Author: kdreiners
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PrivateEquity.pdf
With a pending or recently completed M&A, there’s a lot of opportunities for IT streamlining and optimization. Here are a few major categories that often need revisiting and alignment following M&As. Do any of these areas still need evaluation and addressing ` Unified Communications` Contact Centers & CCaaS` Productivity Suite` Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity`…
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Total Technology Expense Management – An opportunity to Fund Innovation?
Challenge – Funding Innovation with Cost Savings vs New Investment Today’s CIO strategic process starts the same way every year, with a budget and technology review exercise designed to justify spending and right-size the company’s tech stack. By optimizing the IT budget, Executive’s look to discover opportunities to self-fund new investments in digital innovation. “No…
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4 Hallmarks of A Great Managed Service Provider
The best MSPs become strategic partners to their customers. Service providers have quietly kept the business world running for decades. Today, they may be a company’s greatest hope for surviving and thriving in a post-pandemic world. Managed service providers (MSPs or service providers) operate in the background to maintain another company’s technology. Their services run the gamut from security, network administration, and IT support to data backup, business process…
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Trying to Cut Software and Cloud Costs? Here’s How….
With organizations facing economic headwinds, CFOs are likely eyeing costly multiyear contracts like those for software and cloud. Use these tactics to retain the benefits while reducing the burden of such contracts. “IT sourcing, procurement and vendor management (SPVM) leaders must take immediate action to alleviate financial pressure for a six- to 24-month period,” says Gartner Senior…
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Colocation vs. Cloud: What’s best for your Business
Colocation vs. Cloud: What’s best for your business? Nashville Predators or Chicago Blackhawks, Linux or Windows, Star Wars or Star Trek: There’s no shortage of choices life asks us to make. When it comes to Cloud versus Colocation, it may be tempting to see it as just another either-or decision. But the question you should…
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