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Slide 1: iSET
“Helping you manage your IT asset strategy”
800 West Cummings Park Suite 4950 Woburn, MA 01801 781 933 1846
Slide 2: iSET Overview
iSET is a tool to Devise, Execute and Optimize a business-centered strategy for IT asset management. It allows you to visualize the risks and costs in your IT portfolio from a business-process perspective. It does this by:
linking your software assets with the business processes that utilize them and the hardware hosting those assets grouping assets into Invest, Retain and Retire based on business criticality, technology infrastructure, complexity, cost and other definable parameters providing multiple views of technology health including Application Development, Database, Platform, and Integration layers tracking the evolution of your asset management strategy over time and planning for future optimization
Business Processes
Applications
Servers
Slide 3: Problem Statement
IT Service Domain Managers need to track and manage the lifecycles of hundreds of assets Managers need to predict critical business-process impacts from potential technology disruptions Cost management and platform simplification imperatives require hard decisions to be made Teams and systems are geographically distributed, critically impacting knowledge management To devise, execute and optimize a strategy requires a standardized enterprise tool to track key attributes and interdependencies of IT assets:
A multi-dimensional approach of capturing asset-related information (Financial, Technology, Vendor, Security, etc.) A method to map high level IT strategy to remediation opportunities on specific assets Historical and future trend data for key attributes of IT assets for strategy tracking and optimization
Slide 4: Benefits
With iSET, you can:
ensure your technology spend is aligned with business priorities ensure your remediation plan has identified all available retire/ replace “low-hanging fruit” opportunities predict the future-state technology health that will be produced by your IT asset optimization strategy track and validate your technology and service-provisioning health over time and identify out-of-compliance areas that need special attention predict the specific business-unit and business-process impacts that would result from potential technology disruptions, at both the application and server level
Slide 5: Features and Users
iSET provides fine-grained control:
Map your business processes to your software assets Map your software assets to servers which provision them Track 200+ data elements on your software assets to monitory status and plan strategy for asset management Track 50+ data elements on your server assets Track the evolution of these assets over time
Potential Users:
Technology Planning Technology Architecture Business Information Office CIO Infrastructure Management Application Development Operations Management IT Security and more
Slide 6: Enterprise Design
Used in Fortune 10 companies Role-based views provide function-related access to the relevant information:
General User Application Owner Server Owner Administrator Access to data can also be constrained by business unit
Comprehensive auditing capability Flexible querying and report-building Import and export of data Browser based Java application
Slide 7: Software Asset Tracking
Key categories of data tracked:
Usage and ownership Technology Financial Vendor SLA Disaster Recovery, Backup and Archiving Interfaces and Services Security Documentation
Slide 8: Server Asset Tracking
Key Categories of data tracked:
Hardware Network Security Vendor Maintenance Documentation
Slide 9: Dashboard Filter Connects Business Units & Processes to IT Assets
Period trend analysis Filter by busines s unit
Filter by busines s process Graphs filtered by BU and process
Asset list filtered by BU and process
Slide 10: At-a-Glance View of Application Health & Other Attributes
Highlight usage and complexity of applications
Red/Yellow/Green view of application compliance with technology standards
Identify business units using the application
Slide 11: Multiple Views of Technology Health by BU/BP
Interactively identify noncompliant applications by selecting pie slices
Highlight compliance to technology standards in four key areas
Slide 12: Multiple Levels of Application Health by BU/BP
Break out applications by technology compliance
Analyze distribution of noncompliant applications against various measures (number of users, licensing cost, complexity etc).
Highlight Retire and Replace opportunities
Slide 13: Main Elements of Application Cost by BU/BP
Identify application operating costs by three key measures (datacenter, license, resource), as categorized by business process
Detail the SW/HW assets utilized by selected BU/BP
Slide 14: Reporting
Comprehensive set of reports including ad-hoc query features Ability to save frequently used queries and create recurring reports
Slide 15: Techlogix Company Profile
A provider of IT services specializing in business process automation, IT governance, business intelligence, integration solutions, and enterprise systems deployment Growth oriented: 55% CAGR in revenue from 1997-2004 200+ employees US HQ in Boston Offices in Houston & Dubai with Development Centers in Lahore and Beijing
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Slide 16: Techlogix Value Proposition
Proven vendor to Fortune 500 companies Project Focus: 70% of revenue from project delivery; 30% from application support services Boutique operation
Techlogix management includes 5 PhDs, 6 MS from MIT, Caltech, Illinois Urbana-Champaign, U Penn of whom 70% are offshore. 33% of all staff have post-graduate degrees. Our focused practice areas have resulted in high process and technology expertise Our market niche is complex solutions in a specially designed global delivery model
Mature Processes: 6 year experience in global delivery model; ISO 9001:2000 certified Fixed-price, fixed-time delivery
World-class solutioning with global delivery savings
Slide 17: Thank you for your time
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For more information or to arrange an iSET Webinar demo, please call Doug Kardash, Director of Sales, at 781 933 1846 x619, or email doug@techlogix.com