Future Proofing

Whatever the economic conditions, your business should be primed to take advantage of any opportunity for growth. However after the downturn and subsequent budgetary pressures many organisations are finding it difficult to turn their IT into a stable platform from which to support an increase in user demands.

Plan-Net are perfectly placed to help you keep costs under control while ensuring your IT is capable of supporting increased demand from your userbase. Our Future Proofing service covers every aspect of your IT - leaving you with a clear and detailed roadmap for delivering an IT Service that is truly ready to support your business through the upturn.

So how much does this cost?

Potentially, nothing at all. Future Proofing is surprisingly low cost and takes place over a fixed number of days - making it extremely cost-effective as a tool for developing a stable platform without increasing IT spend. In addition to this, if we don't find areas where improvements can be made, we'll refund the cost of the exercise in full!

To ensure every avenue for efficiency is explored an in depth understanding of every aspect of IT is crucial. Our Service Management, Support, Technical Infrastructure and Information Security divisions combine their expertise to build a comprehensive picture of your IT's performance.

Future Proofing from Plan-Net can cover;

• Operational costs: reduction, realignment, prioritising.

• Service Desk: performance, structure, scalability.

• Desktop Technology: performance, suitability, new technologies.

• Service Management: process, procedure, ITIL Best Practice.

• Server & Storage: performance, efficiency, capability, scalability.

• Service Management Toolset: suitability, performance, usability.

• IT Support: overall strategy, people, resource, budget, performance and reporting.

• Email & Communication: reliability, performance, security, efficiency.

• Information Security: threats, external, internal, the effect of growth.

• Project work: weighting, roadmapping, budgeting, roll-out.

• Recruitment: HR, growth in resource demand, budgets, legal, alternatives.