Quantify the synergies of an integrated ADM and infrastructure-operations deal

For solutioning and pricing teams putting application and infrastructure services into one managed-services engagement.

Engagement type: Team Pod
Experts: 2 delivery · 1 advisor
Hours: ~60
Duration: 4 weeks

What the client needed

A firm needed to quantify the solution efficiencies and synergies in an integrated managed-services engagement covering application development and maintenance and infrastructure operations: transition efficiencies compared with standalone deals, roles that can be removed or cross-leveraged, L2 and L3 synergies when one provider runs both, and the additional efficiency of a DevOps delivery model over traditional delivery in the integrated case.

The experts engaged

Previously at HCL Technologies · 23 years

Roles heldgeneral manager, IT infrastructure management, service delivery and end-user computing

Ran integrated application and infrastructure managed-services accounts
Transition and synergy models used in large-deal pursuits

Atlas Verified · Tier B

Previously at Accenture, JK Tech, Aon Hewitt, Infosys · 15 years

Roles heldassociate manager, SRE, cloud and DevOps · technical lead, DevOps consulting

DevOps and SRE operating models in integrated delivery
Toolchain and on-call consolidation across application and platform teams

Atlas Verified · Tier C

Previously at EY, Cognizant, Mphasis · 21 years

Roles heldprogram manager, digital transformation and presales consulting · project manager · project lead

Presales solutioning for integrated managed-services deals over a decade
Led transitions for application and infrastructure scopes

Atlas Verified · Tier B

A exceptional · B strong · C competent — the tier is derived from the whole assessment, not a single score. The transcript and report are open to you before you engage. How verification works →

The brief

The questions on the table

As the client wrote them, lightly shortened. Client and respondents are not named.

Q1
What transition efficiencies does an integrated ADM and IO engagement allow compared with two standalone transitions?
Q2
Which roles can be removed or cross-leveraged?
Q3
Where are the L2 and L3 synergies when one provider supports both applications and infrastructure?
Q4
How much more efficient is a DevOps delivery model in the integrated case, and where does it not help?

The hours

What the work involved

01
Transition model
Combined transition plan versus two standalone ones, with the overlapping activities and the percentage saved, from the delivery lead who ran both kinds.
02
Role map
Roles removed, merged or shared across ADM and IO, with the governance that keeps accountability clear.
03
L2/L3 synergies
Where application and infrastructure support share tooling, on-call and problem management, with the efficiency bands observed.
04
DevOps overlay
What an integrated DevOps model adds over traditional delivery in the combined scope, and the preconditions it needs.
05
Working session
With the client’s solutioning leads; the senior advisor reviewed the synergy percentages before they went into a proposal.

Deliverables

What the client received

Transition-efficiency modelWith overlap analysis.
Role mapRemoved, merged, shared.
Synergy bandsL2/L3, by area.
DevOps overlay noteGains and preconditions.
One working sessionWith notes.

The terms

What an engagement like this costs

You buy hours in blocks and can change the expert at the end of any block, at no extra cost. Longer projects run in stages: pause after a block, pick up the next stage when you are ready.

Pricing in full →

Rate band: $65–$250 /hr; Senior specialists can be up to $500
Hour blocks: 1 · 2 · 5 · 10 · 20 · 50 · custom
This engagement: Team Pod · ~60 hours · 4 weeks

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