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Hello, Adkit (www.adkit.com), an Israeli Global Information & Research firm, is currently conducting a global research for Israel's largest bank.The bank is in a process of evaluating different vendors in purpose of implementing the Integrated System (or Converged Infrastructure) concept. Adkit are trying to learn and examine the Integrated System concept for the Bank. The main objective of our research is to analyze some of the technological and operational aspects of Integrated System concept implementation in a financial organization (i.e. Banks). We would like to focus in some pre-implementation considerations and concerns, IT professionals need to consider.
Hereunder are some of the main inquires:
1. Is Integrated System concept (or Converged Infrastructure) is implemented in your organization? If so what is the implemented solution?
2. Based on your knowledge (or experience), what is the main global trend (or trends) today in regard to Integrated System concept implementations in large organizations (Banks and/or hi-tech companies – excluding cloud-service oriented companies like Google)?
3. Is Integrated System concept implementation considered to be a major move for IT departments?
4. Based on your knowledge (or experience) in regard to Integrated System concept, are there any major constrains or restrictions (technological, operational or others) which will lead an organization to abandon Integrated System concept implementation (except cost to value concern)? What organizations need to do in order to overcome these constrains or restrictions?
5. Based on your knowledge (or experience), do you think that there are types of organizational structures which are not recommended to be candidate for Integrated System implementation? Are there any organizational structure modifications which need to be considered before / after Integrated System implementation? How Integrated System implementation is settled with a given enterprise architecture?
6. Based on your knowledge (or experience) what are the main challenges and the main benefits (and KPIs) in regard to Integrated System concept implementation? In your answer please refer, also, to TCO (Total Cost of Ownership and / or Total Cost of Operation).
7. Based on your knowledge (or experience) Is Integrated System concept has an effect on organization's virtualization and cloud-computing capabilities? If so then how it being expressed?
8. Based on your knowledge (or experience) are there any environments that are being left outside of the focus of Integrated System implementation (Social, ERP others)? If so then why?
9. There are three central technological elements in Integrated System concept: Servers, Networking, Storage; what is organizations' common approach toward Storage when coming to implement Integrated System? How Storage settled with Integrated System implementation? Are there significant considerations in refer to Storage - pre and post Integrated System implementation?
10. Do you aware for any main difficulties which organizations are facing when interfacing Integrated System solution with commercial top-level management legacy tools (for instance - Tivoli)?
Thank you so much for your willingness to participate in our research!
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