- Cutting IT budgets without understanding asset usage can hurt service performance and cost more in lost revenue than it saves.
- Fact-based IT usage measurement helps leaders see how technology supports productivity and take a more rational approach to reducing IT costs.
- An optimized IT asset management system helps business leaders analyze trends, mitigate risks, and forecast future costs more accurately.
An IT director facing a 15-percent budget cut sharpens the pencil and starts striking line items — service tiers, refresh cycles, even a couple of seats. Three quarters later, response times have slowed, two business units are running on workarounds, and the lost-revenue column dwarfs the budget savings. Reducing IT costs without a clear picture of how assets are actually used tends to end this way. An optimized IT asset management approach, built on fact-based usage measurement, gives leaders the trend data, risk view, and cost forecasts they need to cut intelligently rather than cut blindly.
Businesses operate using valuable, yet costly, critical assets, and their financial managers may search for ways to implement low-cost strategies to reduce costs without hindering the company’s growth and profitability. IT investments represent a fraction of the corporate cost base, yet with the current economic pressures driving business leaders, they may prioritize cost-cutting initiatives which make unnecessary budget cuts to technology. IT cuts can have a negative impact on service performance, leading to more revenue lost than money saved.
Increasing the availability of critical IT assets is crucial to achieving greater production. By taking a fact-based approach towards measuring the usage of IT products and services, and getting data in business-focused IT reports, leaders can get an overview of the balance between technology and productivity. They can see in detail how IT assets are being used, to take a more rational approach towards reducing IT costs, while improving overall operational efficiency throughout the enterprise.
Reducing IT costs has no easy solution, but equipped with an optimized IT asset management system, business leaders can analyze trends, mitigate risks, and forecast future costs more accurately. Measuring and understanding IT user behaviors can help managers to implement widespread changes in work methods, to achieve greater productivity throughout an organization.
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