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In working with our clients for over 40+ years, we have learned that there and many questions out there that many businesses finds themselves asking eventually. We have complied a list of the most common questions we help answer today. Expland the questions below to find answers and resources that may be helpful to you.
Business units/people tend to think about technology solutions in terms of outcomes – process automation, workflow optimization, workforce productivity – whereas technical teams tend to think of technology solutions in terms of design, implementation, and ongoing support requirements. Technical teams must also be concerned with performance, security and integration to other core systems. The overall evaluation of technology solutions must be looked at from both a business and technical perspective. The challenge is that the training, experience, and vocabulary of these two critical sets of stakeholders can differ dramatically, so we have crafted our site to speak appropriately to each audience.
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Preparing for a pandemic means imagining the impact of this type of scenario in your business continuity planning. It goes beyond planning for a remote workforce and proactively plans and implements processes and tactics for issues such as reduced workforce and loss of key skills/expertise, inability to access corporate offices for critical accounting/finance functions, limited access to supplies/materials needed for business operations.
Expandable Close SectionThe question of whether to operationalize expenses or leverage capital budgets for projects has been an evolving one over the last several years. Many companies that traditionally operated under defined capital expense models have shifted to operational expense structures as IT has shifted from an on-premises, in-house construct to an -as-a-service, consumption-based, cloud-delivered framework. OpEx allows organizations to avoid the large, upfront payments that infrastructure investments used to require, instead moving to predictable monthly payments that help to manage cash flow. In addition, an OpEx model allows for much more efficient scaling, particularly in unpredictable markets. On the other hand, CapEx allows for greater levels of control and certain amortization and depreciation advantages. There are benefits to both approaches – from an income tax, asset value, and operating cash flow perspective – that should be evaluated and considered when comparing these two financial models for technology investment.
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You have questions, we have answers
In working with our clients for over 40+ years, we have learned that there and many questions out there that many businesses finds themselves asking eventually. The technology is changing constantly and our technical experts are staying up on top of emerging trends. We have complied a list of the most common questions we help answer. Expand the questions below to find answers and resources that may be helpful to you.
Business units/people tend to think about technology solutions in terms of outcomes – process automation, workflow optimization, workforce productivity – whereas technical teams tend to think of technology solutions in terms of design, implementation, and ongoing support requirements. Technical teams must also be concerned with performance, security and integration to other core systems. The overall evaluation of technology solutions must be looked at from both a business and technical perspective. The challenge is that the training, experience, and vocabulary of these two critical sets of stakeholders can differ dramatically, so we have crafted our site to speak appropriately to each audience.
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In the event of a crisis like a pandemic, there’s so much that falls on technical staff. Remote access, security, mobile device management, connectivity, video, conferencing, voice, messaging, policy, procedure – that’s just the list that the business is going to be asking about on day one. You also may have to contend with loss of key skills/expertise, inability to access corporate offices, limited access to supplies/materials, and other challenges that traditional disaster recovery plans might not have accounted for. Throw in the fact that you’ll also need to enlist your counterparts across the business to think more broadly than traditional DR and realize that they bear responsibility for true business resiliency, and you’ve got a good starting point for outlining your plan.
Expandable Close SectionOne of the best benefits to come out of the last several years for IT is the ability to align more closely with the desires of the CFO and other business unit leaders by leveraging operational expense models. Cloud computing, consumption-based billing models, and scalable infrastructure allows you to come out looking great to both your user community and your business stakeholders – all while making your life easier. That being said, there are certainly situations in which your requirements (security, regulation, performance) may dictate the need for traditional capital investments, so the good news is that many of the benefits of the cloud are now available for on-premises infrastructures that use CapEx.