The success of any IT team depends on the support they get and the tools that they use. Underfunded teams, or those without the right equipment, can often struggle with the tasks they’re assigned, leading to mistakes and delays that can be costly for the entire business.
With access to the best tools and support, however, IT teams can thrive. Access to an all-in-one database management tool can revolutionise the way that an IT team works, bringing cost savings and oversight advantages to their organisation.
In this post, we’ll take a look at three ways an all-in-one database solution can help your IT operations to thrive:
Complete Overview And Deep Insight
Data-driven decision making, and reliable access to that data, is essential for many businesses today. With access to real-time data about any part of your IT systems, IT teams will be able to make more accurate plans for the future, react quicker to upcoming issues, and better manage resources and usage.
Capable of displaying information on any one server or instance, and monitoring and reporting on any aspect of resourcing, these tools put vital information at any DBA’s fingertips.
Most tools allow for this level of insight to be automated too, both saving DBA time and reducing the risk that issues go overlooked. Reports can be produced automatically to display relevant information for IT managers, and alerts can be set to trigger when issues arise which may otherwise have been missed.
All-in-one database solutions provide these advantages through a total system overview and deep insight into your entire system. Using complete overviews and consolidated reports, all-in-one tools provide DBAs with both the overview and the deep insight needed to give them full control.
Cutting Costs
Because all-in-one tools allow for both monitoring and management of your server systems and can include a wide range of other tools and services, they reduce the need for IT teams to licence and use multiple different software suites.
Not only can this represent a big monetary saving for businesses by cutting their software costs, but it can also reduce the amount of time needed for staff training and reduces the amount of time spent switching between and managing a bundle of different applications.
Aside from the cost reductions available from using just one tool, the tools themselves can help you to save money. By monitoring things like Oracle licensing and resource usage, database tools can help your IT team to keep on top of their costs. Money saved can then be used to improve your IT infrastructure, it can be reinvested into staff training and recruitment, or used to benefit other areas of your business.
Business-Wide Improvements
Access to critical information isn’t only a good thing for your database team, it can benefit your entire organisation. From sharing information between relevant members of your IT team, to using resourcing information to explain to C-suite members the need for investment, having the ability to share your overview can be extremely useful.
Thanks to the dashboard that forms the hub of all-in-one database tools, this is possible. These tools can collate all of the information gathered from overview and insight of your server systems, giving you the means to share information easily throughout your business or department with any relevant team members.
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Not only can businesses save money on software costs, but the information and insight made available to them can help with more accurate planning in the future as well as further cost savings and disaster avoidance.
