20 September 2006
NEW DATA FORT SOLUTION WILL INCREASE IT-SERVICE QUALITY AND DECREASE USERS’ WORKSTATION MAINTENANCE COST BY 20-30%
DATA FORT, an IBS project, is an exclusive IT-outsourcing service supplier on the Russian market. The company presented a new computer maintenance solution for companies with a large number of users: Workstation Management.
The solution for workstation management (Desktop Management Services) is one of the most demanded on western markets. Thus, according to the estimations made by Gartner, the workstation management service is 15% or about 1.5 milliard dollars of the entire IT-service market in the Western Europe (Forecast: IT Services, Worldwide, 2003-2009).
This solution allows to increase the quality of users support and simultaneously decrease workstation maintenance costs. Its high demand on the Russian market is determined by the fact that IT infrastructures become more complex and less liable to control, since due to the business development IT departments face difficulties controlling extending IT-systems, supporting various technology platforms and a considerable number of users with different work functions and equipment. Difficulties in users’ work, dissatisfaction in IT-service level, decrease in work efficiency come as a consequence of the IT control decrease. Thus, companies face the need for double ensuring, purchasing twice as much equipment and licenses as needed and unreasonably extending support service staff.
The standardization of hardware and software, centralized control, regulation of the expenses for all current operations, as well as more efficient IT maintenance organization in DATA FORT can decrease company’s computer equipment expenses by 20-30% annually.
According to Yuri Samoilov, DATA FORT General Director, “Apart from such important advantage as expense decrease, this service fundamentally changes the treatment of end users due to the increase of the workstations support. Unfortunately, insufficient attention to users and their working conditions, which is currently common, causes vast loss in working efficiency. Meanwhile, the management of this process facilitates the everyday work of employees and ensures stable and comfortable conditions. And this shows in the financial effect.”
The cost of the solution is calculated according to DATA FORT’s Open Book – Open Pricing where any future customer can see the entire pricing structure for the services to be rendered. This concept allows customers to independently calculate the price of the service to be purchased. To make the choice and purchasing process of the new solution easier, DATA FORT offers typical packages formed to increase service variety from basic to extended options. Such standardization offers maximum economy. The price of each package is determined by the service set, existence of branches, presented equipment, and the possibility of the remote access. The base package includes:
- service of the Central technical support (solution of users’ calls, PC and IT infrastructure administration, migration, extension, changes and installation of components, configuring PCs and software, consulting to users);
- PC servicing (preventive, warranty, and post-warranty, provided in DATA FORT service center);
- reports on services rendered and compliance degree of the rendered services with the declared level.
- DATA FORT also provides additional services within the base package upon customer’s desire:
- development and coordination of PC and software standards, upon customer’s requirements;
- renting PC and software to customers;
- setup of IT-infrastructure according to customer’s requirements;
- managing customer’s IT-components (management of IT-infrastructure, stock, IT-equipment purchasing process)
- help moving customer’s IT-infrastructure
Service rendering parameters and financial liability of DATA FORT are stipulated in each contract. Besides, a customer always has the opportunity to plan service parameters and, consequently, service costs, based on business changes. “For instance, for a business with obvious seasonal changes we suggest installing highest service level during seasonal hottest activities, and medium or low during seasonal activity drops. Similar differentiation is also possible for subdivisions and branches of the customer’s companies. Flexible approach to the service level will allow our customers to get high-quality service all year round without any excessive expenses”, points out Yuri Samoilov.
The launch of the solution Workstation Management is an important milestone for DATA FORT in its way to the transformation of its business into the functional IT-outsourcing.
For more information, please, visit http://www.datafort.ru/dtm.
Company Profile
DATA FORT – an IBS project - is a specialized IT-outsourcing service supplier. For more information, please, visit www.datafort.ru.
For more information on IBS and its practice in the field of corporate management systems, please contact Lada Scherbakova, IBS Public Relations Director.
Tel: (495) 967-80-80,
e-mail: lada@ibs.ru