Can you keep up with your company’s IT infrastructure?

With all the new challenges of these days, companies and organisations are increasingly looking for ways to increase their productivity by focusing on their business. With the advent of mobile technology, cloud services and various internet threats, companies are becoming more aware of the benefits of aligning with companies that provide Managed Services.

Comprehensive and flexible Managed Services, enable businesses to free resources in order to focus on strategic initiatives and new projects rather than engaging in fire fighting efforts to maintain their systems.

The evolving technology puts additional pressure on companies to hire specialised staff to cover the diversity in technology. If we just take mobile devices, they come in three flavours:  iOS for iPhones and iPad’s, Andriod and Windows.  The same happens in applications, as some use MS SQL, others use Oracle, and you will find applications running on premise whilst others as a service on the cloud. As the businesses grow, so does the need to rapidly scale, deploy and manage IT services.   

Managed Services providers are designed to cater for this diversity with people specialised in different areas of operation and take out the headache for businesses of having to engage in an ever more sophisticated IT recruitment process.

Most of all, by providing flexible services, Managed Services providers personalise the services to their client’s budget, availability and needs.   Businesses that opt to outsource their IT to a Managed Services company such as PTL will benefit from overall cost effectiveness as well as peace of mind with reduced operational risk through better systems functionality and availability.

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Enterprise resource planning for medium and small companies - By Julian Rausi

Flexibility and quick response are hallmarks of business competitiveness.  Access to information at the earliest possible time can help businesses serve customers better, raise quality standards and assess market conditions.  Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is a key factor in instant access.  Although some think that ERP systems are only for large companies, this is not the case.  Medium and even small companies can also benefit from the ERP approach.  This is possible if the ERP system being employed is a modular system where one can implement only the necessary modules and adds more as the business grows. 

The use of information systems to add value to the organisation is strongly influenced by organisational structure, culture and change.  No system alone will successfully be implemented if there isn’t a willingness to adapt and change existing processes.  Information systems teams are the key to unlocking the potential of any new or modified system.   They support the cultural change within the organisation and guide the business owner on the process to successfully implement an IT system.

Businesses need to ensure that improvements or completely new IT systems help lower costs, increase profits, improve service or achieve a competitive advantage.   These can be achieved through the use of various modules which most ERP systems provide, including accounting, sales, purchasing, distribution, warehouse management, asset management, project costings and business intelligence tools.

The smart use of an ERP system in today’s ever evolving operating environment, where customers, competitors, suppliers, shareholders, financiers are closer to each other, enables businesses to have information available on demand consistently. This is critical for an organisation to not only to survive but to thrive. 

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