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Achieving Business Value with

Managed Services An IDC InfoBrief, sponsored by Avanade | May 2014

An IDC InfoBrief, sponsored by Avanade | Document #247693

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Business Value Highlights IDC’s research and analysis* demonstrates that Avanade’s Application and Infrastructure Managed Services delivered an average payback period of just over four months from going live, and an ROI of 446% through the following benefits:

RETURNING OVER $5

Payback period just over four months. ROI: 446%.

Lowering annual operations cost by $2.2 M while increasing revenue

IN BENEFITS FOR EVERY $1 INVESTED

Helping IT staff achieve 67% time savings and productivity gains on application development and 42% on application management

Mitigating risks by reducing downtime by 64%

* IDC utilized its standard ROI methodology for the results shown in this electronic book, which were adapted from the IDC White Paper, Achieving Business Value with Avanade’s Application and Infrastructure Managed Services, by David Tapper and Randy Perry. This methodology is based on gathering data from current users of Avanade’s services as the foundation for the model. For more information, please visit www.avanade.com/managedservices.

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Lowering infrastructure costs by an average of 13%

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Transforming the Economics of IT As more employees treat business IT like it was theirs – bringing their own mobile devices to work, or leveraging social media to pursue business opportunities, or adopting a cloud service for important business processes – more pressure

grows on IT departments to overcome obstacles presented by these technologies and capitalize on the opportunities. Yet, when asked to use technology to innovate while also maintaining a steady state, IT struggles to respond without the needed resources and skill sets. IDC research shows that enterprises increasingly turn to managed services to mitigate risk and achieve 5 important business goals.

Business Goal #1:

Optimize Financial Management While Meeting Key Performance Metrics

Business Goal #2:

Allocate Talent and Skills to Focus on Core Competencies

Business Goal #3:

Support Need for Greater Business Agility and Operational Excellence

Business Goal #4: Provide Access to Flexible Sourcing Models

Business Goal #5:

Implement Strategic Change

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The Ultimate Goal Most importantly, enterprises are looking to managed services providers to enable and help drive more strategic capabilities and continuous innovation. Of course, buyers still want providers to help standardize and consolidate their IT environments. But, increasingly, enterprises also want to optimize the value of their existing software assets and move to innovative delivery models such as cloud and software-as-aservice, including access to new intellectual property.

The ultimate goal is to gain new capabilities from the managed service provider that buyers can use to innovate new products and services in order to grow their business.

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Considering Avanade Avanade’s application and infrastructure managed services can help organizations achieve each of the business goals previously listed. Avanade, a joint venture between Microsoft and Accenture, brings together a set of core competencies and capabilities that combine the best of both companies:

Microsoft’s comprehensive enterprise platform of technologies and access to Microsoft’s R&D resources

Accenture’s industry and business acumen, cross-industry solutions, and horizontal solutions accelerators

Avanade is a Managed Services specialist for Microsoft technologies Source: Avanade, 2014

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IDC Business Value Study Financial Benefits

IDC conducted interviews with Avanade’s application and infrastructure managed services customers to measure the financial impact to these organizations of their use of Avanade’s services. These organizations are realizing financial benefits from their use of Avanade’s managed services in 5 key areas.

Non-Discounted Average Annual Benefits per 100 Users $100,000

$23,009

$80,000 $60,000

$6,465

$2,807

$5,458

1. IT Staff Productivity Gains 2. B  usiness Productivity Gains in Operations 3. B  usiness Productivity Gains Resulting in Higher Revenue 4. R  isk Mitigation Benefits

$51,279

$40,000

Total: $89,018 per 100 users

$20,000

Avanade’s managed services 5 key areas

5. IT Infrastructure Cost Reduction

$0 IT staff productivity gains

Business productivity gains – operations

Business productivity gains – revenue

Risk mitigation benefits

Infrastructure cost reduction

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Study-Finding Spotlight #1: IT Staff Productivity Gains Because of the talent, skills, and experience that Avanade offers, the IT staff of customer organizations have become much more productive and are realizing significant time savings for completing important tasks. For example, Avanade has helped the IT staff achieve average time savings of 78% for forecasting and configuration management activities and 67% for application development activities. DIRECT FROM THE CUSTOMER:

IT Staff Activity Time Savings 78% 67%

66% 42% 27% 12%

Forecasting/ configuration management

Application development

Help desk and responding to downtime

Application management

Training

Time dealing with vendor

Source: IDC, 2014

“If it’s a situation where we’re in a long-term project, and we need to deliver over time, then our ability to switch out needed skill sets with Avanade could easily save us 50% of the calendar time it would otherwise take.” Home

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Study-Finding Spotlight #2: Business Productivity Gains in Operations Organizations are realizing fiveyear average annual business productivity gains of $23,009 per 100 users, or $2.21 million per organization, with Avanade. The most significant driver of these business productivity benefits is improved productivity among non-IT staff, enabled by Avanade.

Average Annual Business Productivity Benefits per 100 Users $25,000 $20,000

$19,565

$1,479

$1,965

$15,000 $10,000

Total: $23,009 per 100 users

$5,000 $0

Improved user productivity

Faster time to market

Reduced external spend on contractors

Source: IDC, 2014

DIRECT FROM THE CUSTOMER:

“With the products and features that Avanade has helped us create, the typical user saves time. Our ability to create these types of features more than doubles with Avanade. These features help to increase revenue because it helps us improve our primary product that we sell to our customers.” Home

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Study-Finding Spotlight #3:

Business Productivity Gains Resulting in Higher Revenues Business Productivity Enhancements — Revenue Your downtime could be costing you $480k/hour. Organizations are reducing the incidences of downtime and average time to recover from downtime. Organizations are also leveraging their use of Avanade’s managed services to increase their revenue by a five-year annual average of $6,465 per 100 users, or $620K per organization.



Annual Value Value per 100 Users

Revenue impact — reduced downtime Reduced downtime — hours per year Lost revenue per hour of downtime Lost revenue recognized in study

21 $480,000 25%

Revenue impact — additional revenue $2,523,951 from reduced downtime

$26,287

Revenue impact — improved operations Additional revenue from improved operations Additional revenue related to Avanade Sum of additional revenue Realized revenue benefit Net revenue benefit

$575,000

$5,988

12% $3,098,951

$32,276

20% $619,790

$6,465

Source: IDC, 2014

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Study-Finding Spotlight #4: Risk Mitigation Benefits Organizations report that their help desk operations have become more efficient since moving to Avanade’s managed services. They have reduced the time it takes on average for their help desks to handle a call by 67% with Avanade.

Reliability KPIs

Advantage Without With with Avanade Avanade Benefit Avanade (%)

Downtime Downtime incidents per year

10.30

6.14

4.16

40

Downtime hours per incident

3.34

2.18

1.16

35

Annual downtime hours per user 18.37

6.65

11.73

64

Service desk Level 2/3 calls per week

123.50

24.70

98.80

80

Minutes per call

26.25

8.75

17.50

67

Annual hours per user

1.39

0.46

0.93

67

Source: IDC, 2014

DIRECT FROM THE CUSTOMER:

An Avanade customer noted that its help desk operations were “a more personalized service” with Avanade that “get the user back up and running faster — 15 minutes versus 5 minutes.” Home

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Study-Finding Spotlight #5: IT Infrastructure Cost Reduction Organizations are avoiding costs that they would otherwise bear to develop comparable internal solutions or to use another service provider and reducing spending on server hardware. On average, organizations are avoiding an average of $5,458 in costs per 100 users per year over five years, or $520K per organization.

Average Annual IT Infrastructure Cost Reductions per 100 Users $6,000

$5,458

$5,000 $4,000

$3,368

$3,000 $2,000 $1,000 $0

$1,436 $146 $248 $260

Initial solution versus alternatives Server hardware Aggregate bandwidth Storage and networking Management software tools

Source: IDC, 2014

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Business Value Highlights IDC’s research and analysis demonstrates that Avanade’s Application and Infrastructure Managed Services delivered an average payback period of just over 4 months from going live, and an ROI of 446% through the following benefits:

• Returning over $5 in benefits for every $1 invested

$28.6M

• L owering annual operations cost by $2.2 M while increasing revenue • Helping IT staff achieve 67% time savings and productivity gains on application development and 42% on application management

5 YEAR AGGREGATE BENEFIT

$297,835 IN DISCOUNTED BENEFITS PER 100 USERS OVER 5 YEARS

• Mitigating risks by reducing downtime by 64% • L owering infrastructure costs by an average of 13%

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Overall ROI The five-year ROI analysis shows that on average, the organizations in this study will spend $54,592 per 100 users ($5.24 million per organization) on Avanade’s managed services and achieve $297,835 in discounted benefits per 100 users over 5 years ($28.60 million per organization). This results in an net present value (NPV) of $243,244 in discounted benefits per 100 users over 5 years ($23.53 million per organization) for their use of Avanade.

Cost Benefit Analysis Per 100 Users $400,000

$367,031 in non-discounted cumulative net benefits over 5 years

Investment Benefits Cumulative net benefit

$350,000 $300,000 $250,000 $200,000 $150,000

$99,420

$100,000 $50,000

$0

$0

-$50,000 $(30,461) Initial

$100,179

$101,027

$101,974

$28,265 $(8,513) Year 1

$(8,513)

$(8,513)

Year 2

Year 3

$(8,513) Year 4

$(8,513) Year 5

Source: IDC, 2014

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Inside Avanade

According to the company, Avanade’s portfolio of services provides enterprises with a full lifecycle of options to support their needs across the entire IT environment for both business applications and infrastructure.

Avanade Lifecycle of Application and Infrastructure Managed Services Application Managed Services

Infrastructure Managed Services

• Custom Application • Microsoft Dynamics • Collaboration • Analytics

• Private Cloud • Workplace • Unified Communications & Collaboration

Service Level Agreements Business Outcome Oriented

Custom

Availability

Support Response & Resolution

Velocity of Changes

Migration Velocity

Pricing Pay for Use

Custom

Multi-Year

Monthly Fixed/Variable

Transactional

Platform On Premise

Mobile

Public Cloud

Private Cloud

Hosted

Hybrid

Source: Avanade, 2014

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Inside Avanade Specializing in Microsoft technologies, this portfolio includes consultative services, which range from strategy, design, architecting, development, deployment, systems integration, and migration of IT and application technologies to 24 x 7, ongoing, proactive management and support. According to Avanade, the key for its customers is that all these service elements form part of the company’s managed services portfolio. As a result, Avanade is able to offer a menu of managed services that, for example, effectively include systems integration and application development delivered as a managed service. Additional information can be found at www.avanade.com/managedservices

Avanade is able to deliver against its commitment to provide continuous improvement and innovation as part of its application and infrastructure managed services agreement.

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