Alsbridge Inc. Releases New Report on Benchmarking Global IT Enterprise

Online, April 2, 2013 (Newswire.com) - Award winning benchmarking, sourcing and transformation advisory firm, Alsbridge, Inc., today released a report on Benchmarking Global IT Enterprise. Emphasizing the importance of cost segmentation in the benchmarking process, this report offers advice on how organizations can place their existing IT costs into market comparable "buckets."

Internal IT departments often have cost structures very dissimilar to current or typical market pricing packages. Outsourcing providers package services in infrastructure "towers" including:

• Mainframe Services

• Server Management

• Desktop

• Storage Area Network (SAN)

• Network Management

• Service Desk

• Applications Development and Maintenance Labor Rates

At one extreme, budgets for an IT enterprise may be no more than a single column of costs in support of all aspects of IT, applications and infrastructure services combined. Sometimes it is broken into two groups of cost: infrastructure services and applications, but rarely is it broken into the noted infrastructure "towers" that may be compared to outsourcing providers' services. It is integral to know where you are coming from to understand where need to go.

Ben Trowbridge, Chairman and CEO, Alsbridge Inc., says "When taking the cost segmentation to the next level, be prepared to go to a low level of detail to separate some costs from an existing cost or price so that the cost elements of the services are packaged similarly to the current market price packaging."

It is very important to make sure to understand the current budget format and availability of information as enter discussions on any market analysis. At many large companies with global IT support, often the budgets in the headquarters' locations are in order, but many field offices and remote locations will be at the other end of the spectrum. In many cases, it may require multiple months to build an internal cost or price model that is comparable to current market prices for a global organization. This ultimately affects not only the total cost to a client for a project like this, but will also affect the schedule of the market price analysis effort.

To know more about Benchmarking Global IT Enterprise, download the complete report here.