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The Business Impact of IT

How strategic is your IT organization?

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Businesses can’t get anywhere without IT.

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IT is vital…

Allowing small companies to compete with large.

And helping companiesgrow globally.

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Today’s technology performance has raised expectations.

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And we’re seeing cloud solutions getting services up and running faster

…leaving us with a new benchmark for performance

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Now the time between turning an IDEA into a RESULT

is getting shorter

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And the #1 issue for CIOs is…

“IT can’t implement fast enough to meet business goals”

Source: InformationWeek, 2011Top 10 CIO Priorities

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70% of COOs say IT is critical for global expansion,

Source: Accenture, 2010Deficiencies In Talent Recruitment and Information Technology Thwarting Global Expansion of High-Tech Firms

but only 21% feelcorporate IT systems are capable of supporting it

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IT must become more strategic

And it all starts with a plan.

Where does that leave us?

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What are your business goals?

And how is IT helping to achieve them?

Ask yourself…

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How is your infrastructure helping to grow the business?

Ask yourself…

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What’s the revenue impact if email, ERP, CRM… goes down?

Ask yourself…

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With all the new technology on the market,

mobility

security

applicationacceleration

cloud

Ask yourself…

how are you keeping up?

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You may be running a cost-effective IT organization…

But is it growing the business?

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Start by taking a closer look at IT

Is it all tasks or is IT strategic?

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What if you offloaded the tasks to a managed service provider?

Offload tasks, become more STRATEGIC

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Let a managed service provider focus on the tasks and technology

So you can focus on the business and customer demands

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What are companies offloading?

• Security and remote access• Mobile device management• Network design and management• Infrastructure management and monitoring

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What is the impact?

• Freed up IT resources to focus on revenue-generating activities

• Reduction in IT spend– 46% report savings of >25%• 13% of which report savings of >50%

– 50% report savings of 1-24%

Source: CompTIA, 2011Trends in Managed Services

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You have a team proactively monitoring your system 24x7x365

Acting as a seamless extension of your IT staff

What that means for you…

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A team of experts can take you to the next level

With advanced technical skills to address increasing IT complexities

Have skill gaps?

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Deploy new services around the world with a skilled team of

specialists and partners

Get up and running in HOURS, not WEEKS

Need to scale quickly?

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Change with the needs

Tap into solutions and services to meet demand – as you need them

Have an evolving workforce?

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So now you’re saving time with a managed service provider

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You’re scaling and adapting more quickly

And you’re focused on yourcore business

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You’re seeing a positive impact on…

• Performance• Reliability• Budget• User Satisfaction • Revenue

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Make your IT organization more strategic. See the business impact of managed services:

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