Economic Impact of the Virtual Integrated System (VIS) Portfolio

Learn the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) that enterprises may realize by deploying Dell™ Virtual Integrated System (VIS) products. Dell commissioned Forrester Research to conduct in-depth interviews with executives from four Dell VIS customers who have implemented products in the Dell VIS product portfolio. Using Total Economic Impact™, a standard methodology that captures and quantifies the voice of the customer relative to technology investments, Forrester Research interviewed Dell customers about each organization’s experience in implementing VIS. The organizations reported the following costs:

• Software licenses and associate annual maintenance fees
• Dell professional fees for implementation services
• Internal labor costs for planning, design, training and implementation
• Internal administrative costs

Dell VIS customers also reported the following benefits:

• Faster time-to-market and provisioning labor savings from self-service provisioning
• Resource productivity savings from standardization
• Rework/reprovisioning time savings
• Improved operational efficiency from physical and virtual server provisioning savings
• Faster incident response time
• Savings on staff costs due to increased agility
• Hardware and cooling savings
• Increased flexibility
• Ability to provision both physical and virtual servers
• Improved disaster recovery process
• Improved accountability and asset utilization