Proactive IT Lifecycle

The ability to react quickly to changing business dynamics can help your business stay on top. Taking a reactive approach to IT, however, can sink the ship. With technology, it pays to be proactive with on-going flexibility to meet your evolving business requirements. Your concerns regarding increasing efficiency, having reliable IT equipment, and mitigating risk can be best achieved with the right approach.

Consider this:

• Legacy equipment is locked to inflexible and outdated infrastructure. IT Budgets are declining, at best remaining flat, globally. Companies are forced into backing out of innovative IT projects, and compromising for slower and outdated technology.
• According to a Forrester Research survey, 51% of IT budgets in 2011 consisted of ongoing operations and maintenance costs, while only 30% of budgets where allocated for new IT initiatives and projects¹. Having outdated equipment can constrain your cash flow. The longer companies wait to address their IT hardware and software problems, the more they could be spending on maintenance and productivity costs.
• Depending on how you track and retire your IT assets, you could be putting your company at financial and regulatory risk without even knowing it. Besides being a logistical nightmare, that raises operating costs, multiple, locally sourced vendors with inconsistent processes could lead to disposal issues and security breaches.

With a proactive IT lifecycle approach, you can side-step these potential challenges. With the latest technology and a sound asset recovery process, you can manage your assets from acquisition until retirement.

At HP Financial Services we can help your company put the processes in place to develop a proactive approach.

• Establish a regular technology refresh program with our Fair Market Value leases and have access to the latest and most innovative technology from HP.
• Our flexible and customizable solutions allow you to plan for high demand peaks in your business. Our technology rental program is perfect for situations including data center moves or for building test environments for new application platforms.
• Benefit from instituting a programmatic approach to Asset Recovery. Eliminate the need to continually source vendors and all of the issues associated with globally inconsistent processes, such as security and reliability.

Be proactive. Give your IT (and your business) the lifecycle it deserves. Contact HP Financial Services today.

¹2012 IT Budget Planning for CIOs. Forrester Research, Inc.. October 27, 2011

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