Cutting IT Costs During the Downturn

With today’s economic conditions businesses everywhere are looking to make cost savings. If you’re in a business that has less than 75 computer users and you have internal IT staff, there might be a better and cheaper way to do things.

This is what internal IT staff could be costing you:

1. Salary: the average IT salary for a Support Engineer in the West Midlands is £30,609
2. Employers NI: at 12.8% on the above salary is £3,918
3. Additional costs including office space, travel expenses, phones and training can easily add another £5K
4. Sickness: On average, private sector workers take 6.8 days off sick per year
5. Specialist software and tools for managing systems can cost thousands of pounds

And that’s just the financial costs – what happens when they are on holiday?

Outsourcing may be a better solution for a lot of businesses because:

1. It is cheaper – a fifty user company shelling out £40K (based on the above) would save in excess of £25K when switching to our Managed IT Services.
2. There’s no need to worry about holiday or sickness cover, recruitment, training or any other HR issues.
3. Additional resources can be added as needed to cope with large projects that are too big for any one individual.
4. An external provider brings a wealth of experience built up by dealing with other businesses.
5. You don’t have to provide office space, phones or any other facilities.

We recently slashed a client’s annual IT support costs by £30,000 when they switched from in-house IT support to our service.

Our client has 2 servers and 45 workstations. The provision of in-house IT support was costing them around £45,000 each year including wages, employers NI, sickness and holiday cover, training, specialist software, tools and other expenses. They now have a team of Microsoft Certified Professionals managing and supporting their entire IT infrastructure at less than one third of that cost saving them over £30,000 per annum.