Where does a monitoring system potentially save you money?

The saving can be identified in many places depending on your organisation and your needs. Here are some of the savings users of op5 Monitor have reported:

  • The large savings can be found in the incidents that can be avoided, these savings can be hard to measure and is easier to just estimate.
  • Most direct saving are in different areas of time savings, such as:
    • Faster mean time to repair (MTTR) when an incident occurs
    • Easier to use system saves time for the system administrators, that can use their time and skills more efficiently.
    • Decreased need of maintenance of the monitoring solution
  • More efficient resources and investment planning when having statistics and facts available when taking decisions.
  • The possibility to monitor SLA makes follow up easier, ensuring that 3rd party services perform as expected, and that compensations are paid when they under perform.
  • Decreased need of external consultants. If the system is easy to use and intuitive, the need of using product specialists can save large amounts of money.
  • Technical flexibility of the monitoring solution can decrease the need of using different device managers and a flora of other specialised or limited software’s that each one cost money, time and resources.
  • Savings in lower costs for licenses.

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