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Home Services Solutions Sharpen Your Business Stage 2: Maximised 'Lights-on' IT

Challenge

No organisation stands still – even during difficult economic times. To ensure a quick and effective response to change, organisations’ IT infrastructures need to be agile and scalable. Achieving this agility can be incredibly difficult – especially when it involves non-differentiating elements of IT. Although these systems deliver little or no competitive advantage, they are fundamental to keeping an organisation’s lights on and maintaining productivity. Despite its importance, ‘Lights-On IT’ is often based on dated structures and processes that are both expensive to maintain and difficult to change. As a result, businesses are not only incurring unnecessary cost but also limiting their ability to grow and innovate.

Strategy

Computacenter helps organisations break this cycle by enabling them to rethink how they manage their IT – from sourcing new technology and transforming existing infrastructures to managing core systems. Using shared resources and best practice processes, Computacenter’s 'Maximised Lights-On IT’ approach enables businesses to establish the foundations they need for profitable growth. Based on the industralisation of IT services, Maximised Lights-On IT makes everything predictable and repeatable. As a result, IT becomes a true utility – something that just comes out of the wall every time you need it.

Action plan

We will help you challenge common assumptions that could be limiting your ability to reduce costs and drive your organisation forward. From server virtualisation and smarter software licensing to selective outsourcing and storage consolidation, Maximised Lights-On IT will optimise not only your physical infrastructure but also your organisation’s processes, people and strategy. 

How do you Source?

Computacenter will help you reduce the cost and complexity associated with your IT supply chain. We support the entire IT sourcing lifecycle from e-tenders and supplier rationalisation to software renewals, configuration and disposal. As a result, you can not only simplify how you buy technology but also maximise your return on investment from new hardware and software assets. Rethink your IT sourcing strategy with a half-day Computacenter consultation.

How do you Transform?

Keeping pace with organisational change can be incredibly time-consuming and costly for IT departments. Our optimisation services enable businesses to transform their desktop, datacentre and network environments to increase innovation and agility. In particular, Computacenter enables organisations to take advantage of virtualisation technologies to reduce cost, simplify change and support growth. Find out how virtualisation could transform your business with a half-day consultation.

How do you Manage?

 Adopting a shared services model for core IT operations, such as service desks and datacentres, can deliver immediate costs savings. Based on proven methodologies that reduce the effort required to resolve problems and fulfill user requests, Computacenter’s service desk out-tasking solution delivers quantifiable financial savings, fast response times and greater scalability. Discover how service desk out-tasking could benefit your business.

Computacenter’s Maximised Lights-On IT is the second step towards achieving an optimised IT infrastructure that improves cost control and increases business value. Over the course of 18 months, Computacenter’s Maximised Lights-On IT solutions will deliver financial savings of up to 20% as well as dramatically improve the scalability and flexibility of your business.

With Computacenter’s Maximised Lights-On IT, you can:

• Improve your organisation’s cashflow through flexible pricing models
• Increase agility to support fast organisational change
• Take advantage of best practice processes and skilled resources
• Accurately measure the total cost of IT ownership
• Enhance governance and efficiency
• Focus internal resources on the differentiating elements of IT
• Manage your IT in a consistent, repeatable and financially sustainable way
• Achieve the best fit and value from your hardware and software spend
• Source technology from multiple suppliers, reducing risk and administration

Relevant solutions may include:

• Workforce productivity
• Service Desk Out-tasking
• Desktop Technology Optimisation
• Network Technology Optimisation
• Datacentre Technology Optimisation
• Software Lifecycle Management
• Supplier Management and Rationalisation

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