For the last decade, commercial organizations have felt the increasing pressure to focus on their core business missions. In addition, the pressures of continual hardware refresh cycles have driven up the cost of supporting a robust enterprise IT environment. As a result, many organizations have chosen to outsource their core IT infrastructure to a specialist organization that has as its main mission focus the provision and maintenance of reliable, high availability IT Infrastructures.
OMB have recognized the value of this consolidation in slashing IT budget costs and achieving significant operational efficiencies and as a result are driving Government Agencies to consolidate their infrastructures through either “In-sourcing” – paying another Government Agency or organization to provide a service, or “outsourcing” – paying a third party professional hosting company to host and maintain IT infrastructure. But does it always make sense in light of the hardware and software refresh cycles and budget cycle specifics of your Agency? The answer can vary substantially, as can the savings and return on investment (ROI) and is rarely an all or nothing proposition.
In order to assist Government Agencies in making the most qualified decision, Planet Technologies has developed the Consolidation of Assets Readiness Evaluation.
Planet has leveraged our extensive experience in working with commercial hosting companies and our expertise in the budget cycles and legislative compliance requirements of the US Federal Government to develop a robust analytical methodology that provides Federal Agencies with a clear and concise analysis of the Agency’s IT infrastructure and the anticipated requirements and benefits of any consolidation activity. The resulting report is an objective, fact-based decision support tool that provides an Agency with a strong, and informed basis from which they can negotiate with potential hosted service providers (in-sourced or outsourced) to obtain the best deal for their organization and set-up performance based Service Level Agreements (SLA’s).
