IT Architecture

The right IT Architecture will make it easier to manage your information, and will keep your IT support costs down.

By IT Architecture we are referring to your overall IT systems and policies.

There are significant benefits from having the correct IT architecture:

• Documents and e-mails are much easier to find

• Access controls are easier to implement, so your data is more secure

• Backup and recovery of data becomes straight forward

• Secure access to your data from a remote location becomes easier

• Lower hardware, licensing and IT support costs

Our experience shows that storing all your information centrally is the best approach

If you have staff who travel or work from home this becomes essential.
Documents are easy to access and work on when stored on a central file store. Emails should also be stored centrally - both incoming and outgoing.

Consider the situation when a user's computer fails. With a good IT architecture and all documents and emails stored centrally the user can log in to another computer and just carry on working. If the information is stored on the failed computer there is considerable wasted time while the situation is resolved. Will your customers wait?

With a good IT architecture documents and emails are as easily accessible remotely - for example working from home, as in the office.

The portability of laptop computers puts them at greater risk of damage or theft. It is especially important to ensure laptop data is stored on the server. With the availability of broadband Internet and using a secure connection this should be routine.

Laptop users who need local copies of emails and documents to enable them to work while not connected to the Internet, can use the Offline features of Windows, or manually copy files between the server and their local drive.

If you have a 'server based' IT architecture you can take advantage of our 'Managed Office' solution.

InfoCentrality can help you migrate to a 'server based' architecture.