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ROI Stories |
| 1 |
IT outsourcer identified 560 servers at
client left unbilled, amounting to $500,000 per month
in service and support |
| 2 |
Large telecom saved $2.2 million during
one company-wide DBMS migration |
| 3 |
Government agency identified 35% discrepancy
in 1,000,000-asset inventory across 10 operational and
financial data sources |
| 4 |
Large media company reduced server and
storage spend by 10%; recovered 20% of server administrators
time |
| 5 |
Financial company found $1.2 million savings
in software rationalization, hardware consolidation |
| 6 |
Manufacturing company identified $2 million
savings through more precise planning of asset use |
| 7 |
IT outsourcer saved 4.5 full-time employees
on the first project they used Blazent for integrating,
cleansing, and analyzing IT management data |
| 8 |
Consultant group spotted 41% managed asset
records discrepancy before quoting a management project
to their client |
| 9 |
Communications company identified $8 million
in inaccurate support payments around development and
production machines |
| 10 |
IT outsourcer identified opportunities
to reduce reporting expenses by 72% a year for a single
project |
| 11 |
Telecom identified 51% of current desktops
and laptops that didn’t meet monthly SLA for patch
and anti-virus compliance, which required 100% compliance |
| 12 |
IT outsourcer reduced time in which assets were
in the billing dispute stage, allowing the outsourcer
to avoid risk of losing the ability to bill |
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Specific
IT Outsourcer Value |
13 |
Deliver higher quality service with measurable business
metrics |
14 |
Identify over- and under-billing for asset-based
service contracts |
15 |
Financial and spending analysis of IT asset inventory |
16 |
Improve profitability of services related to assets |
17 |
Improve data and reporting for asset-related service
level agreements (SLAs) audits |
18 |
Aggregate global business analysis across client-base
(on the multi-tenant platform) |
19 |
Independent views of clients (on the multi-tenant
platform) |
20 |
Immediate open system support for global service
delivery frameworks |
21 |
Improve client confidence to win re-competes |
22 |
Reduce the cost to gather, clean, and analyze clients
data |
23 |
Inventory baselines are quickly and accurately established
with easy access to metrics to prove success to client |
24 |
Reconcile clients’ multiple IT outsourcer
and/or insourcer agreements with actual inventory, expenditures,
and delivery |
25 |
Help clients perform cost-takeout activities to
maximize hardware and software investments |
26 |
Find additional service opportunities with trusted
view of client environment |
27 |
Instill momentum into accounts for ongoing enterprise
transformation and improvement or to help in recompetes |
28 |
Redeploy unused service staff and resources to other
accounts |
29 |
Audit service billing around assets on a daily basis |
30 |
Supports any existing infrastructure, delivery platform,
and billing systems |
31 |
Reduce time to activate billing status |
32 |
Resolve billing disputes faster to drive more accurate
payments |
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Asset
Lifecycle Optimization |
33 |
Triangulate data sources to build golden asset record |
34 |
Reconciling missing assets across multiple systems
(logical-to-physical) |
35 |
Identify rogue assets not in by procurement systems |
36 |
Recognize outdated servers and PC assets as candidates
for retirement |
37 |
Automated cleansing and normalization of data |
38 |
Integrated workflow for ongoing data correction |
39 |
Reduce lease penalties |
40 |
Reduce support costs for misappropriated service
contracts |
41 |
Reduce service contracts cost for unused and retired
assets |
42 |
Analyze projected costs of owning vs. leasing assets |
43 |
Optimize software licenses across organization |
44 |
Analyze projected costs to reach software license
compliance |
45 |
Identify departments, locations, or owners of assets
and analyze current spending |
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Business-Oriented
Analysis of IT |
46 |
Aggregate data from multiple asset repositories,
operational systems, and management systems |
47 |
Identify IT assets that cannot be scanned or do
not have agents, but are “in the books” |
48 |
Align assets to business units, services, applications,
locations, contracts, users, etc. |
49 |
Align source systems content to identify missing
and incorrect data fields |
50 |
Ready IT for ITSM/ITIL/CMDB projects with better
business understanding of IT assets and their deployment
status |
51 |
Prepare for next phase of IT maturity (including
ITAM, ITSM, chargebacks, SOAs, and BSM) |
52 |
See IT from a business point of view based around
operational data |
53 |
Reduce reactive processes and enable strategic approach
to asset optimization |
54 |
As a client, reach business visibility into IT outsourcer
contracts (on the multi-tenant platform) |
55 |
Identify how assets and service impact spending
across organization |
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Ease
of Use |
56 |
Support for any structured data (including most
widely used IT management operations tools and proprietary
data repositories) |
57 |
Automatic data collection by pointing to databases,
files, etc., or manually deposit files |
58 |
Built-in agentless network scan to automatically
drive inventory collection as another data source |
59 |
Meta-driven configuration for automatic data integration |
60 |
Meta-driven report design for flexible analytics |
61 |
Data sources can change or be added without impact
to reports |
62 |
Full BI analytics on web browser interface (including
pivot tables, drilldowns, and filtering) |
63 |
Drag-and-drop report design |
64 |
Executive dashboards and reports in portal interface |
65 |
Scenario-based interface for answering ‘open-ended’
business questions and initiatives |
66 |
Repeatable analytics for consistent reporting |
67 |
Web-based user and data administration |
68 |
Role-based analytics allow reports, data, or sections
to be hidden to enhance security of sensitive data |
69 |
Quickly identify threshold and KPI status in color-coded
table reports |
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Data
Quality and Certification |
| 70 |
System includes automation tools as well as workflow
to intelligently and continuously cleanse data |
| 71 |
Solutions for invalid, missing, or incomplete data
records |
| 72 |
Identify mismatched and duplicate fields between
multiple systems |
| 73 |
Establish rules for fields to automatically alias
bad data |
| 74 |
Globally trim data fields (e.g. “Inc.”
or “LLC”) |
| 75 |
Hold back bad data from affecting final
analysis until it is fixed |
| 76 |
Provide feedback to source systems to correct
data |
| 77 |
Identify and certify good data across organization |
| 78 |
Identify best key fields to use for integration |
| 79 |
Maintain historic knowledge-base of data
cleansing operations |
| 80 |
Built-in and configurable unit-of-measure
conversions |
| 81 |
Built-in and configurable understanding of IT components
(CPUs, RAM, batteries, operating systems, etc.) |
| 82 |
Built-in and configurable understanding of machine
roles (database servers, application servers, web servers,
etc.) |
| 83 |
Specific data quality analytics provide
ongoing reports on cleanup progress |
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Time
to Value |
| 84 |
Integration of existing data in days not
weeks |
| 85 |
Full analysis starts in weeks, not months
or years |
| 86 |
Actionable decisions in 90 days |
| 87 |
95% data accuracy across systems achievable
in 90 days |
| 88 |
Automated cleansing rules reduce manual
effort |
| 89 |
Eliminates spreadsheet-based analysis of
multiple management systems |
| 90 |
Eliminates need to build proprietary platform |
| 91 |
Leverages existing management tools and
systems, including custom tools |
| 92 |
Quickly and transparently adapts to new
tools and systems |
| 93 |
Provides executives the ability to drill
down, filter, and pivot reports for complex analysis |
| 94 |
Fast self audit to avoid penalties for
being out of software license compliance |
| 95 |
Proven platform with millions in assets
under management |
| 96 |
Low infrastructure impact: can be deployed
on single server |
| 97 |
Highly scalable: can be deployed in cluster
environments |
| 98 |
Leverages existing database server licenses |
| 99 |
Free 2-week business assessment of asset
management activities available for qualified organizations |
