A Core Infrastructure Optimization (Core IO) Assessment from Long View is more than just an evaluation of your IT environment. It is the cornerstone of a roadmap to cost savings and improved operational efficiency through the adoption of a dynamic IT model. A Core IO Assessment focuses on the foundational elements of your company’s IT services and components, evaluating them based on industry best practices and proposing the infrastructure required to maximize communication, collaboration, and productivity. This transformative and iterative process is designed to shift IT from an overhead designation into an innovative catalyst for business growth.
Our Core IO Assessment touches on a number of operational capabilities central to driving business results. Long View’s strengths lie in the optimization of key segments of a Core Infrastructure Model and our goals are to move your organization to the highest level of infrastructure optimization possible in the context of maximizing strategic ROI from IT and minimizing TCO while providing revenue drag to current procurement and services options. We accomplish these goals by leveraging our broad technical expertise and keen business insight in order to identify, design, and deploy the technologies and tools required using a structured, systematic process.
Core IO Assessment Features & Benefits
Long View’s Core IO Assessment is technology-agnostic tool for identifying the areas that that are exacerbating TCO and limiting ROI for core IT segments. The assessment will be consultant-led and delivered using three primary information-gathering methods: Microsoft Assessment & Planning Tool (MAP), interviews/workshops, and questionnaires, the outcome of which will allow you to:
- Estimate possible ROI for future projects
- Gain conservative, probable, and optimistic calculations
- Find out how you compare to others in key areas YOU select
- Pinpoint where your competitors have invested
- Identify areas where you can mitigate risks and strengthen your competitive advantage
Our Core IO Assessment provides your company with customized reports on the status of your current infrastructure along with in-depth advice, analysis and content to help speed your budgeting and planning process and ensure you are maximizing the value of your current IT investment. It enables IT to map business drivers and priorities to integrated technology solutions using a phased capability and solutions adoption approach, which minimizes risks and delivers incremental benefits throughout the implementation process.
