Transforming a legacy IT infrastructure into an on-demand operating environment

• US 20070038648A1
• Filed: 08/11/2005
• Published: 02/15/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 08/11/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Onoufriou, Michael, Parmar, Rashik, Dawkes, Martyn, Holloway, Christopher, Chetwood, Mark
• Granted Patent: US 8,775,232 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063 Operations research, analysis or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0639 Performance analysis of employees; Performance analysis of enterprise or organisation operations
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06393 Score-carding, benchmarking or key performance indicator [KPI] analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06395 Quality analysis or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/067 Enterprise or organisation modelling

Abstract

A transformation engine for transforming a legacy IT infrastructure into an on-demand IT infrastructure in a financial services enterprise, the transformation engine comprising: a determiner component for determining a current status of the legacy IT infrastructure; a comparator component for comparing the determined current status to an idealised set of outcome parameters to determine a set of deviation parameters; and the determiner component determining at least one control point within the set of deviation parameters which require enterprise wide governance.

Claims

1. A transformation engine for transforming a legacy IT infrastructure into an on-demand IT infrastructure in a financial services enterprise, the transformation engine comprising:

a determiner component for determining a current status of the legacy IT infrastructure;

a comparator component for comparing the determined current status to an idealised set of outcome parameters to determine a set of deviation parameters; and

the determiner component determining at least one control point within the set of deviation parameters which require enterprise wide governance.

2. A transformation engine as claimed in claim 1 further comprising a change extraction component for monitoring a level of adoption of the at least one control point in the on-demand operating infrastructure.

3. A transformation engine as claimed in claim 1 wherein the determiner component further comprises a parsing component for parsing a set of input data and for categorising the input data into enterprise domains in order to apply a rule set specific to each of the enterprise domains.

4. A transformation engine as claimed in claim 3 wherein the rule set determines the current status of the legacy IT infrastructure for each enterprise domain.

5. A transformation engine as claimed in claim 1 wherein each control point indicates what IT infrastructure capability is critical to achieving an on-demand infrastructure.

6. A transformation engine as claimed in claim 5 wherein the IT infrastructure capability is comprised of user IT infrastructure, process IT infrastructure, development IT infrastructure, information IT infrastructure and management IT infrastructure.

7. A transformation engine as claimed in claim 1 wherein a control point further comprises sub control points.

8. A transformation engine as claimed in claim 1 wherein each control point details a set of operations to be performed.

9. A transformation engine as claimed in claim 1 further comprising a storing component for building an enterprise specific taxonomy categorised by enterprise domains.

10. A transformation engine as claimed in claim 1 wherein the control points provide an architectural model for an on-demand operating environment.

11. A method for transforming a legacy IT infrastructure into an on-demand IT infrastructure, the method comprising:

determining a current status of the legacy IT infrastructure;

comparing the determined current status to an idealised set of outcome parameters to determine a set of deviation parameters; and

determining at least one control point within the set of deviation parameters which require enterprise wide governance.

12. A method as claimed in claim 11 further comprising a monitoring component for monitoring the level of adoption of the at least one control point in the on-demand operating infrastructure.

13. A method as claimed in claim 11 further comprising the step of parsing a set of input data and for categorising the input data into enterprise domains in order to apply a rule set specific to each of the enterprise domains.

14. A method as claimed in claim 13 wherein the rule set determines the current status of the legacy IT infrastructure for each enterprise domain.

15. A method as claimed in claim 11 wherein each control point indicates what IT infrastructure capability is critical to achieving an on-demand infrastructure.

16. A method as claimed in claim 15 wherein the IT infrastructure capability is comprised of user IT infrastructure, process IT infrastructure, development IT infrastructure, information IT infrastructure and management IT infrastructure.

17. A method as claimed in claim 11 wherein a control point further comprises sub control points.

18. A method as claimed in claim 11 wherein each control point details a set of operations to be performed.

19. A method as claimed in claim 11 further comprising the step of building an enterprise specific taxonomy categorised by enterprise domains.

20. A method as claimed in claim 11 wherein the control points provide an architectural model for an on-demand operating environment.

21. A computer program product loadable into the internal memory of a digital computer, comprising software code configured for performing, when said product is run on a computer, a process of transforming a legacy IT infrastructure into an on-demand IT infrastructure, the computer program product comprising:

program code configured for determining a current status of the legacy IT infrastructure;

program code configured for comparing the determined current status to an idealised set of outcome parameters to determine a set of deviation parameters; and

program code configured for determining at least one control point within the set of deviation parameters which require enterprise wide governance.

22. A computer program product as claimed in claim 21 further comprising a monitoring component for monitoring the level of adoption of the at least one control point in the on-demand operating infrastructure.

23. A computer program product as claimed in claim 21 further comprising program code configured for parsing a set of input data and for categorising the input data into enterprise domains in order to apply a rule set specific to each of the enterprise domains.

24. A computer program product as claimed in claim 23 wherein the rule set determines the current status of the legacy IT infrastructure for each enterprise domain.

25. A computer program product as claimed in claim 21 wherein each control point indicates what IT infrastructure capability is critical to achieving an on-demand infrastructure.

26. A computer program product as claimed in claim 25 wherein the IT infrastructure capability is comprised of user IT infrastructure, process IT infrastructure, development IT infrastructure, information IT infrastructure and management IT infrastructure.

27. A computer program product as claimed in claim 21 wherein a control point further comprises sub control points.

28. A computer program product as claimed in claim 21 wherein each control point details a set of operations to be performed.

29. A computer program product as claimed in claim 21 further comprising program code configured for building an enterprise specific taxonomy categorised by enterprise domains.

30. A computer program product as claimed in claim 21 wherein the control points provide an architectural model for an on-demand operating environment.