Top 5 Ideas for Small to Medium Size Businesses to Radically Reduce their IT Costs

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1 Top 5 Ideas for Small to Medium Size Businesses to Radically Reduce their IT Costs Let us save you 5K on a Gartner subscription and tell you exactly what you need to do in order to stay nimble and reduce your IT costs in 2016.

2 How much should we spend on IT?

3 How much should we spend on IT?

4 Where are we spending the money?

5 Where are we spending the money?

6 How are companies using IT to transform the organization?

7 Technology feels like a tax when You think you are racing with this But you have this in the garage The challenge with the Tech Tax is that it s not always this obvious what s taxing our clients?

8 What are the most common scenarios taxing our clients? 1. Stop Spending Rich: Realizing Best Value from IT Spend 2. Address Aging & Patchy IT Systems: Moving Capex to Opex with the Cloud, Proper Support & Staffing 3. Keeping up to Digital Trends: Websites, Digital Design, & Social 4. Siloed Management of Content: Office Business Productivity with O Handing the Volume of Data: Translating Data To Business Insight

9 Tip 1: Stop Spending Rich

10 Invest in the Right Platforms for the Business

11 Invest in the Right IT Organization for the Business

12 Engage in an Effective Support Structure Instance increase in support Maturity Agility to the skills needed to support the business Pay per Use / Dynamic Scalability Proactive management vs. reactive patching Extends the lifespan of your IT systems

13 Tip 2: Consider The Cloud Instant Increase in Maturity Agility / Time to Market Pay per Use / Dynamic Scalability Incremental Improvements Change in Other Behaviours / Processes VS

14 Economics Of The Cloud - Capex vs. Opex

15 Most organizations are looking at the cloud to reduce IT spend

16 Internet Of Things IOT is envisioned to be the next big thing How can your business harness it? 1. This year, we will have 9 billion connected things...and some predict that by 2020, the number of Internet-connected things will reach or even exceed 50 billion. 2. In 2015, over 4 billion smart phones were shipped and by 2020 we will have a staggering 6.1 billion smartphone users. 3. By 2020, a quarter of a billion vehicles will be connected to the Internet, giving us completely new possibilities for in-vehicle services and automated driving. 4. The global market for wearable devices has grown 223% in 2015, with Fitbit shipping 4.4 million devices and Apple selling 3.6 million Apple Watches. 5. Internet-connected clothing is coming. Estimates predict that 10.2 million units of smart clothing will ship by 2020, compared to a meagre 140K units in Today, the market for Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags, used for transmitting data to identify and track objects, is worth $11.1 billion. This is predicted to rise to $21.9 billion in Machine-to-machine (M2M) connections will grow from 5 billion at the beginning of this year to 27 billion by 2024, with China taking a 21% share and the U.S. 20%. 8. According to estimations by the McKinsey Global Institute, the IoT will have a total economic impact of up to $11 trillion by CISCO believes the IoT could generate $4.6 trillion over the next ten years for the public sector, and $14.4 trillion for the private sector.

17 Tip 3: View Web as a Strategic Asset Effective SEO so they find you Evolving with the changes in consumer buying patterns Business growth driven based on the effective use of technology Greater consumer connectedness

18 Tip 4: Consider 0365 for office productivity

19 Tip 5: Get a Handle on your Data Businesses are generally either drowning in data or not fully capitalizing on their data. Business Intelligence is still largely controlled by IT The tools have evolved significantly to reduce technical the skillset required to translate data to business insight The focus of a Modern Business Intelligence platform is to drive self service Action through connecting to any data, building automated intelligence, and interacting on any device anywhere.

20 What are your options? Figure it out yourself Put your head in the sand and carry on as usual Try and spend your way out of the problem(s) Call the tech accountants for a cost savings discussion. If we can t identify savings in an hour, we ll buy you dinner $100 gift card to Moxies.

21 How BDO Can Help? Daryl Senick Partner Sean Bredin VP Sales Chris Woodill VP Client Strategy Ken Ryder Partner