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What’s your next move? ™ National Center for Women & Information Technology Streamlining Applications & Lowering Cost of Infrastructure
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What’s your next move?™ Lowering the Cost of Infrastructure Understand your spend and what drives the spend Hardware Software Services People
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What’s your next move?™ Lowering the Cost of Infrastructure Standardization Strike the balance between standardized and inflexible Limit number of vendors where possible Limit configurations and options where possible Drives higher support ratios Drives lower per unit support costs Drives lower training costs
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What’s your next move?™ Lowering the Cost of Infrastructure Consolidation Consolidate application workloads on servers / hosts Virtualize servers & storage Consolidate voice and data networks and services
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What’s your next move?™ Leverage technology changes / evolution Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) to Voice Over IP (VOIP) to Skype Video conferencing to limit / avoid travel Point-to-Point data circuits to Frame-Relay to Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) to Virtual Private Networks Clustering to provide horizontal scale instead of vertical scale Ride the downward per unit cost trends Lowering the Cost of Infrastructure
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What’s your next move?™ Lowering the Cost of Infrastructure Buy versus Lease Buy strategic platforms Ability to more easily extend useful life More control over refresh timing Lease or buy tactical platforms Negotiate good lease terms
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What’s your next move?™ Lowering the Cost of Infrastructure Contracts / Licensing Negotiation process is crucial Train everyone to negotiate Always use competitive bidding process Swap vendors when necessary Watch out for creativity from vendors on software licensing schemes Per Server, CPU, Core, Virtual Core Per Value Unit Per Seat, User, Concurrent User
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What’s your next move?™ Lowering the Cost of Infrastructure Centralization of Contracts Management License Management Procurement
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What’s your next move?™ Lowering the Cost of Infrastructure Other things to consider Third party maintenance providers Dropping software maintenance Open Source Software The Cost Savings Bucket List
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What’s your next move?™ Streamlining Applications Is this how your applications get built?
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What’s your next move?™ Streamlining Applications Create an Application Portfolio Inventory Create Common Interfaces Speed Delivery Remove Redundant systems Lower Cost Simplify User Interfaces Improve user productivity Reduce training time
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What’s your next move?™ What is the Relationship Between Projects & Assets (CapEx and OpEx)? $0 20102011 Base Ops. Increase for A Maintenance for A Ops. Increase for B Maintenance for B Project A Project B New Project New Project Budgets
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What’s your next move?™ Agility: Is Your Next Change Easier or Harder? Currently1006 mos.$10x5.0% New functionality "piled on"1508 mos.$15x7.0% After rationalization 805 mos.$ 8x4.0% After transformation 403 mos.$ 5x2.5% TimeCost Quality Impact Touches Ability to innovate at speed and scale New business opportunities — M&A, business lines, products, geographies, etc. New ways to work — collaboration, teleworking and others New user experiences — Web 2.0, mobile, multichannel and others Business process changes and new processes Business information changes and new information
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What’s your next move?™ One Key to Agility: Rethink Program/Project Success Project success today On time On budget On specification On value (rare) Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3 Phase 4 Phase 5 Others Retire Sys 1 Retire Sys 2 Retire Sys 3 2010201120122013 Measure and reward project leaders to drive value, reuse and retirement. Business sponsors must step up and drive their employee base to the new capabilities, so that old systems can be retired. Success tomorrow Today's metrics + % functions retired % functions reused
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What’s your next move?™ Hunt Case Study - Current Rating Screens Manual Rating 7 and 8 Screens Rating Queue 47 Screen Rate Verification 10 Screen Process Status 48 Screen Billing 9 Screen
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What’s your next move?™ Hunt Case Study - New Rating Screens PDA default view Highest priority loads display first All rating & billing validations done prior to displaying load Rate, Re-rate, Unrate, Bill, Unbill, Void & Rebill all from one screen
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What’s your next move?™ Hunt Case Study - Benefits PDA Productivity One screen to perform all transactions – fewer keystrokes Loads are only touched one time since all errors are displayed Meaningful error messages Work will be prioritized and driven to the PDA Reduced training time Ability to rate and bill at loaded call – improved Days Sales Outstanding Visibility to Load Billing History IT Support productivity improvements Reduced query requests saving Mainframe processing Reduced problem tickets due to better error information on screen 5 new reusable components – will be used in spot and fuel systems Reused 3 existing components from Hawk, Centerscreen, Freight Mgr Reused existing BPM workflow to rate at loaded call vs. e-call Retired 9 existing applications
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What’s your next move?™ Hunt Case Study - Brokerage Division - Center Screen 9 Host and 2 Web screens into 1 Reduced training from 4 weeks to 1 week “Next Step” Workflow drives most critical work first Information Week Innovation Award
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What’s your next move?™ Tools - System Architect – Portfolio inventory
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What’s your next move?™ Tools - System Architect – Portfolio inventory
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What’s your next move?™ Tools - Reusable Component Inventory
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