You may consider using Section 179 to make some improvements to your business while reducing your taxable income - this is a wise decision, but you should be wary of making IT purchases instead of investments. This article will highlight the importance of a strategic IT plan and assess three main areas of IT infrastructure to consider upgrading for a major Return on Technology (ROT): phones, servers and computers.
If you would like to learn more about how to leverage Section 179 to invest in your technology, you can read more on that topic here.
IT Infrastructure To Consider Upgrading
Your IT infrastructure is an interconnected network of hardware and software. Your business is built on your IT infrastructure and optimizing it can have a huge positive impact on efficiency, productivity and profitability. Three areas of your infrastructure that can significantly affect productivity and cost savings are your phone system, servers, and computers.
If you don't have an internal vision for your perfect IT infrastructure, reach out to us. We can help you assess where you are and explain what you need to achieve your business objectives. You can book a call with us anytime.
1. Phone System
Telephone systems are expensive, difficult to maintain and not always easy to scale. With out Telecom professionals programming the system, they are not flexible enough to support a distributed workforce. VoIP or a cloud-based telephone system could be a wise investment. VoIP system can be less expensive it also helps increase employee productivity with integrated features like voice recording, transcribed voice mail, etc. With VoIP, you have the flexibility to easily add or remove lines, eliminate hardware costs (unless you want a physical handset), and allow your employees to answer their calls from anywhere they work.
2. Servers
Server hardware and maintenance costs can add up quickly, especially as your business grows. Depending on your type of work, switching to a cloud-based storage solution could lead to significant cost savings and enable your employees to access what they need to work from anywhere. However, if your company is better suited to have its own physical servers on your premises, there is still the possibility to optimize with hardware upgrades. In collaboration with an IT provider, we can evaluate your current system and find suitable ways to invest in your data storage infrastructure to give you that ROT.
3. Computers
Whether your employees have desktops or laptops, the efficiency of their computers correlates directly with their efficiency. Ultimately, time is money, and you want your employees to do their jobs quickly and efficiently without their computers lagging, crashing, or ultimately going down. Planning equipment upgrades gives you the time to find the perfect device that meets your employee's needs, find a reasonable price, and transfer over the data to it.
Technology simplifies our lives and can have profound effects on reducing workloads, streamlining tasks, and increasing productivity and thus profitability. The difficult part is knowing what kind of technology works for your business, where to focus your budgeted expenditures, how to determine effectiveness, and how to prevent it from becoming a liability. We can help you answer these questions. You can book a call with us anytime.
