Data Centers are a Growing Part of and one of the highest cost segments of most Enterprise Real Estate Portfolios. However, the Leadership of Data Center Planning and Analysis is often from outside the Real Estate Function. This program will empower you to change that for the betterment of you and your enterprise.

Challenges and Opportunities:

• High Cost Data Centers are becoming a growing and increasingly core component of most enterprise real estate portfolios.
• However, the role of the real estate function is often unclear vs. IT and Finance in leading Data Center Planning and Solutions.
• Often, real estate departments are brought in very late in the cycle of planning and analyzing Data Center alternatives to the detriment of the quality, timeliness and cost management of Data Center Planning and Implementation.
• This program will help you, and your group, change that situation and improve Data Center decision making in your enterprise.

Program Content:

• This program will highlight the typical current drivers at play in enterprise Data Center need development and illustrate why Data Center requirements are now an important issue for more than just Technology companies.
• The program reviews how enterprise needs typically reach the crisis point before being fully addressed and how real estate professionals can offer early planning solution support for Data Center requirements.
• Basic Data Center Market Economic drivers are unmasked with current dynamics described that have contributed to this being  the most challenging segment of the current commercial real estate marketplace for tenants/users from a demand/supply and pricing perspective.
• The program reviews the history of the Data Center  market that, despite its relative youth, is quickly developing  into a fairly complex array of alternatives from build-to-suit to full collocation opportunities that are explored in detail.
• The challenges of the very technical nature of this market are explored; why it’s perceived by many as outside the realm of most traditional real estate experts and what you can do to overcome these obstacles.
• Successful approaches are shared providing best practices for close collaboration between IT, Finance and Real estate groups within enterprises.  Real world examples of real estate advisors providing successful connections between all three groups are shared.
• Specific examples of sophisticated financial analytical approaches to inherently high cost Data Center solutions are reviewed with proven successful approaches to presenting convincing financial analysis at the Board and C-Suite Levels – including capital expenditure, Cash and GAAP operating expense and Net Present Value cost metrics.