Unaligned and unconsolidated IT infrastructure characterized by environments where many components from different vendors are used to tackle
same business problems is difficult and expensive to maintain. In some cases such infrastructure state cannot be avoided due to merging, acquisition and reorganizing business activities.
Efficient businesses require the following from their IT infrastructure:
- A clearly defined set of strategic applications with no duplicate functionalty and a high return-on-investment.
- Efficient exchange of information across departments and subsidiaries.
- A centralized way of assuring availabilty and security of applications.
As problems in these areas became more prevalent in the last years, solutions for smooth consolidation have been developed. Nowadays, successful companies try to consolidate their IT infrastructure on a regular basis along with every minor change in organization or business processes.
Based on their current IT landscape and carefully analyzed business requirements we assist our clients in strategic decisions when making hard choices
related to consolidating and organizing their IT infrastructure. We focus on every single aspect by considering the following:
Hardware infrastructure
Introduce less types and less instances of servers and data centers.
Operating system environments
Introduce less types of operating systems, reevaluate open-source alternatives, optimize license costs.
Virtualization
Virtualize operating system environments to reduce hardware dependencies.
SAN/NAS environments
Efficiently access and share data on networks, introduce consolidated backup and restore policies.
Networking and security
Reorganize and simplify networks, consolidate and align security and access restrictions.
Database management systems
Reduce the number of database systems and vendors. Introduce common well-understood data models with no replicated data.
ERP systems
Try to match business needs with a single ERP system that allows easy exchange of information with the remaining IT infrastructure, especially enterprise portals.
Enterprise Application Integration tools
Choose a single Enterprise Application Integration tool, unify data exchange formats, standardize process invocation.
Enterprise portals
Consolidate across functions to better serve customers and suppliers.
Document management
Build single document repository. Support cross-organization document search.
Development frameworks for internal applications
Introduce a single development framework with one development environment and a fixed set of libraries.
