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| Thread ID: 125274 | 2012-06-18 02:49:00 | IT Budgets | Gobe1 (6290) | PC World Chat |
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| 1282336 | 2012-06-18 02:49:00 | Heres a good one for any of you that work in a similar situation as me. 100 staff, 30-40 Mill turnover, company is 100% dependant on IT infrastructure. What should my IT budget be? 1 IT staff (me, not included in budget) |
Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 1282337 | 2012-06-18 03:57:00 | I say 1m...however at only 100 staff you could get away with half that....And it would be swings and roundabouts....3 yr asset turnover, although as I work for accountants, we dont lease so usually go for 5 yr ROI... Still at 100 staff your EA would be a bit, plus security, ISP pipe, R&D...500K should manage it, but 1m FTW |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1282338 | 2012-06-18 04:06:00 | Yeah we dont lease either but are looking at it now. Geez working for accountants they would know where every penny went... you wouldnt get away with anything?? + volume licensing wouldnt be cheap but make life a lot easier here. MS wont let us put our current standalone licenses in so we would have to start from scratch 100 pc with office and windows comes to 60k every 3 years Fun fun |
Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 1282339 | 2012-06-18 04:17:00 | Yeah, we are Enterprise, so about 40k for 50 every 3......and no, standalone or OEM licences are out the door.....yeah mate, bean counters and KPIs.....you should see our business intelligence that run off the SQL database, updated every hour! They squeak when they walk, so IT Budget is basically MS agreement and maintenance and anything I can convince them we need...although to be fair, generally I dont have issues getting new stuff |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1282340 | 2012-06-18 04:21:00 | All I know is when I worked for Akld Uni, 25000 students and 5000 staff (for IT purposes) the budget was $18m, then it got cut to $8. Apparently (according to friend still there in IT) they continue to slash IT spending. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1282341 | 2012-06-18 04:36:00 | To be honest, there's a huge variance in what the budget 'should' be depending on what technologies and levels of technology the business needs and wants to move into. An environment with 100 users, who each need a basic desktop, and just basic domain/file/print services, would have a far lower budget requirement than an environment with 50 users, who each require two desktops and a mobile device, and complex service requirements with HA and redundant sites etc. Due to redundancy requirements, one of my clients has only about a 5:1 workstation:server ratio - this is extraordinarily low, and as such their per-head expenditure is high. | inphinity (7274) | ||
| 1282342 | 2012-06-18 04:54:00 | Agreed Inphinity, every business is different. I will have to sit and do some numbers i guess. Well 100 users, half of them run autocad/Solidworks/or some 3d program. Currently a 5k pc build for them, plus software on top The other half all use windows/office/email all day and Comms on top for everyone. prob a 2-3k pc build here Servers Citrix system, 2x IBM 3550M2s with 4 virtual servers each on top of a IBM DS3400 SAN with 10Tb hard drive space Company is divided in to Mechanical/Electrical/Process/PM/Admin web site is here www.itnz.co.nz (no plug intended) As i said, if the computer doesnt work they are not making money (ie 100% dependant on PC and comms) iirc the current software annual subs are over 100k |
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