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Integral Axon’s top 10 ways to drive down IT infrastructure costs – without sacrifice

Around 65 percent of IT infrastructure spend is required to "keep the lights on". The challenge for organisations is to drive down recurring IT infrastructure costs and either apply those savings to the bottom line, or - even better - to new projects around business transformation aimed at increasing competitiveness and profitability. Integral Axon's 'Top Ten' list direct customer focus to the fastest, easiest and most immediate ways to drive down infrastructure costs without sacrificing performance.

Top Ten: #1 - Measure.Plan.Execute

Move fast to drive down infrastructure costs.
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Top Ten: #2 - Slash ICT procurement and support costs

Cut as much as 20 percent out of your procurement and support costs.
Simplify your supply chain. Improve speed, efficiency and quality
– without limiting your choices.
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Top Ten: #3 - Outsource for efficiency and flexibility

Knowing what to outsource and when is key to maximising the benefits of outsourcing. However, identifying the right targets has been hard to do cost effectively...until now.
Integral Axon Outsource Readiness Consulting is a fast, economical outcomes-based consulting exercise that shows how smart selective outsourcing can achieve the greatest savings and service improvements for your business - with the least disruption. For more information, read our overview...
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Top Ten: #4 - Sweat your assets

Think you've got your virtualisation environment sorted? Think again!
Even if you've already virtualised or consolidated your environment, there's still significant scope to maximize your investment. The latest virtualisation solutions provide rich opportunities for you to sweat your IT assets.

Optimise your virtualisation environment to make it more cost effective, efficient, responsive, flexible and robust. Integral Axon can help you make 'good' GREAT.
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Top Ten: #5 - Subscribe, don't buy

Access best practice IT service desk and management tools and processes to improve infrastructure reliability and boost service levels - while slashing costs.

Integral Axon's BMC Remedy ITSM Software as a Service (SaaS) solution - the best way to manage your IT operational services.

Read on for more information about this solution, and Integral Axon's Service Management capabilities.
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Top Ten: #6 - Only pay for what you use

Software licensing compliance is complex. Managing it in-house can be a nightmare. Outsourcing is smart and cost-effective. It’s a no-headache, proven way to ensure you never buy more licences than you need, and that you’ll always pass licence audits with flying colours.

Integral Axon manages customer volume licensing agreements for hundreds of New Zealand organisations.  Using innovative software licensing management tools and processes backed up by highly skilled specialists, we help businesses simplify planning and management of licensing compliance and expenditure.
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Top Ten: #7 - Save power and bandwidth

With every business under extreme cost pressures, IT is increasingly being forced to do more with less. IT-related activities consume a significant percentage of a company's energy usage... Reducing IT energy costs is a great way to save REAL money.

Smart power management solutions - like eiPower Saver Solution - can slash power consumption and lower CO2 emissions, delivering REAL annual savings of 10s to 100s of thousands of dollars, and a powerful, brand-enhancing, Green IT message too.

Integral Axon can deliver a Return on Investment assessment tailored to your organisation in less than two hours. Turn green to gold - we'll show you how.
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Top Ten: #8 - Boost your storage IQ

Optimise your information infrastructure to store, protect and leverage your business information enterprise-wide.  More strategic management means lower costs and faster, safer, more efficient data access for your organisation.

Harness the power of unified storage technology as a weapon to help you win the data storage war!  Save space and remove cost and complexity, without compromising on functionality.

Stoke up your storage IQ with Integral Axon.
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Top Ten: #9 - Collaborate & Accelerate

Getting ahead in business is easier and quicker when you pick the right partner and have the right tools. Close the gap between people, business processes and communication with solutions that help you manage and leverage information collaboratively.

Integral Axon’s strategic, award-winning partnership with Enlighten Designs brings clients high-quality, innovative solutions tailored to specific business needs. Accelerate your business with Integral Axon and Enlighten Designs…
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Top Ten: #10. Protect and leverage your intellectual property

Your intellectual property is your greatest asset. And with the right partners, systems and tools, safeguarding and leveraging that priceless asset couldn’t be simpler.

Integral Axon’s strategic partnership with Simpl delivers holistic high-quality, innovative, business-aligned solutions – implemented by a team of likeminded, dedicated, skilled IT professionals.

Protect and leverage your greatest asset with Integral Axon and Simpl.
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Knowledge transfer at heart of Polytechnic transformation

Knowledge transfer at heart of Polytechnic transformation

When Otago Polytechnic decided to make a complete operating environment shift from Novell to Microsoft, it needed a project partner that could effect a knowledge transfer so deep it would leave the Polytechnic self sufficient in supporting its new environment internally.

Small investment equals substantial savings for Kordia

Small investment equals substantial savings for Kordia

A Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS) deployment at Kordia won Integral Axon a Microsoft Partner Award for Best Unified Communications Solution.

TOWER: 80% less downtime using Integral Axon’s remote monitoring service

TOWER: 80% less downtime using Integral Axon’s remote monitoring service

Financial services company TOWER has reduced downtime incidents across its 200 virtual servers by 80% using Integral Axon Performance Manager – Integral Axon’s sophisticated remote monitoring service. The service allows TOWER to predict – and fix – potential problems before they occur.

Faster, better, cheaper: Axonline delivers the goods for Beca

Faster, better, cheaper: Axonline delivers the goods for Beca

Integral Axon has gone live with its new market-leading online procurement service at Beca, an international professional services consultancy employing more than 2000 people across the globe.

Buying an outcome, not another IT system

Buying an outcome, not another IT system

Workbridge used Integral Axon’s market-leading Virtual Data Centre to achieve rapid provisioning of a core services disaster recovery solution...

Better support, more compatibility

Better support, more compatibility

Integral Axon has enabled the Medical Assurance Society to automate and centralise management of its network, making the organisation more compatible with the systems of its members while saving time and controlling IT costs.

Managing and leveraging unstructured data 'invaluable' for national law firm

Managing and leveraging unstructured data 'invaluable' for national law firm

Integral Axon's enterprise content management project at Simpson Grierson has resulted in 11,000 emails every week being filed into the customer's new Interwoven system.

Software as a Service

Software as a Service

Integral Axon has launched the first software as a service offering of BMC's Remedy ITSM 7 Service Management suite, offering Remedy ITSM as a fully hosted 'software as a service' solution delivered via secure web or VPN connection from Integral Axon's Class A datacentre facility.

Cost control over the SAN lifecycle

Cost control over the SAN lifecycle

When Christchurch Polytechnic moved to purchase a new SAN, it knew from experience that ongoing service and maintenance charges could devour any so called 'discounts' on the initial purchase price.

Consistent High Performance

Consistent High Performance

Integral Axon drives down costs at BMW New Zealand

Axonline Solutions

Axonline Solutions

ICT continues to evolve with a mix of 'on premise' and 'cloud based' solutions. In this high pressure climate, Integral Axon is well positioned to help customers adopt new technology.