Top 10 cost optimization solutions
Cost saving is also a profit!
One of the key factors of the company’s success is its mindfulness to its own costs. We would like to bring to your notice 10 best cost optimization solutions. Each of them is time-tested and is effectively being used by us and our customers.
1. Integration of IT systems during mergers and acquisitions of companies
Immutable laws of economics say that good planning and modeling of the integration process of IT systems during mergers and acquisitions optimize a merged business and significantly reduces costs.
NVision Group offers a range of services on merger of IT infrastructures, namely:
- audit of existing IT processes and systems of merged companies;
- developing a strategy for integration and subsequent development of a new IT model;
- creating a single information space, including integration of enterprise applications, management of user manuals and directories;
- optimization of key business processes under new tasks;
- training users on interaction in a new information environment.
2. Office and workflow automation
By reducing the volume of paper documents, companies reduce decision-making costs. A transition to a new quality level of document handling enables one to:
- expedite document approval procedures;
- ensure centralized and structured storage of documents;
- ensure rapid response to changes within a company;
- reduce operating costs;
- improve management quality;
- effectively use enterprise information.
NVision Group offers a full cycle of corporate office automation on EMC, IBM and Microsoft workflow platforms.
3. Videoconferencing (VC)
Videoconferencing enables a business to reduce travel costs. This technology eliminates distance, while maintaining the advantages of direct human communication. Moreover, costs on videoconferencing system are covered within the first six to nine months of operation. Videoconferencing technologies enable one to:
- have regular contact with colleagues, partners and customers located anywhere in the world;
- improve the operational management of representative offices and branches;
- accelerate the decision-making process;
- provide distance learning;
- save on business travel costs.
NVision Group implements functional and efficient VC systems based on equipment from Polycom and LifeSize.
4. Organization of internal communications. IP telephony solutions
Transfer of data, voice and video over the Internet is not just a convenient means of communication but a good opportunity to improve business processes and reduce the overall cost of maintaining a company’s communications infrastructure. The advantages of IP-telephony are obvious: easy to use, low communication cost with high quality.
NVision Group offers its customers construction of IP-telephony with Juniper, AVAYA, HP, and Huawei solutions, and organization of a wide range of modern IP services, significantly expanding the capabilities of corporate telephony. NVision Group connects corporate IP-telephony to public networks, and also docks them to existing sites of traditional telephone network.
5. Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
Infrastructure maintenance costs during implementation of the technology for virtualization of desktops are reduced by an average of 55% compared to the computer environment of a traditional desktop. The real savings in maintaining each user is more than 20,000 rubles per year. NVision Group offers customers with deployment and adaptation of VDI VMware View solutions under any of the client’s tasks.
Economic advantages of VDI VMware View:
- reduced operating and investment expenses on employees’ desktops;
- reduced administrative costs;
- increased productivity;
- protection of the virtual environment;
- high availability and compatibility with a variety of business applications.
6. Virtualization of computing infrastructure
Modern standards on effective use of investment in information infrastructure require radically new technologies. Virtualization solution enables you to create and maintain a highly reliable, manageable, and secure IT infrastructure that can quickly adapt to any changes in business.
Key advantages of the virtual infrastructure:
- increased server utilization – up to 50-70%;
- reduced capital costs by 30-40% or more;
- reduced operating costs by 50-70%.
In order to optimize computing resources, NVision Group offers virtualization tools based on VMware, Citrix and Microsoft.
7. Monitoring and management of information systems
NVision Group’s integrated solutions for monitoring and management of IT infrastructure transmit current information for analysis of the state of information systems, predict potential problems and failures in the hardware or software, and allow for these problems to be solved as quickly as possible. The use of such solutions greatly improves the efficiency, reliability, security and coordinated operation of all IT infrastructure components.
For management of information systems, NVision Group offers solutions that use EMC, IBM, HP, and BMC technologies.
8. Data storage management
Data deduplication, i.e., detection and elimination of redundant data on a disk storage is one of the most popular technologies as it reduces overhead costs and gives quick return on investment.
Deduplication saves storage space, increases the storage and restoration speed due to the smaller volume of reading/writing backup data. In this way, stored volumes are reduced to 80-90%, without reducing productivity. NVision Group uses various methods of hardware and software implementation of this solution, including EMC, IBM, HP, HDS and Symantec products.
9. Energy-saving technologies for data centers
Faced with rising electricity prices, or experiencing electricity limitations, organizations are forced to take very seriously the issue of energy use in data centers. The so-called “green” IT technologies are a set of innovative solutions covering a wide range of components for rational consumption of electricity. To reduce electricity costs, NVision Group offers:
- development and design of integrated energy-saving solutions;
- high-efficient modular systems;
- standardized modular data centers;
- innovative cooling systems;
- intellectual monitoring and control systems for infrastructure.
10. Maintenance and post-warranty service
To ensure a smooth and reliable operation of an IT infrastructure and minimize the cost of its operation, NVision Group has developed a service package on technical support:
- warranty and post-warranty maintenance of networks and communication systems;
- infrastructure service and technical support;
- outsourcing;
- managed services.
Our customers can choose any set and volume of services that strictly meet their needs – from one-time consultations to complete daily and round-the-clock support.
