What is Optimization?

Optimization is a structured, systematic process for assessing infrastructure and platform levels across IT capabilities delivering a roadmap for a more Dynamic IT environment. The roadmap helps customers define and implement Optimization initiatives that help them save money and reduce risks, while delivering new agile capabilities that enable people to drive business success.

Optimization 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.

Optimization provides integrated technologies and services, and training to help you systematically move towards an Optimized, efficient infrastructure and platform that can securely, quickly and cost-effectively adapt to changing business needs by connecting your people, information and business processes.

Customer-Proven Frameworks

Microsoft has developed three Optimization models—focusing on Core Infrastructure, Business Productivity Infrastructure, and the Application Platform—that outline a progression through four stages of Optimization. Each of the models illustrates the strategic value and business benefits of moving from a “basic” stage of Optimization, where the infrastructure and platform is generally considered a “cost center,” toward a more “dynamic” state, where the business value of the infrastructure and platform is clearly understood.

• Application Platform Optimization
  Application Platform Optimization enables you to drive the business forward by quickly delivering connected, flexible, and highly secure applications. It provides a user-centric experience, helping amplify the productivity and efficiency of your employees and improving the customer experience; fast and easy integration across existing software and new Web-based applications; and the ability to connect mission-critical applications while providing Internet-class scalability and robust performance.
• Business Productivity Infrastructure Optimization
  Business Productivity Infrastructure Optimization helps streamline the management and control of content, data, and processes across all areas of your business. It helps simplify how people communicate and share expertise, helps make processes and content management more efficient, and helps improve the quality of business insight while enabling your IT department to increase responsiveness, have a strategic impact on the business, and amplify the impact of your people.
• Core infrastructure Optimization
  Core Infrastructure Optimization helps an organization better understand and move toward a more secure, well-managed, and dynamic core IT infrastructure that will help reduce overall IT costs, make better use of IT resources, and make IT a strategic asset for the business.