Social welfare group

IT expense optimization - perf 360

The context

The company called on LUCERNYS to evaluate its IT costs and to combat the technical obsolescence of its equipment.

Faced with recurring expenses of 22 million euros, LUCERNYS carried out a contractual assessment and a global analysis of the installations including the mainframe, the distributed servers, the storage system, the backup, the networks & telephony, the workstations and the hosting.

The challenges: establish a benchmark and aim for better control of contracts and IT expenses.

The results

Drafting and presentation of a report on the short- and medium-term optimizations identified (potential gross annual savings of about 12% of the recurrent budget)

  • Mapping of existing infrastructure contracts (HW, SW, Services) (~70 main entries)
  • Detailed analysis of the optimization potential according to the following dimensions: contractual conditions, tariffs & adequacy of operational uses
  • Concluding a zPerf study which identified potential savings on RUN costs of about 19% (isolation of transactional, redesign of WLM resource allocation policies, review of transaction classes…)
  • Simulation of an ESSO contract, negotiation of a specific amendment for performance tests without capping constraints
  • Benchmark of hosting tariff conditions and optimization study of the surface occupied in Datacenter: identification of a potential 30 to 40% reduction of recurring expenses
  • Drafting and presentation of a report on the short- and medium-term optimizations identified (potential gross annual savings of about 12% of the recurrent budget)