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Cost Rationalization and Executing A Smooth Relocation
For a national European broadcaster to move locations, multiple video and sound studios and all physical equipment needed to be relocated while keeping the station on the air.
- Needed a repository overview to orchestrate the move to a new location
- Lacked the data necessary for a financial analysis of the production platform
- Wanted the ability to run scenarios to map possible post-move studio outcomes
3,500
Employees
€5.1B
Revenue
Challenge
Planning an Effective Relocation
Moving the headquarters and a local station entails transporting many components, is a very complex landscape of physical production equipment, including servers. In order to plan the new location, the Enterprise Architecture (EA) team had to know their current assets.
They needed an overview of:
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- Physical components
- Software
- Physical location of application hosting
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- Transitioned from analog to digital production and modernized the production platform
- Implemented cost rationalization to ensure the changes stayed within budget
Approach
Gathering Information and Knowledge for Cost Rationalization
- Cataloged all TV- and radio production studios using Application Portfolio Management
- Tracked each studio's associated costs by compiling a comprehensive list of equipment and software
- Achieve better cost management with Application Rationalization
"The employees have a lot of tacit institutional knowledge. Ardoq helps making that information more explicit, so they can base decisions on objective, specific information, documented using Surveys and Broadcasts. Now have a workflow in place to gather the knowledge they need when they need it."
- Krishan Thangavadivel, Ardoq
Benefits
Supporting Decision Makers
With their overview of the physical infrastructure and physical assets as well as software-related assets, the organization can convey the complexity of the technology landscape to external consultants and decision-making stakeholders. They now have:- A complete repository of production equipment and software
- A map of physical spaces, ensuring room for all the production equipment with As-is and To-be views of pre- and post-move studios
- A data source for financial planning with break-even analysis of the production platform and its constituent parts
- Saved costs by closing out old applications and triggering the RFP processes as they mapped applications
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