Inetium is pleased to be a certified provider of Microsoft’s Business Value Planning Services. This offering is available to customers that have Software Assurance as part of their licensing agreement (to confirm your eligibility, please check with your license agreement administrator). This benefit is a pre-defined, paid service offering delivered by Microsoft partners (like Inetium) to help customers identify ways to leverage their investment in the Microsoft Information Worker (IW) technologies to improve business processes.

This initiative will provide customers with a number of benefits:

• Realize a greater return on your existing IW technology investment
• Solve real problems that you and your employees face every day with a familiar technology platform
• Build a convincing business case to drive change and improve your business processes
• This service offers customers a 3, 5, 10 or 15 day planning engagement based on the customer’s individual software assurance benefit level. 

• 3-Day Engagement: The 3-day BVPS engagement is designed to provide a customer with a better understanding of the current state of a given business process and potential ways to improve that business process using IW technologies. During a 3-day BVPS engagement, we will target a single customer IW business process and develop Current State process documentation and analysis, Future State process documentation and analysis, Future State Key Performance Indicators (KPI) Improvement Analysis, and Adoption “Roadblock” and Mitigation Analysis.
• 5-Day Engagement: The 5-day BVPS engagement incorporates all aspects of the 3-Day BVPS engagement, but includes two additional key components: a quantitative business case to justify moving from the current state to the future state, as well as a high-level implementation plan to move the customer forward. During a 5-day BVPS engagement, we will target a single customer IW business process and develop Current State process documentation and analysis, Future State process documentation and analysis, Future State KPI Improvement Analysis, Adoption “Roadblock” and Mitigation Analysis, Future State Process Financial Benefits and Costs Analysis, and Future State Process Improvement(s) Implementation Plan.  
• 10-Day Engagement: The 10-day BVPS engagement provides both partners and customers with additional opportunity to dive deeper into a business process improvement analysis and investigate two interdependent business processes, effectively broadening the scope of a 5-day BVPS engagement. During a 10-day BVPS engagement, we will target two (2) customer IW business processes and develop Current State process documentation and analysis, Future State process documentation and analysis, Future State KPI Improvement Analysis, Adoption “Roadblock” and Mitigation Analysis, Future State Process Financial Benefits and Costs Analysis, and Future State Process Improvement(s) Implementation Plan. The two business processes should be interrelated and require a detailed analysis of one in order to analyze and propose improvements to the other (e.g., to effectively analyze a company’s new employee on-boarding process, the customer also requests an analysis of their recruiting process).
• 15-Day Engagement: Similar to the 10-day BVPS engagement, a 15-day BVPS engagement allows a partner and customer to broaden the scope of a BVPS engagement to address three interdependent business processes. During a 15-day BVPS engagement, we will target three (3) customer IW business processes and develop Current State process documentation and analysis, Future State process documentation and analysis, Future State KPI Improvement Analysis, Adoption “Roadblock” and Mitigation Analysis, Future State Process Financial Benefits and Costs Analysis, and Future State Process Improvement(s) Implementation Plan. The three business processes should be interrelated and require a detailed analysis of one in order to analyze and propose improvements to the others (e.g., to effectively analyze a company’s new employee on-boarding process, the customer also requests an analysis of their recruiting process and their internal headcount allocation process).

For more information, please visit the following sites:

Microsoft Customer site for BVPS
http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/sa/benefits/packagedservices.mspx

How to activate Software Assurance Benefits
http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/sa/activate.mspx