The RSA Business Value Assessment (BVA) methodology is a complete and structured process that helps your organization to develop a positive business-process based case for conducting enterprise business. Assessments are offered in several areas, including business continuity, business intelligence, collaboration, content management, disaster recovery, hosting, infrastructure, mobile internet, security, system integration and telecom. The BVA ensures that all aspects of your business model are addressed, from strategy and tactics to implementation and competitive analysis.

The Business Value Assessment is an outcome-based approach which focuses on the best methods to achieve the business objectives your organization is working on today, as well as the near-term and long-term future. Our assessment provides either a complete business assessment or produces a roadmap outlining the required hardware, software and services necessary to meet your company's needs. Your initial investment includes time to tell us about your organization and your goals. We will take it from there. The entire process takes approximately 2-3 weeks to complete based on complexity of organization and desired solution.

RSA Consulting Services’ IT strategy and planning experts work with your executive team to assess the full scope or any portion of your IT capabilities and related investments.

Our Recommended Approach
The Business Value Assessment features a multi-component report that documents business process & strategy, IT assessment, and architecture for in-scope capability and related spending. The focus is on:

• Establishing industry, business, and technology context with a high level review of your business goals, strategy and operational processes
• Confirming issues, validating hypotheses and collecting data, such as financial utilization, performance, and organization, as well as hardware and software inventories and initiatives
• Assessing the current situation, conducting an analysis and benchmark, and documenting key findings
• Identifying potential recommendations and solutions to achieve an alignment of your IT infrastructure with business processes and goals
• Developing business agility, adaptive infrastructure, and integrated vision, along with supporting architecture
• Presenting issues, mitigation strategies, actions to resolve, risks of non-resolution and business benefits. developing high-level implementation recommendations and associated high-level plans
• Defining the deliverables with measurable benefits

RSA’s Business Value Assessment is Essential Because:

• Decision-making criteria at the executive level is not based on single issues, it is multi-dimensional and requires business impact analysis
• Today's fast paced business environment makes technology investment decisions even riskier
• Companies need a competitive advantage in a world of product-focused emphasis

To take the next step toward achieving the full value of your IT investments