Business Insights

Is Technology an Enabler or a cost in your Organisation?

Are your costs aligned to your actual usage or what people think they need?

Do you have security risks or breaches due to outdated technology
still running somewhere in the business?

Do you have multiple versions of the truth for IT and the business requirements?

Business Benefits

Aligning spend to actual usage of the business assets

Managing compliance and risk from a local to global view is
critical to embrace the Digital Transformation journey

Providing both the Business and IT with a view of how you are using and consuming
technology accelerates and supports business change and evolution

Background

As part of an ongoing drive to improve efficiency, reduce costs and mitigate risk, many of our clients are actively been seeking a “single pane of glass” view of their global technology estate to drive efficiencies supporting the priorities and requests demanded by the business.

We have identified a unique piece of technology in the market that not only automates many of the manual processes that historically we have had to perform but also delivers a complimentary business tool that can be used ongoing to eradicate costs and business risk by providing an auditable view of ongoing IT consumption.

A technology that provides a full and detailed audit trial of all end user interaction with technology, populated into simply reports that can be viewed edited and drilled down against, allowing macro Group wide view to micro views across the business, departments and individuals, detailing IT consumption.

Cost & Usage

Reduce Cost
Gain Usage

Compliance
& Risk Mgt

Embrace
the journey

Accelerate
& Support

Change
& Evolution

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Business Deliverables

Risk reduction and mitigating compliance costs

Clear understanding of how the business is using applications driving consolidation and removing wasted or unnecessary spend

Accurate data capture around cloud and SAAS adoption providing data back to the business around ROI decisions

Dependency mapping of applications removing the risk of disruption to the day to day business

Removing the responsibility from IT alone to assist with commercial savings aligned against technology spend versus business performance

Allowing IT processes to be matched to business demands where jointly they support a single end goal

Automated business reports highlighting technology spend patterns across the business driving efficiency with business ownership

Management of spiraling IT costs and unknowns through auditable fact based usage statistics

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THE WHAT

Building a detailed picture of technology
consumption through automation

Utilizing technology to gain a clear and deep understanding on who is using what, how often and when through a single view accessible to the business

A cloud based technology that allows unlimited scale and rapid deployment with full support to navigate through deployment, UAT and full production acceptance testing

Information gateway allowing IT to be proactive to business requirements, needs and demands by providing one version of the truth

A central knowledge hub of data supporting evolution and change within a business

Knowledge transfer – A core dependency allowing in-house future running of the technology and ongoing value realisation

Full end to end value realisation driven through the tooling aligned not only against the core business case but also identifying new areas of business benefit mitigating programme risk

THE HOW

Planning, Pilot, Implementation through to BAU Automation & Optimisation

Envisioning
& Assess

Confirm business requirements
need and sponsorship

Initiation
& Planning

Align business requirements
to tooling

Pilot

Pilot roll out providing
supporting proof points

Assess

Re Assess pilot data against business objectives

Production Deployment

UAT testing for production sign off with full
production scheduling for deployment

Alignment to ROI

Stable, optimised with proof points against ROI business case including business check out

Handover

Guidance around process change and client handover for production operation

Operate & Optimise

On-going review and improvements assessing ongoing business requirements

Envisioning and Assess

Confirm business requirements need and sponsorship

Initiation and Planning

Align business requirements to tooling

Pilot

Pilot roll out providing supporting proof points

Assess

Re Assess pilot data against business objectives

Production Deployment

UAT testing for production sign off with full production scheduling for deployment

Alignment to ROI

Stable, optimised with proof points against ROI business case including business check out

Handover

Guidance around process change and client handover for production operation

Operate & Optimise

On-going review and improvements assessing ongoing business requirements

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