Optimization, Rationalization and Transformation

Managing IT's infrastructure can be very complex to manage; typically internal resources lack the experience every facet. Managing IT asset rationalization, transformation and optimization are the keys. Knowing what data to collect, how to analyze it, and most importantly, how to use that data to build the best fit target state support model is a key to business successes. Firms that execute IT rationalization, transformation and optimization provide maximum control over IT infrastructure management.

Some of the critical components are: analyzing the effects of infrastructure changes to your company's TCO and GL, understanding a precise understanding of all costs structures within the IT portfolio (this includes servers, storage, desktops, networks, printers, software, software development, facilities, electrical power, climate control, contracting and staffing), determine the detailed make-up of the IT infrastructure's physical asset inventory, creating an intelligent repository (database) of all costs, assets, facilities, staff, and organizational grouping, to allow detailed financial and architectural modeling, implementing a formal processes for the continued collection, validation, and modeling of data, related to meeting financial and operational goals and improving infrastructure manageability, retiring obsolete technology and reducing costs.