Make partnering with Restore Technology to ensure you are securely, seamlessly and professionally covered for the entire IT lifecycle an intrinsic and fundamental part of your business’ growth and reputation.
What are the opportunities for your business over the next 12 months?
And the challenges? How do you make sure your IT needs align with your company goals, development, and budgets? Identifying the challenges with colleagues and stakeholders is the first step since it is a robust response that will build a progressive strategy for your organisation. From an IT perspective, your strategy enables decision making around purchasing, upgrading and responsibly disposing of end-of-life assets – the fully managed lifecycle that is strategic ITAM.
ITAMLet’s take a look at some of those influences here.
Human and capital expenditure fall under this heading. Which departments or teams will grow and require new hires and the correct IT equipment to further the goals of your organisation? Even if you work at or run a SME, IT still assumes a central role in keeping the wheels of your industry turning. Allocating the correct budget for staffing and kit is an essential.
Allied to resource supply is the built-in ability to change course, adjusting quickly to market changes and unforeseen disruptions. Adopting strategic ITAM that enables dynamism and responsiveness is pivotal to your successful negotiation of today’s business environment.
The need for flexibility, agility and what feels like the ability to read a crystal ball in your approach to IT planning is amply illustrated by the pace of change in technologies such as AI, machine learning and cloud computing. Investing in underpowered IT equipment may be initially economical, for instance, but can prove to be a poor return on your investment as obsolescence kicks in earlier and earlier in a device’s lifespan.
Smart purchasing, close management of soft- and hardware, effective and closely monitored firewalls – all these, and more, fall under the aegis of risk management, with security processes and systems as your top concern. The news is fuelled by stories of devastating hacks and ransoms, dark web dumps and so on, but this needn’t be happening on your watch! Whether you are a one-person band or a multi-sited, multinational, keeping your data and data-bearing devices safe and secure is a priority.
Your organisation’s ambition needs to be met by realistic budgeting and robust planning for all IT eventualities. As a collaborative effort, folding your IT strategy into your organisation’s overarching strategic objectives for the coming year (or longer), should mean that KPIs and a chain of command are in place and communicated to all your stakeholders, including colleagues and customers.
Calling on the professionals
The above are just some of the areas to consider when IT budget planning. It’s not only fiscal, it’s about security, reputation, and compliance with data protection and WEEE Directive regulations, too, and this is where a professional ITAM business, like Restore Technology, makes a measurable contribution to your organisation’s wellbeing and success.
WEEE DirectiveHere’s how.
Keeping IT asset inventory data accurate and current
We use state-of-the-art tools to discover and track your IT assets. These assets include hardware devices and monitored software licence status across multiple platforms and vendors, in order to provide full transparency and accountability for your entire, interdependent estate, helping you avoid overspend and adhere to regulatory requirements.
Managing your assets’ lifecycle
From acquisition to inter-departmental re-use, to extra-mural recycling and environmentally conscious and compliant disposal (ITAD – which plays a large part in our services), we are large and experienced enough, with industry-leading expertise, to handle from single-figure set-ups to asset estates numbering in the hundreds of thousands.
Implementing robust security for all your physical and digital IT assets
Strategic ITAM enhances oversight of all systems and assets, identifying outdated or unsupported soft- and hardware, reducing chinks in your business armour. In addition, we take your data’s security extremely seriously, and you can count on our unbroken chain of custody, vetted and trained operatives, secure dedicated facilities and certified destruction methods to keep it safe from being breached.
Optimising compliant ITAD processes for corporate responsibility and ROI
We’re accredited to destroy data to the highest levels of security and our highly specialised ITAD team can meet the security policy and required destruction/erasure standards. We discover every assets potential for resale or re-use based on condition and market value. Viable devices are securely wiped and remarketed through trusted channels, helping you recoup maximum returns. Alternatively, items may be securely wiped and offered as donations. Finally, assets that are non-reusable are responsibly dismantled and constituent parts recycled through certified e-waste partners who, at the very least, adhere to WEEE Directive regulations.
A strategic move to Restore Technology
ITAM is a fundamental discipline for organisations seeking to extract value from their IT investments, while keeping an informed eye on minimising risks to data and to the environment. As such, ITAM should be a pillar of any forward-thinking, proactive strategic management of technology resources.
To discuss how to integrate Restore Technology’s comprehensive suite of ITAM services with your corporate ambitions, contact the team on 0333 060 1920, or complete the form on our website.
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