Automated IT

Automated IT has one focus: to rebalance the IT budget by helping IT professionals keep more time and resources for innovative projects and services, by spending less time and resources on maintenance and upkeep.

We are a collaboration of industry users, publishers, vendors, analysts and IT professionals. We seek to use our website as a forum to spotlight and discuss those technologies and methodologies that affect the biggest issue we face right now – the scourge of runaway OPEX (operating expense). By automating IT, we believe that all organisations can be positively impacting by shedding the redundant tasks, dated demarcation practices and other unnecessary flab that contributes so much to IT operating budgets.

We are looking to promote the best ideas, the most successful champions and the most 'automating' technologies that make this happen.

"Only 13% of the average IT budget supports innovation in business processes or products. The remaining 87% disappears into the black hole of general maintenance and upkeep".

FT Digital Business Oct 21st 2008, reporting PwC Report "Why Isn't IT Spending Creating More Value?"

The lion's share of IT budgets get spent keeping everything on an even keel. The meagre remainder is all that's left for T departments to help grow, innovate and take the business forward. And when budgets get cut, the innovation pot is the first to go…

If you can save money automating IT processes, eliminating redundant IT tasks - and using some other devilishly clever tactics – then you can invest those savings bringing real strategic benefit to your organisation.

That's what Automated IT is here to do. We challenge you to move the equity of your IT intellect out of 'operations' and into 'innovations'.

Automated IT will be bringing you a series of advisories on IT automation strategies, consolidation practices and blinkin' good IT housekeeping tips that revolutionise IT infrastructure and management, protecting your most business critical assets AND saving you money.

Do you want to be an IT operator or an IT innovator?