enterprise strategy program offerings data sheet

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Business Before Technology

Enterprise Strategy ProgramPutting Business Before Technology

In today’s complex corporate environment, the lines tend to blur between business objectives and the technologythat can help achieve those objectives. Even with the best of intentions your corporate technology may actuallylimit—and even begin to dene—your business objectives.

As your business places ever-increasing demands on your technology infrastructure, it’s easy to lose sight of thebig picture: instead of business goals driving technology, technology begins to drive business goals. Rather thanapproaching technology with strategic, long-term vision, businesses nd themselves looking for short-term solutions,without fully realizing the value of the technologies in which they’ve already invested.

Introducing the Microsoft® Enterprise Strategy Program. An executive-level engagement program, led by adedicated Enterprise Architect skilled in aligning your existing Microsoft Enterprise Agreement with your company’sbusiness objectives.

The Enterprise Strategy Program is designed to help you maximize the return on investment for your entire Microsoftsoftware portfolio and services. After all, nobody knows Microsoft products and their capabilities better thanMicrosoft. But more than that, the Enterprise Strategy Program has been created to help you get the most fromyour entire heterogeneous enterprise-wide technical landscape. With the Enterprise Architect, you’ll get provensolutions and guidance from an executive that has faced and delivered on the same kinds of challenges you’re

dealing with today, and the experience gleaned from a software company that has learned from countless enterpriseengagements across the globe.

The Value of the Enterprise Strategy ProgramAccording to Forrester Research*, the following benets are the outcome of an Enterprise StrategyProgram engagement:

Accelerating business and IT outcomes.■ A broad combination of Enterprise Strategy Program activities may

allow customers to reach their desired end-states faster, often with improved outcomes. This results in faster

“time-to-market” for projects with associated downstream benets, and reduced labor expense associated

with project implementation.

De-risking the IT environment.■ By creating effective business-technology roadmaps and leveraging best

practice advice, customers may be able to reduce both project execution and operational risk from their ITenvironments. This results in reduced IT operations labor expense and project rework costs.

Optimiing business/IT alignment.■ Having access to the right business stakeholders allows Enterprise

Architects to create optimized IT/business roadmaps, and ensure that the appropriate Microsoft technologies

are used to maximize business outcomes. This results in improved timeliness and quality of IT delivered, which

generates incremental user productivity and avoids project rework costs.

*“The Total Economic Impact of Microsoft Services‘ Enterprise Strategy Program,” Forrester Research, Inc., May 2010



Maximiing the value derived from the Microsoft portfolio.■ Enterprise Architects can identify opportunities to

re-use Microsoft assets in multiple applications, and to substitute Microsoft assets for third-party applications.

This avoids third-party software maintenance expense and internal labor needed to support these products.

Unlocking assets to create future business value.■ An Enterprise Architect’s expertise and understanding of

a customer’s business environment will enable him or her to maximize your Microsoft investment which mayprovide additional business value in the future. New project investment is required to enable new capabilities

that would generate business value.

Enterprise Strategy Program Offerings

Delivered through a clearly structured multi-year engagement aligned to your Enterprise Agreement, theEnterprise Strategy Program enables you to maximize the value from your relationship with Microsoft byoptimizing your IT infrastructure, accelerating the value from business applications, and ultimately transformingyour business productivity.

All Enterprise Strategy Program engagements will focus on three core activities:

Strategy andPlanning

EnterpriseArchitecture

Business andIT Alignment

Orchestration Across Microsoft

Offering StructureThe Enterprise Strategy Program is offered in three tiers.

Enterprise Strategy Portfolio includes:

An executive-level three-year engagement to maximize the value from your Enterprise Agreement investment.■

A dedicated Enterprise Architect sourced from the Enterprise Strategy Network to lead the team.■

A Value Realization Assessment and Roadmap.■

Three Enterprise Strategy Projects, four Envisioning Workshops, Strategic Briengs, and■

Customer Connection Programs.

Access to some of the most accomplished and highly skilled professionals across the globe through■

the Enterprise Strategy Network.

Use of IP from the Enterprise Strategy Library by the Enterprise Architect to deliver value for specic scenarios.■

Enterprise Strategy Foundation includes:

An executive-level three-year engagement to maximize the value from your Enterprise Agreement investment.■

A shared Enterprise Architect sourced from the Enterprise Strategy Network to lead the team.■

A Value Realization Assessment and Roadmap.■

One Enterprise Strategy Project, two Envisioning Workshops, Strategic Briengs, and Customer■

Connection Programs.

Access to some of the most accomplished and highly skilled professionals across the globe through■

the Enterprise Strategy Network.

Use of IP from the Enterprise Strategy Library by the Enterprise Architect to deliver value for specic scenarios. ■



Add-on Projects will be available for an additional fee.

Enterprise Strategy Projects include:

A shared Enterprise Architect to deliver senior business/IT-level 10-12 week customer projects.■

Use of IP from the Enterprise Strategy Library by the Enterprise Architect to deliver value for specic scenarios.■

Deliverables can include a strategic plan, business case, benets realization plan, architecture roadmap, etc.■

Cost ModelsThe Enterprise Strategy Program is a xed-fee offering with a standard set of core deliverables for every customer anda collection of elective deliverables selected depending on your unique situation. The offerings focus on transformingand accelerating your business in the areas of business productivity, applications, and IT infrastructure through aprogrammatic approach that brings 100 percent of Microsoft’s experience and proven practices to your business.

Both the Portfolio and Foundation offerings include access to the program resources. Plus, both are able to engagesubject matter expert resources, access Shared Services and the Enterprise Strategy Library, and utilize the EnterpriseStrategy Network.

The offerings at a glance:

P R O G R A M

O F F E R I N G S

$ 5 0 0 K U S D

P o r t f o l i o

DedicatedEnterpriseArchitect

ValueRealiationAssessment

and Roadmap

ThreeEnterpriseStrategyProjects

FourEnvisioningWorkshops

StrategicBriefngs

CustomerConnectionPrograms

EnterpriseStrategyNetwork

EnterpriseStrategyLbrary

V A L U E R E A L I z A T I O N F R A M E W O R K

$ 2 5 0 K U S D

F o u n d a t i o n

SharedEnterpriseArchitect

ValueRealiationAssessment

and Roadmap

OneEnterpriseStrategyProject

TwoEnvisioningWorkshops

StrategicBriefngs

CustomerConnectionPrograms

EnterpriseStrategyNetwork


V A L U E R E A L I z A T I O N F R A M E W O R K

$ 1 2 5 K U S D

P r o j e c t

SharedEnterpriseArchitect

SingleEnterpriseStrategyProject




To learn more about how the Microsoft Enterprise Strategy Program can help you align your businessobjectives with your existing Microsoft technologies while realiing the full value of your MicrosoftEnterprise Agreement, call or contact your Microsoft Sales representative for a comprehensive presentationand prospectus. Or visit www.microsoft.com/services for more information.

Offering component details:

Enterprise Architect Designated on-site strategist who creates and executes your service delivery plan,and orchestrates the right global and regional expertise, to maximize value fromyour Enterprise Agreement investment. He or she acts as your internal advocate

at Microsoft to help make sure that the appropriate resources are engaged toplan your strategic issues. He or she also facilitates the delivery of all strategyservices. The Enterprise Architect is either shared with other customers or isdedicated to one customer depending on the service offering purchased.

Value RealizationAssessment andRoadmap

Builds and executes on an enterprise-level strategic plan for realizing yourEnterprise Agreement value. Includes an initial accelerated kick-start sessionand ongoing regular updates that occur quarterly (at a minimum).

Customer Projects Strategy, oversight, and adoption projects for key business problems identiedand prioritized through the creation of your enterprise-level strategic plan. Thenumber of projects that can be executed annually depends on the ser vice offeringpurchased. Projects are sized to have an elapsed duration of approximately90 days. If you wish to engage in additional prioritized projects that are not

included in the service offering, you can do so through the purchase of Add-on Projects.

EnvisioningWorkshops

Helps your business and IT leaders understand the relevance of emergingtechnologies and industry insights to your business, sourced from Microsoft’sglobal engagements and research. These executive-level workshops last up to oneday and are conducted at Microsoft’s regional ofces.

Strategic Briefngs Global one hour web conferences for business and IT leaders on business andindustry opportunities, technology trends, and Microsoft’s strategic points of viewfor the most important topical issues chosen by our customers. These sessionsare regularly held on a published schedule and restricted to ser vice offeringpurchasers only. Private briengs on specic topics of interest to your organizationcan be organized as required.

Customer ConnectionPrograms

Enables connection to Microsoft and senior IT and business leaders from othercustomers, providing forums for sharing best practices and thought-leadership—helping customers turn their technology investments into strategic assets. Thisincludes access to Microsoft’s Early Adoption Programs, where customers meetthe specic entry criteria.

Enterprise StrategyNetwork

Includes access to the largest set of subject matter expertise on the planet forbridging Microsoft technology to business needs. The Enterprise Architect utilizesour extensive network to orchestrate and bring in domain-specic global andregional expertise for specic customer initiatives.

Enterprise StrategyLibrary

Includes specialized IP, value realization frameworks, reference architectures, andbest practices from our thousands of global engagements, synthesized by theEnterprise Architect to meet your specic needs.

Add-on Projects Additional projects can be purchased to allow focus on additional initiatives.Each Add-on Project purchased extends the service offering by one additionalCustomer Project.

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