total benefit (PV) - $3.2 million.
Eighty percent of organizations are affected by a privileged access policy violation each year, exposing the most sensitive business systems and data to misuse, damage, or piracy.
These slides—based on the webinar hosted by leading IT research firm EMA—cover emerging challenges and solutions to enable privileged access management (PAM). Revealed in the presentation are key findings from EMA’s primary research on “Advancing PAM to Address Modern Business Requirements.”
Forrester report Digital Fuel IT financial management case-studyyisbat
This document summarizes an article about how Nationwide Mutual Insurance implemented IT operations financial management to increase transparency and collaboration between IT and business units. It discusses how Nationwide collects financial data on IT costs, allocates costs to business units based on services consumed, and provides reporting to help business units optimize their IT spending. This transparency has helped Nationwide transition IT from a cost center to a collaborative business partner and driven better joint decisions to control costs while meeting business needs.
Industrializing Zero Application MaintenanceCognizant
This document summarizes an article about industrializing zero application maintenance. It discusses how applying a rigorous, automated approach to supporting applications can reduce costs, improve repair accuracy, minimize technical debt, and free up resources. The key is establishing structured processes to identify and categorize issues incurred by applications over time and remediate them through automation. This includes integrating with IT tools, using machine learning to categorize issues, creating automatic fixes, prioritizing problems, analyzing application portfolios, and benchmarking performance metrics. The benefits are minimizing maintenance costs, increasing strategic investments, improving service levels, and enhancing business outcomes.
Optimizing IT Operations with Natural Language ProcessingCognizant
As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly mainstream, natural language processing techniques are emerging to help IT teams gain enhanced understanding of their operations landscape and to further optimize the ticket management process.
Creating a Unified Data Strategy for Risk-Adjusted PaymentsCognizant
Taking a holistic approach to addressing tighter Medicare data requirements and new risk models will help payers optimize data accuracy for risk-adjusted payments as well as improved operations, patient health and regulatory compliance.
This document discusses how IT organizations can improve operating leverage through cost transparency and IT business management practices. It describes how IT business management helps bridge the gap between business and technology by providing visibility into IT costs and demand. This allows IT to better plan services and transform from a cost center to a true service provider that can scale back costs during economic downturns. The document contains several articles that discuss approaches like software as a service, service-oriented architecture, and selective sourcing to optimize operating leverage through more variable costs.
This document analyzes the total economic impact of deploying VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) for a healthcare customer. Key findings include:
- The customer achieved a 122% ROI over 4 years, with an 8 month payback period, through savings from reduced PC and support costs, increased productivity, and electricity savings.
- Benefits were quantified for PC replacement savings, reduced IT support staff needs, improved worker productivity, and electricity savings from thin clients. Additional qualitative benefits included improved security, user experience, and business continuity.
- Over 4 years, the total benefits were $3.8 million compared to total costs of $1.7 million, for a net savings of over $2 million
Technology Cost Management 4D Framework: A Smarter Way to Manage IT CostsCognizant
A framework for financial services IT cost management optimization based on a 4D approach: defining business vision, documenting current state, delineating business architecture and deciding build vs. buy.
The document discusses three key perspectives on IT financial management - Cost Optimization, Cloud, and Financial Discipline. It identifies three "measures that matter" to each perspective: Cost of Service, Budget Variance, and Innovation Ratio. Organizations need to build a discipline around cost optimization through continuous improvement, and get CIO, IT leadership, and finance onboard when developing strategies.
ISM: Power Up! Become a Strategic Influence with Your Company’s Indirect Proc...Mike Inman
Presentation by Mike Inman and Rich Vales given at ISM 2011 conference in Orlando, Power Up! Become a Strategic Influence with Your Company’s Indirect Procurement Spend
The overwhelming challenges of IT infrastructure managementNIIT Technologies
CIOs are now looking at IT infrastructure management as a mean to drive business transformation. To transform the way businesses work, CIOs need responsive systems and processes to bridge the gap between operations and business. With this understanding, IT leaders need to align IT with business and manage IT infrastructure as a service model. This paper surveys the challenges service providers face in managing IT infrastructures. It also lists down solutions for the effective management of IT infrastructures.
The document summarizes a BMC software solution called BSM for IT Business Management. It provides centralized management of IT finances, projects, suppliers, activities, and compliance to give leadership visibility into costs and improve business alignment. Key features include transparency into IT costs, prioritizing projects based on business goals, managing supplier relationships, automating compliance activities, and improving financial planning. Case studies show customers reducing costs by 50% with improved accuracy and control over their IT operations.
The document summarizes the results of a 2007 survey of 163 companies regarding their use of business intelligence (BI) and enterprise performance management (EPM) software. The survey found that midsize companies primarily rely on spreadsheets to support EPM processes and have greater investment needs for budgeting/planning and management reporting solutions compared to large enterprises. For midsize companies, ease of use, price, and vendor stability are the top evaluation criteria. Executives also play a significant role in software selection decisions for midsize businesses.
Accounting Information System (AIS) Alignment And Non-Financial Performance I...CSCJournals
The objective of this research is to investigate the relationship between Accounting Information System (AIS) alignments and non-financial performance in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). The result of this research is expected to help the owners of SMEs to understand the importance of AIS alignment to achieve non-financial performance. AIS alignment is influenced by several factors such as: organizational characteristics, owner commitment, and organizational strategies that effect on SMEs performance. The relationship between AIS alignment on performance is explored using data collected from SMEs owners in the Special Administrative Region of Yogyakarta (DIY). The result of this research shows that AIS sophistication, owner commitment, and external IT expertise have significant effects on AIS alignment. AIS alignment also has significant effect on non-financial performance.
Roland berger managing-the-it-cost-challenge_20090522Karthik Arumugham
This document discusses eleven levers that companies can use to significantly reduce IT costs within 12-18 months. These levers include eliminating redundant management functions, simplifying procedures, optimizing project management, capping budgets, standardizing products, industrializing operations, adjusting service levels, simplifying architecture, improving sourcing mixes, and leveraging sourcing power. Implementing cost reduction measures can be challenging due to impacts on headcount and business operations. Measures must focus on both reducing change costs and ensuring costs remain low to achieve sustainable savings. Roland Berger Strategy Consultants can help identify high-impact actions and implement a comprehensive cost reduction program.
CIA Quebec 11 Sept 2015 Presentation C Louis FinalClaire Louis
Digitalization is transforming the insurance claims process. Key technologies impacting claims include predictive analytics, business process management, and the internet of things. These allow for early intervention, optimized claims handling, and a shift to loss prevention. However, insurers face compliance risks regarding good faith, privacy, discrimination, and unfair trade practices. The future claims environment is expected to have larger and shorter claims, new types of claims, and fewer traditional claims due to loss prevention technologies. Performance metrics will also change for the next generation of claims management.
This document discusses IT governance and provides an introduction to the topic. It defines IT governance as specifying decision rights and accountability frameworks to encourage desirable behavior in using IT. It also discusses some of the challenges CIOs face, symptoms of ineffective governance, how to measure governance effectiveness, and key processes involved in designing an effective IT governance model. The document recommends establishing a business case for IT governance, assessing current maturity and performance, defining a desired future state, and developing a plan to improve governance.
This white paper discusses implementing an IT financial management and cost recovery system. It notes that understanding true IT costs is challenging due to limited resources but is important for good governance. The paper recommends analyzing costs related to the IT portfolio, vendors, and resources. Building awareness of cost drivers across these areas provides opportunities for financial optimization. Developing a formal cost recovery plan with this insight allows IT to help the organization simplify cost allocations, improve visibility into cost structures, and optimize resource management. Implementing such a system provides benefits like improving economic decisions and demonstrating IT's value.
How information technology assessment is helpful for it servicesGroup50 Consulting
The document discusses how information technology assessment can help answer questions IT professionals have about reducing costs and improving efficiency. It explains that an IT assessment, conducted by an IT consultant, can provide answers to questions around reducing data center costs by 40-60%, improving ROI on IT infrastructure investments, ensuring IT meets current business needs, lowering power and cooling costs, optimizing cloud and virtualization strategies, redesigning enterprise networks, and reducing IT operations costs by 25-50%. The assessment clarifies IT spending and returns to management and provides a cost-effective approach to minimizing operational and strategic gaps.
The document discusses financial management for IT services. It describes how FM ensures IT solutions meet requirements and are cost-effective. FM provides cost visibility, optimization, and cost recovery. Its goals are cost-effective stewardship, fully accounting for IT spend, and assisting management decisions. FM scope includes identifying assets/activities, developing budgets, analyzing costs/benefits of changes, and developing chargeback methods. Key definitions and an overview of FM components are also provided.
Join Decision Management Solutions, Velocity Business Services and Datarobot as we discuss the importance of operational decisions, industrialized predictive analytics and business learning in creating a predictive enterprise.
Governance Of Enterprise Information Technology V3pjmartinez
The document discusses a governance model for enterprise information technology service innovation presented to the Department of the Interior's Office of the Chief Information Officer. The model aims to increase accountability, advance modernization and integration, and drive business principles through a federated service innovation model. Key components of the proposed governance framework include performance measurements, risk management, and strategic alignment. Next steps involve further analyzing and decomposing the model elements, highlighting areas for improvement, and providing communications for clearer direction of the federated service model.
IT Outsourcing: Engaging with the Market to Leverage your Buying PowerWalter Adamson
This presentation covers the following 5 core issues: 1. Strategic Sourcing – what does it mean?
2. What factors influence the decision-making process?
3. Assessing different models for streamlining buying and effectively structuring procurement
4. Effectively managing risk while delivering business value and constructing back-to-back deals
5. Expanding the sourcing options to include offshore in-house.
IT governance provides strategic direction for IT and ensures objectives are met, risks managed, and resources used responsibly. It establishes organizational regulations and standards exercised by management. IT governance is needed for complex IT projects as it involves a team to deal with political, organizational, legal, technical, cultural, and personnel issues to help ensure successful project outcomes.
In Automated Controls It’s No Longer the Traditional Build vs. BuyMelissa Luongo
Exploring an Alternative Perspective | An Infogix Position Paper by Lane Lambert and Chris Kosin
Decades of experience and research have shown that organizations maximize their return on investment (ROI) when they build or buy solutions that automate core processes. While making the build versus buy decision for automated or ancillary data integrity controls, an organization needs to determine if it is in the business of controls and how each option impacts Capital Expenditures (CAPEX) and Operational Expenditures (OPEX) budgets. “Buy to standardize, build to compete” has been an IT mantra for many years. Yet, executives responsible for developing an automated controls strategy continue to struggle with this question. The decision not only impacts the ability of an organization to meet its immediate controls needs but also has longstanding influence on the ability to maintain and sustain an internal control environment that is aligned with business needs. The rule of thumb has been: if the system is a requirement for business, “buy” is the answer; conversely if the system provides a competitive advantage, then the answer
is “build.”
In this paper, we propose an alternative way to look at Build vs. Buy by splitting “buy” into two options: – pre- packaged offering and configurable solution. The pre- packaged offering refers to an off-the-shelf product, while a highly configurable solution combines the virtues of a “build” solution with the flexibility and adaptability of a “buy” solution that is faster to deploy and removes the risk inherent in building internal controls. Regardless of the solution, the decision points remain the same: CAPEX vs. OPEX cost, time to deployment, internal politics, regulatory compliance mandates, architecture, IT staff competencies and strategic importance to the organization’s bottom line. However; as IT departments are increasingly stretched thin, in part due to increased data governance, audit, and overall challenges to close fragmented data integrity gaps, the case for a highly configurable data integrity controls solution becomes a compelling consideration to deliver a tailored system that capitalizes on the benefits of both building and buying. Leading organizations that use Infogix Controls have achieved significant cost savings (up to 80%) compared to internal development options. In addition, implementing Infogix Controls has enabled these organizations to rapidly deploy controls to efficiently meet changing business and audit needs. This position paper provides a framework to compare and contrast build versus buy by evaluating buy in two dimensions – pre-packaged vs. configurable – to delve into the financial and non-financial implications of these options.
The document is a Forrester Consulting study on the total economic impact of IBM UrbanCode. It includes interviews with four IBM UrbanCode customers representing industries such as banking, insurance, and financial services. The interviews found that with IBM UrbanCode, organizations were able to reduce deployment times by up to 75%, improve application development productivity by at least 15%, and lower costs by reducing failed deployments. A composite organization analysis estimates a 482% return on investment and $3.1M in net benefits over three years from deploying IBM UrbanCode.
Technology Cost Management 4D Framework: A Smarter Way to Manage IT CostsCognizant
A framework for financial services IT cost management optimization based on a 4D approach: defining business vision, documenting current state, delineating business architecture and deciding build vs. buy.
The document discusses three key perspectives on IT financial management - Cost Optimization, Cloud, and Financial Discipline. It identifies three "measures that matter" to each perspective: Cost of Service, Budget Variance, and Innovation Ratio. Organizations need to build a discipline around cost optimization through continuous improvement, and get CIO, IT leadership, and finance onboard when developing strategies.
ISM: Power Up! Become a Strategic Influence with Your Company’s Indirect Proc...Mike Inman
Presentation by Mike Inman and Rich Vales given at ISM 2011 conference in Orlando, Power Up! Become a Strategic Influence with Your Company’s Indirect Procurement Spend
The overwhelming challenges of IT infrastructure managementNIIT Technologies
CIOs are now looking at IT infrastructure management as a mean to drive business transformation. To transform the way businesses work, CIOs need responsive systems and processes to bridge the gap between operations and business. With this understanding, IT leaders need to align IT with business and manage IT infrastructure as a service model. This paper surveys the challenges service providers face in managing IT infrastructures. It also lists down solutions for the effective management of IT infrastructures.
The document summarizes a BMC software solution called BSM for IT Business Management. It provides centralized management of IT finances, projects, suppliers, activities, and compliance to give leadership visibility into costs and improve business alignment. Key features include transparency into IT costs, prioritizing projects based on business goals, managing supplier relationships, automating compliance activities, and improving financial planning. Case studies show customers reducing costs by 50% with improved accuracy and control over their IT operations.
The document summarizes the results of a 2007 survey of 163 companies regarding their use of business intelligence (BI) and enterprise performance management (EPM) software. The survey found that midsize companies primarily rely on spreadsheets to support EPM processes and have greater investment needs for budgeting/planning and management reporting solutions compared to large enterprises. For midsize companies, ease of use, price, and vendor stability are the top evaluation criteria. Executives also play a significant role in software selection decisions for midsize businesses.
Accounting Information System (AIS) Alignment And Non-Financial Performance I...CSCJournals
The objective of this research is to investigate the relationship between Accounting Information System (AIS) alignments and non-financial performance in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). The result of this research is expected to help the owners of SMEs to understand the importance of AIS alignment to achieve non-financial performance. AIS alignment is influenced by several factors such as: organizational characteristics, owner commitment, and organizational strategies that effect on SMEs performance. The relationship between AIS alignment on performance is explored using data collected from SMEs owners in the Special Administrative Region of Yogyakarta (DIY). The result of this research shows that AIS sophistication, owner commitment, and external IT expertise have significant effects on AIS alignment. AIS alignment also has significant effect on non-financial performance.
Roland berger managing-the-it-cost-challenge_20090522Karthik Arumugham
This document discusses eleven levers that companies can use to significantly reduce IT costs within 12-18 months. These levers include eliminating redundant management functions, simplifying procedures, optimizing project management, capping budgets, standardizing products, industrializing operations, adjusting service levels, simplifying architecture, improving sourcing mixes, and leveraging sourcing power. Implementing cost reduction measures can be challenging due to impacts on headcount and business operations. Measures must focus on both reducing change costs and ensuring costs remain low to achieve sustainable savings. Roland Berger Strategy Consultants can help identify high-impact actions and implement a comprehensive cost reduction program.
CIA Quebec 11 Sept 2015 Presentation C Louis FinalClaire Louis
Digitalization is transforming the insurance claims process. Key technologies impacting claims include predictive analytics, business process management, and the internet of things. These allow for early intervention, optimized claims handling, and a shift to loss prevention. However, insurers face compliance risks regarding good faith, privacy, discrimination, and unfair trade practices. The future claims environment is expected to have larger and shorter claims, new types of claims, and fewer traditional claims due to loss prevention technologies. Performance metrics will also change for the next generation of claims management.
This document discusses IT governance and provides an introduction to the topic. It defines IT governance as specifying decision rights and accountability frameworks to encourage desirable behavior in using IT. It also discusses some of the challenges CIOs face, symptoms of ineffective governance, how to measure governance effectiveness, and key processes involved in designing an effective IT governance model. The document recommends establishing a business case for IT governance, assessing current maturity and performance, defining a desired future state, and developing a plan to improve governance.
This white paper discusses implementing an IT financial management and cost recovery system. It notes that understanding true IT costs is challenging due to limited resources but is important for good governance. The paper recommends analyzing costs related to the IT portfolio, vendors, and resources. Building awareness of cost drivers across these areas provides opportunities for financial optimization. Developing a formal cost recovery plan with this insight allows IT to help the organization simplify cost allocations, improve visibility into cost structures, and optimize resource management. Implementing such a system provides benefits like improving economic decisions and demonstrating IT's value.
How information technology assessment is helpful for it servicesGroup50 Consulting
The document discusses how information technology assessment can help answer questions IT professionals have about reducing costs and improving efficiency. It explains that an IT assessment, conducted by an IT consultant, can provide answers to questions around reducing data center costs by 40-60%, improving ROI on IT infrastructure investments, ensuring IT meets current business needs, lowering power and cooling costs, optimizing cloud and virtualization strategies, redesigning enterprise networks, and reducing IT operations costs by 25-50%. The assessment clarifies IT spending and returns to management and provides a cost-effective approach to minimizing operational and strategic gaps.
The document discusses financial management for IT services. It describes how FM ensures IT solutions meet requirements and are cost-effective. FM provides cost visibility, optimization, and cost recovery. Its goals are cost-effective stewardship, fully accounting for IT spend, and assisting management decisions. FM scope includes identifying assets/activities, developing budgets, analyzing costs/benefits of changes, and developing chargeback methods. Key definitions and an overview of FM components are also provided.
Join Decision Management Solutions, Velocity Business Services and Datarobot as we discuss the importance of operational decisions, industrialized predictive analytics and business learning in creating a predictive enterprise.
Governance Of Enterprise Information Technology V3pjmartinez
The document discusses a governance model for enterprise information technology service innovation presented to the Department of the Interior's Office of the Chief Information Officer. The model aims to increase accountability, advance modernization and integration, and drive business principles through a federated service innovation model. Key components of the proposed governance framework include performance measurements, risk management, and strategic alignment. Next steps involve further analyzing and decomposing the model elements, highlighting areas for improvement, and providing communications for clearer direction of the federated service model.
IT Outsourcing: Engaging with the Market to Leverage your Buying PowerWalter Adamson
This presentation covers the following 5 core issues: 1. Strategic Sourcing – what does it mean?
2. What factors influence the decision-making process?
3. Assessing different models for streamlining buying and effectively structuring procurement
4. Effectively managing risk while delivering business value and constructing back-to-back deals
5. Expanding the sourcing options to include offshore in-house.
IT governance provides strategic direction for IT and ensures objectives are met, risks managed, and resources used responsibly. It establishes organizational regulations and standards exercised by management. IT governance is needed for complex IT projects as it involves a team to deal with political, organizational, legal, technical, cultural, and personnel issues to help ensure successful project outcomes.
In Automated Controls It’s No Longer the Traditional Build vs. BuyMelissa Luongo
Exploring an Alternative Perspective | An Infogix Position Paper by Lane Lambert and Chris Kosin
Decades of experience and research have shown that organizations maximize their return on investment (ROI) when they build or buy solutions that automate core processes. While making the build versus buy decision for automated or ancillary data integrity controls, an organization needs to determine if it is in the business of controls and how each option impacts Capital Expenditures (CAPEX) and Operational Expenditures (OPEX) budgets. “Buy to standardize, build to compete” has been an IT mantra for many years. Yet, executives responsible for developing an automated controls strategy continue to struggle with this question. The decision not only impacts the ability of an organization to meet its immediate controls needs but also has longstanding influence on the ability to maintain and sustain an internal control environment that is aligned with business needs. The rule of thumb has been: if the system is a requirement for business, “buy” is the answer; conversely if the system provides a competitive advantage, then the answer
is “build.”
In this paper, we propose an alternative way to look at Build vs. Buy by splitting “buy” into two options: – pre- packaged offering and configurable solution. The pre- packaged offering refers to an off-the-shelf product, while a highly configurable solution combines the virtues of a “build” solution with the flexibility and adaptability of a “buy” solution that is faster to deploy and removes the risk inherent in building internal controls. Regardless of the solution, the decision points remain the same: CAPEX vs. OPEX cost, time to deployment, internal politics, regulatory compliance mandates, architecture, IT staff competencies and strategic importance to the organization’s bottom line. However; as IT departments are increasingly stretched thin, in part due to increased data governance, audit, and overall challenges to close fragmented data integrity gaps, the case for a highly configurable data integrity controls solution becomes a compelling consideration to deliver a tailored system that capitalizes on the benefits of both building and buying. Leading organizations that use Infogix Controls have achieved significant cost savings (up to 80%) compared to internal development options. In addition, implementing Infogix Controls has enabled these organizations to rapidly deploy controls to efficiently meet changing business and audit needs. This position paper provides a framework to compare and contrast build versus buy by evaluating buy in two dimensions – pre-packaged vs. configurable – to delve into the financial and non-financial implications of these options.
The document is a Forrester Consulting study on the total economic impact of IBM UrbanCode. It includes interviews with four IBM UrbanCode customers representing industries such as banking, insurance, and financial services. The interviews found that with IBM UrbanCode, organizations were able to reduce deployment times by up to 75%, improve application development productivity by at least 15%, and lower costs by reducing failed deployments. A composite organization analysis estimates a 482% return on investment and $3.1M in net benefits over three years from deploying IBM UrbanCode.
IBM Total Economic Impact Study - Cost Savings and Business BenefitsCasey Lucas
This document summarizes a Forrester study on the total economic impact of implementing IBM Connections. It found that the representative organization experienced:
1) A three-year return on investment (ROI) of 168% and payback period of 10-11 months from increased productivity, reduced employee turnover, and lower IT costs.
2) Total three-year benefits of $26.5 million versus costs of $10 million, for a net present value of $16.6 million.
3) Key benefits included a 10% increase in employee productivity, savings of over $1.5 million from a 5% reduction in employee turnover, and $500,000 in lower IT operating costs.
IAOP OWS 17 Leveraging Outsourcing to Modernize While Maintaining ApplicationsWGroup
Anthem’s New AMS Approach Proves You Don’t Need to Pick One or the Other:
Learn how a new approach to AMS sourcing can enable the modernization of core IT systems and maintenance of applications in parallel. See Anthem’s playbook and methodology for this innovative sourcing delivery model.
Learn how to stratify which suppliers can truly help you transform core systems, and which ones that may only be able to handle tasks. See the evaluation criteria that Anthem leveraged in assessing its suppliers for transformational work.
Understand the potential for running modernization and maintenance in an integrated effort, as opposed to separate initiatives.
The BMC IT Business Management Suite is an integrated solution that provides CIOs and IT leaders visibility and control over the business aspects of running an IT organization. It supports centralized management of IT financials, vendors, projects, activities, personnel, and compliance. The suite delivers transparency and enables improved business alignment, reduced costs, and increased business value. It consists of applications that manage costs, resources, projects, finances, suppliers, and regulatory compliance.
The document discusses how IT financial management (ITFM) can be expanded beyond traditional activities like budgeting and forecasting to improve business outcomes. It identifies 9 key focus areas for ITFM, including investment analysis, chargebacks, benchmarking, and vendor management. ITFM tools can provide visibility into IT costs and consumption to support decision making. The document recommends organizations assess their ITFM capabilities and prioritize expanding into areas that provide the most benefit.
The document discusses building a business case for replacing core insurance systems. It emphasizes focusing on how new systems can help insurers sell more policies, better manage risk, and reduce operating costs. The document provides case studies of insurers that successfully deployed new core systems, generating quantified benefits like increased sales, lower administrative costs, and improved customer experience. It argues the strongest business cases are led by business units and tie new systems to supporting corporate strategies and key performance metrics.
This document discusses seven common use cases for implementing a Configuration Management Database (CMDB). The use cases are: impact analysis, root cause identification, change governance, auditing and compliance, resource optimization, services mapping, and services performance planning. Implementing a CMDB can help an IT organization better support the business by understanding how IT resources relate to business services and using this information to improve areas like change management, problem resolution, resource usage, and service delivery.
This document discusses the NOEMI model, a collaborative management model for ICT processes in SMEs. The model was developed by the Centre Henri Tudor and tested with a cluster of 8 partner SMEs. Key aspects of the model include defining ICT activities across 5 domains, assessing each SME's capabilities, and having an operational team manage activities for the cluster under a coordination committee. The experiment showed improved cost control, management, and partner satisfaction compared to alternatives like outsourcing or hiring individual IT staff. The research is now ready for market transfer as the successful model is adopted long-term by participating SMEs.
Noemi, a collaborative management for ict process improvement in sme experien...christophefeltus
This document summarizes an experiment of a collaborative IT management model called NOEMI for small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs). The NOEMI model focuses on grouping SMEs into clusters to jointly manage their IT activities through a shared operational team. The model was tested through a case study of an experimental cluster. Results found the cluster had economic benefits from cost sharing. Management of the cluster through a committee worked well, with transparency of costs and activities. Surveys of participating SMEs found high satisfaction with the services provided by the shared operational team. The NOEMI model provides SMEs an alternative to manage IT without dedicated internal staff through collaborative management of IT activities across a cluster.
TEI of Glance Networks Circular Economics BriefLiberteks
Circular economics is a useful methodology
Case studies include small business and startup success
Technology management improves the customer experience and create a sustainable brand
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The Total Economic Impact Of IBM Multivendor Support Services (MVS) Cost Savings And Business Benefits
1. A Forrester Total Economic Impact™
Study Commissioned By IBM
January 2019
The Total Economic
Impact™
Of IBM
Multivendor Support
Services(MVS)
Cost Savings And Business Benefits
Enabled By IBM MVS
3. 1 | The Total Economic Impact™ Of IBM Multivendor Support Services (MVS)
Executive Summary
Forrester predicts that businesses in the US will increase their total tech
purchases by 5.5% in 2019, bringing the amount spent on new technology
investments to well over $75 billion.1
As this spending increases, often so
does the number of vendors supplying these various technologies, causing
companies to spend more on managing their IT systems. Technology
staffing positions will likely increase by 2.3% to help organizations handle
the increase in IT spending. These employees will spend a significant
amount of time managing a varied heterogeneous environment without
support solutions that span across support tools and vendors. CIOs and
other IT decision makers must invest their IT budgets effectively to ensure
they are winning, retaining, and serving their customers. Optimizing the
amount of time and cost spent on support enables these decision makers
to pursue strategic investments.
IBM commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic
Impact™ (TEI) study and examine the potential return on investment (ROI)
enterprises may realize by deploying Multivendor Support Services (MVS).
The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework to
evaluate the potential financial impact of MVS on their organizations. To
better understand the benefits, costs, and risks associated with this
investment, Forrester interviewed two IBM MVS customers and surveyed
266 additional users with years of experience using MVS. These
customers were looking for creative ways to cut down on the costs
associated with maintaining equipment from a variety of technology
vendors. They turned to IBM to reduce the complexity of their IT
environments, more efficiently utilize their employees, and streamline
processes associated with their IT support systems.
Key Findings
Quantified benefits. The following risk-adjusted present value (PV)
quantified benefits are representative of those experienced by the
organizations interviewed and surveyed:
› Reduction in maintenance and support spending, 25%. In legacy
environments, organizations relied on original equipment manufacturers
(OEMs) and third parties to provide support for their organizations. This
support often proved expensive to use and arduous to maintain. By
streamlining hardware and software support contracts from OEMs and
third parties to IBM, customers could take advantage of IBM’s advanced
IT support management technologies that infuse automation into the
support process, including predictive maintenance, cognitive capabilities,
proactive monitoring, and asset and life-cycle management.
Simultaneously, they substantially reduced their IT support spending.
› Reduced time spent on hardware support tasks, 20%. Using IBM
MVS as their single strategic partner for IT support management allowed
customers to reduce the complexity of their IT environments. This
enabled customers to reduce the time spent on these tasks by
automating IT support processes with IBM’s proprietary asset
management and support portal, which provides a real-time view of
assets and support actions. Employees can now reallocate their time to
more productive tasks.
Key Benefits
Reduced maintenance spending
with IBM MVS:
25% reduction in
maintenance and
support spending
Reduced time spent on hardware
support tasks:
20% reduction in time
spent on hardware
support-related tasks
Amount of survey respondents
extending capital investments:
42% of survey
respondents save or
defer capital
expenses with IBM
4. 2 | The Total Economic Impact™ Of IBM Multivendor Support Services (MVS)
› Reduced time spent on vendor relationship management, 20%. By
consolidating IT support with one vendor, employees no longer had to
spend significant amounts of times maintaining multiple support
relationships. This allowed employees to shift their focus to more value-
add tasks.
Unquantified benefits. The organizations experienced the following
benefits, which are not quantified for this study:
› Extending useful life of equipment. By investing in IBM MVS,
customers extended the useful life of certain hardware products by an
average of two years, and some saw the useful life of their products
double. In addition, 42% of survey respondents said they saved or
deferred capital expense by utilizing MVS over previous methods.
› Improvements in availability. Consolidating support allowed customers
that invested in MVS to improve their availability and overall system
reliability. Interviewees reported that they saw a 22% reduction in mean-
time-to-repair (MTTR) with IBM. They avoided a significant number of
incidents or outages per year and even prevented issues from occurring
with predictive maintenance.
Costs. The organizations experienced the following risk-adjusted present
value (PV) costs:
› Time spent on planning and training. Adopters of IBM MVS spent
time planning for their migration to support with IBM. Often the
implementation would be staggered so a portion of the legacy
environment was transitioned to MVS as former support contracts
expired. To ensure a seamless transition to IBM, customers invested
time in training essential personnel in the nuances of the new support
environment.
Forrester’s interviews with two existing customers, survey of 266
customers, and subsequent financial analysis found that an organization
based on these customers experienced benefits of $3.1 million over three
years.
5. 3 | The Total Economic Impact™ Of IBM Multivendor Support Services (MVS)
TEI Framework And Methodology
From the information provided in the interviews and survey, Forrester has
constructed a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) framework for those
organizations considering implementing IBM MVS.
The objective of the framework is to identify the cost, benefit, flexibility, and
risk factors that affect the investment decision. Forrester took a multistep
approach to evaluate the impact that IBM MVS can have on an
organization:
DUE DILIGENCE
Interviewed IBM stakeholders and Forrester analysts to gather data
relative to MVS.
CUSTOMER INTERVIEWS AND SURVEY
Interviewed two organizations and surveyed 266 organizations using MVS
to obtain data with respect to costs, benefits, and risks.
COMPOSITE ORGANIZATION
Designed a composite organization based on characteristics of the
interviewed and surveyed organizations.
FINANCIAL MODEL FRAMEWORK
Constructed a financial model representative of the interviews and survey
using the TEI methodology and risk-adjusted the financial model based on
issues and concerns of the interviewed organizations.
CASE STUDY
Employed four fundamental elements of TEI in modeling IBM MVS’s
impact: benefits, costs, flexibility, and risks. Forrester’s TEI methodology
serves to provide a complete picture of the total economic impact of
purchase decisions. Please see Appendix A for additional information on
the TEI methodology.
The TEI methodology
helps companies
demonstrate, justify,
and realize the
tangible value of IT
initiatives to both
senior management
and other key
business
stakeholders.
DISCLOSURES
Readers should be aware of the following:
This study is commissioned by IBM and delivered by Forrester Consulting. It is
not meant to be used as a competitive analysis.
Forrester makes no assumptions as to the potential ROI that other
organizations will receive. Forrester strongly advises that readers use their own
estimates within the framework provided in the report to determine the
appropriateness of an investment in IBM MVS.
IBM reviewed and provided feedback to Forrester, but Forrester maintains
editorial control over the study and its findings and does not accept changes to
the study that contradict Forrester’s findings or obscure the meaning of the
study.
IBM provided the customer names for the interviews but did not participate in
the interviews. The double-blind survey was fielded by a Forrester partner.
6. 4 | The Total Economic Impact™ Of IBM Multivendor Support Services (MVS)
The IBM MVS Customer Journey
BEFORE AND AFTER THE IBM MVS INVESTMENT
Interviewed Organizations
For this study, Forrester conducted two interviews with IBM MVS
customers. Interviewed customers include the following:
Surveyed Organizations
For this study, Forrester surveyed 266 IT and finance decision makers
located in North America, Europe, and Japan using IBM for support
services.
The surveyed organizations have an average of 11,600 employees and
an average annual revenue of $2.7 billion. Each organization has been
using IBM MVS for at least three years.
Key Challenges
Prior to investing in IBM MVS, the organizations had the following key
goals:
› Mitigate risk associated with extending useful life. Prior to
investing in MVS, organizations had to carefully consider the risks
involved in using devices beyond their useful life. The cost of a system
failure or security breach could quickly surpass the benefit received
from the capital expense avoided by not replacing the device.
Companies were looking for a solution that could reduce the risk IT
departments faced when deciding to extend device lifetimes.
› Reduce the complexity of data-center-support environments. Prior
to investing in IBM MVS, companies relied on a heterogenous mixture
of OEMs and third-party vendors that were all specialized in various
parts of the environments. Companies struggled to manage the
relationships they had between multiple vendors as there was little
North
America
45%Europe 44%
Japan
11%
INDUSTRY REGION INTERVIEWEE NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
Retail Headquartered in the US
Director of infrastructure
engineering and
operations
150,000 employees
Utilities Headquartered in the UK
IT server and storage
manager
5,000 employees plus
additional contractors
Geographical
distribution
17%
29%
35%
19%
< $500M $500M-$1B $1B-$5B >$5B
Annual revenue of surveyed organizations
92% said extending the useful
life of the equipment is
somewhat or very important.
7. 5 | The Total Economic Impact™ Of IBM Multivendor Support Services (MVS)
continuity between vendors and no solution that spanned the breath of
their data-center environments. When issues arose, pinpointing the
cause of the issue was difficult as each vendor only covered a portion
of the environment.
› Lower equipment maintenance costs. One of the biggest challenges
companies faced was expensive annual maintenance contracts paid to
legacy support providers. These costs increased after the initial
manufacturer warranty expired, causing support and maintenance
expenses to further increase. In addition to reducing these expenses,
companies wanted more reliable service across their environments.
Costs accrued through system downtime escalated quickly and added
to the cost of maintaining the system.
Key Results
The interviews and survey data revealed several key results from the
MVS investment:
› Simplifying through consolidating support reduces time spent on
hardware support and vendor relationships. IBM MVS gave
interviewees a consolidated and streamlined data-center-support
system, which allowed companies to reduce costs and cut down on
vendor management. Forty-three percent of the surveyed
organizations reported that they could reduce the amount of time and
labor needed to maintain vendor relationships after investing in IBM
MVS.
48%
48%
47%
43%
42%
Reduced number of
maintenance/support vendors
Reduction in time/labor needed
for hardware support tasks
Reduced maintenance/support
services spending
Reduced time/labor on
maintenance relationships
Capital expense saved by
extending equipment useful life
Base:266 IT and finance decision makers using IBMfor support
Source: A commissioned studyconducted by Forrester Consulting on behalfof
IBM, January 2019
“Which of the following economic benefits have you realized
since you deployed IBM as your third-party maintenance
solution?”
89% said lowering
equipment
maintenance
expense is
somewhat or very
important.
89%
8. 6 | The Total Economic Impact™ Of IBM Multivendor Support Services (MVS)
› IBM MVS extends the useful life of equipment, allowing
organizations to defer capital expenditure. With IBM MVS,
interviewees and surveyed organizations could extend the use of
various equipment. The lifespan for servers was extended by an
average of 1.6 years, tier 1 storage by 1.8 years, tier 2 storage by 1.9
years, and network devices by 1.9 years.
› IBM help customers avoid incidents or outages, leading to less
system downtime. On average, customers reported avoiding up to
seven incidents or outages per year with IBM MVS. This allowed for
less system downtime and enabled these customers to avoid the costly
expenses of having their businesses shut down for system repairs.
› Collaboration increases across teams. Prior solutions created siloed
work environments where teams covering different areas of data-
center support did not interact or collaborate frequently. With IBM
MVS, 60% of surveyed organizations reported that the collaboration
among the teams throughout their organizations had increased.
Composite Organization
Based on the interviews and survey, Forrester constructed a TEI
framework, a composite company, and an associated ROI analysis that
illustrates the areas financially affected. The composite organization is
representative of the two companies that Forrester interviewed and the
266 organizations Forrester surveyed, and it is used to present the
aggregate financial analysis in the next section. The composite
organization that Forrester synthesized from the customer data has the
following characteristics:
Description of composite. The composite is a global organization with
over 10,000 employees and over $2.5 billion in annual revenue. The
organization has a heterogenous data-center environment, with multiple
vendors in multiple data centers around the world. Managing support
through OEMs, third-party support contracts, and internal headcount
proved to be time-consuming and costly. The composite wanted to
optimize costs through reducing support costs where possible,
consolidating and simplifying support operations, and extending the
useful life of equipment in a low-risk way.
Deployment characteristics. The composite organization transitions
devices to IBM as they come off support contracts, transitioning 950
devices in Year 1 up to 1,250 devices by Year 3.
Key assumptions
10,000 employees
$2.5B annual revenue
1,250 devices transitioned
by Year 3
“There are several machines
and certain devices that
reached end of support life
with the OEMs like five or six
years ago or even longer. And
then IBM still supports them.
And then we have some
hardware that is like 17 to 18
years old. Without IBM, we
would have had to replace
them a long time ago.”
Director of infrastructure
engineering and operations, retail
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The table above shows the total of all
benefits across the areas listed below,
as well as present values (PVs)
discounted at 10%. Over three years,
the composite organization expects
risk-adjusted total benefits to be a PV
of more than $3.1 million.
Impact risk is the risk that the business
or technology needs of the
organization may not be met by the
investment, resulting in lower overall
total benefits. The greater the
uncertainty, the wider the potential
range of outcomes for benefit
estimates.
Reduction in support
spending with IBM
MVS
25%
Analysis Of Benefits
QUANTIFIED BENEFIT DATA AS APPLIED TO THE COMPOSITE
Reduced Maintenance And Support Spending
With many organizations looking for solutions that offer creative ways to
reduce data-center-support spending, it is not surprising that the first
benefit realized by IBM MVS interviewees and survey respondents was a
reduction in their maintenance and support spending. IBM MVS can
provide this benefit by consolidating support with one vendor, offering a
centralized and global support network, and employing its vast array of
support-management technology solutions.
› IBM MVS can provide significant cost reductions when compared to
traditional OEM or third-party solutions. One customer reported a 30%
cost reduction in maintenance and support spending after transitioning
support to MVS.
› IBM MVS enabled customers to reduce the number of vendors
supporting their data-center environments. On average, MVS users
replaced four OEMs and five third-party support vendors with IBM.
Forrester assumes that the composite organization:
› Reduces support costs with IBM MVS by 25% compared with prior
support solutions.
› Supports 950 devices with MVS in Year 1, increasing to 1,250 devices
by Year 3.
Risks that could impact this benefit estimate include:
› The rate at which an organization’s support environment is transitioned
to IBM.
› The size and complexity of the data-center-support environment.
› The total spent on maintenance and support prior to transitioning to
MVS.
To account for these risks, Forrester adjusted this benefit downward by
5%, yielding a three-year risk-adjusted total PV of $3.1 million.
Total Benefits
REF. BENEFIT YEAR 1 YEAR 2 YEAR 3 TOTAL
PRESENT
VALUE
Atr
Reduced maintenance and
support spending
$1,083,000 $1,254,000 $1,425,000 $3,762,000 $3,091,533
Btr
Reduced time spent on
hardware support
$4,670 $5,494 $6,464 $16,628 $13,643
Ctr
Reduced time spent on vendor
management
$4,151 $4,884 $5,746 $14,781 $12,127
Total benefits (risk-adjusted) $1,091,821 $1,264,378 $1,437,209 $3,793,409 $3,117,303
10. 8 | The Total Economic Impact™ Of IBM Multivendor Support Services (MVS)
Reduced Time Spent On Hardware Support
The surveyed and interviewed organizations reported a reduction in the
labor effort needed to perform hardware support tasks after transitioning
support to IBM MVS.
› Previous support solutions made even routine hardware maintenance
cumbersome and time-consuming. Forty-eight percent of survey
respondents identified these time savings as a significant benefit of
transitioning to IBM MVS.
› On average, interviewees and survey respondents reported that IT
personnel spent 42 hours per month attending to hardware support-
related issues prior to transitioning their support environments to IBM.
Investing in MVS allowed these organizations to reduce the time spent
on these tasks by an average of 19%.
Forrester assumes that the composite organization:
› Spent 540 hours per year on hardware support prior to MVS.
› Reduces the time spent on hardware support by up to 20% with IBM
over the three-year analysis.
› Pays an average fully loaded hourly compensation of $63 per hour for
a hardware support staff member.
Risks that could impact this benefit estimate include:
› Variance in the amount of time spent on hardware support in legacy
environments depending on the size and complexity of data-center
environments.
› The rate at which the legacy environment is transitioned to IBM MVS
for support.
To account for these risks, Forrester adjusted this benefit downward by
5%, yielding a three-year risk-adjusted total PV of $13,643.
Reduced Maintenance And Support Spending: Calculation Table
REF. METRIC CALC. YEAR 1 YEAR 2 YEAR 3
A1 Maintenance and support spending, pre IBM Interview/survey $4,560,000 $5,280,000 $6,000,000
A2 Maintenance and support spending, with IBM 25% reduction $3,420,000 $3,960,000 $4,500,000
At Reduced maintenance and support spending A1-A2 $1,140,000 $1,320,000 $1,500,000
Risk adjustment ↓5%
Atr
Reduced maintenance and support spending
(risk-adjusted)
$1,083,000 $1,254,000 $1,425,000
Reduction in time
spent on hardware
support by Year 3
20%
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Reduced Time Spent On Vendor Management
In addition to the hardware-support time savings, organizations saw a
reduction in the time spent managing the relationships between various
vendors. This reduction is a direct result of the reduced number of
support vendors that interviewed and surveyed organizations used in
their data centers. Reducing the number of support vendors allows
employees to spend less time on contract renewal and relationship
management, thus allowing them to focus on more value-add work for
their organizations.
› The director of infrastructure engineering and operations for a large
retail store stated: “Every year, I will go through the spreadsheet of
1,500 machines — what is still in use, what is not in use — so that [at
the] end of the year, we just clean up that spreadsheet and send it
back to IBM. ‘Hey, please validate that these are the only machines
that need support and then take the rest of them out of support.’ That
is all the exercise we do, maybe about a week or two weeks per year
that that goes on.”
› With MVS, the surveyed organizations reported that they could reduce
the time spent on relationship management by an average of 21%.
Formerly employees spent a cumulative 39 hours per month engaging
in these tasks. IBM MVS reduced this to approximately 31 hours per
month.
› Another interviewee added: “It frees up time, certainly for myself as I
no longer have to wade through contracts and renewals and things of
that nature. That obviously lets me do other things. And the fact
everything is all in one place — that saves time as well. Trying to
organize support contracts for thousands of different things at once is
extremely difficult. So, having everything in one place, it just frees up
time.”
Forrester assumes that the composite organization:
› Spent 480 hours managing the relationship between various OEMs
and third-party support vendors prior to MVS.
› Sees a 20% reduction in the time its employees spent on vendor
management by using MVS.
Reduced Time Spent On Hardware Support: Calculation Table
REF. METRIC CALC. YEAR 1 YEAR 2 YEAR 3
B1 Time spent before MVS (total hours) Survey 540 540 540
B2 Time saved with MVS Survey 14.45% 17.00% 20.00%
B3
Average fully loaded hourly compensation,
hardware staff member
Assumption $63 $63 $63
Bt Reduced time spent on hardware support B1*B2*B3 $4,916 $5,783 $6,804
Risk adjustment ↓5%
Btr
Reduced time spent on hardware support
(risk-adjusted)
$4,670 $5,494 $6,464
“It frees up time, certainly for
myself as I no longer have to
wade through contracts and
renewals and things of that
nature. That obviously lets
me do other things. And the
fact everything is all in one
place — that saves time as
well. Trying to organize
support contracts for
thousands of different things
at once is extremely difficult.
So, having everything in one
place, it just frees up time.”
IT server and storage manager,
utilities
12. 10 | The Total Economic Impact™ Of IBM Multivendor Support Services (MVS)
“What percent of your
capital budget was
saved by reducing or
deferring capital
expenses with IBM
MVS?”
14%
“What is the
percent reduction
in MTTR with IBM
support services?”
22%
› Pays an average fully loaded hourly compensation of $63 per hour for
an employee dedicated to vendor management.
Risks that could impact this benefit estimate include:
› Variance in the amount of time spent on vendor management in legacy
environments depending on the size and complexity of data-center
environments.
To account for these risks, Forrester adjusted this benefit downward by
5%, yielding a three-year risk-adjusted total PV of $12,127.
Unquantified Benefits
Interviewees realized additional benefits that, while not quantified for this
analysis, had a meaningful current and projected impact:
› IBM MVS extended existing data-center investments, freeing up
capital for strategic priorities. With IBM MVS, interviewees and
surveyed organizations could extend existing investments in their data
centers. They could reinvest resulting savings into other internal
business initiatives. Forty-two percent of survey respondents noted
that MVS helped them defer or save on their capital expenses by
extending the useful lifetime of their various hardware solutions. These
respondents noted that their investment in MVS saved them
approximately 14% of their capital budgets by deferring these
expenses.
› IBM helped customers avoid critical incidents while also reducing
the time it took to resolve remaining incidents. Several survey
respondents saw a reduction in their mean-time-to-repair after
transitioning their support to IBM MVS. Survey respondents reported a
22% reduction in their MTTR after their transitioning to IBM. In addition
to reducing the time it took to resolve incidents, 22% of the surveyed
organizations reported that they saw a reduction in the total number of
incidents they faced on an annual basis.
› Customers reported that IBM MVS helped them improve the
quality of service they could provide their customers. Fifty-three
percent of the surveyed organizations stated that MVS increased the
quality of the service their organizations provided. Part of this was due
to increases in internal quality controls. Half of respondents noted that
IBM MVS helped them increase the accuracy of their internal inventory.
Reduced Time Spent On Vendor Management: Calculation Table
REF. METRIC CALC. YEAR 1 YEAR 2 YEAR 3
C1 Time spent before MVS (total hours) Survey 480 480 480
C2 Time saved with MVS Survey 14.45% 17.00% 20.00%
C3
Average fully loaded compensation, vendor
management
Assumption $63 $63 $63
Ct Reduced time spent on vendor management C1*C2*C3 $4,370 $5,141 $6,048
Risk adjustment ↓5%
Ctr
Reduced time spent on vendor management
(risk-adjusted)
$4,151 $4,884 $5,746
13. 11 | The Total Economic Impact™ Of IBM Multivendor Support Services (MVS)
Flexibility, as defined by TEI,
represents an investment in additional
capacity or capability that could be
turned into business benefit for a future
additional investment. This provides an
organization with the "right" or the
ability to engage in future initiatives but
not the obligation to do so.
Flexibility
The value of flexibility is clearly unique to each customer, and the
measure of its value varies from organization to organization. There are
multiple scenarios in which a customer might choose to implement MVS
and later realize additional uses and business opportunities:
› Savings accrued through IBM MVS can be used by decision
makers to focus on other business priorities. Interviewees and
survey respondents highlighted that they can use savings generated
by IBM MVS on other strategic priorities. These organizations can
reallocate the resources that were previously being used to run the
company to projects that could transform the company.
Flexibility would also be quantified when evaluated as part of a specific
project (described in more detail in Appendix A).
60%
53%
50%
33%
32%
21%
Improved collaboration among
different IT teams
Improved overall service
quality
Improved inventory accuracy
Avoided upgrading equipment
on the OEM’s schedule
More time/funding to focus on
core areas of business
IT can more consistently
support business needs
Base:266 IT and finance decision makers using IBMfor support
Source: A commissioned studyconducted by Forrester Consulting on behalfof
IBM, January 2019
“Which of the following qualitative benefits have you realized
since you deployed IBM as your third-party maintenance
solution?”
14. 12 | The Total Economic Impact™ Of IBM Multivendor Support Services (MVS)
Analysis Of Costs
QUANTIFIED COST DATA AS APPLIED TO THE COMPOSITE
IBM MVS Costs
The fees paid to IBM vary with the number and type of devices that were
under the support agreement. In addition to these factors, the total cost
to use IBM MVS can vary based on the age and rarity of the device as
finding spare parts is more challenging for some devices, which tends to
raise the cost organizations will pay per device.
› To best represent the cost of using IBM MVS in the model, the costs
for IBM MVS support are highlighted in the first benefit calculation. Per
the customer interviews and the survey responses, the cost of MVS is
25% lower than previous support costs.
› To account for a staggered transition from existing partnerships with
OEMs and third-party vendors, the composite has an incremental
increase in the number of devices covered under the support
agreement each year. As IBM MVS costs are dependent on the
number of devices covered, the cost of using MVS ranges from $3.4
million in Year 1 for almost 1,000 devices to up to $4.5 million in Year 4
for over 1,200 devices.
Planning And Training
In addition to the cost of using IBM MVS for data-center support,
organizations incurred costs associated with planning the migrations to
MVS and training essential personnel on the data provided through MVS.
MVS users reported that their planning process began with an
assessment of their IT environments, so they could come up with a
baseline on the number of devices that needed to be transitioned. Once
the assessments were done, organizations transitioned the environments
in a phased approach.
› Employees could navigate IBM support easily with limited training. One
customer stated: “We have teams in the US (east coast, west coast),
India, and the Philippines. Having a single account management team,
single quality process, and single escalation process creates a unified
process. It’s easy for us to train our teams to have the support request
creation, escalation, and deletion process to follow.”
› The director of infrastructure engineering and operations at a US-
based retail store added: “To be honest, training consisted of maybe a
couple of sessions over the year, maybe 2 hours for MVS. I have about
40 people on the team. We have one session every quarter conducted
by one of the senior engineers. Or we’ll have the partners provide an
hour-long training session.”
Forrester assumes that the composite organization:
› Spends 100 total internal hours upfront to plan the transition of
hardware and software to IBM support. The organization spends 20
hours each year identifying and communicating to IBM which items
should go on or come off support.
› Has 4 hours of ongoing training each year on how to use data provided
by IBM as part of support escalation processes.
100 hours spent upfront
to plan the transition of
hardware and software
support to IBM MVS
“We have teams in the US
(east coast, west coast),
India, and the Philippines.
Having a single account
management team, single
quality process, and single
escalation process creates a
unified process. It’s easy for
us to train our teams to have
the support request creation,
escalation, and deletion
process to follow.”
Director of infrastructure
engineering and operations,
retail
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Implementation risk is the risk that a
proposed investment may deviate from
the original or expected requirements,
resulting in higher costs than
anticipated. The greater the
uncertainty, the wider the potential
range of outcomes for cost estimates.
› Puts 40 staff members through these trainings each year, with an
average hourly compensation of $63 per hour.
Risks that could impact the estimate of this cost include:
› The number of staff members who participate in the annual training
sessions as well as the number of training sessions conducted each
year.
› Significant variance in the time spent planning and migrating to IBM
MVS depending on the size and complexity of the previous IT
environment.
To account for these risks, Forrester adjusted this cost upward by 10%,
yielding a three-year risk-adjusted total PV of $37,951.
Planning And Training: Calculation Table
REF. METRIC CALC. INITIAL YEAR 1 YEAR 2 YEAR 3
D1 Planning/migration hours Assumption 100 20 20 20
D2
Number of staff participating in
training
Interviews 40 40 40
D3 Training hours per year Interviews 4 4 4
D4
Average fully loaded hourly
compensation
Assumption $63 $63 $63 $63
Dt Planning and training
(D1+(D2*D3))*
D4
$6,300 $11,340 $11,340 $11,340
Risk adjustment ↑10%
Dtr Planning and training (risk-adjusted) $6,930 $12,474 $12,474 $12,474
16. 14 | The Total Economic Impact™ Of IBM Multivendor Support Services (MVS)
IBM MVS: Overview
The following information is provided by IBM. Forrester has not validated any claims and does not endorse IBM
or its offerings.
IBM Technology Support Services helps clients simplify IT support management by streamlining multiple OEM
and vendor contracts to a single vendor with the expertise to care for virtually all of their technology support
needs. IBM provides a range of IT support capabilities that are enhanced through the use of leading support
management technology — including IBM Watson, augmented reality, blockchain, predictive analytics, and
proprietary databases of technical information to address particular maintenance and support concerns such as
aggregated event analysis, reporting, and proactive monitoring.
IBM’s collaborative approach to multivendor IT support is designed to provide a cost-effective and flexible
solution, and clients see measurable improvements in availability with IBM’s proactive, reactive, onsite, and
remote support for their data centers and across the IT environment.
Services offered include:
Data Center Support Services
› Simplify your data-center support with a single point of contact; coordinate and manage multiple vendor
contractual commitments and activities, within and outside the warranty period; extend the longevity of your
equipment; optimize your system availability; and avoid technical support gaps by helping ensure that end-of-
warranty devices are supported
› Servers supported include but are not limited to: IBM, Cisco, Dell/ EMC, Fujitsu, HPE, Lenovo, and
Sun/Oracle.
› Storage supported include but are not limited to: IBM, Dell/EMC, Hitachi, HPE, NetApp, and Sun/Oracle.
Network and Security Support
› Partnerships with leading network and security OEMs, including Cisco, Juniper, F5, Fortinet, Palo Alto,
Checkpoint, Riverbed, Brocade, and others, enable IBM to act as the maintenance provider for your entire
network, offering single-point access for key patches, updates, and equipment.
Third-Party Software Support Services
› Comprehensive support solutions for multivendor software that can reduce complexity and consolidate support
for any IT infrastructure. IBM provides around-the-clock support for software products from vendors such as
Cisco, Microsoft, VMware, Docker, and Nutanix.
› IBM offers Subscription & Support for Red Hat, SUSE, and Ubuntu products, including Virtualization,
Containers, OpenStack, SAP HANA, and software-defined storage.
› IBM also offers enterprise class support for more than 100 community versions of open source software.
Product Support for Manufacturers and System Integrators
› Work closely with IBM to deliver IT support to your customers. With IBM’s robust services, infrastructure, and
skills, you can improve service delivery and enhance your customer experience.
Lifecycle Maintenance Support
› Enables client’s maintenance services and IT infrastructure refresh through flexible financing, optimized by
proactively following specific device-type life cycles. Extends the life of existing investments and prolongs
product life by extending maintenance care; reduces total cost of device ownership.
Inventory and asset management
› Implement the process of continuous proactive management of IT inventory and related contracts with the
intent to reduce overall IT spending. Gain asset visibility, help reduce asset costs, virtually eliminate support
exposure, and ease financial and capital planning.
17. 15 | The Total Economic Impact™ Of IBM Multivendor Support Services (MVS)
Appendix A: Total Economic Impact
Total Economic Impact is a methodology developed by Forrester
Research that enhances a company’s technology decision-making
processes and assists vendors in communicating the value proposition
of their products and services to clients. The TEI methodology helps
companies demonstrate, justify, and realize the tangible value of IT
initiatives to both senior management and other key business
stakeholders.
Total Economic Impact Approach
Benefits represent the value delivered to the business by the
product. The TEI methodology places equal weight on the
measure of benefits and the measure of costs, allowing for a
full examination of the effect of the technology on the entire
organization.
Costs consider all expenses necessary to deliver the
proposed value, or benefits, of the product. The cost category
within TEI captures incremental costs over the existing
environment for ongoing costs associated with the solution.
Flexibility represents the strategic value that can be
obtained for some future additional investment building on
top of the initial investment already made. Having the ability
to capture that benefit has a PV that can be estimated.
Risks measure the uncertainty of benefit and cost estimates
given: 1) the likelihood that estimates will meet original
projections and 2) the likelihood that estimates will be
tracked over time. TEI risk factors are based on “triangular
distribution.”
The initial investment column contains costs incurred at “time 0” or at the
beginning of Year 1 that are not discounted. All other cash flows are discounted
using the discount rate at the end of the year. PV calculations are calculated for
each total cost and benefit estimate. NPV calculations in the summary tables are
the sum of the initial investment and the discounted cash flows in each year.
Sums and present value calculations of the Total Benefits, Total Costs, and
Cash Flow tables may not exactly add up, as some rounding may occur.
Present value (PV)
The present or current
value of (discounted) cost and
benefit estimates given at an
interest rate (the discount rate).
The PV of costs and benefits feed
into the total NPV of cash flows.
Net present
value (NPV)
The present or current value of
(discounted) future net cash flows
given an interest rate (the discount
rate). A positive project NPV
normally indicates that the
investment should be made, unless
other projects have higher NPVs.
Return on
investment (ROI)
A project’s expected return in
percentage terms. ROI is
calculated by dividing net benefits
(benefits less costs) by costs.
Discount
rate
The interest rate used in cash flow
analysis to take into account the
time value of money. Organizations
typically use discount rates
between 8% and 16%.
Payback
period
The breakeven point for an
investment. This is the point in time
at which net benefits (benefits
minus costs) equal initial
investment or cost.
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Appendix B: Endnotes
1
Source: “US Tech Market Outlook For 2018 And 2019,” Forrester Research, Inc., July 2, 2018.