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Why a Network Audit Will Benefit Your Company
The Need for Operational Awareness Large organizations today are more
network-dependent than ever, relying on their network infrastructure
to support essential revenue-generating applications such as financial
transactions, customer relationship management, supply chain management,
and other critical processes. At the same time, budget constraints
are forcing IT managers to do "more with less", and reduce expenditures
on equipment, maintenance and support. These goals must be achieved
while still maintaining consistently high levels of service, high
network availability, and fast recovery times in case of failure.
Yet many enterprises are wasting money on unnecessary and redundant
infrastructure because they simply don’t have an accurate and complete
inventory of their network assets. Manual audit procedures are resource
intensive, time-consuming, and prone to error. Unable to precisely
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identify network assets, IT purchases exceed actual
requirements, negatively impacting budget, support, and leasing costs.
Service levels are impacted because network documentation is inaccurate
or incomplete, resulting in excessive time-to-repair.
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