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| Risk Implementing the MBS Services package may be the best stroke of business prudence your company can take to manage the considerable downside of wielding IT strategically. It is a fact that no production operation in the history of the world relied on as many individually configurable components as the IT-based production environments of today. In any enterprise production activity there are millions of configurable objects being relied upon, any of which can be inadvertently or maliciously altered in the blink of an eye. Such an alteration can directly or indirectly stop revenue flow, ruin products, anger customers, violate privacy, delay deliveries, raise cost, impact national security or in some way impact the health and safety of the public. Operating an enterprise production without the visibility and control necessary to manage this dynamic complexity can only lead to high support cost and/or high risk. The proposition of controlling the integrity of computers has become an important business and societal issue. If you are in a regulated business this issue takes on a burden of proof as well as prudence. For all industries, the assurance of product or service integrity leads directly to the need for better control of enterprise network and computer system integrity. The implied accountability for applying proper control is seen in today’s corporate attitude toward disaster recovery—if the disaster is physical, e.g. fire or storm, corporate clients and partners are typically supportive and forgiving; if the disaster is cyber, e.g. intruder damage or theft, they are decidedly not supportive and are more likely to take you to court. Wielding IT strategically has become an inescapable competitive requirement, whether your enterprise competes in boardrooms or battlefields. For enterprises that choose to use IT for strategic advantage, the need for production reliability increases, the need to control IT support cost increases and the need to stay current with new technology increases. All three of these driving forces work against each other, creating risk of strategic failure whenever they are not in balance. The BCC Managed Baseline Solution Service Package provides a quantum step increase in an organization’s capability to pursue all three areas of need simultaneously. This is made possible by the layered sets of control strategies provided by the Managed Baseline Solution to address reliability, support and technology migration explicitly. In this way the arbitrary diversities that creep into systems are controlled to known, valid, production configurations that are driven to specified enterprise control strategies. As a result, system and network reliability is improved, support requirements are reduced and new technology implementations proceed with reduced production jeopardy and reduced support investment. The MBS Services Package from BCC enables enterprises to see and control all the configuration elements of interest in all their computers simultaneously. Because they are no longer inferring the control of production applications from administrative processes but actually verifying all configuration requirements directly, there is greater confidence in production and quicker diagnosis and response when production configuration deviations occur. |