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NEWSLETTER
MARCH 2015
Why Platform Managed Services May Be the Right Solution for Your
Business By Jim Cantin, President, Leveraging Technology
Anyone who's ridden the London Underground is familiar with the
iconic graphic and the expression, "Mind the Gap". Since the late
60's, it has warned passengers to step carefully
across the space between the many old rounded platforms and the
straight door of the train car. Passengers getting off hear the
recording, "Please mind the gap between the train and the
platform." With a slight modification, it would make a perfect
tagline for how Leveraging approaches Managed Services, with a
warning to system support managers: "Please mind the gap between
the applications and the platform." There's no way to avoid the
complexity of today's solutions; heterogeneous servers, multiple
languages, middleware, and high expectations around performance and
availability. There are many potential gaps to be filled between
the applications and the platform, but most have to do with a lack
of resources with the necessary experience and expertise. Another
is the service gap when fixed resources either cannot meet clients'
fluctuating needs, or are queued up unproductively awaiting
requests. We understand the challenges and have built our Managed
Services offering to address those gaps within a flexible model
that leverages the extensive expertise of our consultants - a model
that may generate a better cost/benefit return than your
fixed-staff administration model. Or help you implement a new
technology, including those for big data analytics. Please consider
the following articles by Wayne VanNewkirk and Mark Haeger - and
call us to discuss how our services can meet or exceed your
needs.
In This Issue
Managed Services: Don't Let DIY Become DOA
Software Technologies We Support
Data Warehouse Appliances: Implementing and Managing Big Data
Processing Tools
A Strategy for Managing Enterprise Mobility Needs
Leveraging Technology Hosts IT and Analytics Leaders at "Carpe
Datum" Event
Integration Requirements and a "Factory" Approach
Application Tool Lifecycle Analysis
IBM InterConnect Conference Recap
April 23: Save the Date for Virtual Enterprise Mobility Talk
Show
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When DIY Becomes DOA: What's Your "Plan B" for When the Demand
for Application Support Overwhelms Your Capacity to Deliver? By
Wayne VanNewkirk, Executive Director and Consultant There's no
doubt that companies depend on technology to operate efficiently
and to compete effectively. Certainly any system outage results in
pain and suffering. In a perfect world, every update would be made,
every patch would be applied and your internal and external
customers would be happy. But IT platforms become more complicated
every year and require more expertise to maintain. In the real
world, you also have to keep pace with complexity while allocating
finite resources against your customers' expectations. Many
organizations struggle to find cost-effective staffing models that
can flex to support application infrastructure that grows like a
weed. Some clients have trouble hiring and retaining the needed
skill sets. Others are paying high rates for consultants that are
project-based only. Others try to manage on-staff resources to
cover all their different technologies with fluctuating
capacity/need levels, resulting in a cost/benefit ratio that's out
of whack. Staffing when needed can = lower cost. With on-staff
resources maintaining and administering your platform, your
capacity is flat. But timing of backups, patches, security issues
and special projects are not flat. There are periods of higher and
lower level resource demands. You may be using contractors for the
peak times and special projects, but what about the lows? Consider
this cost model: By lowering the level of on-staff resources and
outsourcing a fixed but flexible level of the admin services, you
can gain a partner with a much higher level of up-to-date
software-specific expertise than can be maintained internally. A
partner who is ready with additional staffing for peak times and
special projects - at a discounted rate when part of a Managed
Services engagement. Read More
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Is a Data Warehouse Appliance the Right Fit? And How Do You
Implement and Manage it? By Mark Haeger, Practice Lead, Information
Architecture Most data warehouses face similar problems:
• Load windows are growing beyond practical bounds.
• Complex queries are taking too long to run.
• Time to market for new analytics does not meet business
requirements.
• Administrative costs are consuming a lion's share of the
operation budget.
If any or all of these challenges describe your data warehouse
environment, you are not alone. The solution that many turn to is a
data warehouse appliance. For some, this means a wholesale
replacement of the current DW. For others, a simple augmentation is
all that is needed. Adding an appliance and offloading only the
most troublesome performance issues could prove to be the best
solution. This is also a good, low risk, first step, even if the
eventual goal is a wholesale replacement. Leveraging Technology is
a Premier IBM Business Partner, certified in IBM's PureData for
Analytics (powered by Netezza), data warehouse appliance. We help
clients assess current needs to find the right fit for an
appliance. We help transition new and existing workloads to the
appliance. We deliver Managed Services that ensure SLAs are met,
and keep organizations out of fire-fighting mode by staying ahead
of the curve. Rather investing in these very specialized skills,
some companies are looking outside for help with the support
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functions for these data environments. Outsourced Managed
Services is a cost-efficient way to access high-end skills to
ensure data platforms, appliances and corresponding applications
run at ideal capacity and processing speed. Managed Services can
monitor platforms, make recommendations, and implement
modifications to keep the analytic functions running smoothly with
fewer glitches. If you already have a Netezza appliance and are not
sure if it is performing optimally, are new to Netezza and looking
for an experienced partner to help transition, or want to
understand the right fit for an appliance given your unique
challenges, give Mark Haeger a call at 585.454.4250 x132
What's in Your Users' Pockets? An Introduction to a New Mobility
Managed Services Strategy By Scott Azwell, Lead Consultant Mobility
started with a single seemingly innocuous device (remember the
Blackberry?) that enterprises provisioned and managed, and has now
evolved to include a multitude of smartphone and tablet devices
owned by a rapidly growing user base. According to Apperian's 2014
Executive Enterprise Mobility Survey:
1. The main benefits of enterprise mobility are: - Increased
employee satisfaction (60%) - A competitive advantage (55%)
2. Respondents with the highest amount of satisfaction with
mobile adoption rely on these strategies to drive adoption among
employees: - Help desk (66%) - BYOD policy (60%) - App management
software (60%) - Promoting apps internally (40%) - Offering
enterprise app stores (31%) - Using leading-edge tactics like
gamification (11%)
3. Issues with managing mobility programs are one of the top
concerns: - 37% citing how to determine ROI - 35% citing lack of
management tools as important challenges
4. More than 70% of respondents plan to equip more than 1,000
users with mobile apps and 33% of respondents are deploying mobile
apps to more than 5,000 users in the next two years.
5. 77% of executives noted that security issues are the top
concern for achieving their mobility goals.
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- Yet 70% of respondents are still unable to detect data or
device loss - highlighting a lack of mobile security initiative
despite the key concern.
As a fellow IT manager, I'd like to call your attention to the
items 3, 4, 5: mobility management concerns, the sheer volume of
users to onboard who will then need services and the huge security
exposure issues that go with this population. Chances are the
skills and capacity to deal with these demands fall outside of your
organization's normal scope. Explosive growth and the complexity
associated with mobility is driving enterprises to seek help,
paving the way for managed mobility services. Resource-challenged
small and mid-market enterprises are increasingly turning to
managed service providers to manage their mobility operations. Read
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Leveraging Hosts "Carpe Datum!" A Morning of Ideas, Insights and
Opportunities By Carol Sullivan, Marketing Manager Exploring the
new frontiers of analytics was the theme of the conference hosted
by Leveraging Technology's President, Jim Cantin, on March 10th at
the Woodcliff Hotel and Spa. While it sometimes seems as though
everybody's talking about Big Data but not getting traction, our
four guest presenters took us beyond the hype cycle from the
perspectives of academia, industry, science and technology. Scott
Steele, who directs the Rochester Center of Excellence in Data
Science, gave us an overview of how the U of R is investing
millions in Data Science across its scientific, medical and
business campuses, creating new degree programs and opening the
door to collaborations with private industry. John Walsh, Chief
Architect for Excellus BlueCross BlueShield, shared the challenges
facing his company as it makes a huge cultural shift to data-driven
business management while investigating how to leverage member data
in pursuit of better healthcare outcomes and improved financial
efficiency. Bob Kremens, Research Professor at RIT, traced his
12-year adventure of developing data-collecting sensor systems in
the course of investigating the propagation of wildfires.
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Stewart Hanna, of IBM's Big Data Group, gave us the perspective
of the people investing in the technology that enables data
science, including a variety of international use cases in which
companies are using data to disrupt their markets. Both John Walsh
of Excellus and Stewart Hanna of IBM shared a similar
recommendation: you need to sort out the architecture and
integration bits required to capture and discover the data before
you can perform meaningful analysis.
With that thought in mind, Leveraging Technology offered
conference-goers access to complimentary Roadmap Workshops to
evaluate the state of their information strategy, enterprise
architecture or integration. We are extending this offer to our
followers for a limited time. Click here for workshop details and
email [email protected] to request a call to discuss.
Read a more detailed recap of the conference here.
More Efficient Integration Requirements - With a "Factory"
Approach By Sandy Kleinberg, Business Architecture Practice Leader
Just as management of application systems and platforms can benefit
from standardization and repeatable processes to alleviate staffing
needs, the other parts of the IT lifecycle - design, build, deploy
- can leverage those same practices. Take the requirements and
design process, for example, which includes requirements
engineering. This process is made more efficient by utilizing a
repeatable, standard "factory" approach to developing integration
project requirements. The integration factory is a pattern-based,
iterative approach to requirements and design that delivers very
high quality results in an extremely efficient way. (The factory
process can also be used in the build and deploy phases.)
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Activity Sequencing
• Iterates between requirements and design in a way that
potently connects them.
• Allows us to look at needs (requirements) and solutions
(design) as two perspectives of the same thing: the gap.
Resolving this basic understanding leads to...
Better Relationships
Factory approach allows roles (business analyst, architect) to
participate in both phases (an approach I call "co-design").
• SMEs develop more trust in the architect because they are
present from the beginning of the project and truly understand the
needs and drivers behind the needs.
• Architect is now able to produce designs in a friendlier
environment and can more easily frame the design in a way that can
demonstrate it's optimized for the organization vs. what the SME
assumed would be built.
Results
Most telling benefit: The outcome – Higher quality requirements
and reduced timelines Starting from a known set of patterns helps
produce more consistent results.
• Architects know what to expect, which is directly aligned with
their design patterns.
• Timelines are drastically reduced because we aren't starting
from a blank whiteboard.
Call Sandy Kleinberg to discuss the Integration Requirements
Factory at 585.454.4250 x145 or read his article about requirements
engineering and the factory.
The Secret to Lower Labor Costs May Be Hidden in Your
Application Portfolio By Jerry Weimar, Enterprise Architect
Reactive management is a fact of life in complex IT environments.
Maintaining production is always going to take priority over big
picture perspectives. IT application portfolios usually evolve over
time, developed on a piecemeal basis rather than through holistic
design. The inevitable results include redundancies and
inefficiencies tied to aging technology that limps along past its
useful lifetime. Left unchecked, these invisible factors will
siphon off a
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disproportionate share of your resources. This insight is
supported by research that consistently finds that when companies
take the time to actively manage their application portfolios, IT
expenditures decline by 15-20% -- with no significant side effects.
The fact is that these unrecognized redundancies and inefficiencies
represent a very significant opportunity for IT cost savings and
quality improvements. The question is: how do you get there?
Introducing a fast, low-cost path to savings: Leveraging
Technology's Application Portfolio Assessment Methodology. Because
few clients have a process - or indeed the organizational structure
in place - to assess their portfolios, we piloted and proved our
own Application Portfolio Assessment Methodology. We now offer it
as a service to help clients determine how to optimize their
application portfolio as a path to reducing IT costs and improving
IT quality and freeing up resources for high-value strategic
initiatives.
Part of the power of Leveraging Technology's Application
Portfolio Assessment Methodology service offering is how it
identifies wasted IT support. Along with reducing
unnecessary expenditure due to redundancies and inefficiencies
in their application portfolio, this enables companies to invest
more in strategic programs.
Zero out your perspective with a reality-based,
stakeholder-driven process. Read More
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IBM InterConnect 2015: It's Just the Start By Jim Cantin,
President
I recently attended IBM's Interconnect 2015 conference held in
Las Vegas from February 22 - 26. This year IBM combined a number of
their annual conferences into one large event attended by 20,000
people made up of customers, IBM employees, and Business Partners.
Having attended the IMPACT conference over the years, I learned to
expect that IBM would use the event to issue major press releases
and product announcements. There seemed to be less of that this
year. Instead most of the emphasis was a few key marketing
messages. Sunday was a day set aside for IBM Business Partners like
Leveraging. From the first session I attended, the talk was always
related to CAMS. CAMS stands for Cloud, Analytics, Mobile, and
Social. Every session discussed CAMS or emphasized a connection to
at least one of them. There are many reasons for this: one way or
another, Cloud, Analytics, Mobile, and Social are disrupting the
traditional role of Information Technology. The word is that the
needs of business have changed and yet IT has a significant role to
play. Change is taking place in IBM's portfolio of products as
well. The traditional software pillar brand names are going away
and being replaced with logical groupings of capabilities with new
names. The new names are: Systems Middleware, Analytics, Cloud,
Social, Commerce, Security, and Watson. I look at this as a start
with more changes yet to come. It's a good time to better
understand both the disruptions caused by CAMS and the reworking of
the portfolio of IBM products. If you'd like to discuss the trends
and the product implications, contact us to schedule a time to
meet. -- Jim
Save the Date: April 23, 2015
Virtual "Enterprise Mobility Talk Show" This one-hour live
webinar - sponsored by Leveraging Technology, IBM and Streebo, Inc.
- will be a new format technology show that will feature industry
stalwarts, thought leaders and researchers from the Mobile and
Digital world. The panel will highlight and discuss trends,
technology breakthroughs, customer success stories and challenges
they or their customers face on their 'Mobile journey'. Watch for
an invitation in early April; and check the news page on our
website www.leveragingtechnology.com.
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When DIY Becomes DOA: What's your "Plan B" for when the demand
for application support overwhelms your capacity to deliver? -
Continued The right skills at the right time at the right price.
Leveraging Technology created a Managed Services offering in
response to what we saw as an emerging customer need. Managed
Services work on the same principle as tool rental shops; sometimes
it makes more sense to borrow than to own, especially when the
capability is expensive to buy or you only need to use it now and
then. With our Managed Services Engagement Models, you can borrow
our expertise in the form of a share of a certified expert or
experts on terms that complement your staffing strategy. We set
things up to make it easy to leverage our ongoing investment in
staff expertise, specifically on IBM WebSphere, Sterling and
Netezza software. Clients are discovering that this approach is
particularly cost-effective if IBM software is only a minor part of
their infrastructure. Alternatively, the numbers may show that an
ongoing service engagement is a better allocation of cost than
hiring and continual recertification. In business terms, we can
offer you an affordable cost of entry because we are able to
amortize our high-value talent across multiple client engagements.
It's a win-win. Interested in investigating a "Plan B" to support
your production? You can learn much more about our Managed Services
Engagement Models, which range from incident-based service to
24x365 support, by downloading our fact sheet. Back to Top
What's in Your User's Pockets? An Introduction to a New Mobility
Managed Services Strategy - Continued Managed mobility services can
encompass part of or the entire lifecycle of a mobile solution.
With this model, a service provider is either helping with some or
all of the deployment and management aspects of a solution, or they
may be hosting the solution or taking an active role doing
everything on your behalf. At the very least, managed mobility
services (MMS) include some or all of the following, as part of an
enterprise mobility management suite.
• Mobile device management (MDM)
• Containerization
• Application & security management
• Enterprise application store management
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We offer just this sort of solution through our partnership with
Streebo, Inc., a leader in enterprise mobility, multi-device
solutions and enterprise portal enablement for mobile. Together, we
can take the mobility load off your shoulders with a range of
professional services, consulting, management, and support in terms
of device integration, testing and deployment. Please contact Scott
Azwell, our Lead Consultant, for more information. Back to Top
The Secret to Lower Labor Costs May Be Hidden in You Application
Portfolio - Continued A key tenet of Leveraging Technology's
Application Portfolio Assessment service offering is that it meets
clients where they are, as opposed to where they aren't. We
understand that most companies do not have detailed, documented,
quantitative information about all of their applications. However,
your company has excellent SMEs (Subject Matter Experts) that have
detailed knowledge of their applications. Our methodology pulls
together a small team of your SMEs and applies their subjective
inputs in a structured environment facilitated by an experienced
Application Portfolio Architecture to fast track a meaningful
portfolio assessment. Get actionable answers in hours, not
months.
Methodology
• A process and tooling for assessing the business value and
technical value of each application.
• The team evaluates each application and places it in one of
the four quadrants (see illustration)
Assessment Quadrants
• Assessment of applications is based on how its technical value
compares to its business value with a good-to-poor rating on each
value.
• Quadrants identify which apps to 1 - Grow; 2 - Need Technical
Remediation; 3 - Require Detailed Business Re-evaluation; or 4 -
Retired.
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Roadmap
• Prioritized plan for executing on the quadrant recommendations
for all applications (For example, the team will decide on and
document which applications should be retired first, second, and
third, along with associated retirement plan specifics.)
Deliverables
• Quadrant Recommendations for each application
• Associated rationale and application attributes in a
"dashboard"
• Portfolio Roadmap encompassing all of the applications under
consideration.
Seize Your Opportunity The bottom line is that by engaging
Leveraging Technology and investing a few hours in preparation and
a facilitated team assessment, you can apply our exclusive
Methodology to transform your application portfolio. To learn more,
contact Jerry Weimar or call 585.454.4250 x100. Back to Top
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