In today's competitive economic climate, nearly all organizations are working to reduce their operating costs. With so many companies using multiple types of infrastructure components, the true financial impact of ongoing activities such as patch maintenance, fault and event management, change control, and policy management can be challenging to track and measure. The good news for customers of Oracle’s Sun systems is that Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center provides an outstanding ROI for on-going management investments. This paper examines areas of potential optimization, shows how day-to-day IT management processes can contribute to – rather than detracts from – that optimization, and provides an ROI analysis with an example scenario based on actual deployments.