TCO!stream - Return on Investment (ROI)


TCO! Stream Return on Investment based on 500 PC - Before and After

 

Before

After

Expected Result

Collect Personal Computer Information on Hardware and Software

  • Manually Collected by system administrator
  • Hardware and Software inventory information are not accurate and consolidation take about 2 months
  • Fully automated and stored into the database.
  • Consolidation of inventory information take about 2 minutes

Effective & Efficient data collection

Time needed to generating Desktop report

Slow and ineffective

Fast and Up to date data.

Reduce manpower time from 2 months to 2 minutes

Types of report to be generated

Fixed format

Multiple format with charts/graphs

Inventory Reports can be customized

Update Personal Hardware and Software inventory information

Update manually and need to take at least 1 month

Automatic update daily, weekly or monthly

Effective & Efficient data presentation

Manage and maintain changes of IT Assets

Not able to control or manage changes of IT asset

Changes of hardware and network information will be detected and recorded into database

Always keep track IT Asset changes and protect IT asset information

Detect & prevent illegal software activities and keep track software license status

Cannot do it

  • Keep track illegal software activities
  • Keep track purchased software license status
  • Blocking un-authorized software

Prevention for software piracy and protect company investment

Statistic & Analysis IT Assets

  • Manually process
  • Data not accurate
  • Time consuming to consolidate & analyze the PC inventory information

Fully Automated

All inventory data and report will be very useful for preparing IT budget and presentation to management

PC Support

On Site Visit

User can instant support from administrator from remote side

Reduce manpower and traveling cost and time

Software Upgrade

On Site Visit

Automatic Distributed

Reduce traveling cost and time

Processing Capability

Low

High

Reduce Manpower

Network IP Management

Maintain manually

Maintain by system

Reduce administrative task

Understand resources in place and how they being used

Keep track manually

Fully Automated

Optimize Resources

Giving training to the staff

Having a training class and gather all the staff

Using Remote Control

Reduce the training cost

Monitoring staff activities and internet usage

Cannot do it

Application & Internet metering can keep track staff’s activities and internet usage

Improve staff productivity and monitor internet activities

Software Usage

Cannot do it

Application metering will capture the software usage time

Number of software license being maintain

Patches Maintenance

Cannot do it

Patch management will manage patches update

Improve Security of user PC

Problem Log on Personal Computer

Cannot do it

Problem management by historical records

Prevent Repeated Problems

Message broadcast

Bulletin board

Instant messaging services

Send message to everyone immediately

Communication between user and administrator

Telephone

Chatting tools

Reduce telephone cost

Files collections

Sending through email, sharing

File Transfer

Save time