When organizations make the decision to buy new hardware or software, making the decision to buy often turns out to be the easy part. The hard part is on the particular hardware or software to go for. Whatever industry you are in, you are likely to be faced with tens (even hundreds) of vendors, models and releases to choose from.
How do you swim through the impressive promises and the high impact Power Point presentations to zero in on what will actually work for your organisation? Milan Industries can help you do so.
When it comes to hardware and (especially) software, gone are the days when organisations would look for low cost in house solutions developed by members of their IT departments. The influence of the ever more discerning customer and the realities of a competitive business environment have all worked to push the development of in house solutions to the fringe.
But going for off the shelf products is not necessarily the cure all. At Milan Industries, we approach each procurement project that our client engages us on with an open mind. Our goal is to ensure our client gets real value for every dollar spent on acquiring new technology.
Businesses can probably afford to use a trial and error approach when procuring technology for small, low-significance tasks. For instance, the choice of a desktop file compression software might not require too detailed an analysis. The primary concerns would be around the cost, user friendliness and the absence of embedded spyware (or any other form of malware).
Milan Industriesacknowledges that while this simple process may be acceptable for such small technology procurement processes, larger scale procurement is an entirely different ball game.
For instance, procuring an ERP system, enterprise DBMS or new server hardware, not only requires much more financial resources than the example cited earlier, it also requires that one factor in numerous disparate processes within the business to ensure the product chosen is the one that best meets the requirements of the business as a whole.
At Milan Industries, we maintain relationships with a number of major software and hardware vendors. That way, our involvement during the procurement process ensures our client approaches each product with both a knowledgeable partner as well as one that can help them negotiate the best deal.
While we cannot claim to know the capabilities of every technology out there, our extensive experience has placed us in a prime position to have a fairly good idea of what type of technology will best serve a particular organisation.
That said, we are careful when approaching each product and organisation knowing the unique dynamics present in each business and the need for the technology product vouched for to meet these dynamics.
Talk to us today and get on the path to procuring the right hardware and software for your organisation.