Rationalized assets leading to a significant reduction on IT costs.

Organizations are expanding their businesses as rapidly as ever to cope with the increasing demands from market and the competition. This often results in a proliferation of the IT applications and infrastructure that are enablers of these business opportunities. The explosive growth of the IT assets of the organization over time might not always be the best optimized and inline with strategic business vision of the organization. Thus, organizations are beginning to look at rationalizing these IT assets with a view to reduce costs and complexity associated with the IT asset base.

A leading insurance company in the world.

Wipro gathered an inventory of IT Assets, including their business criticality, cost of maintenance. Following this information gathering exercise, we analyzed, grouped and score the Assets based on an accepted criteria (see diagram below). The assets were rationalized by ‘eliminating’/’enhancing’/’leaving as-is’ based on the analysis conducted.

A significant outcome of the project was that it reduced maintenance costs for the client by a phenomenal 22%.