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Business Intelligence for Cost Savings in IT

What is the EUX of my estate

One of the most expensive mistakes anyone can make in life is ignoring the details. Whether it’s that stack of parking tickets piling up on the dining room table or your crippling addiction to Steam sales, the possibility of being overwhelmed by the small costs in life is very real. Even worse is the fact that those expenses are difficult to keep track of by the very nature of how little attention they bring to themselves.

When you get hit with massive, expected costs it’s easy to keep up because they hurt and there’s no ignoring it, but the slow bleed of a minor hit is easy to miss. Unfortunately, in real life and the IT world, these can be the items that topple everything when they build up (and lead to some serious finger pointing).

How to achieve IT cost savings with Lakeside

Luckily for IT (but not for your personal life, sorry), Lakeside Software has put some serious thought into how these individually small impacts can be automatically analyzed and used to predict areas of savings to take the manual effort away from managing costs to the business. Now Lakeside’s SysTrack software provides a quick, automated analysis of the current state of any environment to provide a summary of where savings can be realized. Through the use of the new SysTrack Business Intelligence Impact Report (part of the MarketPlace program), a detailed breakdown of utilization and potential savings target can be created with any assessment across numerous cost categories.

One of the principle cost drivers in any environment is underutilization of assets, both for physical hardware and licensed software. Identifying where software assets can be rationalized out of the environment or licenses can be reclaimed can make a huge impact on the operational budget available to an enterprise, and it can be extremely difficult to arrive at an accurate picture of what users actually depend on.

SysTrack automatically captures the granular information necessary to observe utilization for software down to the individual usage of executables per user and dynamically determine what’s being used where and who’s using it. Similarly, identifying when and where a targeted hardware refresh can be used (or avoided) can prevent unnecessary expenditure and avoid extra costs associated with additional support needs. SysTrack collects the performance metrics and hardware details necessary to make clear recommendations about which systems are ready to retire and which can remain in place.

Decreasing the TCO of end-user devices is something that we’ve built numerous solutions around, and some knowledge on the subject of how to maximize the returns on your IT investments with SysTrack is available to cover the finer points of cost savings. Much of this is based around aggregating the end-user experience and assigning some real, quantitative value to the time that users lose due to shortcomings in the tools that are available to them. Categorized, actionable data on what areas of the infrastructure and the computing platforms in use in the environment are causing problems can drastically cut down on support costs while increasing end-user productivity and satisfaction.

Of course there are numerous other avenues for cost prevention or reduction as well, and SysTrack has an incredible amount of analytical power dedicated to automating the triage and presentation of potential problems that can help any environment save money and perform better. To explore the value of SysTrack visit our solutions page for some interesting use cases.

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