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Affordable and Adaptable IT (A2IT) – Moving towards the Next Generation IT
In recent years, companies have been working hard towards reducing the cost of IT - the data centers, networks, IT planning, architecture, and software tools that support businesses. In some cases there have been efforts to consolidate, standardize, and streamline assets, technologies, and processes, which delivered major savings. Yet even the most effective cost-cutting program eventually hits a wall due to the complexity of the infrastructure, architecture, and planning challenges.
In many organizations complicated IT-planning and on-demand infrastructure acquisition lead to complex and inflexible architecture, making the IT architecture rigid. As a result it increases the cost of IT, cost of maintaining these systems and leaves most of the resources under utilized.
The goal is to make the IT infrastructure, architecture and planning simple, flexible and cost efficient. Effective planning makes it possible to group thousands of applications and databases dispersed across the architecture, into logical blocks with minimum interconnections and reduce the cost of maintenance.
CTE’s Adaptable and Affordable IT (A2IT) framework provides the basis for managing the entire organizations’ IT needs, and offers next generation plan to revamp technology infrastructure and enterprise architecture. The framework comprises of three components i.e., A2IT Infrastructure, A2IT Architecture, and A2IT Planning.
The A2IT Framework
CTE's Affordable and Adaptable IT is a robust and scalable framework that encompasses the Infrastructure, Architecture and Planning to eliminate the integration complexities, rigidity, and duplication of functionality across an enterprise.
A2IT Infrastructure eliminates the build to order mind-set of people in an organization and enables optimum utilization of the existing IT infrastructure. This is done by identifying present and future infrastructure needs, classifying these needs based on user demands, creating product portfolios and standardized process for managing infrastructure needs across the organization.
A2IT Architecture approach enables you to transform the existing IT architecture to support seamless flow of information between departments in the organization by classifying applications into different domains, identifying services and making them share information through standard interfaces.

A2IT Planning helps align your IT infrastructure and architecture requirements to enable greater output, flexibility and boosts utilization of assets. Organizations have a number of old, legacy and new systems working together. Efficient IT planning enables organizations to enhance or modify the viable systems while replacing the others and adding new ones, and ensuring that they are not interdependent. A2IT planning is an effective approach that helps you solve IT planning complexities and thereby reduces IT costs.

Benefits
A2IT implementation delivers the following benefits:
  • Optimization of existing infrastructure and architecture enables greater output and flexibility
  • Eliminates redundant infrastructure
  • Boost the utilization and improved return on assets
  • Reduce connection points from a typical n to 2n
  • Reduce IT infrastructure, architecture and planning costs and complexity
  • Improve time to market for new applications
CTE Capability
CTE is the next-generation business solutions provider, headquartered in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus at Cambridge, Massachusetts. CTE is positioned at the heart of the technology innovation and thought leadership.
Cambridge Technology Enterprises (CTE) has delivered solutions to the clients based on the A2IT framework. CTE uses its partner alliances, SEI CMMI Level 5 process and RAD delivery model to provide rapid value realization to the customer. We have provided A2IT consulting services to companies, to improve the IT architecture, consolidated and standardized hardware and services. Our clients are now running their businesses more efficiently. A2IT framework reduces the potential infrastructure cost of an organization by 20 %, thereby making the companies more efficient.
CTE can be ideally positioned as your strategic change management partner in architecting an effective, efficient and agile IT architecture.
CIOs need to act now
Industry is becoming competitive day by day. Mergers and acquisitions have become the order of the day for companies to expand and increase their marketshare. Organizations in order to sustain and lead in their marketspace, while managing the growth, need to excel in their business and buildup the stakeholders' value very efficiently. This is the right time for CEOs, CIOs, CTOs, in an ever-increasing complex IT architecture and infrastructure, to develop an effective, efficient and agile IT strategy, that will help them meet their business goals and corporate objectives.
For more information on A2IT, please visit www.ctepl.com, or e-mail us at a2it@ctepl.com.