Is your organization digitally mature?

Most large companies believe that they have already made sufficient progress in their digitalization. They have an ERP system, operate in the cloud, and are introducing various IT systems. However, digital maturity is not measured by the number of tools used, but by the organization's ability and potential to continue functioning even when things go wrong. 

It is precisely regarding this readiness that the most frequent challenges and awkward questions arise for company managers. 

Is IT infrastructure part of your strategic development plan?

For some companies, IT infrastructure is just another line in the expense table instead of a growth driver. If your team only mentions the topic once a year during budget reviews but omits it from sustainability and new market development plans, you are taking a serious risk. 

The team of AC☁DC advises: If you are hit by the consequences of this risk, it will be too late to preserve the reputation and trust in your business. See some of the hidden advantages if you start looking at your IT infrastructure as a strategic issue and rely on a professional data center. 

Does your IT department solve or prevent problems?

Often, IT departments in companies are perceived as emergency crews tasked with resolving system and hardware crashes. If in your company too, IT specialists are primarily burdened with day-to-day problems and working in a reactive mode, you are definitely not utilizing their full potential. 

What mature organizations do: They involve the IT manager and team in the discussion of the development of new products and services, entry into new markets, or changes in operational processes. In this way, these specialists help to establish the work framework and take the initiative for improvements and prevention related to all digital processes in the company. 

What does your entire IT architecture look like from A to Z?

Can you present a complete and clear picture of the infrastructure, IT systems, interdependencies, data exchange, and redundancy of all digital processes? And can someone else do it in your place if you are absent from work?  

In many organizations, the IT infrastructure is not designed but is the result of accumulated systems and partial solutions over time, some of which are not even documented. 

The team of AC☁DC reminds you: Many companies only become interested in this issue when a problem arises. It is best to have a documented, comprehensible architecture that is updated with every significant change. 

See also: What happens when all IT infrastructure knowledge is held by one person or a small team

Do you have an action plan for incidents?

If your main server stops working right now, after how many hours will your business resume normal operations? Not having an exact answer means you do not have an incident response plan. 

Your strategy needs to define the recovery time after an incident and the amount of data you can afford to lose, in accordance with the real business impact: minutes or hours of service downtime, lost profits, affected customers, lost revenues, and reputational damages.  

See also: How to calculate losses from a server outage?

We remind you that Disaster Recovery is not just a topic for banks, telecoms, and other critical and regulated organizations. Any company for which system downtime means a loss of revenues and customer trust needs a clear and tested DR plan. 

AC☁DC functions as a disaster recovery point for organizations that prefer preparedness over reaction, including companies from Sofia seeking a geographically remote, seismically independent location.

Read more: How a Disaster Recovery plan will protect your business

Are your IT systems ready to handle double the load today?

We ask this question because in many companies IT systems are adequate only for current needs and consumption. This means that every opportunity for growth becomes a challenge and is limited by the capacity of the company's IT infrastructure to handle additional workload. 

Businesses that think strategically plan for reserve and choose solutions that can be scaled by adding equipment, expanding connectivity, increasing server resources, etc. In this way, IT infrastructure can be a competitive advantage, grow along with the business, or be a critical development factor.   

Read more: What you gain by planning your IT resources for growth

If even one of the questions has caused uncertainty in your company's processes, you have probably not yet achieved full digital maturity.
Get in touch with the IT experts at AbsCloud Data Center (AC☁DC) to learn why IT systems and infrastructure are one of your business's most valuable assets and how to take care of them with the help of a professional data center service.

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