Reducing applications complexity: Allows focus in key areas, improving the supportability and delivery of fewer applications to your customers, backed by a commercially driven service infrastructure.
More transparent charging models: Allows you to demonstrate your value to the business and helps to Identify key areas where costs can be reduced or eliminated.
Reduction in Complexity
Application support: Consolidating
into fewer functionally rich applications, reducing data
repositories, eliminating repetition of same or similar
functionality, reduces interface dependencies to legacy
applications.
Applications development:
Reducing application numbers reduces the diversity and numbers of staff to support them. This allows focus into key application areas that can be enhanced, to support a wider cross section of the business.
Reduce support costs
Hardware consolidation: Understand what opportunities already exist within the estate, to consolidate hardware.
Application Consolidation: Opportunities for reduction in software purchase and maintenance costs, improving commercial bargaining position by increasing levels of commitment to fewer third parties.
Data consolidation: Identify similar repositories of data existing In multiple applications (legacy and new world) within the organisation. How many times has an Incomplete picture of a client been built because data is inaccessible In different applications?
Business issues
A Data Centre Consolidation Assessment can provide you with the expertise to find those key areas where efficiencies and improvements can drive out unnecessary costs and improve service delivery to your customers.
The Challenge
With business users demanding ever more from their IT investment, how do today’s information technology leaders continue to deliver against the demands made of their hardware and software environments; increasing the perceived and real value of IT, improving service delivery whilst competing with internal business units driving their individual application agenda’s - all within fixed fiscal and resource constraints?
Many organisations currently face the same challenge — business acquisition and organic growth over many years has driven levels of investment required to support hardware and software estates to unsustainable levels. The increasing demands of the client server environment have taken over, not only the physical aspects of the data-centre (space) but also the logical (support) and fiscal ones. The increasing management overhead of these technologies is now forcing many companies to look seriously at the benefits that hardware and applications consolidation can bring to their bottom line.
The increasing complexity of corporate IT environments is being driven in many cases by duplicated functionality, multiple support and development streams, and increasing levels of hardware to support bespoke business functionality and data assets. This is coupled with business drivers demanding tailored, rapid application solutions to meet their organisation’s challenges.
However, the presence of multiple bespoke solutions offering business flexibility is often self-defeating, undermining the benefits associated with those solutions, through increased costs, Inflexible support models and regular duplication of existing technology solutions across the enterprise.
The Solution
A Charterhouse Data Centre Consolidation Assessment: A tailored engagement that investigates and analyses the opportunities to drive unnecessary cost out of your data-centre environment and to improve service delivery to your clients.
The brief is to undertake a high level
assessment of the areas shown over leaf, reporting back
to the CIO the current status of existing opportunities or
plans, highlighting areas where additional benefit can be
derived and identifying dependencies and constraints that
will affect a consolidation programme from moving forward.
The assessment is vendor agnostic and will highlight areas where improvements could be achieved through best practices, the implementation of technology refreshes and hardware or application consolidations.
