Information Technology
Applications:
Our services help you maximize value and return:
- Establishing baselines for your existing applications portfolio, your capabilities, capacity and costs, and matching it to your competition and sources of outsourcing opportunity.
- Provider outreach and selection using sophisticated specification and benchmarking tools to precisely express and refine your application outsourcing requirements. We ensure you meet or exceed industry performance and cost standards.
- Transition design and implementation services that blend organizations, management relationships, and technical platforms to deliver all of the benefits targeted at the outset of the application outsourcing engagement.
- Developing new strategic approaches for provisioning your business systems based on your unique business needs, and our command of the outsourcing marketplace.
- Negotiation and delivery of contracts that support sustainable relationships by ensuring risks and responsibilities are properly aligned as your organization evolves.
Data Center:
Globe-x is committed to help:
- Perform technical and financial benchmarking for your data center operations, including profiles and assessments of your applications, hardware, network, heating, ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC), power, security, staffing, policies, and procedures.
- Identify technical and operational opportunities for realigning data center operations to take advantage of leading outsourcing strategies.
- Develop business cases for the most effective outsourcing alternatives, including an evaluation of in-sourced options if desired.
- Prepare detailed requirements documents and help you select a pool of qualified data center outsourcing providers to meet your specific needs.
- Evaluate and down-select the most appropriate providers and set up in-depth solution sessions to further qualify candidates.
- Design and conduct negotiation sessions utilizing market-proven guidelines and our extensive contract knowledgebase to create a fair, sustainable outsourcing deal.
Network Management:
Our services help you maximize value:
- Technical and financial analysis and benchmarking for your existing wide and local area network systems, including consolidation or collection of new network performance information and a review of your existing network-related contract commitments.
- Design and specification of the best network infrastructure to support your current and projected business communications plan, identifying the key elements you should retain and identifying the network components most advantageous to outsource.
- Drafting and delivering complete technical and financial specifications and performance requirements to the appropriate provider pool.
- Review and selection of the best responses to your network requirements including detailed solutioning with selected providers.
- Contract Negotiation with selected providers ensuring multi-source agreements is tightly structured to support your complete network performance accountability.
- Transition Management and follow-up monitoring to ensure your initial network infrastructure objectives are met or exceeded.
Help Desk:
We have ITIL trained help desk consultants to assist with:
- Collecting and analyzing current help desk performance data and future requirements while providing highly accurate industry benchmarking data to assess the accuracy, cost and satisfaction with support for both generic and specialized IT applications and services.
- Designing and evaluating a range of help desk delivery options taking into consideration IT complexity, global corporate reach, integration with other IT services and corporate culture.
- Selecting the best help desk sourcing option on-shore or off and founded on the ITIL-based service configuration service levels that best meet your needs. We generate a Request for Proposal (RFP) to solicit the greatest response.
- Negotiating service contracts that embed ITIL best practices into a clear, enforceable, sustainable and transparent delivery framework.
- Implementing a comprehensive transition process that prepares your retained organization to manage help desk operations to achieve forecasted value and performance.
- Monitoring the performance of your help desk organization over time as your business evolves.
End User:
Globe-x can assist by:
- Collecting and analyzing desktop support data – including performance, cost metrics in all areas and across all devices, responsiveness, security, asset control, licensing and other dimensions of desktop service.
- Benchmarking data and establishing service level and cost goals that meet your current and forecasted needs.
- Creating desktop service alternatives for review, examining opportunities for internal organizational change and/or the use of outsourcing options based on recognized ITIL service delivery standards.
- Selecting the best options through development of Request for Proposals (RFP’s) and evaluating RFP responses for those components that deliver optimal performance for the value from the provider marketplace.
- Down-selecting one or more desktop service providers, negotiating fair and sustainable agreements with them to create accountability across organizational structures, processes, policies and procedures.
- Transitioning and implementing new services and integrating selected outsourced providers with your retained organization.
- Monitoring the success of your outsourced desktop services program as your business grows and evolves.
Software: