IT Landscape Management

IT Landscape Management can be defined as the understanding created by a transparent view across infrastructure, applications, business IT Landscape Management can be defined as the understanding created by a transparent view across infrastructure, applications and business process; their interrelationship and their measured effect on the organisation.

A decade ago Bill Gates stated in his book “Business @ the Speed of Thought” that whilst spending on IT was at an all time high only 20% of IT systems were being utilised to their maximum.

IT Landscape Management has an organisational impact on both an operational and strategic level whilst allowing the business layer a greater understanding of IT. To possess a clear schematic of your macro and micro architecture can enable you to better prepare your team for operational changes, understand complexity and business process flows.Without the right information at hand a manager is unlikely to be able to gauge the result and impact of their choices. The use of IT Landscape Management will become a key component of your planning process, because you will understand these impacts at a business, infrastructure, applications and process level. The affect of documenting items including systems, infrastructure, residing information, legislation and policy will assist in better understanding information silo challenges. The utilisation of this information will assist system recording, security planning, business recovery requirements, strategic outlook and resourcing. Consequently enabling the business to direct IT towards its strategic goals not the enhancement of the technical complexity.

The current economic climate is exacting requirements around efficiency that have not been seen in more than a generation, IT has never been held to this kind of scrutiny. The ability to map and understand IT Landscape Management is the core detail IT can reach, to become the mechanism for change it has always promised.