IBM Technology Brief Sample

The Management Complexity Factor solution quickly and efficiently analyzes your interconnected IT and storage environments, determining cost inefficiencies, dependencies and opportunities for improvement -- both short term and long range. More than an assessment of the current state, the solution looks at where your IT needs to go and provides tactical, short-term activities that can lead to strategic, long-range improvement.

Rapidly determining where to align business and IT
Developed through years of field experience, Management Complexity Factor is a framework and methodology designed to enable rapid evaluation of eight essential metrics that can be used to measure almost any IT environment. The solution helps reveal the operational costs and staffing issues associated with each storage component that makes up a business’s IT infrastructure -- storage, backup and disaster recovery/business continuity. IBM weights the metrics by their importance to the business and assigns each metric a score that results in a “management complexity factor” for the IT environment.