When it comes to technology there is no one-size-fits-all approach, but there are more and less effective ways to accomplish the task at hand. Many times IT vendors and/or Managed Service Providers focus on the latest and greatest technology and gadgets instead of focusing on reliable and stable infrastructure. This often leads to overly complicated and elaborate solutions which typically require the organization to invest additional funds to implement and/or maintain. Many times the solutions are too bleeding edge for even the vendors to know hidden costs.
Upon implementation the only one suffering is the organization, from lost revenue, increased costs, and a solution that often doesn’t even meet their needs. It’s not the organizations fault for being led astray by an IT provider that wanted to use them as a test bed for bleeding edge technology. Simply speaking, the headaches are not always worth it.
So how do you know you are being baited into something? Like the old saying goes, if it sounds too good to be true it probably is! If it sounds overly complicated, it probably is! The IT industry is full of buzzwords and acronyms, like “the cloud”, HaaS, and SaaS making it hard for organizations to understand the underlying technology. The reality is there are solutions and products that fall into every technology category that can be considered either bleeding edge or mature. The best way to avoid this is to ask questions, require detailed scopes of work, and use your best judgment.
At Layered Systems, we strive to build proposals that make sense to the end-user, free of technology jargon and industry buzzwords. In the end, we want you to understand what you are paying for. If you have a project on the horizon and need a second opinion, we are here to help. Feel free to contact us and we can help you wade through the options and choose what is right for your organization so you can skip the headaches involved with making the wrong technology decisions.
