Developed together with leading enterprise customers, the Data Protection Management Path to Excellence™ (DPM P2E™) is an actionable methodology that illustrates how the company’s solution is applied in a multi-phased approach to continuously advance the effectiveness of data protection operations.
When customers have implemented according to the DPM P2E methodology, they have refined data protection processes to:
- Ensure recoverability
- Improve on services delivery
- Effectively manage risk
- More efficiently and effectively respond to audits
- Significantly reduce costs
- Achieve operational excellence
Each phase of the path is a distinct level. As the IT operation moves from one phase to the next, it realizes a wide range of benefits such as a shift from reactive firefighting to proactive management, and greater appreciation for IT’s total contribution to the business.
The DPM P2E leverages the collective experience of Bocada® Enterprise customers over the past four plus years, and draws upon their best practices using the Bocada Enterprise solution. The DPM P2E model steers organizations through the progressive stages and helps them incrementally demonstrate higher degrees of operational excellence. The DPM P2E phases include:
- Phase 1 Initial Assessment
- Reveals the effectiveness of an organization's data protection environment, pinpoints and eliminates trouble spots and identifies opportunities for improvement
- Phase 2 Policy Development
- Policies and processes are modified to better ensure success, recoverability and IT business alignment
- Phase 3 Services Delivery Management
- Accurately set services management SLAs and effectively measure adherence and success rates
- Phase 4 Risk Management
- Utilize information to expose risk areas, identify unprotected assets and confidently pass compliance audits
- Phase 5 Operational Excellence
- Standardizing on the processes developed in previous phases enables streamlined operations, reduced TCO and increased IT business contribution.
