cutting agency it costs, growing innovation
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As government digital strategy becomes more and more pertinent, innovation is the name of the game for the success of today's agency. But how do you continue to innovate despite the constraints of reduced IT budgets? How do you identify and overcome inefficiencies in architectures that increase costs and constrain growth? In this webcast, Apigee's Brian Pagano and John Rethans discuss how to cut your agency's IT costs.TRANSCRIPT
May21, 2014
Cutting Agency IT Costs, Growing Innovation
John Rethans@john_rethans
Brian Pagano@brianpagano
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• Doing more with less
• Cleaning house
What is IT rationalization?
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Enabling the digital value chain
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API team BackendUser Apps Developer APIs
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Core Systems
API Layer
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Cost avoidanceNot paying for something you would have paid for otherwise
Cost savingsReducing a current payment
Defining our terms
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Four categories of rationalization
Operational
Process
ComplianceDevelopment
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Identify bottlenecks
Capacity planning
Caching
Runtime
Operational savings
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Reduce audit costs
The hamster wheel of compliance
Regulatory and compliance savings
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Reduce the headaches of homegrown systems
Configure, don’t code
Ramp development teams faster
Reduce backlog of back-end teams
Development savings
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Simplify governance
Make vendor upgrades easier
Process savings
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• Are you considering SOA tools like a service registry?
• Will you need to write functionality (location, device type, or push notifications, for example) that is common to all modern apps?
• How much effort will it take to safely and scalably expose your back-end systems?
• Will you need to acquire or build a system to on-board and manage developers?
• What is the process for on-boarding a new internal development team?
• What is the process for on-boarding a new partner or agency?
• How long does it take to get a new app into service?
• How much of your traffic could be cached?
• How easy is it to project server capacity requirements for the coming year?
• Could your governance process be simplified?
• How much time and effort is spent on minor change requests?
Questions to help with rationalization
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The use of an exposure and consumption layer canbe a powerful tool in reducing IT costs.
Abstracting each service or agency up to a clean API façade can make your life better.
APIs will also make you better-looking and give you the ability to fly.*
*These claims have not been validated, but they sure would be cool.
Summary
Questions?
John Rethans@john_rethans
Brian Pagano@brianpagano
Thank you
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