It’s impossible for IT teams to optimize costs and achieve cost savings without a clear understanding of what assets are deployed across the estate and how those assets are used by employees to meet their business goals.
Workplace analytics plays a crucial role in enabling organizations to rapidly improve productivity and achieve savings in both direct and indirect costs.
Not all usage data is helpful. Sometimes software products come with in-built metering, but these in-built offerings typically only provide an indication of how many times an application has been opened over a certain period, or the last time it was launched.
These tools lack important ‘active usage’ metering capabilities, so the information they provide is of limited use and using this partial view to make software license cost savings has limited scope.
Active usage metering exposes cost savings that would have previously remained hidden. Bad practice by users, applications that automatically launch when booting the device, over provision of entitlements etc. all incur unnecessary expense that can be quickly cut, once the active usage data is available.
Acumen enables both immediate short-term cost cutting initiatives and ongoing cost management programs, through the discovery and capture of detailed forensic usage information associated with technology and processes across the IT estate.
Acumen enables both immediate short-term cost cutting initiatives and ongoing cost management programs, through the discovery and capture of detailed forensic usage information associated with technology and processes across the IT estate.
Beyond the immediate ability to rationalize and optimize assets and processes across the IT estate, workplace analytics underpins the achievement of greater indirect savings associated with ongoing enhancements to digital employee experiences and digital transformation.
Workplace analytics delivers the measurement and insight to realize the anticipated benefits of digital transformation and cost reduction projects. Organizations charged with strategic objectives and initiatives that are designed to deliver cost savings and productivity improvements often fail to establish the right KPIs that can be measured on an ongoing basis and rolled up to deliver a dashboard view on the current status, risks, and opportunities.