For IBM
Competitive Situations
Today’s market is highly competitive, where customers are being persuaded to move towards another platform. Motives are often emotional, not economical. Managers sometimes get frustrated with the current TCO and start making decisions based on ‘gut feeling’ instead of factual evidence. Plus, some vendors make a move to other platforms look very easy...
Giving a customer’s Lotus Domino environment the proper clean up treatment could results in far more cost savings than migrating to another platform. Trust Factory analyzes real user demand and application details to reveal factual TCO evidence, before and after optimization. Trust Factory’s DNA gathers all relevant data and produces evidence for IBM and IBM customers. Login here to access information for competitive scenarios.
Server Consolidation
As part of a company’s ongoing effort to reduce costs, server consolidation often provides an effective solution. Consolidation projects, however, require careful preparation and can be used as the opportunity to downsize and leverage the operational management of the collaborative environment. Trust Factory has a proven roadmap for server consolidation, serving both the needs of management as those of architects. IBM and many large IBM customers worldwide use Trust Factory's DNA Analysis services.
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License Compliancy
Due to their rapid growth, many Domino customers have lost track of their software licenses. Engaging Trust Factory’s DNA services gives IBM the means to help meet the compliancy of customers software agreements.
TCO Reduction
Domino customers that are in need of a TCO study and real-life benchmark comparisons can count on DNA. Trust Factory’s DNA Analysis produces key input parameters for the main cost drivers for TCO: hardware, software, and operations. And it does so with forensic precision. DNA Analysis identifies the optimizations that can be achieved within these cost drivers. Translated into actionable recommendations for cost savings, these recommendations result in a target TCO.
Strategic Outsourcing
Many customers consider outsourcing their collaborative environment. DNA in-depth analysis produces important sizing parameters for any type of customer environment, allowing IBM to develop an outsourcing plan that is accurate. And because DNA Analysis also identifies optimization opportunities and potential infrastructure risks, an outsourcing project from IBM that uses DNA Analysis will result in a smoother transition and higher return...
Trust Factory DNA Analysis engagements with IBM are operated under a Global Master Agreement with IBM, worldwide.