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Understanding and Deploying LDAP Directory Services > 14. Analyzing and Reducing Costs

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Chapter 14. Analyzing and Reducing Costs

To design, develop, and deploy a successful directory service, you need to have the proper funding. Getting funding from your organization invariably means understanding the costs of the service you plan to deploy, developing a budget, and communicating that information to those who hold the purse strings. Because budgets are often subject to negotiation, it's also wise to prioritize the items in your directory service budget so that you know which aspects of your budget are negotiable and which are not.

In this chapter, weprovide an overview of the various costs associated with the phases of a directory service's life cycle. For the purposes of this chapter, we break the life cycle into two major sections: the design, pilot, and deployment phase (everything up to going production); and the maintenance and upgrade phase (everything after production service begins).

This chapter isn't meant to be a comprehensive guide to project planning and budgeting; that topic is adequately covered in other texts (see the "Further Reading"section at the end of this chapter). Instead, we focus on directory-specific costs that you need to considerwhen planning and budgeting. We also describe ways to reduce costs during your directory's life cycle. Your company may, of course, have a well-established planning and budgeting process in place. If that is the case, use the information in this chapter to assist you as you work with that existing process.

This chapter is necessarily incomplete. Each directory deployment is unique and targeted at meeting specific needs. Your directory may not incur some of the costs described in this chapter, and it may incur some costs we haven't thought of. Use this chapter as a guide to the general types of costs associated with providing a directory service, but be flexible as you think about your particular directory service and its budget.



Understanding and Deploying LDAP Directory Services,  2002 New Riders Publishing
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Understanding and Deploying LDAP Directory Services
Understanding and Deploying LDAP Directory Services (2nd Edition)
ISBN: 0672323168
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 1997
Pages: 245

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