The BPIO model maps an organization's level of infrastructure optimization and provides guidance for optimizing IT infrastructure assets—assisting you to better realize the full value of your IT infrastructure investments while enabling key business solutions.
The model covers three capabilities- Unified Communications and Collaboration (UC&C), Enterprise Content Management (ECM). These capabilities and the sub-capabilities included in them represent key areas of investment for businesses.
The BPIO model has been developed based on industry best practices with extensive feedback and input from analysts. As you progress through the model, you will find that:
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Dramatic cost savings can be realized by moving from an unmanaged environment toward a dynamic environment. IT management moves from being highly manual and reactive to highly automated and proactive.
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Processes move from fragmented or non-existent to optimized and repeatable.
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A company's ability to use technology to improve its business agility and deliver business value increases as it moves from a basic state up the continuum toward a dynamic state that increasingly empowers information workers and managers and supports new business opportunities.
By working with Microsoft and using this model as a framework, an enterprise can quickly understand the strategic value and business benefits in moving from the basic level of maturity, where the IT infrastructure is generally considered a cost center, toward a more dynamic approach, where the business value of the IT infrastructure is clearly understood and the IT infrastructure is viewed as a strategic business asset and business facilitator.
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Business Productivity Infrastructure
