Business and Return on Investment (ROI) Analytics:

Our business and return on investment (ROI) analytics allow you to compare potential IT investments and make informed judgments on where you can realize the greatest benefit from dollars spent.

To conduct a ROI analysis, we use the proprietary Alinean methodology and model, which compares your data and information to IDC’s research findings for your industry. Our process begins with interviews that delve into cost, revenue, and specific IT processes, including associated time and staffing requirements before and after deploying the IT solution. From the interview results, we can calculate cost savings and additional revenue that would result from the IT solution, as well as the average payback period and ROI.

Western Blue, an NWN Company has created a Deployment Optimization Assessment Model to analyze your current deployment practices, make recomendations and quantify the volume of improving practices. If you would like to access this form, please click here.

A proper ROI analysis helps you see ways to maximize your assets, increase profitability, and grow your business.

Maximizing assets

IT is designed to enhance productivity. To determine if an IT deployment achieves that goal, the ROI analysis evaluates how effectively a solution increases the percentage of employee time spent in activities that contribute to business success. The measure of productivity is employees’ time and the value of that time based on the employees’ salary.

Increasing profitability

Growth is out; profitability is in. In times of flat growth, companies maintain and increase profits by reducing costs. IT solutions can reduce costs in three ways:

• Lower the cost of ownership by extending equipment life span, increasing scalability, consolidating equipment, and reducing maintenance costs.
• Reduce travel, which decreases the real dollar costs of airfare, lodging, and meals.
• Most significantly, by increasing productivity, support staff is able to use fewer resources to support more people and equipment.

Growing your business

Solid IT solutions improve employee productivity, freeing them to focus on strategic business goals. In addition, a well-implemented IT solution decreases network downtime, reducing the primary source of lost revenue. On average, increasing availability by .1% generates $1 million per year in a large enterprise. As ecommerce or online transactions become more prevalent, downtime becomes more expensive and cuts deeper into an organization’s revenue. While we tend to quantify downtime as simply lost revenue proportional to total revenue (one hour of downtime per day means a loss of between 4 percent and 12 percent of that day’s revenue), downtime also creates lost future revenue, as customers tend to gravitate to more reliable competitors.

Why Business & ROI Analytics?

Making the Business Case

• Our business and ROI analytics include payback period, net present value savings and internal rate of return to help prioritize and justify project investments. The analysis turns ideas into dollars, giving you solid information that can help you convince executive management that a proposed solution makes good business sense.

Comparing and Selecting Solutions

• ROI comparison tools provide a competitive justification by showing why a specific solution is a better choice economically.
• Technology comparison tools put features and functions head to head to illustrate strengths and weaknesses.

Discovering Opportunities

• Tools with gap analysis capability and maturity models help benchmark current people, processes, and technology against industry best practices and after-implementation scenarios.

To find out more, talk to your Western Blue representative or contact us at 800.660.0430 or by email: sales@westernblue.com.