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Return On Investment (ROI)

 

 

how much can the stealthaudit management platform (SMP) save your organization?

StealthAUDIT pays for itself - sometimes in as little as 30 days! The SMP suite of solutions is a single management platform spanning across multiple silos of OS and Application Management including Active Directory, Exchange, Public Folders, Blackberry, Servers (physical and virtual), Workstations, and even other back-end databases.

With this common and comprehensive view across your infrastructure, you can rapidly identify opportunities for cost savings in time, hardware, software, and data management. Additionally, SMP will help with cost avoidance by reducing risk and non-compliance fines, as well as cost reduction by eliminating excess, orphaned, or zombie assets from your IT environment.

 


stealthaudit management platform return-on-investment (roi) analysis 

Overall Return-on-Investment is based upon many factors and assumptions. For this exercise, we’ve tied the SMP ROI to reducing Time + Hardware + Software + Risk.

 


 


time

In today’s fast paced world, employee’s time is the most expensive and precious resource to take full advantage of. Many organizations waste thousands of hours manually collecting, assessing, and reporting on very repetitive items. Organizations spend an inordinate amount of time validating the reports by involving end-users and administrators alike.

Some organizations have highly skilled IT employees capable of writing scripts to automate collection processes, which can fulfill some of the organization’s needs and streamline activities, but in reality, a heavy reliance is placed on these “part-time developers” to write, correct, and maintain those scripts for critical business processes. Furthermore, scripts usually only go part of the way to automating these processes and procedures.

StealthAUDIT has over 1500 reports right out of the box. Each report is designed to save our users on average 10 hours of their time per year… that’s 15,000 hours of employee working hours, equating to 7 full-time employees dedicated to collection and reporting. At an average salary plus benefit’s rate of $75/hr, that equals $1,125,000 worth of workday hours that can be put to better, more innovative use.

The average IT programs’ success depends about 35% on the involvement and understanding by your end-users and system administrators. The StealthAUDIT Management Platform goes above and beyond just automating the manual “gather and report” process, now providing the ability to interact with large volumes of end-users and take action leveraging their feedback and guidance.

 


hardware

Whether you are expanding your infrastructure virtually or physically, there is still the requirement to pay for the expanding base of infrastructure components, not forgetting the on-going maintenance and support costs associated. Using the StealthAUDIT Management Platform to review stale information across your messaging and file systems, you can slow down the average 30% annual growth rate of expansion. Furthermore, reducing and slowing your infrastructure expansion saves additional finances that would otherwise go to the cost of power to run that new equipment.

U.S. Department of Energy reports show that the average cost of electricity increased by more than 41% over the past seven years in the industrial sector, and by 33% in the commercial sector. Other studies have shown the number of servers has doubled in the past 5 years and is on course to double again in the next 5 years. The cost to add a single server to a data center is about double the cost to purchase it, in addition, the cost to manage the new server over a 3-year time period is about equal to the cost to purchase. So, for every server that you avoid purchasing to handle infrastructure growth, you’ve also avoided 3 times the cost over a 3-year period.

 

 
software

Many software vendors charge per installation or per user in your environment. Most organizations manage at least 10%-25% of stale installation in their environments. Stale users and computers within your Active Directory lead to paying extra overhead for many of your management tools. Installed, but unused copies of back office software titles leads to overpayment of licensing and ongoing maintenance costs.

   


risk reduction

Risks come in many shapes and flavors, from non-compliance to government regulatory requirements, industry best practices, security posture, to mis-configuration. The StealthAUDIT Management Platform can help reduce risk associated with all of these items and much more. We allow for both reactive and proactive risk reduction across configuration, conformance, and permissions, as well as through the reduction of stale items that cause confusion.