A white paper was recently published by Keith Swenson (Vice President of Research and Development and Amita Abraham (Senior Product Marketing Manager) of Fujitsu Computer Systems Corporation. The paper outlines eight “best practices” for moving to a shared-services infrastructure. As noted in the paper: 

“Shared-services is a form of ‘internal outsourcing’ that allows enterprises to achieve considerable cost benefits by utilizing a single group within the organization to create and manage specific IT services. 

“The main benefits of shared-services are cost savings and rapid deployment of new applications by leveraging access to centralized expertise and infrastructure. 

“Despite these benefits, many companies have been slow to move toward a shared-services infrastructure because they are confused about how to do so. This article examines what a shared-services infrastructure is, who should consider evolving to one, and best-practices for launching such an initiative.” 

To read the entire paper and to learn the important best-practices, please visit this link.