A roadmap to managing costs and the environment

Sunday, 12 February 2012

RESOURCE CENTRE

Tax and Revenue Management: A government’s lifeblood

IT has provided the opportunities for governments to remodel the entire process of tax collection over the last decade. It is, however, a continuously evolving process and governments the world over need to constantly upgrade their tax systems to optimise their revenue workflows.

Unlocking Public Value

A recent SAP study confirmed that those organisations which adopt best practices in the areas of scope and adoption, process standardisation, technology and customer governance, do perform better, and do so as their best practice maturity increases.

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The advent of social media has seen governments hopping onto the bandwagon in a bid to further engage citizens.

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A FutureGov discussion with Mr. Jeffrey Yeow, Senior Country Head of Solutions, Datacraft Singapore and Mr. Zaqy Mohamad Sales Director, Datacraft Singapore

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Datacraft was presented with a classic growth problem from a client. Their data requirements had grown over time but their technology assets had grown at an even faster rate. They now had three data centres in different locations – and wanted to rationalise their systems.

The Datacraft team started with a data centre maturity assessment process to gauge the client’s current and future data requirements. They discovered that the client had a lot of redundant equipment and outdated software programmes, which was contributing to the power and cooling bills.

As a result of this assessment, the client was able to reduce their data centres from three to one – and achieve a resulting cost saving of 33%, including being able to reallocate staff to more useful application development programmes.

At the core of this process was the Data Centre Maturity Workshop – which enabled the client to do a selfassessment. The workshop has been designed to promote clarity and consensus on the state of the organisation’s infrastructure in terms of development, performance, operational practices and strategic execution. It also helps to devise a roadmap for future aspirations.

Other processes that Datacraft commonly use with clients include the “Power and Cooling Assessment”. The first stage involves a close review of current power and cooling capacity and usage. Secondly, an analysis of hot spots, rack, aisle and subfloor layout improvements, inefficient airflow distribution, ageing infrastructure and opportunities for device consolidation or removal. And finally actionable recommendations to optimise infrastructure, reduce power requirements, increase power and cooling capacity and reduce cost.

And if the client want’s further levels of support they can choose from the “Data Centre Relocation Workshop”, the “Data Profiler Assessment” (which identifies opportunities to reduce storage costs through file server consolidation, tiering old data and eliminating duplicates and non-business related information) and the “Backup and Recovery Assessment”.

Datacraft recognises the implication of the growth of unstructured data in the public sector – and the increasing demand from citizens on information collated from government agencies. Being vendor-neutral, Datacraft is well positioned to provide an initial consultation and help public sector agencies to address some difficult questions before the RFP process kicks off.

Find out more at http://www.datacraft-asia.com/datacentre