Identify cost-saving, performance-enhancing opportunities with ILM.
Providing financial decision support for Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) means understanding how well your proposed solution is likely to perform against critical business goals. HP’s ILM Business Value Analysis service is designed to yield the precise cost-justification data you require.
This innovative service couples the tools and techniques of traditional total cost of ownership (TCO) studies with a pragmatic new vision of ILM. By testing a number of savings hypotheses, HP can deliver expert projections and recommendations to help you reduce your overall IT spending levels as you enhance your information management capabilities.
Here’s the data you need for fully informed investment and management decisions.
HP Services consultants work closely with your key IT architects and managers to:
- Review your current storage and data retrieval environment and its prospective evolution
- Measure cost/performance trade-offs between existing and new technologies, management practices, and processes
- Compare existing metrics with the results gained from new testing methodologies
- Compare your TCO with that of peer organizations in other enterprises
- Analyze your capital expenditures, labor costs, and system complexity
- Identify key staffing ratios
- Report to your management team on findings and recommendations for cost-reduction and performance gains
Continuous information management improvement, tighter business-IT alignment, better-informed financial decision-making
HP ILM Business Value Analysis comprises five stages and involves close participation of key members of your business and IT management teams:
1) Consideration of market trends and business and industry drivers and their impact on your IT strategy
2) Definition of a set of cost-reduction models for your unique environment and collection of key data - such as financial data, inventory information, and organizational charts - necessary to validate the defined models
3) Based on the chosen models, analysis and benchmarking of the collected data; key findings are reviewed and confirmed with your stakeholders
4) Recommendations for improving information management are supplied based on a vision of a cost-effective ILM architecture
5) Presentation of key findings demonstrating the business benefits of improved information management to your stakeholders and management team
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