Heidi Gabrielson

Global enterprises and growing businesses are harnessing IT to add branch offices, remote sites and enabling mobile users. Simultaneously, they are decreasing the IT administrative footprint, boosting productivity, working with greater efficiency, and improving the bottom line. IT initiatives such as data center consolidation, cloud computing, virtualization, and new application deployments can help meet all of these objectives, but in many cases these projects are major undertakings that consume significant time and resources and are fraught with risk. Planning for these IT changes can be a long and error-prone process, but an accurate and comprehensive understanding of IT infrastructure is a necessity for successful implementations and smoother transitions. To avoid problems and make good decisions, organizations must create high-quality project plans with accur... (more)