What is “IT Rationalization”?

A data driven strategy for making the best decisions about IT spending at the university.

Why is it necessary?

The university needs to maximize the benefit of its IT investments:

• The university spends more than $300 million on IT each year.
• In a time of extreme budgetary stress, IT rationalization will enable leaders to make data driven decisions about IT sourcing, which allows us to provide more competitive services for less money.
• Savings will be achieved through elimination of unnecessary redundant services and through leveraging the right delivery options.

The lack of a cohesive cyberinfrastructure is a competitive disadvantage for the university.

• We are behind our peers in the adoption of critical technologies, and the current technical and distributed environment creates barriers to interdisciplinary collaboration.
• Complicating this situation is the rapidly changing technology landscape.
• Researchers, instructors, and students need a core set of technical resources to support their academic and research work.
  

Your partnership is critical to this effort.

Each unit’s IT infrastructure, including ITS’, must be assessed.

This effort will help us create a roadmap of IT infrastructure investments.

Together, we’ll

• Locate the redundancies,
  
• Identify what we can provide centrally for the university, and
  
• Determine which services could be shared across a couple of units then delivered to campus