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iSET
“Helping you manage your IT asset strategy”
800 West Cummings ParkSuite 4950
Woburn, MA 01801781 933 1846
iSET OverviewiSET is a tool to Devise, Execute and Optimize a business-centered strategy for IT asset management. It allows you to visualize the risks and costs in your IT portfolio from a business-process perspective. It does this by:
linking your software assets with the business processes that utilize them and the hardware hosting those assetsgrouping assets into Invest, Retain and Retire based on business criticality, technology infrastructure, complexity, cost and other definable parametersproviding multiple views of technology health including Application Development, Database, Platform, and Integration layerstracking the evolution of your asset management strategy over time and planning for future optimization
Business Processes Applications Servers
Problem Statement
IT Service Domain Managers need to track and manage the lifecycles of hundreds of assetsManagers need to predict critical business-process impacts from potential technology disruptionsCost management and platform simplification imperatives require hard decisions to be madeTeams and systems are geographically distributed, critically impacting knowledge managementTo devise, execute and optimize a strategy requires a standardized enterprise tool to track key attributes and interdependencies of IT assets:
A multi-dimensional approach of capturing asset-related information (Financial, Technology, Vendor, Security, etc.)A method to map high level IT strategy to remediation opportunities on specific assetsHistorical and future trend data for key attributes of IT assets for strategy tracking and optimization
Benefits
With iSET, you can:ensure your technology spend is aligned with business prioritiesensure your remediation plan has identified all available retire/replace “low-hanging fruit” opportunitiespredict the future-state technology health that will be produced by your IT asset optimization strategytrack and validate your technology and service-provisioning health over time and identify out-of-compliance areas that need special attentionpredict the specific business-unit and business-process impacts that would result from potential technology disruptions, at both the application and server level
Features and Users
iSET provides fine-grained control:Map your business processes to your software assetsMap your software assets to servers which provision themTrack 200+ data elements on your software assets to monitory status and plan strategy for asset managementTrack 50+ data elements on your server assetsTrack the evolution of these assets over time
Potential Users:
Technology PlanningTechnology ArchitectureBusiness Information OfficeCIOInfrastructure Management
Application DevelopmentOperations ManagementIT Securityand more
Enterprise Design
Used in Fortune 10 companiesRole-based views provide function-related access to the relevant information:
General UserApplication OwnerServer OwnerAdministratorAccess to data can also be constrained by business unit
Comprehensive auditing capabilityFlexible querying and report-buildingImport and export of dataBrowser based Java application
Software Asset Tracking
Key categories of data tracked:
Usage and ownershipTechnologyFinancialVendorSLADisaster Recovery, Backup and ArchivingInterfaces and ServicesSecurityDocumentation
Server Asset Tracking
Key Categories of data tracked:
HardwareNetworkSecurityVendorMaintenanceDocumentation
Dashboard Filter Connects Business Units & Processes to IT Assets
Filter by
business unit
Filter by
business
process
Asset list filtered by
BU and process
Graphs filtered by BU and
process
Period trend
analysis
At-a-Glance View of Application Health & Other Attributes
Red/Yellow/Green view of application
compliance with technology standards
Highlight usage and complexity of
applications
Identify business units
using the application
Multiple Views of Technology Health by BU/BP
Highlight compliance
to technology standards in four key
areas
Interactively identify non-
compliant applications by selecting pie
slices
Multiple Levels of Application Health by BU/BP
Break out applications
by technology compliance
Analyze distribution of non-compliant
applications against various measures (number of users,
licensing cost, complexity etc).
Highlight Retire and Replace
opportunities
Main Elements of Application Cost by BU/BP
Identify application operating costs by three key measures
(datacenter, license, resource), as categorized by
business process
Detail the SW/HW assets
utilized by selected BU/BP
Reporting
Comprehensive set of reports including ad-hoc query featuresAbility to save frequently used queries and create recurring reports
Techlogix Company Profile
A provider of IT services specializing in business process automation, IT governance, business intelligence, integration solutions, and enterprise systems deploymentGrowth oriented: 55% CAGR in revenue from 1997-2004200+ employeesUS HQ in BostonOffices in Houston & Dubai with Development Centers in Lahore and Beijing
TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS
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Techlogix Value Proposition
Proven vendor to Fortune 500 companies Project Focus: 70% of revenue from project delivery; 30% from application support servicesBoutique operation
Techlogix management includes 5 PhDs, 6 MS from MIT, Caltech, Illinois Urbana-Champaign, U Penn of whom 70% are offshore. 33% of all staff have post-graduate degrees.Our focused practice areas have resulted in high process and technology expertiseOur market niche is complex solutions in a specially designed global delivery model
Mature Processes: 6 year experience in global delivery model; ISO 9001:2000 certifiedFixed-price, fixed-time delivery
World-class solutioning with global delivery savings
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For more information or to arrange an iSET Webinar demo, please call Doug Kardash, Director of Sales, at 781 933
1846 x619, or email [email protected]