SPACEWatch | Overview - Plan the benefits of change

Often people try to construct a business case to justify change. This business case will attempt to quantify the impact of the change, and hence justify the value of carrying this action. Estimating the impact of a change - before you make the change - can be tricky. This is where looking at historic trends can be useful. Modeling how different scenarios might then impact on these trends is a powerful technique for assessing future change. SPACEWatch rapidly maps historic trends in storage use across the area you want to change - as well as letting you model change scenarios and see their predicted impact. Planning for change is about analysing historic trends - and modeling the future impact of different scenarios Traditionally, plotting historic trends has meant taking a snapshot in time, recording this, then repeating the exercise many times to slowly build up a trend. SPACEWatch cleverly avoids this by analyzing the data in different ways. The first time storage data is collected you have access to the full range of historic trend analyses. Filter, expand or drill down on areas of interest - and because SPACEWatch is database driven the results are instant. Take a look at the chart above - what happened on the 8th of March to cause this spike in storage consumption? Now you can instantly find out where this happend - what types of files are involved - and who was responsible. Of course historic data is only one way to look at trends. With SPACEWatch Exchange and Domino Editions you can look at trends in mailbox use, for example. Trends become really interesting when you model change scenarios and look at their predicted impact. In any strategy its useful to compare this against the option for doing nothing. With the SPACEWatch Scenarios tool you can do all this in one place - with rapid visual display of the outcomes. In the example above we’ve modelled the removal of files that haven’t been used for at least three months, and compared it against doing nothing - all with one click of the mouse. SPACEWatch helps directly with your business case - it will also display the calculated cost benefit (or penalty) of your chosen scenarios. Copy and paste the charts and results directly into your report and you’re “good to go”. Plan for change Plan the benefits of change. See how much you’ll save - or how much doing nothing will cost.