Intelligent IT Management for the Next-Generation Business WorldIncreased pressure from business demands to deliver value, reduce IT cost and improve service delivery have raised the stress levels between business and IT. In addition, innovations in alternative IT service delivery models (SaaS and Cloud Sourcing) are escalating complexity for IT management. CIOs have options today that were unthinkable five years ago with cloud computing, on-demand, and multi-sourcing options. CIOs are under intense pressure to provide transparency in order to align, perform and govern service delivery for the business. They are at the "hub" of the business and must provide 360° leadership and management. Existing business and IT models cannot adapt quickly enough and cannot provide transparency for risk and decisions. Ultimately, current models cannot perform as expected and in a timely manner. IT management is struggling with these issues:
Silo'd IT operations and lack of common language or linkage between the business and IT add to the CIO’s challenges.
Figure 1. Enterprise Landscape and Management Processes IT Management ChallengesIT management struggles to address the complex issues that impact the organization’s effectiveness.
Central to the problem is melding of technology, business process performance and financial management into a cohesive view of IT investments and priorities and successful execution of multi-sourced service delivery models to meet goals. The agreement by all stakeholders on meaning and application of metrics and how metrics correlate with business and IT capabilities to represent performance is central to this execution. This core problem needs to be addressed in an increasingly multi-sourced business environment driven by cloud computing, SaaS and other hybrid IT sourcing strategies. What’s required is a new enterprise program and portfolio management (EPPM) approach and framework for the CIO and IT leaders. The new IT management solution needs to align, perform and govern IT activities based on the service value chain and provide the ability to directly compare cost with IT capabilities and business benefits. Gravitant’s VisionGravitant® offers a compelling vision to address the CIO challenges created by the evolving business and IT environment and the limitations of current solutions. Figure 2 shows Gravitant's strategic innovation that enables the vision.
Figure 2. Gravitant's EPPM Platform
Gravitant brings together three critical innovations required to address these challenges while leveraging content/data from existing business and technology solutions:
This much needed capability leverages current solutions and investments. It allows business and technology leaders to visualize, navigate, strategize, innovate and manage an increasingly complex business and IT ecosystem with optimal decision making and intelligent governance. Gravitant Provides Better IT Management Capability to IT OrganizationsGravitant’s EPPM solution is a next-generation IT management solution that is built on a service-based business/IT value chain. CIO/IT leaders can now effectively make investment decisions based on an analysis of business service, performance, risk, IT outsourcing and cost trade-offs, while the Project Management Office (PMO) can collaborate with business on process improvements, execute projects, control cost and institute change based on the language of services. IT operations managers can improve effectiveness of IT by using IT service level and cost parameters. Gravitant’s EPPM solution is offered as an on-demand model to reduce cost, deliver customer value and accelerate adoption.
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