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• SDA for Investment Banking solution overview
• SDA for E-commerce solution overview
• SDA for Retail Banking solution overview
• Outsourced IT solution overview

• Optimising critical FX service
  Sumerian’s IT Analytics is helping a global investment bank to achieve its FX market ambitions by optimising capacity and latency.
• Capacity and risk
  Sumerian helps global investment bank improve capacity and de-risk change for critical pricing service.
• Datacentre relocation
  Sumerian helps investment bank de-risk application performance for datacentre relocation.
• Performance optimisation
  Sumerian helps global financial group optimise 34 critical services and prevent over 40 outages.
• Capacity planning
  Sumerian improves capacity planning and risk management for trading arm of large UK bank.
• Cost reduction
  Sumerian helps major UK retail bank recover multi-million pound supplier costs.
• End-to-end IT services optimisation
  HBOS transforms the performance and optimises 48 of its key banking services with Sumerian.
• Consolidation and outsourcing
  Sumerian guides consolidation and outsourcing strategy for one of the world’s leading professional services organisations.
• Application rationalisation
  Sumerian helps rationalise and de-risk ERP deployment for large professional services company.
• Application performance deepdive
  Sumerian helps large UK bank resolve performance issues for application in "intensive care".
• IT-business alignment and collaboration
  Sumerian analysis helps drive improved IT-business alignment and productivity at a large professional services company.
• Outsourcing
  Sumerian helps large investment company improve the management of its outsourced trading service.
• Mobility migration
  Sumerian analysis helps a public sector organisation understand its mobility usage and negotiate improved terms.
• IT Helpdesk performance
  Sumerian analysis helps large government agency to understand routing patterns and validate its IT helpdesk efficiency.

IT Analytics series

This series examines the challenges addressed by IT Analytics and details the progressive steps to achieving full IT Analytics maturity.

• Leveraging Data to Deliver Business Value
  This first white paper in the series introduces the IT Analytics approach and examines the benefits and concepts behind it. The paper discusses the progressive stages of IT Value Analytics maturity and how both IT organisations and the business can benefit from its implementation.
• Improving IT Services Management with Service Analytics
  In this next edition, we examine the limitations of discrete component visibility and explain why the first progressive step to IT Value Analytics maturity, Service Analytics, helps IT organisations gain a progressive, integrated view of IT services that builds IT business value.
• Increasing IT alignment with Business Process Analytics
  In this third instalment of the series, we take a closer look into the advanced techniques of Business Process Analytics and explain why its successful adoption will not only help IT organisations prioritise the right projects and services, but how its applied findings can make dramatic improvements to the business as a whole.
• Optimising IT Services with User Profiling
  We discuss the potential of IT Analytics user profiling techniques for gaining a strategic understanding of user demand and behaviour. This research outlines the benefits and how this progressive understanding influences strategic investment decisions.

• Grid Computing
  With grid computing being a critical element for today’s competitive investment banking sector, we examine how IT Analytics’ advanced techniques are being applied to drive improved optimisation strategies.
• Capacity planning
  With many of today's IT organisations facing budgetary constraints, this new white paper examines the need for improved, joined up capacity planning, and outlines the specific advantages of IT Analytics' progressive business-aligned techniques.
• Cost reduction
  This white paper outlines how the advanced scenario modelling and analysis capabilities of IT Analytics is helping organisations to optimise estate resources platform-by-platform, identifying not only cost savings, but understanding the risk and impact of initiatives before implementing them.
• Datacentre consolidation
  Whilst consolidation represents a clear opportunity to redress the balance of stretched datacentre resources and running costs, without careful preparation and taking into account the business’ performance and future capacity demands, service quality and expected cost savings can be left in jeopardy.
• Sustainable IT
  With upcoming UK legislation and rising energy costs, Sustainable IT is fast moving out of the fringes to become a priority issue. This Sumerian white paper explores the momentum behind Sustainable IT and explains how an IT Analytics approach not only guides your strategy, but helps reduce costs and track results.
• Outsourcing
  We explore the continuing rise in outsourced IT services and examine how IT Analytics can help IT organisations avoid the pitfalls and gain a firm control of their arrangements.
• Convergence
  We take a look at the drivers towards converged voice and data networks and provide recommendations on deciding the best options, managing evaluation and how to achieve a smooth implementation.
• Mobility
  We explore the factors influencing the rapid adoption of mobility in enterprises. Examining the business and IT challenges involved, this paper includes practical advice on developing a mobility strategy.