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Offshore feasibility study for a leading retail provider in the US
 
 

Customer

Client is a leading retail product provider having an IT infrastructure consisting of more than 250 UNIX servers, 400 NT servers and more than 20000 email accounts.
 

Challenge

Client has an internal IT team of around 400 persons providing sustenance and helpdesk support to the various internal customers who are distributed across the nation. Most of the equipment's are mission-critical and can have a huge business impact.

Client wanted a portfolio analysis done on his support delivery for the above services and suggested a framework for providing support from offshore

 

Solution

Wipro's consultants conducted a 3-week study of the support environment and adopted the following approach:

A list of criteria was formulated which would assess the impact of non-availability of service and also the feasibility of delivering the service offshore which is cost-effective
Level-1 interviews were conducted with the various Service delivery Managers to understand the criticality/business roadmap etc.
Level -2 interviews were conducted with the Team leaders to
Understand of operations, logs and checklists used by the support teams.
Tools, processes used by client.
Operations and approach to resolve escalations.
Study of processes / documents used by different groups.
Study the call distribution for the various service windows.
Study the metrics and service levels required
The final analysis were measured against the criteria and discussed with the Service delivery Managers to obtain a sign-off

The scope of work including the areas to be supported and the services to be delivered was arrived at from the result of the analysis. Details of link bandwidth and tool requirements were also provided. A detailed migration approach was presented at the end of the study, along with the manpower, service windows and roles/responsibilities.

 

Benefits

Customer was able to see the cost benefits and risk factors of supporting from a offshore facility
The migration methodology helped the customer in obtaining clarity of the timelines and effort required
A detailed cost-benefit analysis for a 3 year period was provided
 
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