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Adaptive Enterprise
Just as organisations grow and change, your IT infrastructure needs to be flexible enough to adapt to embrace new challenges and ways of working. Kisdata brings all the advantages of an Adaptive Enterprise to companies in many ways, including:
• Enhancing continuity via a stable IT platform
• Reducing IT complexity to lower costs and free up management time
• Managing IT to improve business results and deliver customer satisfaction
• Creating and running a virtual workplace
Does this sound like the ideal infrastructure model for your business? Call Kisdata to find out how Adaptive Enterprise is the way forward for organisations who need to be able to respond quickly to market opportunities and new ways of working or read on to find out more about Adaptive Enterprise.
The Adaptive Enterprise
Adaptive Enterprise refers to business and IT synchronized to capitalize on change. It encompasses the entire IT infrastructure consisting of servers, storage, network connections, and other components.
An Kisdata Adaptive Enterprise helps customers evolve their IT organizations from a technology-focused silo company to a business-focused service organization, shifting the approach from a "vertical stacks" to a "horizontal infrastructure" orientation.
Kisdata characterizes an Adaptive Enterprise as:
• How Kisdata sells, not what it sells - You do not buy an Adaptive Enterprise
• from Kisdata, you build it
• A strategy for the enterprise that strengthens the Kisdata position as a
• strategic IT partner
The premise of the Adaptive Enterprise is to start with a set of standards-based IT resources, deploy them within a consistent service-centric architecture, and integrate a system of tools to manage and control the resources based on business policies and service requirements.
An Adaptive Enterprise creates:
• A common foundation that can run any application and business process
• An infrastructure driven by business strategy and business processes
• An environment where IT supply constantly meets business demand, which in turn
• drives the dynamic link between business processes and IT
An Adaptive Enterprise operates on a consumption-based model-the business uses what it needs-then pays only for what it uses. In an Adaptive Enterprise, every cost is variable, resulting in an optimal use of the organization's resources.
The Adaptive Enterprise was developed as a direct result of business demands for IT integration into core business practices and industry competition shortening the time to market and requiring greater efficiency. The Adaptive Enterprise framework enables business performance indicators and metrics to focus on key processes and integrated solutions for achieving business-not just IT-goals.
Adaptive Enterprise goals
Customers say they want to improve their competitiveness, lower costs, and improve customer service. They also want to build an IT environment and business processes that can easily accommodate changes. These objectives translate into specific challenges for every CIO in every enterprise-size company:
• To run the IT department as a service delivery business
• To turn various silos in the company, such as Customer Relationship Management,
• Human Resources, and Enterprise Resource Planning, into cross-company
• business intelligence
• To maximize the return on IT investment
• To ensure the availability and performance of critical systems
The goals of an Adaptive Enterprise respond to customers' requirements to:
• Improve agility
• Increase quality
• Manage costs
• Mitigate risk
Adaptive Enterprise philosophy and components
The Kisdata approach to the Adaptive Enterprise is to help integrate people, processes, and technologies. This integration automates the dynamic link between the business and IT.
Managing the Adaptive Enterprise
HP management solutions are part of a customer-oriented HP OpenView portfolio that focuses on four solution areas:
• Business management - Provides CIOs, business process owners, and key
• application owners with a view of their business processes from a customer
• perspective; ideal for customers who need to understand the business impact of
• application and IT infrastructure problems
• IT service management (ITSM) - Is a business-driven approach built around the
• OpenView core; used by IT organizations to design, build, manage, and evolve
• quality IT services
• Application management - Reduces the time to complete application management
• tasks and time to identify and fix downtime incidents; targeted for customers who
• need to ensure the performance and availability of their business-critical
• applications and the key business processes they support
• Infrastructure management - Enhances the availability, reliability, and performance
• of the IT infrastructure by automating IT management processes; designed for
• customers who need to identify redundancies, recognize bottlenecks, and stay
• technologically current.
Additionally, cross-management and industry management solutions are available to solve critical business challenges
Adaptive Enterprise design principles
The Adaptive Enterprise produces the agility needed to react to business events and is based on the design principles necessary to facilitate change:
• Simplification - Enterprise and small - and medium business (SMB) customers can
• simplify complex IT environments through the consolidation of applications and
• infrastructures, and the automation and orchestration of processes. Customers can
• simplify their IT infrastructure by:
• Reducing the number of elements
• Eliminating customization
• Automating change
• Virtualization - This approach pools and shares resources so that utilization is
• optimized and supply automatically meets demand. Customers report that
• controlling costs, improving quality, reducing risks, and increasing business agility
• are critical to their success. Virtualization, lowering costs, and improving business
• agility are no longer trade-offs. By enabling IT resources to be pooled and shared
• automatically, KisData enables customers to reduce costs and improve
• overall IT performance.
• Modularity - Customers can change one element without impacting the entire
• network. By building architectures modularly, the Adaptive Enterprise breaks down
• vertically stacked IT systems. When designing infrastructures, you can achieve
• modularity in a number of ways:
• Systems can be grouped based on similar business needs
• Systems can be constructed to connect and disconnect at the speed of business
• Any group, configuration, or component can be modified without changing the other
• All IT functions or specific functions, such as a call or billing center, can
• be easily outsourced
• Integration - Integration facilitates change throughout a uniform system by building
• a dynamic link between business and IT that is easy to understand, manage, and
• modify. When complex portions of an IT infrastructure are not optimally connected
• and business systems and applications remain disjointed, attempts to move,
• reconfigure, or reengineer can be difficult and require the development of costly,
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