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Comprehensive Benchmarks
Our comprehensive benchmark solution provides a comparative analysis of performance metrics for workload, costs, staffing, sourcing, complexity and aging against industry peers.  The benchmark results provide important metrics regarding hardware, software, sourcing and the personnel associated with each functional area of an IT organization.
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TAC understands the relationship between quantitative analysis and improved performance.  TAC's benchmarking services have been extremely helpful to our organization.  We know where we stand in comparison to other companies and know precisely where we need to improve.  -- A leading U.S. retailer
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Through our service offering, results are standardized and understandable.  The solution follows a rigorous process of data collection, validation, statistical analysis, and report generation.  The results provide clients with the capability to answer critical questions such as:

  1. How efficient and effective is our annual IT investment and how do we compare to our industry and work group peers?
  2. What is the current baseline of our continuous measurement and improvement processes?
  3. Do our technology and service offerings meet the dynamic needs of our customers?
  4. How do I know if we are being too cost-efficient?
  5. Is the IT investment aligned with enterprise and/or business unit strategic objectives?

Our solution will provide clients with the results necessary to answer these important questions and many others as well.  Through our solution clients can obtain baseline and comparative benchmarks of their organization.  This allows them to fully understand how their IT investments impact their organization and further, where critical changes must be made to improve overall efficiencies and to be more responsive to their customers.  Additionally, the value pricing of our solution enables the client price to often be 30% to 50% less than traditional benchmark service offerings.

Description

Our benchmarks are cost efficient and of the highest quality.  They can be customized to a client’s specific areas of focus and need.  These services are standardized while being unique, one of kind solutions for each client.  The use of a standard methodology and formatted templates provides consistent, repeatable results from client to client and from benchmark to benchmark.  Our state of the art analytical engine, automatically reviews the client data, builds statistical results and models, selects peer organizations and produces final reports and charts within an executive presentation template.

A TAC benchmark can provide an analysis of the following functional areas of an IT organization:

  • Desktop/client and peripherals
  • Help Desk
  • Midrange Server (Windows / Unix / AS/400)
  • Mainframe
  • Data network (wide-area, metro-area, local-area)
  • Voice network (wireline, wireless, PBX)
  • CIO Alignment with the Business
  • Customer Satisfaction

Our analysis is based on high-quality, objective, reliable data.  Our database represents more than 600 organizations spanning more than 20 industries including:

  • Banking
  • Conglomerate
  • Consumer Goods
  • Education
  • Electronics
  • Financial Services
  • Government (DoD)
  • Government (Federal)
  • Government (State and Local)
  • Health Care
  • Insurance
  • Manufacturing (Automotive)
  • Manufacturing (Consumables)
  • Manufacturing (Electronics)
  • Manufacturing (Equipment)
  • Manufacturing (General)
  • Professional Services
  • Technical Services
  • Telecommunications
  • Utilities

Target Audience

CIO (primary), CEO, CFO and senior IT staff.
Enterprises need to use comparative analysis to support their decisions in the complex business and IT environments they are working in on a daily basis.


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