Software AG
IT Health Check
Overview
alex Burggraf
Principal Systems Engineer
(415) 690-3176
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IT Health Check
• What is an IT Health Check?
• IT Health Check Preparations
• IT Health Check Diagnostics Report
• Scheduling an IT Health Check
• Questions
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IT Health Check - Overview
• Free one day Engagement performed by Software AG that helps to:
• Identify key issues that may prevent your business from working as well as it could
• Discover new ways to optimize your environment
• Increases the value Software AG provides to you and your ongoing investment in
Software AG technology and solutions
• Customer Executive Sponsored
• Performed at Customer Site
• Customer Participants:
• Executive Management
• Technical Users
• Business Users
• Software AG Participants:
• Account Executive
• Systems Engineer
• IT Architect
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IT Health Check Preparations
In order to get the most value out of the Health Check, following reports and
information should be provided to Software AG prior to the Health Check:
• ADABAS shutdown statistics of Production databases
• Adabas Reports (ADAREP’s) of Production databases
• CPU utilization in each of the environments (Prod, Test, QA, Dev, etc.)
• NATURAL parameters (online and batch) of Production environments
• Number of NATURAL object per Production library
• LIST COUNT * output per library
• NOCSTAT report for Production NATURAL environment
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IT Health Check – Sample Agenda
• Introduction
• Sponsor kick-off remarks
• Objectives
• Ground rules, housekeeping, etc.
• Major Business Initiatives
• Strategic initiatives
• Key business activities
• Common or problem tasks
• Critical Success Factors per initiative – technical, financial, organizational,
etc.
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IT Health Check - Agenda
• Existing Systems and Software Products
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Systems relevant to Key Initiatives
Products to support these Systems
Application Review
Database Management
Technical infrastructure review
— Operating System
— Security
— Performance
• Personnel support
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Time to Implement New Business Functions
Application Maintenance Efforts
Key application, information, infrastructure and personnel needs
Strengths and Areas for Improvement
Prioritization of Areas of Improvement
Review and Close
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IT Health Check Diagnostics Report
Within a few weeks following the IT Health Check, you will be presented with an
“IT Health Check Diagnostics Report” containing the following:
• Software AG’s Understanding
• Major Business Activities
• Critical Success Factors
• Existing Systems and Software Products
• Systems Relevant to Key Initiatives
• Software AG Products Owned
• 3rd Party Products Owned
• Functional Application Review of each application which contains:
• Overview of Application
• Application Needs
— Applications Usability – missing functionality, accessibility, etc.
— Data Accessibility – end user access, synchronization with other systems, etc.
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IT Health Check Diagnostics Report (cont.)
• Database Management Overview and Needs
• Technical Infrastructure Overview and Needs
• Personnel Overview and Support Needs
• Recommendations
• How You and Software AG can work together to determine “Next Steps”
MANAGE
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Scheduling an IT Health Check
• Speak to your Software AG Account Executive, or
• Fill out the IT Health Check Form
OPTIMIZE
MANAGE
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