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Without consolidation, you frighten innovation and sales away!
All is well with your legacy systems handling scattered IT and data at your business. It has been in place for years, and why spend the time and money to change it?
If this sounds familiar, you may be in for a big surprise that is scarier than any Halloween costume you’ll see this week.
Why?
By isolating IT and data, you …
1. Waste Money
How much time and effort is it taking your technology team to manage, update, back-up, and deploy your siloed environments? Also, how well can these isolated systems change to meet evolving customer and industry demands?
While it may seem like a big expense and hassle to consolidate data, you are actually overspending on unnecessary resources to keep your current processes running. Today, sophisticated technology is available that can literally tie together your various business data workflows — across various IT systems, whether in the Cloud or customer on-premise — to ultimately automate many previously manual processes. The outcome is significantly reduced cost for substantial ROI.
2. Miss New Innovations and Revenue Opportunities
In addition to wasting money, how much are your isolated systems slowing things down? If you are unable to consolidate and collect system-wide data fast, you are not seeing a complete picture of your business processes. This means you are missing opportunities to innovate quickly and pursue new revenue opportunities.
For example, with a single, consolidated analytics dashboard in place that can access and interpret all of your various data, you can accurately obtain key business insights to automatically give customers the types of products, content and information they are looking for. The faster you can create valuable content for your target market, the more of a competitive edge you will have.
Further, do you have great ideas to drive new revenue but are daunted by the resources
and extra cost it will require to execute those ideas? Look for the latest, highly configurable Cloud-based options that help do the work for you — quickly integrating systems and applications so you can focus on creating new products.
3. Jeopardize Reliability
While you may think your isolated data is secure, is it really reliable? If there is a disaster, will you lose data, and how long will recovery take for all of your siloed systems?
According to a recent article by the researchers at Gartner, Inc., “Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) should not treat big data security in isolation, but require policies that encompass all data silos if they are to avoid security chaos.”
By consolidating data into a single Cloud infrastructure, for example, you don’t have to worry about managing security issues across numerous systems. Instead, you have the piece of mind knowing your data is altogether being handled for improved reliability, simplified updates, maintenance, backups and more with little disruption to your business schedule.
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Isolated IT and Data Can Be a Frightening Problem.
If you want to overspend on IT, miss new innovations and revenue opportunities and worry about reliability with your isolated systems, don’t change anything.
But when competitors with a consolidated data strategy in place start to steal your customers away, don’t blame us. We warned you about this frightening possibility.
What are you going to do today to stop wasting time, resources and money on isolated IT and data systems?
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