25 Ways to Cut IT Costs - 25 Best Ways to Find IT Savings: 11 to 20 (
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11) Introduce competition for
existing products.
12) Use best–for-need rather than
best-of-breed products.
13) Use telecom expense management
services (save up to 35 percent).
14) Reduce cellular costs by
moving to corporate liability and creating and enforcing policies for mobile
users (save up to 30 percent).
15) Reduce WAN costs by lowering
the reliability target for one of your sites by one “9”
(save 30 percent).
16) Combine rich-media
conferencing into one premises-based multi-control-point unit (save 60 percent).
17) Deploy IP telephony and VoIP
(save 50 percent to 80 percent on maintenance).
18) Reduce access charges by using
the Internet as corporate transport (save up to 80 percent).
19) Defer 2008 Windows XP PC
replacements to 2009.
20) Exploit commoditization.
11) Introduce competition for
existing products.
12) Use best–for-need rather than
best-of-breed products.
13) Use telecom expense management
services (save up to 35 percent).
14) Reduce cellular costs by
moving to corporate liability and creating and enforcing policies for mobile
users (save up to 30 percent).
15) Reduce WAN costs by lowering
the reliability target for one of your sites by one “9”
(save 30 percent).
16) Combine rich-media
conferencing into one premises-based multi-control-point unit (save 60 percent).
17) Deploy IP telephony and VoIP
(save 50 percent to 80 percent on maintenance).
18) Reduce access charges by using
the Internet as corporate transport (save up to 80 percent).
19) Defer 2008 Windows XP PC
replacements to 2009.
20) Exploit commoditization.
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