A standard Wikibon business is an organization that has approximately $1B in annual sales (or operating budget for a non-profit organization or government agency) with about 4,000 full time employees. This 'typical' organization spends approximately $30M-$70M annually on information technology with a full time IT staff of between 100-300 professionals. In North America, the fully loaded costs of these individuals will range from $75,000 - $150,000 annually while in other less expensive regions these figures will range between $30,000 - $75,000 annually.
Wikibon Standard Company Reference Model
Figure 1 shows the standard Wikibon organizational profile to include, in addition to other metrics:
- Revenue
- Headcount
- IT spend by line item
- IT Headcount
Wikibon Standard Storage Reference Model
The Wikibon Standard Storage Model is based on the Standard Company Model and is shown in Figure 2. Figure 2 includes, in addition to other metrics:
- Storage hardware spend
- Storage software spend
- Storage staff expenditures
- Cost/TB of storage
- Installed storage TB's
- Annual new TB's acquired
- IT Storage Headcount
Wikibon Storage Charts from Reference Model