Investing and exploring the potential of technology has been a differential in most growing companies in Brazil. This is because technology allows us to enhance and optimize virtually all processes that make up the routine of companies and teams. This can become more productive, more competitive and improve the quality of products and services provided.
Still, many directors of companies and IT managers question the return on investment in information technology solutions.
As the internet is key to the use of IT resources and fundamental to increase companies productivity, we recently talks about how to measure ROI in information security projects and in this article we will address how it is possible to calculate the return on investment through management and control of internet access to companies.
First, it is important to understand that the management of internet access to companies is to make the use of the internet safer and more productive, through navigation policies that are in balance between the interests of companies and employees. In short, this management is a practice of optimization of resources and results that favors managers and especially the employees of companies.
From this understanding, to evaluate the benefits and the return generated from a good internet use policy in corporate environments, is it necessary to ask some questions?
- How much can security failures and information loss cost?
- What is the cost of waste time waste on the internet?
- What is the impact of employees' lack of focus on tasks?
- How much is the slowness on the internet and standing systems/equipment?
- What are the costs with equipment and systems maintenance?
In order to scale the ROI and the benefits generated with good network use management, we will analyze each of these issues in detail:
Risks with safety failures
Information security is a recurring issue when talking about technology in companies, so attention to avoiding incidents should be a constant concern of those responsible.
There are many types of problems and losses that a company can suffer:
- Loss, leakage or kidnapping of information
- Slow and idle computers and systems
- Costs with Computer Maintenance and Systems
- Idleness of equipment and team
When it comes to safety, main investments should always be in preventing problems, so the return is not directly noticeable, but try to estimate the impact on your business and so many problems that security failures can generate.
You can read more about this other article that only talks about the return on investment with information security projects in companies .
Waste of time on the internet and lack of focus of the team
The use of the internet for personal activities during work is a reality in companies. Much research has already been conducted, pointing out that professionals waste an average of 15% of working time with personal activities in the network and that mobile phone use can consume up to 2 hours a day along the workday.
But how to calculate the financial cost of this waste?
As an example, we will consider a company with 50 employees using the internet for work, which represent an average monthly cost of $ 1,800, totaling $ 90,000 per month. Thus, 15% of waste can represent a monthly cost of R $ 13,500.00. With a good management and control solution for internet access, let's consider that this waste is halved, to 7.5%, so the company would already have to return R $ 6,750.00, not to mention the impact on results generated by increased team productivity.
To calculate this cost in your business, you can use this time waste calculator on the Internet for teams .
In addition to time, the impact of internet use affects the focus and attention of employees. This inattention can make some tasks performed inaccurately and with less quality than necessary, which can impact the productivity, value delivery and results of the company.
Internet, slow and idle systems and equipment
I imagine that you and your company may have already suffered from this problem?!
Regarding the internet, it is essential to make sure your provider is delivering the contracted speed, so that speed testers such as Speedtest and Fast.com .
If the internet is still slow, it is likely that some users are consuming excess resources on their network. This occurs mainly with the display of videos, radios and downloading files.
The problem is that with this, equipment, activities, resources and systems of the company are compromised, limiting the execution of tasks and delivery of results.
Expenses with equipment and systems maintenance
In addition to what we have already seen, misuse of the internet can compromise the operation of equipment and systems, especially with the installation of viruses. This demands maintenance, most of the time tasks performed by specialized IT, internal or outsourced professionals. This maintenance generates expenses and also idleness.
With good management of internet use, these problems and the costs generated can be avoided!
Well, so far we detail the points impacted by the implementation of a policy of use of the internet in companies. Since this is such an important feature and present in companies and the execution of tasks, it is essential that these resources are managed and optimized, as this directly affects the security of the team and the company.
For your business to have good internet use management, it is first necessary to create a technology resources use policy and guide employees about the risks and conscious use of the network . Good material to guide users is this safe use manual of the internet for professionals and companies .
In addition, it is important to use some service that allows the complete management of the use of the internet. You can choose from the many options for security and internet access control available on the market. We have traditional solutions such as Firewall/Proxy servers, pfsense and ready -made options such as Dell Sonicwall and Fortinet Fortigate , these solutions require high investment and highly specialized technical professionals, so they are indicated for large companies.
For small and medium -sized companies an excellent option is Lumiun Tecnologia , a modern service that is simple to be installed and managed and demand low investment compared to other solutions. At Lumiun the implementation of the service is fast and simple and all service management is done through an accessible control panel on the internet, with a very simple and intuitive interface.
In addition, the system allows you to easily implement any combination of access filters to websites and content categories, rules by schedules, user group personalized control, and generates detailed and analytical reports about the use of the internet.
To learn more about Lumun you can access www.lumiun.com . You can also speak directly to the service to clarify any questions or ask for a demonstration of the service, contact us .
