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This interactive IT Business Explorer gives you an executive-level snapshot of how IT impacts your most critical business objectives. Think of it as an IT cheat sheet for non-technical leaders.
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Every enterprise depends on technology to become and stay competitive. But how does a business leader prioritize technology initiatives without learning the ever-changing landscape of IT? By understanding what technology decisions have the greatest business impact.
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Your best competitors will continue to get bigger, more efficient and more profitable. Keeping pace with them may require you to get to market faster.
To do that, you’ll need to adopt technologies that speed DevOps, reduce waste and accelerate time to market while maintaining quality.
Tools for gauging whether IT drives or slows your innovation:
Your enterprise’s ability to innovate faster than competitors is dependent upon your peoples’ ability to access, utilize and scale services and technologies rapidly. With so many of your technology resources likely in the cloud, a cloud optimization assessment will help prime your enterprise for the rapid innovation it needs to compete in the marketplace.
Assess your cloud environment and seize opportunities to deploy services faster. Use the assessment to identify where and how your cloud environment can be leveraged to reduce time to market, optimize spend, increase efficiency and agility across your enterprise and improve the security and reliability of your critical applications and data, all while ensuring an optimal experience for your users and customers.
The quest for innovation and greater market share can lead enterprises to adopt and manage redundant, unnecessary and underutilized technologies, which can create inefficiencies and monopolize resources that could be allocated to innovation initiatives like digital transformation.
A workload optimization assessment helps you better align your technologies to accomplish your competitive goals. Use the assessment to make discoveries like, where can you free up infrastructure capacity to house workloads for new applications, services and solutions? How can you re-balance your technology workloads to improve your customer and user experiences? In what ways can you automate routine operational tasks so your in-house experts can focus on innovation?
Automation is a solution for many enterprises looking to speed time to market for their critical applications, services and solutions. Unfortunately, there’s no one-size-fits-all automation remedy, and rolling out a misaligned solution can halt your enterprise’s innovation rather than enable it. That’s where an automation readiness assessment comes in.
Business leaders use the assessment to erase the innovation roadblocks present throughout their enterprises. The assessment reveals opportunities to accelerate time to market, increase efficiency, optimize technology spend and free up in-house expertise.
Growth usually means more people, more customers, more EVERYTHING. Your people need access to teammates, data and tools to perform their jobs and as those teams grow, you’ll need better collaboration technology to maintain enterprise velocity.
Tools for gauging whether IT enables or hampers your growth:
A collaboration readiness assessment identifies where and how your enterprise’s existing collaboration infrastructure—phone systems, email clients, messaging apps, etc.—has untapped opportunities to enable growth.
In the face of growth, the assessment helps you make discoveries like, where will your existing collaboration technology lead to productivity gains down the road? How much money will your enterprise save on redundant or unnecessary software tools or licenses? How many man-hours will you save toward managing conferencing hardware? Use the assessment to prime your enterprise for growth and scalability without sacrificing collaboration or productivity.
Odds are your enterprise leverages some form of the cloud—on-demand services, applications and tools that enable you to cost-effectively scale critical business functions.
A cloud optimization assessment examines your existing cloud environment to identify how it can be better leveraged to enable your growth. The assessment is commonly used to reveal opportunities like greater cost savings, redundancy elimination and efficiency improvements.
The challenge many enterprises have during growth is balancing additions in technology, tools and applications without incurring greater expense, redundancy and inefficiency. A workload optimization assessment helps mitigate these downsides.
The assessment gives you a bird’s eye view of your IT landscape to show you where there’s untapped potential to drive growth. In the face of growth, are there opportunities for your enterprise to get more agile and flexible by consolidating technology resources or eliminating redundant applications? Can you allocate more of your hardware capacity for revenue- and growth-driving functions? Where can you offload manual tasks from your team and re-assign your experts to more strategic initiatives as you grow?
The truth is that as your enterprise grows, adds more people, office branches and infrastructure, it exposes itself to greater risk. And with cyber threats becoming more rampant and complex and regulatory standards like HIPAA and PCI changing at the blink of an eye, the potential for a data breach or compliance violation is higher than ever.
An IT risk assessment helps set up your enterprise for secure and compliant growth. The assessment looks at your technology environment to gauge where you’re at risk today, where you’ll be at risk in the future and, most importantly, what can you do about it right now. Business leaders leverage this assessment to avoid costly fines and penalties, prevent reputation damage in the marketplace and free up expertise and spend so, instead of responding to a breach or preparing for a compliance audit, these resources can be allocated to growth initiatives.
You’re constantly looking for ways to make your organization more competitive and profitable.
You’re going to continue to hire people, add tools and create efficiencies.
How are you going to do all these things without increasing expenses, redundancy and complexity?
Tools for gauging how well IT is keeping your waste in check:
A workload optimization assessment helps you better align your technologies to accomplish your efficiency goals. Use the assessment to make discoveries like, where can you save money by consolidating or eliminating redundant or unnecessary technology workloads? In what ways can you reduce the manual steps involved with managing technology infrastructure? How can you free up in-house experts to focus more on innovation goals and less on overhead tasks like hardware configuration and software provisioning? The assessment is a great first step to priming your IT environment for peak efficiency and performance.
If you’re like most enterprises, you have a ton of applications and data being stored in your IT landscape. Without the right insight and monitoring, your storage environment can quickly sprawl to eat up unnecessary time, costs and resources.
Use a storage assessment to create a flexible, lean, cost-effective foundation for your technologies. The assessment helps drive your enterprise’s efficiency by revealing opportunities to reduce the costs, eliminate manual tasks and free up expertise.
One of the best ways for large enterprises to make leaps in efficiency and waste reduction is by reducing the amount of time it takes to manage technology infrastructure in their physical data centers. That’s why many business leaders find value in a data center optimization assessment.
The assessment examines the physical hardware (storage, compute, network) in your data center and prescribes ways to make overhead tasks like configurations, maintenance and troubleshooting more streamlined and less resource-intensive. By doing that, your in-house expertise have more time and resources to devote to innovation- and revenue-driving initiatives.
Use an automation readiness assessment to identify where and how manual steps can be eliminated from business tasks, processes and operations throughout your enterprise. Business leaders find value in the assessment by discovering ways to re-allocate their strategic resources to revenue-generating tasks, optimize their technology spend and reduce overhead costs.
Cyberattacks are your greatest threat today.
Mitigating threats necessitates knowing where you’re vulnerable. Vulnerabilities can be difficult to find, especially when your experts are short-staffed and overburdened.
Only robust and automated IT security can protect larger enterprises.
Cyberattacks are the #1 threat to your enterprise. Beyond that, regulatory standards like HIPAA, PCI and GDPR continue to change rapidly, leveling heavy fines and penalties at companies that run afoul of compliance. For these reasons, business leaders need to know where their enterprises are vulnerable so they can delegate the right objectives down the chain of command.
An IT risk assessment arms your enterprise with the proactive insight it needs to erase vulnerabilities across the technology landscape. The assessment reveals untapped opportunities to prevent and/or mitigate the consequences of a cyberattack—like downtime and productivity losses, decrease the likelihood of receiving a compliance fine and avoid the reputation damages of a breach or violation.
Cyberhacking techniques are getting more sophisticated by the minute, pushing enterprises to keep pace or suffer the costs and reputation damage of a breach.
Business leaders leverage penetration tests to simulate hacking attempts on their enterprise and identify where they’re vulnerable. Penetration tests are proven to help enterprises save millions of dollars in downtime, preserve productivity hours and safeguard brand credibility and reputation.
Many enterprises like yours are mitigating the potential damage of a data breach by undergoing an incident response analysis. This tool identifies opportunities for your enterprise to boost its level of preparedness in the event of a breach, helping answer questions like:
As your organization evolves, so will your collaboration/productivity requirements. Meeting these requirements effectively involves the right technology.
Tools for gauging how well IT enables your enterprise’s productivity:
A collaboration readiness assessment identifies the untapped opportunities of your collaboration infrastructure—your phone systems, email clients, messaging apps, etc.
Expect the assessment to reveal opportunities like how can your existing technology be leveraged to increase productivity? Where can you save money by eliminating or consolidating redundant/unnecessary tools? Where can you save man-hours on managing legacy conferencing hardware? Use the assessment to prime your enterprise for productivity in the most proactive, cost-effective way.
A cloud readiness assessment helps jumpstart your enterprise’s agility and productivity. The assessment looks at your existing on-premises technology and reveals how the additions of cloud-based infrastructure can help your people can access and share information faster, collaborate more intentionally and perform tasks more efficiently.
Let’s face it, network outages happen. Most enterprises have backup/disaster recovery (BU/DR) plans in place for their critical technologies, but sometimes even those aren’t enough to ward off costly productivity losses.
A proactive BU/DR assessment helps mitigate productivity losses by revealing opportunities to make your critical systems more available and reliable. Use the assessment to answer questions like, how can you safeguard productivity if a natural disaster hits? How do you reduce downtime in the event of a cyber breach? How do you save time, money and resources on getting our systems back online after an outage?
The modern workforce is mobile, which means the modern enterprise must have a wireless infrastructure in place to enable its people to remain productive on their mobile devices.
Use a wireless readiness assessment to identify where and how your people’s mobile experience can be optimized for productivity, i.e, how to ensure anytime, anywhere, any device access to critical applications, how to drive secure collaboration and file sharing 24/7, how to optimize user experience in ways that help your employees work faster and more intentionally.
