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Benefits
- Reduce the workload: free up valuable resources
to focus on core (business) activities
- Reduce the fundamental cost of IT
- Pro-actively manage risk: security and privacy
tolerance levels
- Increase the value of existing IT investments:
make IT assets work better
| Point
Products |
MIS
Solution Suite |
Islands
of automation
|
Integrated
Solution Suite |
Multiple
vendors: finger pointing |
Single
Vendor: one point of contact |
Capital
expense |
Operating
Expense |
Rigid
licensing |
Pay
for what you use |
Implementation
time/costs |
Just
turn it on |
Upgrade
and Maintenance hassles |
Turnkey
Managed Service |
Typical Characteristics of Organizations Before
MIS Solution
- Have IT workload problems
- Spend valuable time on Internet infrastructure
and risk management problems: diverting resources from business
- Struggle to meet security and privacy mandates
- Need to minimize security risk: increase protection
- Have recurring security intrusions
- Have escalating costs for Internet infrastructure
and risk management
- Waste valuable time dealing with multiple vendors
and fingerpointing
- Experience frequent, negative infrastructure
surprises
- Have painful capital expenditure process
Internet is Creating New IT Demands
The organization's use of the Internet is demanding
more and more time from the IT professionals.
- Shift to Web-centric solution architectures
- Incorporating "out on the edge" processes
- "Always on" solutions
- More users, more applications
- Wider diversity of user needs
- Increased collaboration
- Greater transparency, real time applications
Why is it so Hard to Keep Up?
Lots of disparate Internet infrastructure
technologies
- Not integrated
- Multiple user IDs, user interfaces, administration
- Multiple vendors
- New skillsets, certifications, and expertise
- Continual updates
New Risk Responsibilties
- Internet blows open the doors of the organization
- More points of security exposure such as privacy
tolerance, content filtering, monitoring, etc.
New Economic Climate
- Do more with Less
- No longer throw bodies and cash at the problems
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