What's New
29th Jan 2009
Reduce and Contain Operational Costs
IT operational staffs continue to be asked to do ‘more with less' and business requirements continue to grow in both number and complexity. IT operations often face flat and even reduced budgets, but the increased complexity of the environments and 24/7 global business requirements make it increasingly difficult to control the cost of the IT environments they manage.
IBM can partner with you to develop integrated hardware, software and services solutions that can drive IT operational cost efficiencies. Ask your Stott + Hoare Account Manager for more information.
Reduce and control IT operational costs through the use of automation.
IBM solutions can help you to automate operational processes across all four of the Operational Management Domains and include offerings that address both infrastructure and software delivery automation.
IBM IT Automation solutions:
• Increase productivity by freeing administrators from low-level task management so that staff can focus on higher value activities.
• Help clients mitigate the risk of human errors and the potentially significant associated cost.
• Ensure that the IT resources are utilised more effectively and efficiently.
IBM provides clients with robust and integrated product and service offerings that improve management efficiency and reduce complexity through the use of automation.
Control IT operational cost through enhanced IT asset and cost management.
Clients across all industries today manage their enterprise or industrial assets using a distinct and separate infrastructure from the one they use to manage their traditional IT assets. In reality, however, redundant management infrastructures actually complicate the goals of containing costs reducing complexity down and aligning assets with business goals.
IBM IT Asset and Cost Management solutions help clients to:
Control Operational Cost
• Centralise purchasing for greater economies of scale.
• Help to identify cost drivers that improve the staff's ability to take action in order to reduce costs.
• Optimise software licenses and reduce likelihood of overbuying as well as fines due to under-licensing.
• Help to measure the usage of shared IT resources to support resource accounting and charge back billing.
• Reduce costs of unplanned license compliance payments.
• Reduce the cost of preparing for internal and external audits required to meet regulatory compliance
Improve ability to deliver IT services
• Integrate Asset Management and IT Service Management to optimise end-to-end processes and better align IT with the business.
• Help IT make proper, strategic purchasing decisions with more reliable asset inventory data.
• Reduce outages and failures with proactive asset management practices.
