SPECIAL GUEST ENTRY! -- Tim Raducha Grace
For the past few months, IBM Systems Lab Services IT Optimization Consulting Team and IBM Software Group have been working together on two efforts 1) a cost allocation and revenue optimization approach and 2) a Systems and Service Management TCO to help organizations understand and reduce IT costs. This approach can help organizations free up valuable IT resources to improve service levels. Today, Tom Recchia and I presented these approaches at PULSE. We first highlighted the challenge that IT organizations are expected to do more with fewer resources. Indeed, many 2010 IT budgets are at 2005 levels. We highlighted a three step service management and financial process to help organizations understand and reduce costs. We then provided a series of real life examples of how organizations can leverage these core financial management practices to understand and reduce costs.
Many organizations are making decisions to cut IT spending (or invest the little they have with little or no insight into whether they're making cuts in the right areas. Unfortunately, almost 66% of CFOs and CIOs do not know the size of their core IT assets and 33% of organizations do not know what they spend on IT assets each year.
The feedback from clients and others was very positive. Many of them are interested in approaches such as the one we presented to use service management and financial management to understand and lower costs. Clients were especially focused and interest in the integrated hardware, systems software and service management approach to help optimize costs and free up resources for new investments. I think it highlights a key value IBM can provide to clients, in that it can provide them with an integrated solution to not only lower costs, but also improve service.
-Tim
Many organizations are making decisions to cut IT spending (or invest the little they have with little or no insight into whether they're making cuts in the right areas. Unfortunately, almost 66% of CFOs and CIOs do not know the size of their core IT assets and 33% of organizations do not know what they spend on IT assets each year.
The feedback from clients and others was very positive. Many of them are interested in approaches such as the one we presented to use service management and financial management to understand and lower costs. Clients were especially focused and interest in the integrated hardware, systems software and service management approach to help optimize costs and free up resources for new investments. I think it highlights a key value IBM can provide to clients, in that it can provide them with an integrated solution to not only lower costs, but also improve service.
-Tim
Here is the newest list of services Tim and his team can provide:
• NEW Cost Allocation Optimization Workshop
• Advanced Virtualization Rapid Assessment
• Comparative Total Cost of Computing Study
• Cloud Infrastructure Workshop
• IT Optimization Workshop
• IT Systems Rationalization Study
• Storage Sen$e: Rapid Optimization Analysis
• SystemsGreen Assessment
• Virtualization Rapid Assessment for UNIX
• Virtualization Rapid Assessment -
Initializing Virtualization
• Information Infrastructure Storage
Optimization Study
• Information Infrastructure Storage
Optimization Workshop
• Advanced Virtualization Rapid Assessment
• Comparative Total Cost of Computing Study
• Cloud Infrastructure Workshop
• IT Optimization Workshop
• IT Systems Rationalization Study
• Storage Sen$e: Rapid Optimization Analysis
• SystemsGreen Assessment
• Virtualization Rapid Assessment for UNIX
• Virtualization Rapid Assessment -
Initializing Virtualization
• Information Infrastructure Storage
Optimization Study
• Information Infrastructure Storage
Optimization Workshop
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