Investing Your IT dollars -
Are you focused below or above the Red Line

Thank you to so many who participated in our July Cloud Computing Lunch & Learn. With good reason it was the most interactive and popular presentation we have hosted. From this event and many other recent conversations we keep hearing the same message. Either the IT department -- or even management themselves -- are underwater trying to maintain a network, while the desire is for IT to focus on strategic initiatives that add to the company’s competitive advantage.

Whether IT is a strategic value to an organization is well demonstrated in what we call an IT Value stack. In this chart there is a red line separating IT functions. Anything above the line is strategic and makes sense for a business to invest time and cash. Anything below that line is rapidly becoming utility computing and should be viewed as a sunk cost with an emphasis on turning Capex into Opex.

Please join us August 26th or 27th for the next topic in our Lunch and Learn series: Investing Your IT Dollars – Are you focused above or below the red line. We will help you answer questions about what you can do today to get the most value out of your IT spending.

    Steven Kellam
Executive Vice President

If you could connect to the world’s business professionals, in the time it takes to check your email, wouldn’t you? Welcome to the world of online networking, where valuable business connections are made every day on social and professional networking sites like Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin.

Social and professional networking simply refers to the interaction between a community of people who share a common interest. Through these personal connections you can give your business a personality, build brand awareness, and equally importantly, tune in to what people are saying about you.

At PlanIT Solutions, we have embraced Twitter as an interactive portal where we can foster dialog around the latest in technology. And more importantly, discuss how better technology can drive better business decisions. Twitter has become a valuable medium for building relationships, sharing ideas, and viewing feedback on how we perform. Please follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/psolutions as we provide relevant and timely updates on the constantly changing world of technology.

Debbie Cuccaro, PlanIT Solution’s Service Coordinator, joined our staff in February 2009 and we are grateful daily that she found us. Debbie has an unmatched ability to juggle multiple priorities while keeping all of the engineers on their toes with her quick wit and great sense of humor. While acting as an exceptional PlanIT Solutions Customer Service Representative, Debbie works tirelessly to improve the efficiencies and response times within our service organization. Debbie is a tremendous customer advocate and an asset to our organization.

Congratulations to Debbie for being the latest PlanIT Solution’s Leadership Award winner. Debbie has a bright future here at PlanIT Solutions.

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