“Creative CIOs are doing very interesting things leveraging Microsoft technology to reduce the complexity or to abstract it to different levels so that it can be managed in a more coherent way.”
—Tony Scott, Microsoft CIO
IT complexity is taking its toll
From technology and transportation to work and personal relationships, we’re seeing a cultural desire for simplicity that’s transforming the workplace and pushing the limits of existing IT infrastructure. Sure, IT capabilities are strategic for your business, but how do you ensure the maximum productivity from your investments and meet rising demands with a leaner, greener infrastructure?
- Knowledge workers waste 25 percent of their time battling information overload, costing U.S. companies $900 billion a year. (Basex, December 2008)
- 70 percent of IT budgets are spent maintaining siloed data centers. (Forrester Research, July 2010)
- Data centers will outpace the airline industry in GHG emissions by 2050. (McKinsey, May 2008)
Consider the trends.
- Insights from Data: Social media, search engines, mobile devices, billions of new Internet users around the world, and sensor-enabled objects are all contributing floods of new data for businesses to analyze.
- Regulation Nation: Businesses are facing mounting and varied regulatory compliance requirements that multiply as the business scales globally.
- Lean and Green: Energy prices are rising and so is awareness of the environmental impact of IT.
Reduce infrastructure cost and complexity
In the face of these challenges, business leaders are looking for tools that can simplify their work, reduce their costs, and help their people become more productive. As you look to the future, choose the right BI tools to drive data-based decisions and adopt secure and sustainable new technologies at the platform level to reduce redundancy in architecture and security systems and achieve higher performance from IT infrastructure.