With digital transformation, the IT industry has gained a new role within companies, much more strategic and aligned to core business. With this growth, infrastructure has increased, and so have costs, in this case, IT costs. With this being said, the great challenge for companies has become cost reduction, without harming the productivity and efficiency of internal processes.
To overcome this challenge, it is necessary to acquire technologies that increase the flexibility of infrastructure to meet the different demands that the company has throughout the year. In addition, it is important that there is a change in the way it is thought as a whole, understanding that it is no longer necessary to control all the resources of the sector and centralize processes.
In this post, we bring you 4 smart hacks to reduce the IT costs of your industry without losing the quality of work. Check the below!
Use cloud computing to your advantage
Dedicated servers account for much of the IT costs in an enterprise. To maintain this physical structure, expenses are required with devices, space, electricity, software license, and maintenance. In addition, not always the full potential of servers is harnessed.
Cloud computing gives the company the opportunity to optimize much of these costs. By migrating your servers to the cloud, the manager gets rid of all structural costs with physical devices and electricity, as well as gaining internal space. In addition, the company only pays for the resources it uses, gaining in scalability, integration, and mobility of its systems.
Automate repetitive tasks
Many bureaucratic and routine tasks, which were done manually by IT professionals, can be automated, with the adoption of systems equipped with artificial intelligence and with process robotization, reducing IT costs and the margin of error. A good IT management system, for example, allows the automation of tickets, backups, software updates, patch installation, and whatever else can be automated through scripts.
Without the need to hire professionals to perform this type of activity, the company gains in efficiency and can move these employees to more complex tasks.
Third services
Small and medium-sized enterprises are not always able to maintain an internal IT team, since the focus is always to grow the business. The company can outsource various areas of IT, ranging from support to the development and innovation team. Hiring a company that has know-how in the sector, the manager can focus on his core business.
By not having to afford an entire team, the company reduces the cost of personnel, salaries, and charges, earns a punctual service, and with the best cost-benefit.
Host the cloud management system
Management software is responsible for integrating sectors into a company, process automation, activity optimization, and data centralization. But as we said above, maintaining an internal server increases the IT costs. So how can you have management software without a dedicated server? You can migrate it to the cloud.
Nowadays it is already possible to develop an entire system in the cloud, customized according to the needs of your company. With this virtualization, it will become simpler and more intuitive to reallocate resources for the better functioning of your management system and integration with other platforms — such as data mining tools, which enable accurate analysis of the data produced by the company’s ERP or CRM.
All this optimization leads to increased efficiency and productivity, as well as a reduction in IT costs, changing the company’s level and putting it on the digital transformation map, without breaking the budget. For all this to be possible, it is important to perform a prior analysis of the processes in order to define which tools will effectively contribute to the reduction of money-hungry IT costs.
Want to better understand how to do this analysis? Then come see in the following post how to detect the need for new software solutions in your company.
