Re-assigning budget to business improvement rather than technical failure

Lightsout Computer Services always creates business-assigned solutions in order to:

• increase IT service quality
• drive out complexity
• reduce running costs.

They prevent your organisation from reaching technical dead ends that constrain business development and lead to unplanned expenditure.

Lightsout specialists often come across hardware and networks, on customer sites, which are not delivering their full potential. They frequently find software which is not used, yet the company is paying the associated monthly licence fees. Lightsout often starts with an audit, which identifies opportunities to reduce expenditure and optimise or consolidate hardware according to your business needs.

Few businesses have 'end-of-life' schedules pencilled into their IT plans. This has proved to be a costly business oversight in organisations of all sizes, which could have easily been avoided with an audit.

Forrester's software budget survey (conducted Dec 08 until Feb 09) showed that 20% of businesses audited, contained unused software. At the same time, their survey of 776 European, US and Asian companies found that only 35% of respondents were using a third-party software firm, so the actual percentage of companies with unused software is likely to be higher.

The strong business acumen of Lightsout technical specialists enable them to assess, design and build solutions to meet clients' demanding business plans.