A large, prestigious health system wanted help determining a future infrastructure strategy for its enterprise software platform. Organization leadership was aware of recent technological innovations and expressed a desire to keep their infrastructure up to date in a cost-effective manner. The health system’s concern was mainly centered around its data centers and the ability to provide next-generation capabilities that perform and scale to meet future demand.
Impact Advisors provided a comprehensive and unbiased evaluation of four hosting options for the health system: 1) on-premises, 2) software vendor hosted, 3) private hosted, and 4) public cloud hosted.
A Comprehensive, Impartial Analysis of Hosting Options
At the health system’s request, Impact Advisors approached the engagement as a research project. The team conducted a thorough, impartial analysis of four enterprise software platform hosting options to ensure an accurate “apples-to-apples” comparison that reflected the unique priorities and makeup of the health system.
Impact Advisors’ detailed analysis was based on:
- In-depth interviews with key health system leaders and operational stakeholders related to the organization’s mindset, focus, and priorities for their platform software infrastructure.
- Relevant documentation, such as data capacities, disaster recovery strategies, FTEs, and total cost of ownership (TCO).
- Information collected from vendors, including hardware configuration and cloud solutions guides.
- Impact Advisors’ deep experience and knowledge of hybrid cloud architecture strategies from previous projects, applying lessons learned to identify the specific evaluation criteria that would benefit the health system.
A Recipe For Success
This engagement underscores how Impact Advisors is distinctly qualified to help hospitals and health systems accurately evaluate enterprise software platform hosting options. Impact Advisors brought in a team with deep cloud infrastructure expertise and extensive knowledge of the software. The group had longstanding relationships with all of the vendors, which enabled effective and efficient collection of information needed for the analysis. Impact Advisors’ active collaboration with the executive sponsor at the health system was also critical to the project’s success, ensuring the team developed a framework and evaluation criteria that reflected the client’s unique priorities, needs, and current IT environment.
Positive Impact
Impact Advisors’ analysis supplied the health system with a clear and consumable assessment of the four hosting options. Because of the team’s disciplined approach, which impartially examined all four scenarios, Impact Advisors provided the client with a true “apples-to-apples” comparison that accurately accounted for the health system’s priorities, IT environment, and FTEs. Two options evaluated by Impact Advisors represented significant savings from the current enterprise platform infrastructure expenditure. Impact Advisors calculated that the most cost-effective option, cloud hosting, would save the client more than 40% over five years.
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