COST EFFECTIVE HARDWARE MAINTENANCE

Maintenance is often one of the largest cost items in IT. This one-day workshop shows how to curb that cost and get best value.

OBJECTIVES

Participants will receive a sound grounding in Information Security threats - and solutions

Why you should attend

Downtime can cost big money - just a few examples:

  • Brokerage Operations £4,100,000 / hour
  • Credit Card Authorisation £1,700,000 / hour
  • Pay-per-view £100,000 / hour
  • Home Shopping £70,000 / hour
  • Catalogue Sales £60,000 / hour
  • Airline Reservations £60,000 / hour
  • Teleticket Sales £45,000 / hour
  • Package Shipping £18,000 / hour

The answer lies in getting the balance right between paying too much in maintenance and suffering devastating losses through outage.

Who shold attend

IT and MIS Managers, Computer Services Managers, Operations Managers, IT staff, Auditors, Accountants, Computer Users charged for IT services and non-computing professionals responsible for departmental or business unit computing services.

How you will benefit

This course shows options for cost-effective hardware maintenance and provides a blueprint for for maintenance optimisation.

Programme

  • Types of Maintenance

    Preventative
    Remedial
    Time & Materials
    Engineering Changes
    Value Added Services

  • Maintenance Cover

    Hours of Cover
    Best value arrangements

  • Engineer's Location

    On-site or on call?

  • Cost effective Maintenance Options

    Vendor or Third Party Maintenance?
    Swap Shop

    Reducing cost by swapping out
    DIY maintenance

    Insured Maintenance

  • Managing Suppliers

    Service Level Agreements
    Performance Indicators
    Purchase & Maintenance Contracts
    Problem & Incident Reporting

  • Design for availability

    Critical Component Analysis
    A Tiered Approach to Availability
    Continuous Processing & Non-Stop Availability

 

Workshop Leader

Andrew Hiles

 

Books by Kingswell Consultants

Books on Service Management

Hiles, A. N. The Complete Guide to IT Service Level Agreements, Matching Service Quality to Business Needs.. ISBN 0-9641648-2-5 published by Rothstein Associates Inc.  The standard work on IT Service Level Agreements.

Hiles, A. N. E-Business Service Level Agreements: Strategies for ISPs, ASPs, *SPs and CLECS.  Published by Rothstein Associates Inc.  The first book to deal specifically with e-commerce Service Level Agreements.

Hiles, A. N. Service Level Agreements, Winning a Competitive Edge for Supply and Support Services.  ISBN 0-9641648-4-1published by Rothstein Associates Inc. This book applies Service Level Agreements to services other than IT. Real case studies and example SLAs are provided ranging from Human Resources, Logistics, through Training, Livestock Handling, Logistics and Field Service Engineering.

Hiles A.N. and Gunn, Dr. Y. Creating a Customer-Focused Help Desk: How to Win and Keep Your Customers. Published by Rothstein Associates Inc. ISBN 0-9641648-6-8 This book has the support of the Help Desk Institute www.helpdeskinst.com

Books on Business Continuity

Hiles A.N. Business Continuity Management: Best Practice. Published by Rothstein Associates Inc. ISBN 0-9641648-3-3.  This book explicitly covers all the ten areas of business continuity competence required for membership of the Disaster Recovery Institute International (DRII) and the Business Continuity Institute (BCI).

Hiles A.N. Enterprise Risk Assessment & Business Impact Analysis – Best Practices ISBN 1-931332-12-6 Published by Rothstein Associates Inc. Covers many techniques and methods of risk and impact assessment with detailed examples and checklists.

e-Publication. Kingswell books on Business Continuity, Service Level Agreements and  Help Desk Management will shortly be available by page download in conjunction with Rothstein Associates Inc and Books24x7.com.

New and updated books. Existing  books Business Continuity Management – Best Practice and IT Service Level Agreements have been extensively updated. See our products page or visit www.rothstein.com .

All the above books can be obtained from:

Rothstein Associates Inc.
4 Arapaho Road
Brookfield
Connecticut
0608-3104 USA

www.rothstein.com

e-mail pjr@rothstein.com

Telephone: USA: 1-888-ROTHSTEIN
Worldwide: +1 203 740 7400

Hiles A.N. Guide to Risk Management. Published by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales.

Hiles A.N. and Barnes, P. (Editor and main contributor) The Definitive Handbook of Business Continuity Management, John Wiley & Sons, 1999, ISBN 0 471 98622 4.

Hiles, A.N. (contributor), Croner’s Purchasing and Supply Guide to I.T., 1994, ISBN 1 85524 271 0

Hiles, A.N. (contributor), Guide to Business Continuity Management, 1999, for the Confederation of British Industry by Caspian Publishing

Hiles A.N. (contributor) Business Continuity Management, 2000, Institute of Directors / Department of Trade & Industry.

 

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