Justifying capacity management by demonstrating the ROI (1 of 5)

When justifying Capacity management being able to show value is critical for success and over this series I'll look at ways in which Capacity Management brings value to the Enterprise.

 

 

Let’s start with a definition of Return on Investment.

 

One definition of ROI...

"For a given use of money in an enterprise, the ROI (return on investment) is how much profit or cost saving is realized. An ROI calculation is sometimes used along with other approaches to develop a business case for a given proposal.”

Capacity Management can help you to prevent Infrastructure Sprawl, it helps you to answer questions such as:

 

 

•      How much of the infrastructure is being used  efficiently?
 

•      How do you define efficient, and does it apply  uniformly?

•      Which systems will run out of capacity?
 

•      What visibility is required to make it run  efficiently?
 

On Friday I'll be looking at indicators of unmanaged capacity, you can use these to help with your cost justification.

 

Dale Feiste

Principal Consultant