Lower Total Cost of Ownership

Information Technology (IT) managers are under unprecedented pressure to reduce costs. Seeking to stretch their budgets, managers are subjecting every purchase to rigorous scrutiny and looking for every opportunity to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO). But despite the well-deserved focus on cost cutting, the fact remains that IT, above all, is a value center, not a cost center. Cutting IT costs must always take place within a framework that emphasizes delivering value to the business. Given this mandate, IT best practices are more important than ever. Adherence to best practices can help IT reduce costs while ensuring that the client base does what it's supposed to do: increase end-user and organizational productivity, and ultimately help the company increase its revenues, decrease its costs, and enhance its success in the marketplace.

But which practices should you follow? How do you begin implementing them? What benefits do they provide? To answer these questions, Intel created the PC Best Practices Series, a set of six best practices for managing the business client. Simple yet powerful, these tools can help your company reduce TCO, enhance security, and exploit the power and improved productivity benefits of the latest technologies.

Why give credence to Intel as a source of best practices? Three reasons:

• Intel manufactures the building blocks that power a majority of the world's leading desktop, notebook, and handheld PCs. Intel understands client technology from the inside out.
• Intel is a Fortune 100 company and a leading global manufacturer, deploying more than 70,000 desktop and notebook PCs to employees around the world.
• Intel's practices that have cut client cost of ownership by more than 50 percent over a three-year period. Intel has a lower TCO than the industry average, and in 2002 Intel IT had customer satisfaction ratings of 92 percent.

And while you might wonder if these TCO figures are bolstered by deep discounts, they're not:
Intel's cost structure for client purchases mirrors that of most large corporations.

Intel® Solution Services advises companies the world over on their toughest IT challenges.

Intel Solution Services consultants have worked with Global 2000 companies to architect, design, and develop a wide range of solutions, including client recommendations that are saving customers millions of dollars.

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