The Costly mis-alignment between IT and the Business: With nearly two-thirds of enterprise IT operating budgets being tied to “keeping the lights-on” across the existing IT applications, achieving accurate business and IT alignment through the use of Business Value Chains (BVCs) has become essential. This understanding is critical in order for IT to properly manage complex infrastructures, deliver repeatable designs, and actually meet business needs. Unfortunately, significant gaps can develop between IT and the business priorities resulting in wasted time, resources, and unnecessary risk.
Solution: Adaptivity’s approach to IT planning & design is a one-two punch that is based on top-down and bottom-up drivers. IT Planning Studio provides the top-down portion of this approach by driving the alignment of business functions and activities and their supporting application portfolios. This gives leaders the insight into how their application portfolios enable the various aspects of the business and are supported by IT. This information can be used to rapidly (same-day) identify:
- Clearly defined workload performance demands required from the IT supply side (business to application and application to IT)
- Overlap in redundant application functionality
- Business Value Chain Modeling to document business functions & activities
- Application Portfolio Mapping to expose how applications are manifesting the business operations
- Quality of Experience Profiles of workloads critical to properly designing IT infrastructure
What: A decision support tool that provides a solid foundation to drive the technical design process by creating a common language between the business and IT.
How: IT Planning Studio’s top-down approach to IT design is done by aligning business requirements to functional organizations, business demand characteristics and KPIs, business activities, and finally applications. This complete alignment of business processes from top to bottom — business requirements down to applications — is used to visualize the demand and supply chain that exists between the business and IT.
Who: This tool is for business and IT professionals that seek to deliver business results, cost reduction and risk mitigation.
- Business and IT Leadership
- Program Managers
- Application Owners
- Enterprise Architects
IT Planning Studio equips you with a repeatable, work-flow driven, multi-project software solution to model business architectures and infrastructure drivers, and to establish the application usage and problem identification information you require to make informed decisions in order to deliver the most cost effective IT supply chain possible.
Benefits:
- Informed Decisions: Gain the insight required to drive a business-driven IT decision-making process, which by its very nature keeps IT aligned with business needs on a continuous basis.
- Stay “On the same page”: Utilize the insight from blueprint outputs to positively affect business operations and drive efficiency between business and IT.
- Understand Executive Motivation: Capture business drivers and workload characteristics in terms of business benefits.
- Communicate IT Value: Clearly demonstrate IT’s understanding of operational needs in a full business context.
- Realize Requirements: Seamlessly translate business requirements into IT metrics.
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