Reducing IT Costs

Small to Medium sized businesses typically do not measure Information Technology (IT) costs. IT seems to be a black box. Whereas operations efficiency and utilization, financial performance, and sales are heavily scrutinized - the magnifying glass of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) escapes IT. As a consequence good money goes to waste. Even worse, the opportunity cost of IT making a real difference is rendered a pipedream. This can be completely avoided through proper accountability and by insisting on effective IT; these costs should be turned into organization drivers and accelerators. Naia Corporation is in the business of helping organizations use IT to accelerate their momentum; obtaining an ROI on IT dollars spent. Naia serves its customers by:

• Unifying areas of the organization that are using different systems, methods, and processes.
• Providing secure visibility to areas that are critical and sensitive; avoiding the consequences of hacking.
• Helping employees gain insight to information that eludes them now.
• Effectively using overseas resources to reduce direct IT labor costs by up to 60%.
• Standardizing systems to provide a global view of the organization.
• Obtaining a 90% plus utilization rate for all IT resources, assets, and investments.
• Enforcing service level agreements, lowering application and IT project costs.
• Leveraging Web Services to tie different systems together and providing a window of access through web portals and mobile devices.
• Having an executable disaster recovery plan that ensures reliable access to your data and applications even under extreme circumstances.
• Having an effective service desk that and restores IT services quickly; attacking core problems instead of fighting fires; lowering the number of IT Incidents close to zero.
• Shortening delivery times to your customers; using systems that support the organization in meeting its commitments to customers.
• Accurately measuring and lowering the cost of all transactions.
• Reducing the sales to inventory ratio through the use of advanced inventory management.
• Increasing margins through the use of advanced pricing and costing applications.
• Implementing centralized tracking systems that allow visibility to multiple locations, inventory, and mobile employees.
• Maintaining the organization's business logic in one place, securely and reliably, and providing an ecosystem that reuses that logic again and again; locally, over the Internet, and through mobile devices.
• Providing accessibility to all applications; easily granting access to unknown or semi-trusted third parties as desired.
• Having applications that run efficiently and fast.
• Enforcing IT industry standards and best practices to eliminate dependency and cost overruns.
• Aligning software assets with how the business actually works.
• Having online access to official processes and workflow; then streamlining those processes through on-going improvement and the elimination of bottlenecks.
• Simplifying the acquisition, implementation, maintenance & repair, and retirement of IT assets.