The Rationalization Advisory is focused on assessment of the current technologies deployed, and rationalization of the same in line with future business needs. We offer:

Rapid IT health check of current IT portfolios across the enterprise to identify

• Alignment of business and technology
• Redundancy : Applications Functionality/Data/Infrastructure
• Heterogeneity : Infrastructure/OS/DB/App Server/Tools/ Architecture Framework
• Potential inconsistency of business information

Preparation of Business-Technology roadmap

• Key guiding principles to align technology with business
• Application consolidation/optimization
• Evolve high level Business Process Model
• Standardize technology and tools, sun-setting of applications, and modernization
• Define target IT architecture and explore applicability of SOA
• Develop transition and change management plans

Develop business case with ROI

• Portfolio analysis
• Preparing the outsourcing roadmap
• Development of business case with ROI

This practice also undertakes performance engineering consulting, using our trademarked benchmarking and tuning techniques, to ensure that the architectures chosen are guaranteed to perform. Structured capacity-planning models allow hardware and software infrastructure to be consolidated and rationalized.

Rationalization Advisory – Value Propositions

Its not a ‘gut feel’ approach

• Removes subjectivity in identifying applications and subsequent planning for offshoring and rationalization
• Scientific measurement of application readiness for offshoring and rationalization

Minimize impact on business users

• A tiered approach/wave strategy for transitioning, offshoring & rationalization enabling sufficient time for business users to absorb the change