Automated Assessment Service-System And Solution MRI

Abstract

A system and method are disclosed for automatically providing an assessment related to the usage of a plurality of information handling system (IHS) resources. Survey information related to a user of IHS resources is collected and processed to generate survey information. IHS resources used by the user are determined and associated configuration and operational information is collected and processed to generate imported information. The survey information and the imported information are then processed to generate a set of user usage scores, which are in turn are processed to produce a composite usage profile. Comparison operations are performed between the composite usage profile and a target reference usage profile to generate a usage weighting value, which is then used to perform sizing, return on investment (ROI) and total cost of ownership (TCO) calculations. The results of the sizing, ROI, and TCO calculations are then used to generate an assessment of usage related to the IHS resources.

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