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Lifecycle Management Challenges and EGI Solution Benefits
With the effort that goes into purchasing and maintaining technology assets across the enterprise, procurement and deployment often pose obstacles to infrastructure efficiency. EGI’s full-process solutions lead to shortened procurement times, lower administration costs, and greater control of the assets on which your business relies.
Issue
Acquisition Workflow
As acquisition approval processes continue to grow more complex, workflows can become complex and inefficient. Visibility into the process is often limited, causing further delays in the acquisition of mission critical technology and resulting in frequent purchasing errors.
Benefit
Reduced Purchasing Errors
With EGI, your technology acquisition workflow is completely visible to every member of the process. Automatic approval processes, and easy, secure access help to streamline processes and mitigate purchasing errors, as well as identifying obstacles so they can be dealt with quickly
Issue
Procurement Timeframes
Purchasing technology can be wrought with cost and complexity. Ordering is often impeded by too little information when you need more, or too much information to sort through when you already know what you need.
Benefit
Shortened Procurement Time
With EGI’s web-based procurement system, purchasing is fast and convenient. Its online search & compare and order functions allow for faster, better-informed decisions and 24x7 decision-making.
Issue
Inappropriate Purchasing
Often, in the quest for streamlining purchasing, employees are empowered to procure necessities on their own – which can lead to equipment that is incompatible with corporate standards and budgetary policies.
Benefit
Standards Enforcement
With our web procurement tool, you can set and automatically enforce purchasing guidelines predetermined by your IT and Procurement teams, yielding appropriate purchases 100% of the time, and controlling spending on assets.
Issue
Service Management and Scheduling
Scheduling the deployment, maintenance and repair of infrastructure assets can be time-consuming and difficult to monitor.
Benefit
Online Job Scheduling & Reporting
EGI enables 24x7 scheduling of all required services, from deployment to maintenance to asset disposition. Robust reporting enables users to track asset repair histories, and to make better purchasing decisions in the future.
Issue
Asset Management
Without full control and visibility into the lifecycle of assets, your infrastructure cannot perform to its full potential. An asset strategy, from procurement to end-of-life, is necessary for every piece of essential equipment.
Benefit
Greater Control over Assets
Leveraging sophisticated tracking methods, EGI’s asset management solutions provide greater control over the lifecycle of all assets. EGI is also able to fully track the licenses of all software applications throughout the enterprise, ensuring efficient license renewal management and helping eliminate redundancies.
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