Designed for Run™

High energy costs. Poor application performance. Soaring operational costs. Low server utilization. System complexity. A disconnect between IT and your business strategy. These are but a few of the challenges that stand in the way of many organizations achieving the efficiency, reliability, agility and business results they want.

Let’s look at cost alone: The amount of money IT organizations spend on “run” costs – the expense to keep existing systems operating – compared to dollars spent on new projects and functionality – is heavily skewed in the wrong direction. Large IT departments can spend more than 80 percent of their budget on run costs. Ideally, that number should be below 50 percent.

The key to resolving that problem is understanding that the cause of these high operational costs was born in the plan and build phases of previous projects. What’s needed is a holistic view of your IT system that ensures key factors affecting agility and total cost of ownership (TCO) – rigidity, complexity and resource use – are addressed from the start.

Our Designed for Run strategy provides organizations with a clear path for transformation and modernization while controlling costs and protecting the user experience. It considers the function and expense of your IT system and applications as a whole – from hardware, software and services to your infrastructure and business processes. Designed for Run bridges the gap between the IT systems your organization currently has and the applications, infrastructure and business processes it will need in the future.

Why You Need Designed for Run

Most organizations recognize the need for IT modernization but fear the time, expense and risk involved. But failure to modernize will result in high costs, complex systems that are difficult to fix, outages that have a business impact and low resource utilization. These factors weigh heavily in your TCO equation. The Designed for Run approach offers these benefits:

• It reduces risk by bringing deep industry knowledge, expert planning and thorough testing to every part of the process.
• It extracts value within your existing IT, extending the life of legacy elements by integrating them to support the business through modernization.
• It lowers total cost of ownership by building maximum asset utilization into your IT system and enabling you to anticipate operational IT expenses.

A Holistic Approach To IT Modernization

Drawing on our unmatched knowledge of legacy systems and industry-centric solutions, we provide clients an overarching plan to gradually transform their IT systems. We implement Designed for Run in three phases to yield an outcome of greater reliability and lower total cost of ownership:

• Plan – In the Plan phase, we focus on reducing risk. The objective is to reduce system complexity, poor resource utilization and outages. After assessing your existing IT applications and infrastructure, we tie your IT strategy to your business strategy, determine the system's level of maturity and use existing industry frameworks to develop a blueprint for your system of the future.
• Build – In Build, we focus on extracting value. We design high quality into the system, building it for zero outages. We begin by implementing optimized processes for IT applications and then implement the elements of a modern architecture onto a modern infrastructure. This enables us to best use your existing systems while gaining the speed, flexibility and innovation required in the 21st century.
• Run – In the Run phase, we focus on optimizing for total cost of ownership. After your transformation is complete, there are no costly surprises for running the finished system. Rigorous, closed-loop operational processes drive consistency and relentless pursuit of incident prevention. You’ll enjoy complete visibility of your enterprise's IT systems, making it possible to avoid costly errors in budgeting and performance.

Leverage the strength of HP’s world-class hardware, software and services combined with HP's information technology outsourcing, business process outsourcing and applications capabilities. Gain the power you need to plan, build and run the IT system your organization needs to increase productivity, improve reliability and encourage cost savings.

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