Cutting Agency IT Costs, Growing Innovation

May21, 2014

Cutting Agency IT Costs, Growing Innovation

John Rethans@john_rethans

Brian Pagano@brianpagano

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• Doing more with less

• Cleaning house

What is IT rationalization?

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Cost avoidanceNot paying for something you would have paid for otherwise

Cost savingsReducing a current payment

Defining our terms


Four categories of rationalization

Operational

Process

ComplianceDevelopment


Identify bottlenecks

Capacity planning

Caching

Runtime

Operational savings


Reduce audit costs

The hamster wheel of compliance

Regulatory and compliance savings


Reduce the headaches of homegrown systems

Configure, don’t code

Ramp development teams faster

Reduce backlog of back-end teams

Development savings


Simplify governance

Make vendor upgrades easier

Process savings


• Are you considering SOA tools like a service registry?

• Will you need to write functionality (location, device type, or push notifications, for example) that is common to all modern apps?

• How much effort will it take to safely and scalably expose your back-end systems?

• Will you need to acquire or build a system to on-board and manage developers?

• What is the process for on-boarding a new internal development team?

• What is the process for on-boarding a new partner or agency?

• How long does it take to get a new app into service?

• How much of your traffic could be cached?

• How easy is it to project server capacity requirements for the coming year?

• Could your governance process be simplified?

• How much time and effort is spent on minor change requests?

Questions to help with rationalization


The use of an exposure and consumption layer canbe a powerful tool in reducing IT costs.

Abstracting each service or agency up to a clean API façade can make your life better.

APIs will also make you better-looking and give you the ability to fly.*

*These claims have not been validated, but they sure would be cool.

Summary

Questions?

John Rethans@john_rethans

Brian Pagano@brianpagano

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Cutting Agency IT Costs, Growing Innovation