The benefits of an IT Infrastructure Assessment speak for themselves – after all, which organisation doesn’t want to spend money wisely, improve efficiencies, minimise downtime, and increase productivity?
A well-performing and secure IT infrastructure is a significant competitive advantage for many businesses. It enables higher productivity levels while minimising the potential risk of attacks that can be disruptive.
Any organisation’s IT environment should constantly be assessed, maintained, and updated. Downtime can result in lost business, and it is becoming business critical for IT systems to be regularly evaluated. A proactive approach and a solid IT assessment checklist will help you find, fix, and eliminate problems before they end up disrupting your workflow.
Get an in-depth, easy-to-read analysis of your current IT environment. Discover where the gaps are within your IT ecosystem and get suggested ways to rectify and improve your business.
Let’s look at some benefits of an IT Infrastructure Assessment.
1. Identify strengths and weaknesses.
How well is your network being managed? Do you have all your IT policies in place? An evaluation of your IT environment will help your organisation identify where your strengths and weaknesses are. Knowing your shortcomings is always good, so you know where to focus efforts on making needed improvements for a robust and resilient IT Infrastructure.
2. Reduction of costs and budget planning.
Do you know your total cost of ownership for all your IT resources? Do you know the total cost that includes the cost of purchases, implementation, and maintenance? An IT infrastructure assessment will help you understand these business costs and highlight areas where you could potentially reduce costs to get the most out of your IT infrastructure.
Depending on your business demand, an assessment will also identify areas where resources may need replacement. Phased business scaling and expansion will allow you to plan where to assign extra resources while making the necessary financial provision.
3. Peace of mind.
A healthy IT ecosystem is an integrated system. So, it makes sense to retire software that is no longer in use and have all software systems talk to each other, with no unnecessary overlapping of software.
4. Minimise business disruption.
Software compliance is critical! Every business should identify, mitigate and control risks regarding compliance before they can hurt the company.
Businesses need to evaluate old, fragile, and risky equipment from their IT infrastructure supporting the business. Risky equipment will need to be fixed or replaced to avoid business disruptions.
Your network needs to be robust, and there should be any known vulnerabilities. Primary security should also be in place to harden the network, making it more resilient. The result is higher availability of network resources that will eliminate any disruption to your business.
Being Proactive Is Better Than Being Reactive.
Growing businesses rely on technology but often spend more time solving the problems within their existing IT environment than they do try to identify them before they cause disruption.
Problems tend to build up over time; they won’t be visible at first unless you assess your IT infrastructure.
Downtime and the time your IT infrastructure takes to get fixed directly affect your bottom line. And the time it takes for your staff to get their head back into the game indirectly impacts your productivity. An average of 23 minutes is needed for an employee to refocus back to the task they were busy working on before being distracted, based on a study conducted by UC Irvine.
Small, medium and enterprise-level companies can trim costs, streamline processes, make the most of their office technology, and avoid potential issues by undertaking an IT infrastructure assessment.
Get in touch with our expert team at 123mds to learn more about an IT infrastructure assessment.
