Let’s face it. Dealing with your nontechnical colleagues can be challenging—especially when there are increasing demands on your current infrastructure systems. That’s why we’ve put together some of the worst things any IT manager could possibly hear and described how you can avoid ever hearing them again.
1. “I just found out that we’ve been marketing men’s suits to a 12-year-old.”
Today’s infrastructures need to build data analytics and intelligence into their daily operations and transactions. That way, employees and leaders can have access to accurate insights when they need it.
2. “Due to inaccurate forecasting, we now have an extra 90,000 units collecting dust in a warehouse.”
When you implement big data and analytics, you can access all of your data—even across multiple locations—and gain insights quickly and easily. In fact, with the right infrastructure solutions, retailers have increased their operating margins by 60 percent.1
3. “Joe’s running the numbers. He’ll get back to you next week. Or maybe the week after.”
By using integrated and high-performance infrastructure solutions, you can optimize your decision making in real time. That means the data you already have will be working harder for you, improving collaboration and problem solving while uncovering growth opportunities.
4. “Well, I’m in Singapore and it’s 3 a.m. here.”
IBM private and hybrid cloud infrastructure solutions bring you scalability and reliability, enabling continuous access to your applications and data, no matter where you are (or what time zone you’re in).
5. “Do we have enough in the budget to clone me?”
Overburden your resources no more! With a cloud-based infrastructure, you’ll find the doors to opportunity opening at every turn. For starters, you’ll enjoy 50 percent lower management costs, freeing up staff to help you innovate for the future.2
6. “I wish there was a dating site for cloud solutions.”
Finding the right hybrid cloud solution may seem like an impossible task. But there’s a match out there, waiting for you. IBM’s open and integrated technologies are designed to help you integrate and optimize heterogeneous environments, ensuring the investments you make today will continue to pay off as you progress toward a hybrid cloud.
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1. Source: McKinsey & Company, McKinsey Global Institute, Big data: the next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity.
2. Source: From an International Technology Group (ITG, a third party) interview of a group of companies. The results from the group of 6 companies had a peak predicted administrator efficiency improvement of 57% and an average of 42%. Sourced from whitepaper “Value Proposition for IBM Next Generation Platform System”, International Technology Group
Surjit Chana 