Cost reduction
Today’s tough economic climate is forcing change. Now is the time to make IT work even harder.
Although the recent economic downturn may lead to IT budgets being tightened, it also presents an ideal opportunity for organisations to optimise and "sweat the assets" they already have – releasing much needed budget for essential innovations. With recent widely reported estimates that one third of the average IT budget will soon be comprised of energy costs alone, addressing inefficiencies and maximising resources will be paramount over the coming years.
Insight to make the right decisions
If your organisation is looking to streamline and identify savings, guesswork isn’t an option - you need the facts. However, it might surprise you to learn that the ability to improve your decision making is already in your ownership. Sumerian IT Analytics is helping enterprise organisations drive dramatic cost savings by leveraging an asset they already possess: their IT infrastructure data.
Download the Sumerian white paper – IT cost management and reduction: Maximising your initiatives with IT Analytics.
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.
Top cost reduction initiatives using IT Analytics
Sumerian’s quantified IT Analytics can be applied to any number of cost reduction initiatives – giving you the answers you need to take control:
Optimising existing services – by eliminating outages and performance issues
Accounting for up to 80% of the budget, existing services are by far the largest drain on IT running costs. In order to gain control of costs, optimised IT services are vital. Sumerian’s cutting-edge Service Delivery Analytics (SDA) service is helping IT teams to eliminate outages by 50% and more by identifying long-term, emerging problems and actively preventing them.
Find out how Service Delivery Analytics can help your organisation.
Consolidation, shared services and virtualisation
Although datacentre consolidation presents one of the best opportunities to tackle spiralling costs, many organisations still haven’t capitalised on its benefits – largely due to the high level of risk involved. In using IT Analytics to inform precise sizing and costing implications for infrastructure under consideration, organisations can gain an accurate prediction of the impact of change with precise performance, cost and capacity quantification ready for business case presentation.
Find out more about how IT Analytics can be applied within datacentres.
Rationalise applications and services
Many organisations are faced with running a legacy suite of applications that are left unaddressed due to a lack of knowledge on their use. Sumerian’s User Profiling analysis provides the powerful capability to reduce waste and improve alignment of IT applications and services by accurately understanding demand. By measuring the consumption of applications and services, Sumerian’s insight provides fact-based evidence to tailor your IT services for specific user groups, locations or roles - radically improving alignment and optimising IT cost per head.
Find out how Sumerian’s User Profiling analysis can be applied to align services and applications.
Reduce supplier and outsourcing costs
Although outsourcing may seem an attractive proposition to organisations seeking to make savings, without quantified evidence to guide them, many will fall into the trap of achieving short-term savings only to find that, later down the line, the long-term arrangement becomes counter-productive.
Find out how IT Analytics can be applied to evaluate, manage costs and reduce risk when considering your outsourcing arrangements.
Make smarter, informed investment decisions around new technology
Selecting which new technology offers the best business value can be a complex undertaking, but is one that can be greatly enhanced by IT Analytics. By using scenario modelling to provide like-for-like comparisons of choices under consideration, smarter decisions can be made around selecting technology which has a positive impact on the business as well as delivering promised ROI.
Find out how Sumerian helped to assess the viability of a new mobility solution and helped the client achieve a strong negotiating position with their supplier. Read the case study
Further information
IT Analytics is a new concept for many people, so we’re more than happy to explain how it can be applied to your organisation in further detail. Please e-mail or phone us on 0141 229 7580 for an informal, no hassle chat to learn more about our services.