Tool

The decision to adopt a Platform as a Service solution should be driven by agility and rapid deployment rather than cost as these are the primary benefits of developing in the cloud. While the Cloud may provide a low cost barrier to entry, the amount spent over time may reach in-house levels. This tool will help you calculate and compare in-house costs to cloud service costs by looking at:

•Hardware costs

•Software licensing costs

•Facilities costs

Are you a Cloud candidate? This tool is designed to help categorize readiness for the Cloud. It is a guideline only and should be taken into consideration with further conversations with cloud vendors.

Complete the Data Entry tab to generate a recommendation whether a certain application you are considering is ready for the Cloud, or whether a Private Cloud should be used, or whether your organization should keep this application close to home.  To read more, click the link below...         

Typically, many enterprises considering IT projects that carry significant business risk undertake a feasibility study as part of their evaluation process for assessing project viability.

Although undertaking a feasibility study is not a requirement for every business-critical project, it is a valuable tool that helps decision makers take a rigorous and objective view of the project and impartially assess any alternative solutions or approaches that may exist.

To create an effective feasibility study, enterprises need a team of experienced staff that:

Nearly every enterprise needs some form of BI, but not every enterprise needs dedicated tools. Use this assessment to help identify the most suitable BI tools for your situation.

The Value of Staff Planning. All IT organizations must deal with unplanned requests. IT's ability to address key requests in a timely manner is significantly improved when IT can anticipate its staff needs, either for planned projects, or as a provision for likely requests. The planning of application development and support staff is generally the most challenging.

This tool will conduct a high level of assessment of your organization to calculate two critical factors in regards to an Active Directory 2008/2008R2 Migration: 
 
First, based on the assessment of both needs and opportunities, the tool will determine whether a respondent enterprise should contemplate an Active Directory 2008/2008 R2 migration project.
 

This tool evaluates security requirements for organizations and presents the optimal network designs and implementation roadmaps that will meet the orgainzations' needs. The tool is a complement to the research presentation titled "How to Implement a Security Architecture"

This tool is used to identify the dollar impact that would occur with unethical actions/intentions with desktop applications and workstations. You can determine the likelihood of a negative security event occurring in any of 11 categories of vulnerability.

We also illustrate how your organization's desktop applications and workstation Current State ranks against its ideal Target State. Upon completion, this tool automatically amasses and compiles all metrics in a report, and provides recommendations specific to your use-case for improvement.

Based on the individual enterprise specifications, this tool will help determine the order that processes and infrastructure changes should be made when implementing a net new or revised security policy.

Security assessment is focused on determining the degree to which information system security controls are correctly implemented, whether they are operating as intended and whether they are producing the desired level of security.

Vulnerability assessment is focused on determining the weaknesses inherent in the information systems that could be exploited leading to information system breach. Without Security and vulnerability assessments, the potential exists that information systems may not be as secure as intended or desired.