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Hardware Failure Analysis
Our offering gives clients the results necessary to answer these questions and more. It is through
our offering that clients can now obtain baseline and comparative analysis to fully understand how
their hardware and maintenance investments impact the organization and where key changes need
to be made in order to improve overall efficiencies and cost reductions.
Description
The HFA offering uses a state of the art web-accessed database system, TekTrakker ®, to assist in
the comparative analysis of IT incidents as reported by clients and subscribers. Incidents are sorted
and correlated to create a comprehensive statistical analysis of reliability of all IT products.
Once the incidents are sorted and correlated, we analyze client data, build statistical results, and
produce final reports and charts.
Deliverables
Standard
ITPMG's consulting service provides a written analysis of the results that is presented through easily
understood charts and graphs, Comprehensive Failure Analysis (CFA) .The CFA report is created
from 6 months of historical data and provides an in-depth analysis of the entire user environment,
including error reporting on all mis-matches and inconsistencies on asset and incident data. CFA
data can be used immediately to pin-point operational problems, evaluate compliance with vendor
and help desk SLAs, and reveal differences between deployed products.
Optional
In addition to a written analysis we can have one of our team's professionals come to the client site
and present the results to the CIO/IT staff. Along with walking the client through the report we can
answer questions about the process, data and results.
Additionally, we can provide an annual service subscription that the client can use as often as
necessary during the year. Service subscriptions are based on the complexity of your organization
and how many different data feeds we must accommodate.
Clients can convert to an annual subscription service at any time during the first year with full credit
towards the service.
Subscriptions can be arranged for single companies, domestic companies with multiple independent
operating units, and multinationals.
Target audience
CIO (primary), CEO, CFO.
Enterprises that need to use comparative analysis to support their decisions in the complex business
and IT environment that they work in on a daily basis.
TekTrakker ®, is a trademark of TekTrakker Information Systems, LLC.
ITPMG Services
One of the biggest challenges to every CIO and senior executive today is the determination of
where and how much to invest in IT.
Most IT installations are intended to increase the efficiency, effectiveness and quality of an
organization's processes, products and services. It is safe to say that the costs to maintain those
installations are coming under more and more pressure everyday. Maintenance and service reliability
costs impact the total cost of ownership and the efficiency of an operation at the same time.
Understanding the reliability of a product can help an enterprise choose the correct product and/or
maintenance contract, improve efficiency and reduce costs.
Our Hardware Failure Analysis (HFA) offering provides a statistical analysis of the reliability and
stability of all IT hardware products as reported by clients anywhere in the world. The analysis is
created from 6 months of historical data and provides an in-depth view of the entire user
environment, including error reporting on all mis-matches and inconsistencies on asset and incident
data. The analysis data can be used immediately to pin-point operational problems, evaluate
compliance with vendor and help desk SLAs, and reveal differences between deployed products.
Armed with empirical data, users are empowered to select the most reliable hardware and contract
for the most sensible maintenance providers and evaluate the performance of software and
services providers.
You can transform your procurement decisions by including our statistical based analysis. This
analysis can and has produced savings of between 10.0% -20.0% on our client's entire new
hardware budget.
Through the use of our offering, results are standardized and understandable. The offering follows a
stringent process of data collection, validation, analysis, and report generation. By combining the
shared experience of many users - our offering brings solid statistics and results that provide the
required metrics regarding hardware maintenance that give clients the ability to answer questions
such as:
• Which products are the most reliable?
• How much should I be paying for maintenance?
• How effective are my service agreements?
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