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"FIT FOR" Outsourcing IT

When an organisation investigates outsourcing, knowing the profile of the estate for base lining purposes is pretty important – and you do not want to rely on either incumbent or prospective service provider data. Once the outsource is underway, the managed service provider often invoices based on the number and profile of assets they manage, so ongoing visibility is also pretty mandatory.

At both stages, it is fundamental that the end user organisation retains controls of its asset information sources. Without this, the managed service provider will often ‘optimise’ their billings, and they are not motivated to properly initiate / execute asset disposals.

A solution to the time constraint is to forget about introducing agents or interpreting multiple data sources and alternatively use agent-less zero footprint techniques which can be rapidly deployed yet give accurate, deep dive data. By using BDNA Insight, organisations can deploy and discover software and hardware assets in the timescales demanded by the outsource, and produce reports from a single source.

In a recent project carried out by ITAMS in 30 days, a large FTSE 100 company was given the information required to ensure that the outsourcing contract was drawn up against the true size of the estate. ITAMS recommended BDNA solution fits perfectly in environments where organisations need a quick and detailed view of their IT estate. With the highly skilled members of staff in house, BDNA can be delivered as a one off service or on an on going basis to ensure that your organisation manages the outsourcer, rather than the other way round.