Irish Businesses lack IT skills
I don’t think it comes as a surprise to anyone to hear that Irish SME’s find IT too complex, but the results of a survey commissioned by o2 are music to MY ears!
The results highlight that 21% of businesses are turned off by virus issues and 15% are fed up with spam.
Why is this good for us? Reference my last post about hosted anti-virus and anti-spam services taking this pain away for businesses. Of course an SME isn’t going to have IT resources in-house to maintain and update the security of employees desktops (unless it’s an IT SME of course) and therefore relying on an internal IT ‘handyman’ to manage this on top of his existing work is a process doomed to ‘delusions of adequacy’ from the start.
Why not outsource this pain? Give it to a company who invests in world-class systems and provides 24×7 support and uptime for your email … screening out viruses and spam? Of course I’m pimping our wares here, but the fundamental principle to mean is the logical choice. Aside from all the other benefits of on-site engineers, great infratructure and access-anywhere email services, the annoying spam and virus emails will be banished - and it’s likely a cost-benefit analysis would show massive savings over using internal email systems.
(Ken our financial guy might have something more numbersy to say about that!)