November 2008
IT Tips for Cutting Business Costs
- Infrastructure Optimization: Make IT a
strategic asset, not a cost center. Build
infrastructures that support your business
goals. Employ labor and time-saving technology
to reduce business costs. Strategic investments
into process improvement and business
accelerators will allow you to shorten cycle
times, bleed out system inefficiencies, and
reduce operating costs. Contact us to learn how.
- Improve Communications: Effective
communication allows for more efficient business
operations between employees and customers.
Unified Communications allows your employees to
contact each other and your clients anytime,
anywhere - through email, office phone, and
mobile phone.
- Virtualize: Virtualization software allows
you to consolidate servers, reduce backup and
recovery time, and save money on your energy
bill.
- Hold Online Meetings: Cut back on traveling
costs by holding your meetings online. Free
video conferencing software such as Skype
requires only a webcam, a PC, and an internet
connection. WebEx and GoToMeeting allow for more
advanced collaboration, while Second Life lets
you create an avatar and buy office space for a
more permanent place for employees to make
presentations, meet and collaborate.
- Reduce printing costs: Use duplex printing,
print on outdated letterhead for in-house memos
and look for printer friendly options when
printing e-mail and web pages. Using your
printer’s draft mode is faster and cuts down on
ink usage. Watch “How to Save Money on Printing”
for more ideas.
Business Consulting
As Trusted IT Consultants, PC Professional
provides customized roadmaps to meet your unique
business and technological needs, now and in the
future. We look at your business trends and goals to
create a long-term strategy development plan that
allows you the flexibility your company needs to
grow. Our IT Professionals have the skills,
knowledge and confidence to allow our clients a
competitive business advantage by focusing on their
core strategies and initiatives while we focus on
ours. For more information, contact us or visit our
webpage.
Remote Monitoring and Management
PC Professional utilizes next generation
technology to provide proactive Remote Monitoring
and Management services that can improve the
reliability and performance of your business
technology. We continually monitor and proactively
manage your IT Systems so that we can respond
rapidly to your technology issues, thus limiting
your downtime and saving you money. We include same
day on-site or remote deployment to resolve server
and network issues and 1 hour response time for
business critical issues as part of our monitoring
and managed services. For more information, contact
us, visit our webpage, or attend our upcoming
seminar.
Outsourcing
If you don’t have a full-time IT staff or just
need a little extra IT help, Outsourcing can be a
very economical solution. PC Professional’s IT
Outsourcing provides a dedicated technician to
perform preventative maintenance, troubleshooting
and repair for a range of issues at a prearranged
time and discounted rate. This special outsource
rate also extends to service calls beyond your
scheduled outsource hours, and you have the benefit
of having a familiar technician solve your network
and infrastructure issues when you need it the most.
For more information, contact us or visit our
webpage.
PC Professional Service Level Agreements
PC Professional’s Service Level Agreements are
all inclusive to provide you with responsive and
effective service to keep your business up and
running. Our trusted service means you know that
your infrastructure is taken care of with proactive
routine maintenance and next day guaranteed
response. Our Technical Assistance Center and your
personal Account Manager are available to assist you
with scheduling a visit for all your IT needs,
rather than dealing with multiple vendors.
About PC Professional
PC Professional is operated out of our 16,000
square foot headquarters in Oakland, California. Our
facility includes computer repair benches, a remote
monitoring support center, research and development
test labs, and a technical support center. For the
past 27 years, we have provided IT solutions through
a combination of IT Consulting, system solution
implementation and remote/on-site support services.
We invite you to learn more about our philosophy
towards IT Consulting throughout our website. We
also invite you to visit our headquarters or
schedule a free site visit to discuss plans for your
IT Department. |
