Reducing your costs and optimizing your productivity is the only way to control your IT budget ! 

According to the IDC Consulting Group, roughly two thirds of IT budgets are spent on just the administration of client workstations.

In practically all the companies the mail application is one of the most commonly used and deployed system. The cost of management and administration of the mail application therefore represents a significant portion of the total costs of client workstations.

In general, reducing client administration costs is accomplish by

Standardizing the configuration of the client workstations,
Optimizing the administration tasks which can represent up to 70% of the costs of management,
Maintaining workstation configurations efficiently,
Minimizing the impact of application changes and upgrades.

To be efficient, these actions must be achieved using centralized administration tools.
 

To reduce the TCO you must be able to estimate it!

The first step is to run a comprehensive audit of the environment to obtain highly detailed information on the workstations in order to be able to calculate the global TCO.

An auditing process should offer up to date information at any point.

Once the TCO is estimated and calculated, measures can be taken in order to improve it. Reducing workstation administration costs is one fo them.

To realize this step, companies must implement strategies such as:
Standardizing client workstation configurations and the applications in order to reduce maintenance costs and ease change management.
Take control of the workstation configurations - users are users and should not be administrators of their workstation
Deploy a centralized management strategy based on administration tools.

Calculate and Reduce your TCO with Cooperteam services and solutions!

Reduce the Costs of Lotus Notes Client Administration With Cooperteam's Solutions.

Estimate Lotus Notes desktop's global TCO with Cooperteam Services and Desktop Manager's audit functionalities:
Make a complete inventory of all workstations and export the data as needed for management reports.

Reduce Lotus Notes desktop's TCO with Desktop Manager by:
Taking and maintaining control of the Lotus Notes client configurations
Standardizing the configurations on all your Lotus Notes clients

Reduce your administration costs and free your administration teams for added value tasks with Desktop Manager by:
Centralizing, automating, and industrializing all administrative tasks

Guarantee Lotus Notes desktops compliance with company standards with Desktop Manager by:
Enforcing and maintaining company stantards
Blocking certain user actions