Tool Strategies

Today, doing more with less is no longer optional; it is a matter of survival. Ultimately, each and every IT dollar spent must be contributing to the business objectives of the corporate enterprise. You need to know where that dollar is being spent. You need to know why that dollar is being spent. Is that dollar going to make you money or save you money? Remember, you will be held accountable for that dollar.

• Do you ever acquire or extend licensing for IT applications in the absence of a long-term software strategy and plan?
• Do you have any functional overlap within your application portfolio?
• Do you own any “shelfware”?

If you answered yes to any one of these questions, you are in need of a strategic software tool strategy. Spending your precious IT budget on unnecessary software acquisition, unnecessary software maintenance, or unnecessary application integration is simply unacceptable.

As partner with and versed in the IT solutions from the largest enterprise vendors, ISM provides sound, unbiased solution recommendations. We are looking for the infrastructure, software, and solutions that represent the best fit into each individual organization. Without such independent and objective guidance, we would never have reached the Chief Architect and trusted advisor roles that we have with earned with so many clients today.

Integrated Solutions Management’s Assessment and Planning solutions, leveraging our Capabilities Matrix and Analysis Tool, provide a well-defined IT operations and software roadmap that will pay for itself many times over by channeling your IT dollars towards only those projects and initiatives that drive enterprise success. By developing the IT Tool Strategy and Roadmap, the IT organization will better understand requirements for budget periods, systems integration, and management reporting.

It is also worth noting that, in addition to the hard cost savings associated with the elimination of unused or redundant software, the IT Tool Strategy and Roadmap lends itself to numerous soft dollar savings:

• Improved operational efficiency through the reduction of duplicate or redundant tools.
• Improved system maintenance through the retention of only the optimal tool/solution for a given task or need.
• Improved going-forward software acquisition through the existence of a comprehensive, documented operations application inventory.