Posts Tagged ‘Budget’

Budgeting for IT: Budgeting to Win

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

tightening-budgetEvery successful company has a budget. What’s in your budget? More importantly are you budgeting to win? Winning means maintaining existing, and forging new, sustainable business relationships. And if you don’t yet have a budget, get one for free, courtesy of Intuit. If you are not budgeting for IT you are not budgeting to win. In the greatest economic downturn since the Great Depression, most businesses today are drastically cutting costs, according to a recent New York Times article. But at what cost have these cuts come? How is your business performing? According to the NY Times article, a beneficial cost cut is moving away from in-house operations and toward contracted relationships.    

Never before have companies depended so much on technology for their day-to-day operations. When this technology fails them what do they do? Who do they call? StoneHill Technical Solutions partners with small businesses to insure their IT environment is maintained at the most optimal performance level. And it is StoneHill’s winning combination of performance and customer service that makes them a coveted team member and outsourced computer services business partner.

By budgeting for IT you are investing in a critical component of your company’s operations. What does your workplace look and feel like in the event of a computer crash or a server crash? What happens when e-mail is down? StoneHill Technical Solutions is your winning relationship. You can’t afford a monthly expense for computer service? Can you afford to go without use of your computer or deal with a failed network for a day? What you probably cannot afford is long-term contracts and non-performing partners. StoneHill Technical Solutions is the partnership that will keep your business infrastructure running smoothly and efficiently, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Take advantage of StoneHill’s free network review today and let them share their findings with you and help you to win!

Author: David Meacham

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Is IT Service in your budget?

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

budgetSo one of the first things you would learn in any beginning finance class is that you need to have a budget. Budgets are invaluable tools for helping you run your business smoothly and efficiently. Have you budgeted for IT?

Rarely has there been technology available like there is today that can help reduce your total cost of ownership of your technology infrastructure. Options like:

- Remote Support plans
- Managed Service plans
- Server virtualization
- SaaS software applications that never need to be “upgraded”
- IT Automation

Regardless of who is doing your IT right now, these are the things that deserve serious evaluation to ensure your being a good IT buyer. Also choosing an IT provider that is Microsoft Certified at minimum and hopefully is a Microsoft Gold Partner will ensure that their technicians are skilled and efficient which translates to you spending your money wisely.

So many facets of your technology infrastructure can now be supported up to a point with level costs. This makes setting your budgets easier. The age of your infrastructure should also be considered when setting a budget. Plan to spend more money to support older systems.

So take some time to budget for IT spending. Who knows maybe you don’t need to spend as much as you fear you do.

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