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Implement Systems Management to Improve Availability and Visibility

Without sound systems management practices, you don’t control outages, they control you.

  • The IT environment has grown increasingly complex. You need to rein in complexity and handle it centrally. Admin wants reliable data in one place and a strategy for making use of that data.
  • You want to implement systems management but are unsure how to do so in a resource-challenged environment.
  • You need to determine what are the key areas to focus on, and what tools, processes, and practices make sense to create a sustainable systems management program.

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Critical Insight

  • Every IT department does systems management, even if only ad hoc or informally. This blueprint will help you make more productive use of time and effort you already spend managing systems and problems.
  • No service or system can perform better than its weakest component. You probably don’t know what your real priorities are until you create a baseline and visualize real or estimated performance and criticality.

Impact and Result

  • Reduce disruptions caused by unplanned downtime by establishing systems management discipline.
  • Reduce time and effort to resolve issues by improving visibility into systems and coordination across teams.

Implement Systems Management to Improve Availability and Visibility Research & Tools

1. Make the case

Improve availability and visibility.

2. Analyze systems management priorities and challenges

Identify systems management priorities and build a business case, and identify opportunities and challenges.

3. Decide on systems management goals, solutions, and next steps

Ensure project alignment and execution, and focus on solutions that are best suited for your organization’s needs.

4. Implement systems management processes and tools

Maximize benefits and value of the systems management solution.

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Get the help you need in this 1-phase advisory process. You'll receive 3 touchpoints with our researchers, all included in your membership.

  • Call 1: Analyze your systems management priorities and challenges

    Save time by targeting areas with the most impact and business value. Assess your current and target capability levels in order to ground project execution in concrete, realistic objectives.

  • Call 2: Decide on systems management goals, solutions, and next steps

    Make decisions on tools, processes, and people involved in systems management. Make a business case for investing in a systems management solution. Expedite the evaluation and selection process in order to get to pilot and deployment phases faster.

  • Call 3: Implement systems management processes and tools

    Mitigate common risks and pitfalls. Sustain and continuously improve your systems management implementation. Track benefits and value of the systems management project.

Authors

Sandi Conrad

Brian Frank

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