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Infrastructure simplification = Reduced complexity, lower TCO and a resilient environment
High on the list of critical business requirements is the need for IT infrastructures to better support business integration and transformation efforts. At the heart of these integration and transformation efforts is often the simplification and streamlining of core and strategic business processes.

Viewed in the broadest sense, Infrastructure simplification represents an optimized view and evolutionary approach—or the next logical step beyond basic server consolidation—for companies on the road to becoming true on demand businesses.

From an IT perspective, it can serve as a roadmap for building one's On Demand Operating Environment. Objectives include leveraging existing assets, enabling business process integration, reducing costs, increasing efficiency and moving to better synchronize the design of IT infrastructures with the design of the business processes—which, by the way, should be modular with ultimate flexibility built to accommodate change and based on open and industry standards where possible.

So if your IT infrastructure has become a complex set of disparate, server specific, "silo'ed" applications operating across an endless sea of servers (i.e., transaction processing servers, database servers, tiered application servers, data gateways, human resource servers, accounting servers, manufacturing servers, engineering servers, e-mail servers, Web servers, etc.), then you owe it to yourself to ask serious questions like: "Where will you deploy the next application?" or "Where will you physically put the next server?" or "Is there a simpler way to manage this?"

Customer success stories

	Jiangling Motors drives down purchasing costs with IBM and SAP "The IBM Selected Business Solution is not just about technology — it has changed the way we work. Instead of lengthy manual processing and an incomplete view of enterprise-wide operations, we have a single, simple, centralized system which delivers both direct and indirect cost savings," states Liu Chun Lai, Vice-director of IT, Jiangling Motors
	Macro 4 boosts speed-to-market with IBM System z9 Business Class "Some Java testing was taking several hours to run–it now takes less than 15 minutes with the zAAP engine. We are seeing the same improvements in productivity with the zIIP engine, and we expect massive demand from customers for these technologies," states Jim Allum, Group Information Services Director, Macro 4 plc.