FORCSS® Decision-Making Tool
Determining the optimal IT infrastructure strategy
A 360° approach
The FORCSS decision-making
tool takes a full-circle view of IT
and infrastructure, enabling you
to balance considerations in all
key areas:
F – Financial
O – Opportunity
R – Risk
C – Compliance
S – Sustainability
S – Service Quality
FORCSS yields the optimal IT
strategy and deployment
decisions using a consistent,
repeatable method that helps
compare different variables,
avoid blind spots, and gain
stakeholder consensus.
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How do you evaluate the multiple factors involved with any strategic infrastructure
decision? It can be challenging to weigh the costs and considerations of enterprise,
colocation, hosted, and cloud solutions, to balance business and performance needs,
meet sustainability goals, and respond to dynamic market forces. There are so many
variables in play.
Uptime Institute provides a methodology to capture, compare, and prioritize various IT
deployment alternatives. FORCSS® is a methodology that helps organizations apply
consistent evaluation measures and align on a coherent strategy that achieves the
optimal balance of Financial, Opportunity, Risk, Compliance, Sustainability and Service
Quality considerations.
Determining the best IT deployment
strategy for your organization can be a
Repeatable
complicated decision, subject to differing methodology
priorities among stakeholders, a lack of
consistent evaluation criteria, blind spots, FORCSS is useful for a range of strategic
and “analysis paralysis.” technology and deployment decisions. Its
systematic methodology provides a basis
FORCSS integrates all the varied data for comparing and selecting from among
points and considerations using a multi-
multiple deployment alternatives. The
disciplinary, consistent methodology. The tool yields both necessary and sufficient
FORCSS tool can be applied to any information to support executive
business infrastructure, operational, or IT decisions. You can balance availability
challenge to yield the optimal solution. and performance objectives and include
factors appropriate to your unique
Independent experts infrastructure and IT assets.
Our consultants possess deep FORCSS provides lasting benefit, as
background in both IT and infrastructure, future initiatives can be undertaken with
combined with decades of experience confidence, aligning all stakeholders on
managing business critical operations. the right strategy to move your
They draw on Uptime Institute’s organization forward into the digital
proprietary FORCSS methodology and future.
the world’s largest repository of data
center research. We are independent
from any manufacturer or vendor
affiliation, providing unbiased findings
that are directly responsive to your
organization’s business needs and goals.
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analyst and data company. Uptime Institute has office locations in the U.S., Mexico,
Costa Rica, Brazil, U.K., Spain, U.A.E., Russia, Taiwan, Singapore, and Malaysia.
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