IT projects for corporations are typically expensive undertakings often costing multi-millions of dollars.
There is a way to potentially reduce the overall costs of your IT projects done in Canada by up to 35% through the Scientific Research and Experimental Development program run by the Canadian Revenue Agency.
The basics of the program are as follow:
Who qualifies?
“Generally, a Canadian-controlled private corporation (CCPC) can earn an investment tax credit (ITC) of 35% up to the first $2 million of qualified expenditures for SR&ED carried out in Canada, and 20% on any excess amount. Other Canadian corporations, proprietorships, partnerships, and trusts can earn an ITC of 20% of qualified expenditures for SR&ED carried out in Canada”. CRA
What kind of Project qualifies?
Work that qualifies for SR&ED tax credits includes (from the CRA SRED website):
experimental development to achieve technological advancement to create new materials, devices, products, or processes, or improve existing ones;
applied research to advance scientific knowledge with a specific practical application in view;
basic research to advance scientific knowledge without a specific practical application in view; and
support work in engineering, design, operations research, mathematical analysis, computer programming, data collection, testing, or psychological research, but only if the work is commensurate with, and directly supports, the eligible experimental development, or applied or basic research.
IT Project Example:
The following example compares both a private company and a public company with a $5M IT project that has $3M in qualified expenditures for SRED Credits.
Private Company
IT Project is $5M
Qualified Expenditures: $3M
SRED Credits: $900K (35% of the first $2M and 20% of the next $1M)
Potential Project Cost with SRED credits: $4.1M
Savings: $900K
Percent Savings: 18%
Public Company:
IT Project is $5M
Qualified Expenditures: $3M
SRED Credits: $$600K (20% of $3M)
Potential Project Cost with SRED credits: $4.4M
Savings: $600K
Percent Savings: 12%
As can be seen, SRED credits have a tremendous impact on the overall costs of IT projects. Basically, in this day and age, if you are not exploring ways to reduce your overall project costs, you are doing your company a disservice.
Rules change all the time and you should consult the Canadian Revenue Agency’s website to see what they are:
http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/txcrdt/sred-rsde/bts-eng.html
Avanade in Calgary can assist you in any of your IT projects and help you offset the costs by assisting you with navigating the SRED program.
If you would like to find out more on how to potentially reduce your IT projects, please feel free to contact Chris Hamilton at chris.hamilton@avanade.com or at 403-476-1473.
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Thursday, March 19, 2009
VB6 Migration - Moving Mission Critial Application off VB6
There are numerous companies that are still unaware that they may have VB6 applications that are running mission critical processes. A major concern is that VB6 is no longer supported and could put your company in jeopardy, especially if you are running applications that roll up into financials.
With proactive IT investments delayed due to economic challenges,organizations like yours are beginning to outgrow their legacy Microsoft Visual Basic applications and must increasingly dedicate resources to keep these systems running. By migrating Visual Basic 6.0 and earlier applications to the .NET platform, your company can achieve a highly scalable, extremely reliable foundation for mission-critical applications and realize substantial maintenance-related savings.
Gain competitive advantage by updating your applications:
In order to be successful, your Visual Basic applications must evolve with your organization’s ever-changing business needs.
- Do you have a clear picture of the benefits and costs of migrating your applications to .NET and how to remain competitive during migration?
- Do your current Visual Basic applications meet minimum performance, stability,and enterprise-scalability requirements?
- Are you concerned about security vulnerabilities in your older applications?G Can your legacy applications meet current business standards and easily adapt to new industry regulations and legislation?
- Do you have a Visual Basic application performing critical business activity that needs new functionality and are struggling with the best approach for implementing that functionality?
Migrate to Microsoft .NET and maximize your IT investments Migration to the .NET:
Framework is essential for applications that will continue to be important to your organization. Aligning your future IT strategies with .NET through languages such as Visual Basic .NET and C# will enable you to take full advantage of your existing investments in Microsoft technologies. The .NET Frame work presents an outstanding opportunity to increase developer productivity and stability for your organization’s most critical applications.
- Improve the scalability, performance, stability, and security of your Visual Basic applications.G Shorten development time and reduce risk by utilizing existing code and taking advantage of tools to automate code conversion.
- Leverage your investments in supporting infrastructure areas of the Microsoft environment, including IDE and developer tools licensing, build and test environments, and technical resources
- Gain competitive advantage by creating new, lower-cost applications and modifying your existing applications to allow for future growth and agility, while remaining competitive during migration.
- Take full advantage of open standards and new technologies such as XML, Web services, and smart clients, while moving toward Service-Oriented Architecture.
- Reduce your long-term maintenance-related expenses and build on existing support and vendor relationships.
A proven migration methodology:
When it comes to the Microsoft enterprise platform, Avanade has the deep product knowledge and real-world experience that customers demand. Avanade offers a proven migration methodology, including a full Application Migration Assessment, to ensure that organizations get the most value from their Visual Basic-based applications.
- Avanade Application Development Workshop In a two- to five-day workshop, Avanade reviews your organization’s development capabilities and challenges to identify and prioritize the applications most in need of improvement and offer recommendations to take advantage of new technologies. A gap analysis of your organization’s capabilities is incorporated into an action plan that supports your priority application migration opportunities and closes any capability gaps.
- Avanade Application Analysis In a formal one- to three-week process, Avanade examines your existing applications to determine how your organization can benefit from migration to .NET technologies, including reviews of infrastructure platform, technical architecture, application architecture, and application functionality.
- Avanade Application Proof of Concept As the final step in the assessment process, Avanade can build a prototype application to demonstrate the migration process and benefits.
Based on the results of the assessment and proof of concept, Avanade will provide a complete migration plan, including an estimated timeline,detailed project plan, and complete set of deliverables to jump start the creation of your next-generation business applications.
Reduce costs through strategic global delivery:
As a true global services company, Avanade has a worldwide presence and proven delivery record. Our global network of delivery centers in over 30 locations, including India, offers customers the benefit of multi site delivery. Offshore resources, highly trained in Avanade assets,architectures, best practices, and our comprehensive delivery methodology,provide accelerated development of solutions. Our strategic global delivery approach to application migrations allows companies to take advantage of the right combination of onshore, nearshore, and offshore options, resulting in increased productivity and cost-effective solutions development.
If you would like to find out more about our Dashboard offering or any other solutions that we provide, please feel free to contact Chris Hamilton at chris.hamilton@avanade.com or at 403-476-1473.
With proactive IT investments delayed due to economic challenges,organizations like yours are beginning to outgrow their legacy Microsoft Visual Basic applications and must increasingly dedicate resources to keep these systems running. By migrating Visual Basic 6.0 and earlier applications to the .NET platform, your company can achieve a highly scalable, extremely reliable foundation for mission-critical applications and realize substantial maintenance-related savings.
Gain competitive advantage by updating your applications:
In order to be successful, your Visual Basic applications must evolve with your organization’s ever-changing business needs.
- Do you have a clear picture of the benefits and costs of migrating your applications to .NET and how to remain competitive during migration?
- Do your current Visual Basic applications meet minimum performance, stability,and enterprise-scalability requirements?
- Are you concerned about security vulnerabilities in your older applications?G Can your legacy applications meet current business standards and easily adapt to new industry regulations and legislation?
- Do you have a Visual Basic application performing critical business activity that needs new functionality and are struggling with the best approach for implementing that functionality?
Migrate to Microsoft .NET and maximize your IT investments Migration to the .NET:
Framework is essential for applications that will continue to be important to your organization. Aligning your future IT strategies with .NET through languages such as Visual Basic .NET and C# will enable you to take full advantage of your existing investments in Microsoft technologies. The .NET Frame work presents an outstanding opportunity to increase developer productivity and stability for your organization’s most critical applications.
- Improve the scalability, performance, stability, and security of your Visual Basic applications.G Shorten development time and reduce risk by utilizing existing code and taking advantage of tools to automate code conversion.
- Leverage your investments in supporting infrastructure areas of the Microsoft environment, including IDE and developer tools licensing, build and test environments, and technical resources
- Gain competitive advantage by creating new, lower-cost applications and modifying your existing applications to allow for future growth and agility, while remaining competitive during migration.
- Take full advantage of open standards and new technologies such as XML, Web services, and smart clients, while moving toward Service-Oriented Architecture.
- Reduce your long-term maintenance-related expenses and build on existing support and vendor relationships.
A proven migration methodology:
When it comes to the Microsoft enterprise platform, Avanade has the deep product knowledge and real-world experience that customers demand. Avanade offers a proven migration methodology, including a full Application Migration Assessment, to ensure that organizations get the most value from their Visual Basic-based applications.
- Avanade Application Development Workshop In a two- to five-day workshop, Avanade reviews your organization’s development capabilities and challenges to identify and prioritize the applications most in need of improvement and offer recommendations to take advantage of new technologies. A gap analysis of your organization’s capabilities is incorporated into an action plan that supports your priority application migration opportunities and closes any capability gaps.
- Avanade Application Analysis In a formal one- to three-week process, Avanade examines your existing applications to determine how your organization can benefit from migration to .NET technologies, including reviews of infrastructure platform, technical architecture, application architecture, and application functionality.
- Avanade Application Proof of Concept As the final step in the assessment process, Avanade can build a prototype application to demonstrate the migration process and benefits.
Based on the results of the assessment and proof of concept, Avanade will provide a complete migration plan, including an estimated timeline,detailed project plan, and complete set of deliverables to jump start the creation of your next-generation business applications.
Reduce costs through strategic global delivery:
As a true global services company, Avanade has a worldwide presence and proven delivery record. Our global network of delivery centers in over 30 locations, including India, offers customers the benefit of multi site delivery. Offshore resources, highly trained in Avanade assets,architectures, best practices, and our comprehensive delivery methodology,provide accelerated development of solutions. Our strategic global delivery approach to application migrations allows companies to take advantage of the right combination of onshore, nearshore, and offshore options, resulting in increased productivity and cost-effective solutions development.
If you would like to find out more about our Dashboard offering or any other solutions that we provide, please feel free to contact Chris Hamilton at chris.hamilton@avanade.com or at 403-476-1473.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Dashboards for The Oil and Gas Industry
Recently Avanade in Calgary has been working on a quick dashboarding solution that is geared towards the oil and gas industry.
One of the issues that a lot of oil and gas or E&P companies face are the disparate systems that contains data that is relevant to providing meaningful information that should be correlated and used to getting your job done.
A couple of our local Architects have created a quick dsahboarding solution that is specific for E&P's to provide quick visibility into key performance indicators (KPI's) that they measure, such as production growth, capex spend to budget, output per dollar spent on a project or project type, among others.
This solution is utilizing SharePoint, XL Services and Silverlight and can typically be implemented in days as opposed to weeks or months for other dashboarding solutions. Most organizations already own this infrastructure, so deployment is usually quick and inexpensive.
One of the primary uses for this solution is in small divisions or departments of E&P's. For example, a regional division of an oil company may require a dashboard that show their daily production digits. They can benchmark if their numbers against what is required and if a problem occurs where production is lower, then they can drill down to spot the problem.
This solution can be extended to many different areas in an oil and gas company and any information that is contained in a system can be displayed on it's own or correlated with other information.
If you would like to find out more about our Dashboard offering or any other solutions that we provide, please feel free to contact Chris Hamilton at chris.hamilton@avanade.com or at 403-476-1473.
One of the issues that a lot of oil and gas or E&P companies face are the disparate systems that contains data that is relevant to providing meaningful information that should be correlated and used to getting your job done.
A couple of our local Architects have created a quick dsahboarding solution that is specific for E&P's to provide quick visibility into key performance indicators (KPI's) that they measure, such as production growth, capex spend to budget, output per dollar spent on a project or project type, among others.
This solution is utilizing SharePoint, XL Services and Silverlight and can typically be implemented in days as opposed to weeks or months for other dashboarding solutions. Most organizations already own this infrastructure, so deployment is usually quick and inexpensive.
One of the primary uses for this solution is in small divisions or departments of E&P's. For example, a regional division of an oil company may require a dashboard that show their daily production digits. They can benchmark if their numbers against what is required and if a problem occurs where production is lower, then they can drill down to spot the problem.
This solution can be extended to many different areas in an oil and gas company and any information that is contained in a system can be displayed on it's own or correlated with other information.
If you would like to find out more about our Dashboard offering or any other solutions that we provide, please feel free to contact Chris Hamilton at chris.hamilton@avanade.com or at 403-476-1473.
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Next Generation Workplace
It is estimated that up to 45% of the current workforce are Knowledge Workers (KW) and that by 2012, there will be a 6 million person gap between the supply and demand for Knowledge Workers.
There will be a tremendous strain on how your Knowledge Workers will access information and there are several time sinks that IDC has identified as having a significant impact on organizations that is wasting on average $30,000 in time of Knowledge Workers time per year.
IDC - * The Hidden Costs of Information Work, IDC – April 2006
1. Reformatting into one document - 3.8 hours per week - $5,701/year
2. Search but not find - 3.5 hours per week - $5,251/year
3. Recreating content - 3.0 hours per week - $4,501/year
4. Multichannel publishing with multiple applications - 2.8 hours per week - $4,201/year
5. Moving documents from one format to another - 2.4 hours per week - $3,600/year
6. Acquiring archived records with little or no automation - 2.3 hours per week - $3,450/year
7. Version control issues - 2.2 hours per week - $3,300/year
and more …
Total: $30,000 + / worker / year
Extrapolate (400 person company) - $12,000,000 / year
Avanade Inc., a global IT consultancy joint venture between Microsoft and Accenture, has worked on a solution to this issue with our parent companies called The Next Generation Workplace.
THE NEXT GENERATION WORKPLACE (NGWP):
When it comes to communication and collaboration, the way we work and the technology that empowers us has changed dramatically. What was leading edge and made sense 7-8 years ago is now of limited value. As blogs, wikis, video calls, instant messaging, shared workspace and other social networking tools become popular inside the corporation, employees are building cost-effective communities of knowledge that enable them to share information more efficiently and simplify knowledge transfer—but managing costs and security has become a priority, requiring a more controlled and centralized infrastructure, while compliance is becoming critical for tracking mechanisms.
Business Landscape:
In increasingly service-based economies, information is the vital asset- communication and collaboration is the engine that generates value from this asset. Information technology is essential to enable enterprises to build a collaborative environment for competitive advantage and business success. Specifically, digital collaboration—the use of technologies to allow efficient and valuable connections among people and information—is critical to becoming an innovative company, to establishing high-value relationships with customers, partners, suppliers, and stakeholders; to attracting and retaining a highly skilled workforce; and to achieving high-performance operations.
In order for companies to realize the full potential of digital collaboration, IT departments will need to provide new service offerings and take a holistic and proactive view to enable companies with technology to meet their needs now and well into the future. What was once a perfect fit may no longer meet your business needs due to rapid changes in how people work together and what technology can now enable.
Are you seeing a lack of responsiveness among your employees? Issues with an increasingly virtual workplace? Compliance problems? Workers constantly reinventing the wheel? Sales force not connected to your organization knowledge base (people and assets) when they are on the road? Need to share information between customers, partners, and suppliers in a fully secure environment? If you answered ‘yes’ to some of these questions, maybe it is time to rethink your Business Productivity platform.
The Solution:
With the recent releases of a series of Microsoft products, it is now much easier to get people sharing information, connected to each other and turn the corporate, external and team information into strategic assets. A dynamic IT infrastructure is a critical foundation for businesses as it can really empower the information workers to be more productive, more knowledgeable and more connected. In order to illustrate the benefits of digital collaboration, Avanade has built a business illustration which demonstrates what could be the next generation workplace for workers who deal with co-workers, customers, suppliers and providers.
This business illustration is based on various business situations borrowed from the real life:
• Unified Communication: presence-based capability delivering seamless integrated communications for e-mail, calendaring, instant messaging (IM), telephony, voicemail and web conferencing.
• Enterprise Content Management: capability to capture, manage, store, preserve, and deliver content and documents related to organizational processes
• Collaborative Workspaces: bringing real-time solutions to current day-to-day collaboration challenges
• Enterprise Search: accessing the right information/people at the right time regardless of the format (structured/non structured), the source (documents repository, LOB, emails, software package, etc) and the location (PC, intranet, internet)
• Knowledge Governance and Control: information policy management ( documents, email, voicemail, etc)- access control, auditing, retention and workflow
• User Self-Service and Dynamic Provisioning: ability for a worker to dynamically perform resource provision (applications, printer queues, e-support etc) as and when they require them
• Performance Workspace: shows the evolution of web portals into actual performance workspaces where user’s roles are taken in account. This presents the user with relevant information, processes and applications, as well as connectivity to other collaborative tools such as live meeting
• Dynamic Workplace: enabling connectivity from any device anywhere to the Enterprise Network
The Technology Used:
The Next Generation Workplace centre of excellence is NOT a futurist environment. It is based on current Microsoft product and could be implemented today. The Microsoft software and Avanade assets used are :
· Microsoft Vista and XP
· Microsoft Office Sharepoint Services 2007
· Microsoft Office Sharepoint Services 2007
· Microsoft Exchange 2007
· Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2
· Windows Server 2003 Rights Management Services
· Microsoft Office Live Meeting
· Microsoft Groove Client 2007
· Microsoft Office Communicator 2007
· Microsoft Office 2007
· Microsoft SQLServer 2005
· Microsoft Virtual Server 2005
· Microsoft Right Management
· Microsoft RoundTable™
· Microsoft Office Communicator Mobile
· Microsoft Office Communicator Web Access
· Avanade Desktop Transformation Solution
· Avanade Enterprise Communication Solution
· Avanade Enterprise Collaboration Solution
· Avanade Migration for Lotus Notes Solution
· Avanade ACA Dynamic Systems Framework
· Avanade ACA Messaging Migration Engine
· Avanade Application Lifecycle Manager
· Avanade ACA.NET
What’s Next:
In a constantly changing workplace, communication is more than a technology—it needs to be part of a strategic long-term vision for your business and technology platform. Does your current platform offer the flexibility to provide users what they need today and will want tomorrow? Does it offer a strong foundation to build on? Avanade can assist your organization to review and assess your current platform with a business productivity assessment, discuss and draft a business productivity long-term strategy with a tactical roadmap, document a business case to quantify benefits versus cost, and then work with your organization to implement an improve rationalized digital collaboration platform.
For information on how Avanade can enable Microsoft technologies for the Next Generation Workplace, or other services that Avanade Inc. can provide your organization in Western Canada, please contact Chris Hamilton at 403-476-1473 or via email at chris.hamilton@avanade.com.
There will be a tremendous strain on how your Knowledge Workers will access information and there are several time sinks that IDC has identified as having a significant impact on organizations that is wasting on average $30,000 in time of Knowledge Workers time per year.
IDC - * The Hidden Costs of Information Work, IDC – April 2006
1. Reformatting into one document - 3.8 hours per week - $5,701/year
2. Search but not find - 3.5 hours per week - $5,251/year
3. Recreating content - 3.0 hours per week - $4,501/year
4. Multichannel publishing with multiple applications - 2.8 hours per week - $4,201/year
5. Moving documents from one format to another - 2.4 hours per week - $3,600/year
6. Acquiring archived records with little or no automation - 2.3 hours per week - $3,450/year
7. Version control issues - 2.2 hours per week - $3,300/year
and more …
Total: $30,000 + / worker / year
Extrapolate (400 person company) - $12,000,000 / year
Avanade Inc., a global IT consultancy joint venture between Microsoft and Accenture, has worked on a solution to this issue with our parent companies called The Next Generation Workplace.
THE NEXT GENERATION WORKPLACE (NGWP):
When it comes to communication and collaboration, the way we work and the technology that empowers us has changed dramatically. What was leading edge and made sense 7-8 years ago is now of limited value. As blogs, wikis, video calls, instant messaging, shared workspace and other social networking tools become popular inside the corporation, employees are building cost-effective communities of knowledge that enable them to share information more efficiently and simplify knowledge transfer—but managing costs and security has become a priority, requiring a more controlled and centralized infrastructure, while compliance is becoming critical for tracking mechanisms.
Business Landscape:
In increasingly service-based economies, information is the vital asset- communication and collaboration is the engine that generates value from this asset. Information technology is essential to enable enterprises to build a collaborative environment for competitive advantage and business success. Specifically, digital collaboration—the use of technologies to allow efficient and valuable connections among people and information—is critical to becoming an innovative company, to establishing high-value relationships with customers, partners, suppliers, and stakeholders; to attracting and retaining a highly skilled workforce; and to achieving high-performance operations.
In order for companies to realize the full potential of digital collaboration, IT departments will need to provide new service offerings and take a holistic and proactive view to enable companies with technology to meet their needs now and well into the future. What was once a perfect fit may no longer meet your business needs due to rapid changes in how people work together and what technology can now enable.
Are you seeing a lack of responsiveness among your employees? Issues with an increasingly virtual workplace? Compliance problems? Workers constantly reinventing the wheel? Sales force not connected to your organization knowledge base (people and assets) when they are on the road? Need to share information between customers, partners, and suppliers in a fully secure environment? If you answered ‘yes’ to some of these questions, maybe it is time to rethink your Business Productivity platform.
The Solution:
With the recent releases of a series of Microsoft products, it is now much easier to get people sharing information, connected to each other and turn the corporate, external and team information into strategic assets. A dynamic IT infrastructure is a critical foundation for businesses as it can really empower the information workers to be more productive, more knowledgeable and more connected. In order to illustrate the benefits of digital collaboration, Avanade has built a business illustration which demonstrates what could be the next generation workplace for workers who deal with co-workers, customers, suppliers and providers.
This business illustration is based on various business situations borrowed from the real life:
• Unified Communication: presence-based capability delivering seamless integrated communications for e-mail, calendaring, instant messaging (IM), telephony, voicemail and web conferencing.
• Enterprise Content Management: capability to capture, manage, store, preserve, and deliver content and documents related to organizational processes
• Collaborative Workspaces: bringing real-time solutions to current day-to-day collaboration challenges
• Enterprise Search: accessing the right information/people at the right time regardless of the format (structured/non structured), the source (documents repository, LOB, emails, software package, etc) and the location (PC, intranet, internet)
• Knowledge Governance and Control: information policy management ( documents, email, voicemail, etc)- access control, auditing, retention and workflow
• User Self-Service and Dynamic Provisioning: ability for a worker to dynamically perform resource provision (applications, printer queues, e-support etc) as and when they require them
• Performance Workspace: shows the evolution of web portals into actual performance workspaces where user’s roles are taken in account. This presents the user with relevant information, processes and applications, as well as connectivity to other collaborative tools such as live meeting
• Dynamic Workplace: enabling connectivity from any device anywhere to the Enterprise Network
The Technology Used:
The Next Generation Workplace centre of excellence is NOT a futurist environment. It is based on current Microsoft product and could be implemented today. The Microsoft software and Avanade assets used are :
· Microsoft Vista and XP
· Microsoft Office Sharepoint Services 2007
· Microsoft Office Sharepoint Services 2007
· Microsoft Exchange 2007
· Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2
· Windows Server 2003 Rights Management Services
· Microsoft Office Live Meeting
· Microsoft Groove Client 2007
· Microsoft Office Communicator 2007
· Microsoft Office 2007
· Microsoft SQLServer 2005
· Microsoft Virtual Server 2005
· Microsoft Right Management
· Microsoft RoundTable™
· Microsoft Office Communicator Mobile
· Microsoft Office Communicator Web Access
· Avanade Desktop Transformation Solution
· Avanade Enterprise Communication Solution
· Avanade Enterprise Collaboration Solution
· Avanade Migration for Lotus Notes Solution
· Avanade ACA Dynamic Systems Framework
· Avanade ACA Messaging Migration Engine
· Avanade Application Lifecycle Manager
· Avanade ACA.NET
What’s Next:
In a constantly changing workplace, communication is more than a technology—it needs to be part of a strategic long-term vision for your business and technology platform. Does your current platform offer the flexibility to provide users what they need today and will want tomorrow? Does it offer a strong foundation to build on? Avanade can assist your organization to review and assess your current platform with a business productivity assessment, discuss and draft a business productivity long-term strategy with a tactical roadmap, document a business case to quantify benefits versus cost, and then work with your organization to implement an improve rationalized digital collaboration platform.
For information on how Avanade can enable Microsoft technologies for the Next Generation Workplace, or other services that Avanade Inc. can provide your organization in Western Canada, please contact Chris Hamilton at 403-476-1473 or via email at chris.hamilton@avanade.com.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Avanade's Next Generation Data Center - Data Center Optimization
In this tight economic climate, customers look to fund projects that offer a fast return on investment and provide opportunities to lower costs. In a 2008 survey, CIO Insight ranked IT cost cutting as a major priority for CIOs.[1] According to Gartner, Inc., server consolidation and virtualization projects provide an attractive option to reduce costs and improve flexibility and they predict that virtualization will be the most important technology in IT infrastructures and operations up to 2010.
Initiatives to create “green” data centers are gaining importance as companies seek to reduce costs while cutting energy demand and carbon emissions.[2] With strong price-for-performance advantages, Windows Server® 2008 Hyper-V™ and Microsoft® System Center technologies helped Microsoft attain a 23 percent share of the virtualization market in 2008.
[3]
Key competitive virtualization vendors include VMware, HP, and IBM. Competitive offerings lack the full range of capabilities found in the Avanade solution or depend on hardware that adds cost and complexity. Independent analysis confirms that, on the whole, Microsoft virtualization can cost as little as one-third the price of VMware.[4] Drawing upon our unique and long-standing partnership with Microsoft, Avanade provides holistic solutions that help customers take advantage of compatibility throughout their Microsoft infrastructure. Our solutions provide a breadth of virtualization and management capability at the most cost-effective price for the enterprise.
Avanade is in a uniquely advantageous competitive position as a leading global IT consultancy dedicated to the Microsoft platform. Our innovative tools, methodologies, and accelerators extend the capabilities of Microsoft data center solutions and speed time to deployment and implementation.
With the Avanade Virtualization Business Case Estimator™, Avanade consultants can accurately estimate deployment time and resource requirements for server virtualization projects, and project customer cost savings. Our Avanade Connected Architecture® Dynamic Systems Framework provides a platform for Avanade consultants to design, build, and deploy next generation data centers in a highly repeatable and predictable fashion, accelerating time to delivery and enhancing implementation quality.
In addition to privileged insights into Microsoft road maps and new technology, Avanade has a depth of internal resources with more than 9,000 professionals in 22 countries worldwide, including development centers in India and the Philippines. Using the right mix of local and remote resources, Avanade helps customers realize results with our next generation data center solution.
Initiatives to create “green” data centers are gaining importance as companies seek to reduce costs while cutting energy demand and carbon emissions.[2] With strong price-for-performance advantages, Windows Server® 2008 Hyper-V™ and Microsoft® System Center technologies helped Microsoft attain a 23 percent share of the virtualization market in 2008.
[3]
Key competitive virtualization vendors include VMware, HP, and IBM. Competitive offerings lack the full range of capabilities found in the Avanade solution or depend on hardware that adds cost and complexity. Independent analysis confirms that, on the whole, Microsoft virtualization can cost as little as one-third the price of VMware.[4] Drawing upon our unique and long-standing partnership with Microsoft, Avanade provides holistic solutions that help customers take advantage of compatibility throughout their Microsoft infrastructure. Our solutions provide a breadth of virtualization and management capability at the most cost-effective price for the enterprise.
Avanade is in a uniquely advantageous competitive position as a leading global IT consultancy dedicated to the Microsoft platform. Our innovative tools, methodologies, and accelerators extend the capabilities of Microsoft data center solutions and speed time to deployment and implementation.
With the Avanade Virtualization Business Case Estimator™, Avanade consultants can accurately estimate deployment time and resource requirements for server virtualization projects, and project customer cost savings. Our Avanade Connected Architecture® Dynamic Systems Framework provides a platform for Avanade consultants to design, build, and deploy next generation data centers in a highly repeatable and predictable fashion, accelerating time to delivery and enhancing implementation quality.
In addition to privileged insights into Microsoft road maps and new technology, Avanade has a depth of internal resources with more than 9,000 professionals in 22 countries worldwide, including development centers in India and the Philippines. Using the right mix of local and remote resources, Avanade helps customers realize results with our next generation data center solution.
For information on how Avanade can enable Microsoft technologies for data centers or other services that Avanade Inc. can provide your organization in Western Canada, please contact Chris Hamilton at 403-476-1473 or via email at chris.hamilton@avanade.com.
For a white paper on Virtualization entitled "Server Virtualization: A Step Toward Cost Efficiency and Business Agility", please click on http://avanadecalgary.com/Avanade_Calgary/Whitepapers.html and fill out the form.
[1] Source: CIO Insights, http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Research/CIOs-Rank-Their-Top-Priorities-for-2008/.
[2] Source: Gartner Identifies the Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2008, http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=530109.
[3] Source: IDC, http://www.virtualization.info/2008/10/microsoft-already-took-23-of.html.
[4] Clabby Analytics: Six Reasons Why Microsoft’s Hyper-V Will Overtake VMware to Become the Major Player in the x86 Server Virtualization Marketplace, May 2008, http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/itanalyst/docs/05-2008ClabbySixReasonsWhyMSwillovertakeVMW.PDF.
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