Face it: Your IT departments won’t get through the current difficulties just by tightening belts and waiting for things to get better. You need to take decisive action to make application delivery and IT operations active contributors to recovery and success.
What you need are strategies and solutions to help keep your company on course through the economic squall and chart the course for the future of application and operations management. You need to:
“As one of the nation's largest professional employer organizations and leading providers of HR solutions, Gevity strives to drive more efficiency in their business processes to improve operational performance, which delivers greater value to our customers. In today's challenging economic times, HP’s BTO portfolio gives us the visibility we require to smartly manage our technology investments across the entire lifecycle of business services we deliver. The result is improved decision making, reduced risk and an IT organization that will continue to innovate, regardless of the economic cycle.” — Paul Benz, SVP and chief information officer, Gevity
Now’s the time to be thinking head, and applications management is a good place to start. Taking a lifecycle approach to planning testing, and managing today’s applications is a smart way to go. HP can help you continue to modernize applications that deliver robust and flexible business services, such as Web 2.0, service-oriented architecture and composite applications—and at the same time, cut costs, reduce risk and improve change management. HP applications management solutions enable you to use requirements management to align spending with business priorities, establish centers of excellence to centralize functions and implement release trains, and standardize processes from planning to release to production. These solutions are based on industry-leading software such as HP Quality Center, Performance Center and Application Security Center.
Add flexible deployment and deep support to the mix. HP application lifecycle management and predictive service operations solutions are backed by best practices, a full line of professional services, flexible deployment options such as Software as a Service (SaaS)—not to mention the resources of the world’s largest technology company.
With help from HP solutions, you can achieve operational predictability by transforming the typical reactive IT operations model into a predictive, preventative and productive process. By enabling your operations teams to predict problems and correct them before they impact business processes, you cut the risk and cost of incident management by reducing the number of incidents. What’s more, automating the execution of changes reduces costs, frees up resources and prevents change-related outages. We can also work with you to prioritize spending based on business value, as well as reduce cost by predicting the impact of changes, centralize delivery functions and consolidate tools, plus implement best practices and repeatable processes that improve quality and free up resources. Our solutions portfolio encompassesbusiness service management, business service automation, and IT service management and is supported by our Universal Configuration Management Database.
It’s always painful when economic cycles bottom out. But it’s also true that uncertain times are often the times when IT proves its value to the business. Remember, IT has come out of every recent down cycle more efficiently aligned with business goals. This downturn is no different.
According to Robin Purohit, vice president and general manager of Business Technology & Information, Software, HP, “Smart CIOs are turning adversity into advantage by investing in key solutions to manage cost and risk while positioning their businesses to be more competitive when the business cycle rebounds.”
