Balance Technology Cost, Quality, and Time

While keeping lights-on, CIO must strategically direct investments towards technologies that can deliver significant business value

CXO

9/18/2013

Typical organization spends 70%-75% of its technology budget on 2 areas: Infrastructure technology (foundational) and transaction technology (business operations, running processes).

Technology Budget Allocation
IT Outsourcing

Best practices

  • Technology Portfolio Rationalization

  • Running lesser number of applications, reduces maintenance/operating costs

  • Moving more applications to public cloud infrastructure, takes advantage of volume/utility based pricing

  • Modern App Stack/Cloud native results in business agility

  • Reduced risk of legacy apps, reduce risk of excessive batch windows, more real time operational view of business

  • Evolve from ‘Systems of Record’ to ‘Systems of Engagement’

  • Transactional technology provides Applications/Info systems to process Quote to Cash, Procure to Pay, the core processes which bring cash flow to enterprise. Use Managed Services-based to achieve:

    • Year on year productivity improvements (Cost Containment)

    • Use Global Delivery model & leverage wage arbitrage (Cost Reduction)

  • IT outsourcing is a strategic practice where companies entrust specific IT functions or tasks to external service providers. This cost-effective approach allows organizations to tap into specialized expertise, reduce operational overhead, and focus on core business activitie