IT Intelligence

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Data driven insights that deliver understanding, improvement and optimization of your technology capabilities and improved business enablement.

Improve your organization’s technology insights

  • Agile Value Management

    Improving agile team performance through quantitative measurement techiques that provide improved visibility into the process. Benchmarking for objective performance assessment.

    6 weeks
    Simple
  • Application Portfolio Health and Risk Scan

    Automated assessment custom applications for code quality and security conformity. Assessing the entire portfolio in one analysis.

    3 weeks
    Simple
  • Cloud Readiness

    Automated assessment of application portfolio to triage readiness for cloud migration: ready, refactor, retire, rebuild, or remain onsite decisions. Act to prioritize applications for crowd migration.

    3 weeks
    Simple
  • Cost Estimation

    Accurately forecast project costs in a repeatable fashion based on international standards. Create objective, auditable and defensible estimates.

    4 weeks
    Simple
  • IT Service Cost Management

    Assess internal IT cost and performance and benchmark against peers. Understand and act on where your IT is underperforming with advice on improvement actions.

    10 weeks
    Medium
  • Maturity Assessment

    Evaluate current process maturity against current needs and identify future maturity requirements based on business drivers. Act on specific recommendations to drive improved maturity.

    5 weeks
    Medium

Improving agile development

Agile development is a challenge to manage and measure its business value, because it uses self-organizing teams, rapid requirements refactoring and qualitative measures of productivity.

AVM (Agile Value Management) is the unique offering that objectively quantifies performance to ensure a systematic, comprehensive, data-driven, repeatable assessment delivering value from agile development teams. It answers challenges such as:

  • Which teams are performing well or not?
  • Is the project meeting business goals in functionality, cost, quality, TTM?
  • When will functionality be ready and at what cost?
  • How can poor performance be improved?

Which teams are performing

Benchmark internal teams to identify where and how they are performing and share best practices

Team’s performance against market peers

Determine if your development efforts are market competitive

Improve team practices

Prescriptive advice to improve cost, quality, productivity in development teams

Assess code quality and security of your portfolio

Through an industry standard, automated process, IDC assesses dozens and hundreds of applications quickly for code quality and common vulnerabilities and exposures. Clients use this assessment to rapidly assess the software legacy of an acquired organization, part of a diligence process, to understand key exposures to the business from software debt, and to target modernization or cloud migration efforts. Often, this assessment is the first step in a software/application modernization or rationalization effort cutting from months to weeks the level of effort required.

Understanding tech debt risk

Automatically assess custom applications for code quality and security conformity

Insight into inherited risk

Rapidly assess portfolios from an acquisition for risk and quality

Focus on priorities

Triage application efforts based on business requirements not technical debt

Easily identify what is ready for cloud migration

Automated assessment of application portfolio to triage readiness for cloud migration: ready, refactor, retire, rebuild, or remain onsite decisions. Act to prioritize applications for crowd migration. Cloud transitions are marked by invoices exceeding expectations and unexpected costs.

Quickly understand application portfolio suitability for cloud migration. Traditional analyses can take months, which delays the migration and increases costs. Cloud Readiness delivers a detailed verdict within a couple of weeks. It enables companies to decide and move more rapidly and triage their investments and priorities.

Focused cloud migration

Understand ease of cloud migration across the portfolio to prioritize

Target effort to value

Objective assessment of migration ease to drive migration selection

Focus on priorities

Align IT to business speed through rapid analysis of the entire portfolio

Accurately forecast project costs

Accurately forecast project costs in a repeatable fashion based on international standards. Create objective, auditable and defensible estimates.

Cost estimation fails due to the tendency to be overly optimistic in predictions about the efficiency and effort of projects. By using an industry standard, quantitative frameworks to assess project progress, clients receive concrete, quantifiable forecasts on the costs (and timelines of projects).

The cost estimation service provides accurate pictures of the scope of the software to be realized based on international. Clients receive a minimum, likely and maximum scenario with regard to hours, costs and duration of the project. In addition to calculating different scenarios, IDC helps organizations document the project data to improve future estimates.

Meet business requirements

Clear data on the actions required to meet business milestones

Investing wisely

Clearly understand the cost and level of effort and feasibility to meeting deadlines and requirements

React quickly

Address project challenges before they become business headaches

Optimize and benchmark your IT organization

Assess internal IT cost and performance and benchmark against peers. Understand and act on where your IT is underperforming with advice on improvement actions. Identify technology and process debt to drive efficiency.

Cost benchmarking. Assess the cost and performance efficiencies of your internal technology services (or parts) against peer organizations or outsourced options. Act on cost insights to reallocate budget or for investment requests. Provide object, data-driven arguments to support technology investments.

ITSCM provides benchmarked, data-driven evidence on how to drive efficiencies and areas for cost improvement. It provides IT organizations fact-based points for budgeting and showing value to the business. Helps re-direct investments from inefficiency to business enablers.

Drive cost efficiencies

30% of IT costs are inefficient. Identify and address those hurdles

Visibility into technology dollars

Technology proliferates. Regain visibility and insight into where technology dollars go

Redeploy capital

When budgets are tight, identify debt and inefficiency and redirect budget to value

Align IT processes to business requirements

Evaluate current process maturity against current needs and identify future maturity requirements based on business drivers and market pressures. Act on specific recommendations to drive improved maturity.

Assesses a client’s IT current level of organizational and process maturity against existing business requirements and future requirements. Identify the key actions to reach the target maturity level and identifies a client’s maturity versus relevant peers.

This assessment is based on an industry standard CMM maturity model for reuse. IT provides data and recommendation that support investment requirements necessary to match IT maturity to business requirements. It not only assesses, but it provides actionable recommendations to align technology maturity to business strategy.

Becoming good enough

Identify process maturity gaps to better address current IT and business requirements

Supporting the future

Defining the needs and actions required for IT to support the future business

Budgeting with data

Data-driven IT evolution with specifics that support budget requests

Meet the IDC Metri Team

  • Senior Consultant IT Benchmarking

  • Engagement Manager

  • Senior Consultant IT Benchmarking

  • Principal IT Sourcing

  • Senior Consultant IT Sourcing

  • Principal Consultant

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