First the is to analyse the whole cost of the soltution.
1.) Intial cost of software licence + whole implemation cost of the solution + manpower did and in which time it could be done
Compare two products
1.) Software product 1 intial price low , implementation cost high , operation cost high, complex solution
2.) Software product 2 initial price high, implementation cost low, operation cost low , comple solution
Conclusion : Product 2 is overall cheaper ans easier.
Take a look at Buisness process reengineering
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_process_reengineering
Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) is basically the fundamental re-thinking and radical re-design, made to an organization's existing resources. It is more than just business improvising.
Often, no one is responsible for the overall performance of the entire process. Re-engineering maintains that optimizing the performance of subprocesses can result in some benefits, but cannot yield dramatic improvements if the process itself is fundamentally inefficient and outmoded. For that reason, re-engineering focuses on re-designing the process as a whole in order to achieve the greatest possible benefits to the organization and their customers. This drive for realizing dramatic improvements by fundamentally re-thinking how the organization's work should be done distinguishes re-engineering from process improvement efforts that focus on functional or incremental improvement
the major challenge for managers is to obliterate non-value adding work, rather than using technology for automating it.[2] This statement implicitly accused managers of having focused on the wrong issues, namely that technology in general, and more specifically information technology, has been used primarily for automating existing processes rather than using it as an enabler for making non-value adding work obsolete
Hammer's claim was simple: Most of the work being done does not add any value for customers, and this work should be removed, not accelerated through automation
Definition
Different definitions can be found. This section contains the definition provided in notable publications in the field:
- "... the fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of business processes to achieve dramatic improvements in critical modern measures of performance, such as cost, quality, service, and speed."[5]
- "encompasses the envisioning of new work strategies, the actual process design activity, and the implementation of the change in all its complex technological, human, and organizational dimensions."[
So ask our self how many step do you need to install a hyper-v on an X86 server. At the moment we do not install esxi. We order a X86 server were ESXi is allready installed on an sd card since 2008. This means we do not need to rollout , install esxi world wide. Only Update with Update Manager. So we killed many non value working tasks, which costs before our resource.
We now can do other things. Programming and so on.
MAy be this is helpful for you
