One of the many benefits of Software-as-a-Service offerings- if  done correctly – is leveraging the underlying multi-tenancy architecture used to deliver the service in order to provide cross customer functionality that otherwise would be very cumbersome, expensive, and intrusive.

IT pros face similar challenges and inevitably are forced to put out the same fires that their peers have faced numerous times before. Seeking out advice, comparing findings and best practices with other pros is common, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy to do. Online communities, group meetups, and expert exchanges are a great start. Industry surveys and analyst reports are often difficult to find and bases on manual inputs (forms and phone calls).

Jut like business leaders benchmark their company’s performance with others (it’s easier to do with $’s), so too do business savvy IT pros understand the need to benchmark with IT performance with others.

Aprigo NINJA’s built-in IT benchmarking provides an anonymous comparison for every data analytics view. By comparing and contrasting your data dashboard and findings with others, it’s easy to see where you are on the curve of any given aspect of managing your data.

Examples:

• Is it normal that 90% of our data hasn’t been touched in over 3 years?
• Does everybody allocate so much expensive network space for media files?
• Does our level of data exposure stand out?

How does it work?

Aprigo’s IT Benchmarking is simple, secure, and safe. No customer identifiable information is used to create the benchmarks, and therefore no customer data can be exposed. Aprigo NINJA creates anonomyous meta-data summaries that are quantitave and non descriptive (no filenames, usernames, etc) that are stored locally, compressed, encrypted and sent to Aprigo’s cloud. Aprigo’s collective intelligence engine takes all anonymous summaries created by customers, aggregates and averages them daily, and presents the findings back to the customer through the UI.