All businesses should be conducting business by looking toward the future, remaining cognizant of what horrors today’s headaches could become later on. If they fail to do so, it could lead to disastrous results, like crippling downtime and operational issues in the long term. If you can be proactive about maintaining your technology, you can prevent these issues from manifesting, nipping problems in the bud before they cause trouble for your organization.

As an organization that depends on technology to maintain operations, your productivity and efficiency is inevitably tied to how well that technology systems function. The only way to guarantee optimal efficiency is to keep a close watch on your systems and perform proactive maintenance, effectively cutting out opportunities for your central information systems, networks, and endpoints to dip below the acceptable operational efficiency threshold. If you maintain your technology frequently enough, the odds that a devastating hardware failure or similar event throws a wrench in your operations are significantly reduced.

If you need a tip on how to know when your technology is costing you money, consider this. If you’re still paying for all of your services, even when your technology isn’t working as intended, it’s ultimately costing your business money with no return on investment. For example, if your router stops working properly and you don’t have a spare device, your organization won’t have access to the Internet. If your organization relies on the Internet to function, then you’re not making progress on any projects, meaning that your technology--once a boon to your operations--has suddenly become the bane of your budget. You can apply this scenario to just about any technology you use. Servers? Point of sale terminals? Workstations? All of these can impede operations if not maintained.

Proactive Monitoring
Dresner Group has proactive monitoring services that can help your business make sure all technology on its network is kept in tip-top shape. We can monitor your technology solutions using automated monitoring software, allowing our technicians the opportunity to address any issues as they crop up. This means that if there is any issue that appears on your network, we can address it before it becomes a major problem. Most of the time, the issue probably doesn’t even need an on-site visit to address, adding to the value you receive from our service. We handle the issue discreetly without an on-site visit, while you go about your day-to-day operations without a care in the world. After all, the more time you spend working, the more productive you can be. On the opposite end of the spectrum, the more time you spend not working, the more you lose due to downtime.

In the end, if you compare how much money you’ve saved from implementing remote monitoring and management, you’ll notice a significant return on investment for the services rendered in terms of productivity gained for your business. To learn more about how you can take advantage of these services, reach out to Dresner Group at (410) 531-6727.