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Enterprise Transformation Workshop

Identify a fast path to business acceleration

KEY BENEFITS

Align IT Goals to Your Business Identify a fast path to storage architecture and processes that help accelerate business. Prioritize Projects to Maximize Impact Create a strategy to increase the efficiency and flexibility of your IT organization. Justify the Value of Transformation to the Organization Provide clearly defined objectives that support business goals to your organization.

Challenge Accelerating your business requires a plan Businesses like yours are always looking for ways to minimize costs and decrease risk, while accelerating innovation and increasing business agility to respond to the marketplace. Solutions such as virtualization, IT-asa-Service (IaaS), and cloud computing are ways to achieve these goals. Meanwhile, any investments must be justified and demonstrate measurable benefits to the business as a whole. The question is, how do you determine the best place to start? At NetApp, we think the first step is to conduct an objective evaluation of your current capabilities and business challenges.1 Solution Get a fast start to business flexibility and efficiency The NetApp Enterprise Transformation Workshop is a proven approach to help you identify, align, and prioritize IT objectives for maximum business impact. Our workshop is designed to help you evaluate your business needs and find the fastest path to creating the storage architecture and processes that will help your IT organization be more flexible and efficient.

Unlike other workshops that are long and costly, NetApp takes a valuedriven, analytical approach and focuses on delivering outcomes quickly. Heres what you can expect: Near-term actionable outcomes that are tied to a cohesive IT strategy Real-time advice from our experienced enterprise infrastructure experts A solution proposal with global scale Accurate and efficient analyses via proven IT assessment tools The NetApp Enterprise Transformation Workshop teaches you how to assess the current state of your business and address future requirements as well, creating a future-proof shared IT infrastructure plan that is actionable today. With NetApp as a reliable partner, youll be able to deploy your IT plan with confidence. Service Scope Near-term actionable outcomes and a cohesive IT strategy The NetApp Enterprise Transformation Workshop helps you evaluate your business from both operational and technologicalviewpoints. Youll assess your current capability to cope with anticipated growth and business requirements and receive a summary of areas recommended for near-term improvement. Youll also receive a

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STEPS
1. Discovery 2. Identify challenges 3. Prioritize actions 4. Recommend next steps

INPUTS
Business objectives Financial, operational, technology challenges Prior analysis and NetApp domain expertise Financial analysis and prioritized outcomes

PROCESS
Gather data Analyze and summarize customer data Facilitate in-person workshop NetApp presentation to customer

OUTPUTS
A shared baseline for analysis A bounded problem statement and scope List of practical actions prioritized by impact Executive report of transformation proposal

project proposal along with actionable next steps for achieving one or all of the following: Better storage efficiency: Thin provisioning, virtual cloning, de-duplication A virtualized infrastructure: Server and storage virtualization capabilities A shared IT infrastructure: ITILaligned processes, services-oriented infrastructure, services-management standards The table above summarizes the steps, inputs, process, and outcomes driven by our workshop process. Exclusions The NetApp Enterprise Transformation Workshop is a tightly defined assessment. This workshop does not include storage or software technology design and implementation, installation of data collection tools, or configuration changes by NetApp personnel.

Why Consult with Netapp For decades, enterprises in financial services, telecommunications, energy, high-tech, and manufacturing have capitalized on the extensive experience of NetApp consultants. NetApps Professional Services team delivers innovative solutions that help to increase your ROI immediately. Our credentials include the following: More than 5,000 global customers An extensive list of delivery and technology partnerships 500 storage consultants worldwide Thought leadership for the Technology Professional Services Association (TPSA) and Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA)

Lets Get Started Learn more about how NetApp can work with you to capitalize on NetApp technology and maximize your entire IT investment. Contact your local NetApp representative or visit www.netapp.com. About NetApp NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that deliver outstanding cost efficiency and accelerate business breakthroughs. Discover our passion for helping companies around the world go further, faster at www.netapp.com. Go further, faster

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