Impact

Cost Benefit Analysis

Five Year Costs

 

Tangible Costs Summary

5 Year

Summary  

IT Services i.e. IS staff, hardware, software and services

Support Group Staff Costs

College Staff Costs

Total

Costs

IS Applications (161d) plus Service Management (150d) = 311 days x £275/day = £85,525

£0

£0

£96,250

 Servers (6 in total; 1 x Web server, 2 x database servers per envoronment) = £30,000  £30,000
 Licensing costs (Plesk - 2 x$15/month for 60 months =$1800) = £1100  £1100
TOTAL COSTS£116,625

 

Intangible Costs

Cost

Assumptions

 

 

 

 

Procurement Costs and Approach

 

Procurement Costs - 4 Year Summary

 

Hardware

Software

Services

Total

Costs

£ 0

£0

£0

£0

Approach

 

 

Funding

 

 

Five Year Benefits

 

Tangible Benefits Summary

5 Year

Summary  

IT Services

Support Groups

Colleges (including Students)

Total

Benefits

£ xx,xxx

£xx,xxx

£xx,xxx

£xx,xxx

 

 

Tangible Benefits

Benefit

Assumptions

Faster and more efficient set-up of and changes to Windows hosts

Production no longer required to manually provision hosts and databases.  Reduced ActiveDirectory effort in Desktop team.

Reduced hardware support

All physical servers replaced with virtual machines.

Provide capacity for when MVM LTS hosting is taken on

Will require large numbers of hosting sites.

Eliminate risk of hardware failure on legacy serversParicularly applicable to ucs-sequel

 

 

Intangible Benefits

Benefit

Assumptions

Improved resilience and DR

Centralised backups, simple to switch between KB/AT

Better service to users

Host-management UI (control panel), enables devolved management, which users like

Improved development platform

New software versions offer newer/better functionality

Potentially improved performance 

 

 

Impact

 

Service or Project

Description of Impact or Dependency

Project/Service Manager Aware (Y/N)