IT Cost Savings
IT Cost Savings
Reducing Support Costs and Increasing Serviceability
Here are some questions to ponder. How much does it cost your organisation to currently manage all your PC's? When you quantify your PC costs, service, support and down time, what is the real cost to your organisation? Could your IT environment be significantly improved through the introduction of new services and technologies?
According to Infotech Research the Total Cost of Ownership to purchase and manage a single computer cost $6500.00 for a complete lifecycle phase of 3 years. The TCO is quantified in 5 parts. 1) Acquisition costs, 2) Deployment costs, 3) Operations costs, 4) Support costs and 5) Retirement costs.
The largest of these costs is Acquisition and Support costs followed by Operational costs. How can you reduce these costs?
- By acquiring the best possible price on purchase
- Making sure you clearly understand service and warranty agreements in order
to maximize Service Level Agreements, reducing end purchase and service cost- Look at Out Sourcing as a means of driving down support costs. Reducing your cost by up to 70%
- Make sure you understand the SLA Support agreement and what sort of support procedures entail for
turnaround times, recovery times,. backup procedures, troubleshooting time and help desk support
inorder to reduce operatonal cost before signing off a long term Out Source contract.
Starting at $9.95 per computer per month, Eye-T Services Ltd offer the following services,
- Backup and recovery solutions for desktops and servers
- Remote help desk support on any issue that arises
- Remote network and server management
- Security management
- License management and many more services.
We can also look at your PC infrastructure and see where there maybe opportunities to replace windows license with a Linux solution saving thousands of dollars in licensing fees. All this means you can reduce your IT costs by up to 70%, and still effectively manage your entire organisation more efficiently through Out Sourcing IT support and management.
While managing other businesses and international schools, we have desktops on standby ready to go, should any systems fail to start, with a 1 to 2 hour turn around in-order to reduce client operational downtime. We also provide on call executive level support for the most important people in your organisation and provide an online job logging system that enables the user to log their issues for your management to see and our support team to appropriately handle. To find out more call us on 0800 393 873 to discuss your requirements.
Reducing Communication Costs
Ask yourself this question. How much does it cost your organisation in line rental, intrnet and call costs per month? Lets do a calculation on line rental and compare to the costs below. What is the current market offering? . Each PSTN line cost about $55.00 each through Telecom. If you have 10 PSTN lines, that works out to about $550 p/month on rental. Not to mention call costs on top of that.
VOIP is the next generation technology that's finally arrived in high quality output. What are the advantages?
- Charges for VOIP numbers are only $15.00 each p/mnth.
- You get to keep your existing land-line numbers when transferring to VOIP,
- You save $480.00 per year on each number
- You're out going call cost is reduced by 50%.
- The quality of VOIP services is higher then land-line services
- VOIP has a greater range of functionality. i.e you can receive up to 6 calls through one VOIP number simultaneously.
- You only require one pipeline connection going into your premises to share internet and communications.
Free Assessment
We understand you may have existing contracts with other vendors for Communications, PBX, CRM and IT Support. In these tough economic times it makes sense to consolidate your IT resource for better management and Return on Investment (ROI)
See your IT and ICT environment from a true IT professionals view and get the best perspective in the house, at no cost. We can show you how to get the maximum out of your existing technology and help you see where those realized costs savings are.
Take advantage of our "FREE Cost Reduction Plan"
The inspection is free and will give your business a good idea where you are currently positioned and how you can take advantage of the latest market offerings in communication services, hardware and software technologies.
"IF you think you are already getting a great deal and service then you need to think again. If you could save up to 50% on communication costs, and up to 70% on IT costs and still get a Ferrari for a Toyota price with Porsche service, then why would you not want to change."
Advance Technology
The latest advancements in technologies can help businesses take advantage of services that make managing and streamlining your organisation seamless and cost effective. For example we have a router solution developed by an international company that manages you're whole network from a one source location.
Knowing what is happening in a business and having complete control over it is key to its overall success. This extends to all areas of a company including its computer network. A lack of network understanding and visibility can lead to rising costs of Internet plans, expensive security breaches, high cost IT managers and lost productivity.
The Central Management Technology is intended as an important business management tool that will allow the business to reduce costs by having complete control of their network.
The Central Management System is simple to use and takes out the normally complex tasks of network management and makes them easy. This Central Management System essentially takes traffic information across your network gateway, analysts it and then automatically fixes any issues and then reports to you what was wrong. Any issues that require your intervention can be simply addressed online.
The types of things that a business will be alerted to are
- Extraordinary usage
- Worms
- Broadband data usage
- Broadband traffic limit reached
- License expiry
- Dynamic DNS activity
- Appliance temperature
- Integrated - no extra cost
- Hosted Central Management System
- 24/7 access and control via any Internet connection
- Real time management allows PCI DSS compliance to be easier
- That includes Firewall, VPN, Virus IDS protection,
As a result, Out Sourcing your IT department for either help desk support, security, network
and server management, becomes more cost effective and easier to deploy and remotely manage.
"In our current economy, economic uncertainty can bring dramatic change. The ability to respond quickly to that change will differentiate players in every market. Build an agile workforce so that it can bring the right people forward at the right time to effectively meet changing business demand. Whether you're a small or large company Out Sourcing has great long term benefits"
Over the next 10 years the NZ Government plans to spend $1.5 billion on fiber optic roll-out throughout New Zealand. With primary focus on growing and strengthening the business sector. What does this mean for business? The means a whole host of consolidated services will become available at affordable prices. Now your entire IT department including PABX, Servers, Desktops and Communications can be managed all from a one source location. Saving your organization tens of thousands of dollars annually.
Through Virtualization your entire Server, Desktop and PBX,internet and VOIP communications can truly be consolidated and managed through our datacenter. You pay a fixed monthly cost to have total redundancy on the latest and fastest servers.
- 24/7 operations,
- Helpdesk support
- Full remote console access to your servers
- The reasurance that our datacenters have backup UPS, generators
- All major trunk lines coming into our Datacenter for communication redundancy.
- IT Support Contracts. IT Out sourcing has great benefits for businesses in reducing overall management costs by up to 70%. Let us show you how to get the best out of your current IT infrastructure by consolidating, improving efficiencies and reducing the overall need to manage in house.
- Communications reduction can reduce your monthly bill by up to 50% understanding your current communication plan, Internet usage, business and mobile calling pattern. We can streamline your communication costs dramatically.
- Virtual Server & Storage Consolidation can reduce your IT Hardware cost by as much 70%. By reducing the need for additional physical servers we can help consolidate your server environments to just one physical server running multiple virtual servers on one platform.
- Printer Consolidation & Management can save up to 30%.Cut Costs by Outsourcing High-Volume Print. Working out the most cost effective way to manage printing cost has great benefits for the environment and your bottom line. If you are running individual staff ink jet printers the cost per printout can be exponential. Look at consolidated lease printing as a viable alternative for managing your print costs
- Decommissioning of redundant or seldom-used applications. Take up space, waste management time, slow down systems and create vulnerabilities and security threats. Remove undesired applications and replace them with the latest free open source technology.
- Linux Operating Systems offers a viable alternative for internet, email, security and documentation management. Saving as much as $700 per PC in licensing costs.
- Software Applications don't always do what they should so your often you're left with the pain of either a slow application or one that intermittently crashes. Finding the right solution can make a world of difference, that's what we do best.
One of the major set backs for compliance regulated companies is trusting their IT department with another company. Often its not cost that's the main motivator behind the decision to move but the integrity of the Out Sourcing company and its people.What differentiates our company from the rest, is our sincere application to get the job done in a timely manner, integrity that's sharper then a samurai sword with wicked sense of humors to boot.
Eye-T Services has been operating since 2005 with a combined management experience of 30 years. Some of our clients are related to the following industries, International Schools, Doctors, Mortgage, Aluminum Joinery, Freight, Airport tourist, to small one man operators. Eye-T Services can consult on every aspect of your IT & ICT infrastructure, giving your company the very best advice in IT/ICT cost savings and how to manage your systems for best overall performance.
Call us today to discuss your "Free Cost Reduction Plan" and how we can help improve your overall IT & ICT performance of your company, creating agility, focus, commitment and most important results.