Proactive IT Monitoring Pays for Itself

Every business has some sort of management tasks that requires foresight, and staying up on them can keep headache-inducing situations from constantly causing downtime and costing you time; and, make no mistake, time is money. Being more proactive not only provides sound strategies, it can really mitigate the amount of problems you have to deal with. As we describe what it means to be proactive, and how that strategy will almost always help you save money, consider how you are implementing a proactive approach to your business.

When your business’ profitability is tied to its efficient and effective use of technology, it’s critically important to keep those systems running properly. The best way to achieve this is to be as proactive as possible in the management of your central information systems, networks, and end points. With all this technology that needs to be constantly maintained, reacting to every problem becomes very costly in terms of time and materials.

Think about it this way: You are still going to be paying for everything you normally would be paying for when your IT is down, which essentially means you are paying for nothing. Say your router stops working. You don’t have a spare. You have to get another router immediately, but it takes an hour or longer to get the new router, change it out, and begin to configure it. That’s hours of downtime for an integral, but inexpensive, part of your business’ computing network. Imagine if your server becomes corrupted or fails? That’s a complete game changer.

Proactive Monitoring
With Preferred’s proactive monitoring service, every machine connected to your network, and your network itself is constantly monitored both by our state-of-the-art automated monitoring software and our certified technicians. If there is an inconsistency on your network, or a piece of hardware that is not running as intended, we will see it well before it can affect the day-to-day operations, significantly reducing or eliminating downtime. Many times the issues can be remedied without any further investment. Imagine what you can accomplish with reliable-functioning technology from bell-to-bell every day? More than struggling with broken or malfunctioning technology, that’s certain. The more uptime your business’ IT has, the more productivity you’ll see, period.

When you compare the money saved, and the revenue earned by having professional IT technicians constantly monitoring your network and infrastructure, you are looking at a substantial value, and an almost immediate return on investment. Get out in front of your organization’s IT troubles by calling Preferred today at 708-781-7110.