Align Infrastructure Architecture to Business Value
Take a service-based approach to integrate infrastructure into business conversations.
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An infrastructure system that is designed reactively with an ad hoc approach inherently exhibits many flaws:
- Frequent capacity-related incidents.
- A high number of outages and low availability of services.
- High costs of operating and maintaining existing infrastructure technology.
Infrastructure architecture enables improvements at the operational, tactical, and strategic level, including:
- Reduced incidents and increased availability.
- Increased agility and flexibility.
- Improved simplicity and decreased level of supported needed.
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Onsite Workshops offer an easy way to accelerate your project. If you are unable to do the project yourself, and a Guided Implementation isn’t enough, we offer low-cost onsite delivery of our Project Workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a road map in place to complete your project successfully.
Book NowModule 1: Review Corporate Strategy
The Purpose
Review and define corporate strategy.
Key Benefits Achieved
Defined corporate strategy.
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| 1.1 | Review strategic planning documents. |
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| 1.2 | Understand the strategy that drives your infrastructure architecture. |
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| 1.3 | Conduct stakeholder interviews to gather additional information on corporate strategy that is not in existing strategy documents. |
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Module 2: Identify Services Impacted by Business Strategy
The Purpose
Identify services impacted by the corporate strategy.
Key Benefits Achieved
Understand the current business situation and identify the top three to five business directives.
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| 2.1 | Document your scenarios based on business goals and objectives. |
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| 2.2 | Prioritize your high-value business scenarios. |
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| 2.3 | Map out your core services from model scenarios created from business goals and strategy. |
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Module 3: Assess Gaps in Your Infrastructure Capabilities
The Purpose
- Measure and assess gaps in your current infrastructure capabilities.
- Match gaps to appropriate solutions.
Key Benefits Achieved
- An assessment of the current core services' performance
- Common solutions for deficiencies
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| 3.1 | Measure the current performance of core services and establish the target state. |
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| 3.2 | Define quality expectations for core services to set a foundation for benchmarking. |
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| 3.3 | Measure the performance of your current core services and compare against expected quality attributes in a three-step approach. |
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Module 4: Match Gaps with Solution Options
The Purpose
Visually identify sources of deficiency and breakdown.
Key Benefits Achieved
A map of the infrastructure structure
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| 4.1 | Start the structural heat map with the end user and reverse engineer the design. |
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| 4.2 | Identify sources of deficiency by diving deeper into the current infrastructure landscape. |
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| 4.3 | Perform a root-cause analysis of three major gaps in performance. Match solution options to address gaps. |
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| 4.4 | Prioritize and communicate initiatives. |
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