What is Optimisation?

Optimisation is a structured, systematic process for assessing an organization's IT infrastructure and platform across capabilities in order to provide an Optimisation roadmap toward a Dynamic IT.

Optimisation enables a business to realize the full value of its IT infrastructure and platform investments and establishes IT as a strategic business asset that can facilitate innovation and help organizations respond quickly to change.

Microsoft has developed three Optimisation models based on industry and analyst work. Use these Optimisation Tools to measure the effectiveness of your current infrastructure in platform-agnostic terms by comparing your infrastructure against industry best practices and the latest IT research.

Infrastructure Optimisation Tools

• Optimise and Secure Your Core Infrastructure
  Assess your core infrastructure capabilities to help you realize the value of your investments and make your IT infrastructure a strategic asset that enables agility within your organization.
• Application Platform Optimisation
  Do your systems talk business? The Application Platform Business Roadmap tool reviews your IT commitments across five core capabilities. Use these metrics to help plan your IT investments by finding out where you are ahead of the curve, and where you need improvement, by comparing your results with an aggregated overview of your peers and your industry.
• Business Productivity Optimisation
  Use this assessment to help amplify the impact of your people through an Optimised business productivity infrastructure – using a complete set of desktop and server software and services to help streamline the way you and your people do business while increasing IT effectiveness.