SOFTWARE EFFICIENCY Standard
As IT systems become increasingly fundamental to all organisations, identifying areas of weakness and vulnerability similarly grows in importance.
The failure of IT systems can cause severe damage to an organisation, reducing its profitability or even contributing to its collapse.
IT failures may be technical in origin:
- bug-ridden software
- unplanned and excessive down time
- data corruption
- unsatisfactory integration between different software applications
- inadequate network capacity.
Alternatively, failures may be managerial in cause:
- poorly trained staff
- absence of an IT Director at board level
- lack of a disaster recovery plan
- developing an IT strategy that does not support the business strategy
- implementing new systems without adequate testing.
Regardless of origin or cause, such IT failures can lead to potentially serious consequences, may put the organisation at risk, and need to be comprehensively addressed.
SOFTWARE EFFICIENCY Standard is the powerful and easy-to-use tool that enables organisations to identify, to measure, and to manage both the operational and the business risk caused by the failure of IT systems.
How costly to your organisation are weaknesses in and potential failures of your IT? Optimise profitability through software efficiency.
SOFTWARE EFFICIENCY
STANDARD
Only £1947
Expensive consultancy expertise embedded within an affordable software product.
Also available:
SOFWARE EFFICIENCY Essentials
SOFTWARE EFFICIENCY Lite
Key Features & Benefits
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- SOFTWARE EFFICIENCY Standard uniquely provides the missing front-end to risk management by comprehensively pre-identifying possible risk. It is much more than merely a framework or a methodology. It is a content-rich expert system.
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- Structured questionnaires guide you through identifying and measuring possible weaknesses and gaps in your IT in 11 key areas:
- The Relationship of Business and IT Strategy
- Corporate Governance of IT
- The Management and Structure of the IT Organisation
- Legal, Financial and Regulatory issues
- Infrastructure
- Software Applications and Management Information Systems
- Data and Physical Security
- Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity
- Training and Support
- Project Management
- Risk Management
- Structured questionnaires guide you through identifying and measuring possible weaknesses and gaps in your IT in 11 key areas:
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Identifies under-performance as well as non-performance
- SOFTWARE EFFICIENCY Standard treats IT failure as stemming from under-performance as well as non-performance. The effects of non-performing IT systems are obvious. Under-performance may go unnoticed, but its effects may be equally if not more pernicious: under-performance may be severely reducing efficiency and productivity with serious consequences for sales and revenue, for staff morale, and for customer retention.
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Focuses on risk to the business
- SOFTWARE EFFICIENCY Standard identifies the Business consequences of IT Failure - and not just the Operational consequences.
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Creates a Standards and Procedures Manual
- SOFTWARE EFFICIENCY Standard facilitates the creation of a Standards and Procedures Guide. It identifies the required plans and documents and asks you to either collate them or - where they do not exist - to create them. The end result is a comprehensive manual.
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Results Presented as a Graphical Risk Scorecard
- SOFTWARE EFFICIENCY Standard produces a comprehensive and easy to understand risk assessment. In addition to scoring the degree of weakness in the various areas and measuring that score against a pre-determined target, it presents the results in a visually compelling and easily understood graphical format.
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- SOFTWARE EFFICIENCY Standard is user-configurable. Questions may easily be added and the sensitivity filter may be altered.
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- Reap the benefit of consultancy expertise embedded in SOFTWARE EFFICIENCY Standard without having to pay consultants' fees.
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- SOFTWARE EFFICIENCY Standard may be used as often as desired at no extra cost. This allows for regular audits.
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- SOFTWARE EFFICIENCY Standard is designed to be run in house with the organisation's own staff - giving the exercise the benefit of their local knowledge and enabling it to be done rapidly.
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- All information and knowledge is kept within the organisation.
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- SOFTWARE EFFICIENCY Standard contains an extensive section geared specifically to the risks of IT Projects and Project Management. Topics covered include project governance; user education and consultation; project planning, reporting and management; change management; testing and training; rework; transitioning to going live; and post-implementation support.
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- SOFTWARE EFFICIENCY Standard facilitates business process improvement - enabling a company not only to identify and manage risk but also to understand and improve the ways in which IT supports its business.