Our expertise means we're able to provide an invaluable service auditing certain aspects of your IT and suggesting money-saving improvements. As a result of their effectiveness, our efficiency solutions are all self-financing. As well as saving thousands of pounds, solutions such as Print Management and Power Management help businesses improve their environmental credentials and contribute to the fulfilment of corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies. In addition, our reports provide a fascinating insight into the cost and implications of seemingly innocuous activities like printing documents or leaving equipment on standby overnight.
Auditing is just one of the many functions contained within Assist, which is part of our outsourced IT offering. When you require total visibility of your IT landscape, we provide dynamic tracking of all assets deployed across your organisation, regardless of location. Whether your aim is to take control of software licensing, reduce IT costs or ensure that projects are brought in on time and under budget, we provide a baseline of asset information that is updated in real time. Our system is customisable, requires no training courses, and can be fully automated, including generation of all requested reports.
Print Management surprises everyone we demonstrate it to. Few companies know how much they're spending, yet print costs are typically around 3% of a company's annual revenue. We can produce a comprehensive report that details exactly how much it costs to print a single page in your organisation. Many office workers print without thinking, and as a result one in six printed pages goes straight into the bin without even being read. It may sound trifling, but consider this: the last client we completed a report for is now spending 47% a year less on printing, as a direct result of our recommendations. Our report will identify where you can make substantial savings, how to reduce unwanted printouts and which printers can be removed or re-sited. We can then manage everything remotely and implement our recommendations as slowly or quickly as required.
Computers, network devices and printers, if left unmanaged during the day or left on overnight, add in the region of 30% to your annual electricity bill. That's nearly a third of your energy costs spent on nothing but standby lights and a constant hum of electricity. A simple software program enables you to set when you want each machine to boot up and power down, meaning computers can be off when they're not needed but on and ready to use as soon as staff arrive. Power Management gives your IT team control over all PCs so they're accessible for patch updates and maintenance, and through reducing your energy consumption it pays for itself in 6-9 months.
In a large organisation it is easy to lose track of who is using what hardware and software at any given point in time, and this can lead to unwitting redundancy and unnecessary IT expenditure. By installing an application on your server, we can report to you on everything from the number of devices on your network to the number of software licences being used and which PCs they sit on – all in just a few hours. We then use this information to identify wastage, improving the efficiency of your assets. We can also identify unlicensed software, saving your company from substantial penalties. By repeating this exercise on a regular basis, we help you make the most out of your IT budget on an ongoing basis. We can provide you with the information necessary to make informed choices as part of a Software Asset Management (SAM) policy, or highlight any equipment thefts or illicit devices connecting to your network.
