One of the keys to survival in the business world today, is leveraging information technology for business success. Also known as IT, information technology is a comprehensive term that includes all types of technology used to exchange, store, use or create information. If not all, almost every business uses phones, computers, servers, peripheral devices, and Internet connectivity equipment in its day-to-day operations.1 In an article entitled, “What are the Advantages of Information Technology?” Kyra Sheanan shares why IT must play a vital role in any business seeking to maximize its productivity. In this article, she mentions four benefits of IT.
1. Communication
Communication is essential to the business world, and information technology gives your company the resources it needs to communicate quickly and effectively. An IT department can hook up your employees with email, video conferencing equipment and internal chat rooms, so they can always have an efficient way to conduct business and communicate.
2. Work Remotely
IT systems give you remote access to your company’s electronic network, so that you can work from home or on the road. This accessibility allows you to increase your productivity because you can still get work done, even when you aren’t physically in the office.
3. Storing and Protecting Information
Information technology creates electronic storage systems to protect your company's valuable records. Secure maintenance of customer and patient files is vital to business integrity. Storage systems, such as virtual vaults, keep information safe by only allowing certain users within your company to access, withdraw, add or change the documents.2 According to an article in Science Daily, IT security engineering systems protect your electronic information from being hacked, or wiped out during a technological disaster. Electronic security engineering means your valuable records will remain untouchable.
4. Automated Processes
In business, people look for ways to do more work in a shorter amount of time. A November 2000 newsletter published by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco explains that information technology improves your company's efficiency by developing automated processes to take burden off your staff. In turn, your employees are free to work on other things while the computer runs their reports, creates queries, tracks projects and monitors financials.
At Laser Action Plus, "We give you more for less".
Laser Action Plus can help your company with all of its information technology needs. We offer a full range of IT services from solution architecture to the implementation of complete IT packages to satisfy all your company’s IT requirements. We also provide onsite consultation and evaluations of your IT infrastructure. For your convenience, one of our knowledgeable IT staff members can visit your location to assist you with determining the most flexible and economical IT solution that will grow with your company, instead of impeding it.
At Laser Action Plus, “We give you more for less”. In addition to IT services, we provide managed print services, sell remanufactured toner cartridges and recycle to protect you and the environment. Laser Action Plus is a Premier Hewlett Packard and Toshiba copier dealer.
1 Laura Acevedo, Business Benefits of Information Technology
2 Graziadio School of Business and Management
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Andre A. Marks