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The Microsoft Infrastructure Optimization Model helps government agencies meet performance goals and spend less. |
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Your organization runs on its IT infrastructure—its hardware and software. Without it, many (if not all) of your agency’s key functions and even routine tasks would grind to a halt. Yet, squeezed between rising costs and tightening budgets, agencies sometimes resort to reductions in IT services as a way to save money.
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With an IT infrastructure that isn’t optimized, systems can often be complex, incompatible, and difficult to maintain. A lack of standards and automated tools means support can be expensive and inefficient.
What if there were a way to improve service levels, tighten security, and increase efficiency and reliability—all while reducing costs?
The four-tiered Infrastructure Optimization Model from Microsoft helps organizations diagnose the level at which their infrastructure is currently functioning. Then, it helps prioritize the actions and investments that will boost them to a higher level of performance. By standardizing, automating, and more tightly controlling IT infrastructure, organizations can increase efficiency and may save hundreds of dollars per desktop each year with the Infrastructure Optimization Model.
First, IT managers must assess their organization’s strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities and then adopt appropriate remedies. Each level in the Infrastructure Optimization Model has specific, identifiable characteristics:
- Basic. Systems are complex and incompatible. Most IT resources are reacting to problems—just trying to keep things running. With few standards and automated tools, support is labor intensive and expensive.
- Standardized. IT departments are more centralized and effective, but systems remain complex, incompatible, and expensive to maintain. Pockets of stand-alone systems reside in business groups.
- Rationalized. IT and business groups develop strategies and define IT policies, which are enforced with technology. Through standards and careful engineering, applications work together with improved compatibility.
- Dynamic. Business agility takes priority over cost savings. IT systems are highly automated and flexible, and they respond quickly to changing business conditions.
By attacking inefficiencies in a systematic way, IT organizations can free up resources to clear backlogs and address new initiatives, ultimately helping to deliver stronger and more reliable computing to their users at significantly less cost.
If it's vital to government, it's mission critical to Microsoft.
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Microsoft Services was established to help customers maximize the potential of their Microsoft technology investments. Through architecture, implementation, and sustainment services, customers receive a level of vision, expertise, and insight that only Microsoft provides. Microsoft Services, together with our partners, matches agency requirements with a safety net of support and direct access to the Microsoft teams that develop both the products and future product direction. Contact AskUSPSS@microsoft.com to talk with a services representative for Federal, State & Local government, or education.
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