Re: Business Benchmarking

Clint Tevlin wrote:
> 
> The problem: corporate PC's, network and servers are archaic, need to be
> upgraded.
> 
> Applications are MS Office 97, AutoCAD, Lotus Notes on Windows NT 4.0.
> 
> The aim: find a free benchmarking tool to show upstairs just how bad
> things are!

    Why use a benchmark, an imitation of reality, when you've
got the reality right there and available for measurement?
You've got a crop of (presumably) unhappy users, actual real-
live users drawing actual real-live salaries and wasting
actual real-live time waiting for your pokey old system to
respond.  Do some measurements, make some calculations, and
go "upstairs" with proof that umpty-ump percent of the workers'
time (and the cash that pays for it) is flat-out wasted.  That,
in my experience, will be a more compelling argument than a
report showing that the system runs a mere eighteen-point-six
FoobarMarks.

    Where benchmarking *might* enter the picture is at the
next stage, once "upstairs" is convinced the situation needs
improvement and starts the process of choosing replacements.
(ObPlug: Sun servers RULE! ;-)

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