Time-to-value is often the most important measure of project success in business. The pace of change is such that yesterday’s development schedules often cannot deliver a project before the market opportunity is missed.

With that in mind, Wikibon CTO David Floyer went back to a case study from earlier last month, “Driving Business Value for Oracle Environments With an All-flash Strategy,” and redid the study presuming that the project used the Oracle converged infrastructure rather than separate servers, storage and networking.

The results are spectacular. In his latest analysis, “Case Study of the Business Value of Converged Infrastructure for Oracle Environments,” Floyer found that implementation time, including operation re-organization, was halved using converged infrastructure. Budget savings from operations tripled, from $1 million to $3 million. Programmer productivity more than doubled.

Total revenue benefits increased from $59 million to $74.2 million. Net present value increased from $53 million to $74.2 million. Internal rate of return increased between 254% and 429%. Annual ROI increased 750%, and the break-even point decreased from nine months to four.

It should be noted that Oracle converged systems integrate the full stack, from silicon to applications. While not all converged systems provide that level of integration out-of-the box, even a hardware-only or hardware and middleware-only systems provide worthwhile benefits for speeding and simplifying IT operations.

Based on this analysis, Wikibon strongly recommends that IT organizations adopt a converged infrastructure strategy. Further, Wikibon recommends that converged infrastructure be used to accelerate the move to a DevOps-driven organization.

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