One of the key benefits is to actually deliver on the requirements that we gathered when we engaged in January 2010. We gathered these through interviews and surveys with many stakeholders in the Government of Canada and we came up with 65 requirements. We've categorized them into 11 categories, which you see in that report. We did the options analysis against those, so what we're recommending best addresses those strategic requirements.
I'll read some of the strategic requirements for you just to give you the context. Within the cost and funding area, to limit capital-intensive expenditures is one of the things we were told is a requirement of the Government of Canada. To support predictable and sustainable funding models is also one of your requirements. Also, within availability, provide redundant data centres, as we were told that disaster recovery and business continuity was a requirement.
We have 65 of these requirements and we did the analysis against them. What we're recommending best fits these requirements, if implemented and executed properly. That's the first thing I would say.
Second, as part of the same exercise, we gathered 26 risks associated with data centre delivery today. We categorized them into six categories: financial performance, quality, flexibility, implementation, risk, and business alignment.
Again, we applied each one of those risks or categories against the options and came up with what we recommended: that the centralized model option has to be the least risky in regard to avoiding these risks that were identified during the data-gathering phase.