IT Consolidation

IT administration and planning play a critical role in ensuring the long-term health and success of your company. Innovations in IT change the success and positioning of organizations – for example, setting up self-service ticket counters changes how IT manages help requests, as well as the corporate atmosphere.

However, CIOs today are faced with decreasing budgets and increasing IT operation costs. More efficient IT operation enables organizations to do more with less when it comes to limited innovation budget. Integrated Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions make IT operations more cost effective.

OpenText IT Consolidation solutions deliver this functionality with the following components:

Software:
Archiving, Extensions for SAP Solutions

Supplemented by Business Content (e.g., predefined workflows) to give you a head-start in configuring workstreams and processes, Consulting Services, Training and Support tailored to meet your requirements.

Activities

IT Consolidation involves Archive Consolidation and Legacy Decommissioning.

Archive Consolidation

When companies choose document management solutions, often the driver is one specific problem; we call this a point solution, such as A/P processing. Over time, other point solutions may require additional archiving and/or document management systems; for example, a corporate merger brings additional systems into the IT landscape.

OpenText offers simple methods to consolidate such systems into one single ECM framework, which offers a broad range of functionality:

• Reduces administration costs and TCO
• Highly scalable (volume, regional distribution)
• Fits in your existing IT landscape (supports many operating systems, databases and storage hardware)

Solution Adaptations: Archiving

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Legacy Decommissioning

Some of your core business processes may be running on older enterprise applications, such as host systems or R/2®. These systems are typically susceptible to risks and problems associated with aging, as well as high TCO, complexity and decreasing knowledge about how to operate the aged application.

The OpenText solution offers you a way of decommissioning legacy systems. Adopting this strategy means that information and data is readily accessed via SAP systems, accelerating the decommissioning process, and ensuring that regulatory requirements are met. Features include:

• Legacy data is instantly accessible in SAP
• Index extraction with graphical tool
• Compliant archiving of legacy data

Solution Adaptations: Archiving, Extensions for SAP Solutions

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