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Streamlining IT: Why Bringing Your Tools Together Makes Sense

Streamlining IT: Why Bringing Your Tools Together Makes Sense

1. Reduce your IT spend

Cloud services can be cost-effective compared with on-premise hardware, but multiple subscriptions quickly add up. Paying five separate vendors for five separate tools often leads to ballooning monthly costs based on users, devices, and storage.

Juggling all these contracts creates unnecessary work for both finance and IT teams. By moving to a consolidated platform, you get clearer visibility of your spend, cut out duplicate licences, and are more likely to benefit from bundled pricing or volume discounts.

2. Break down internal silos

In today’s fast-moving digital environment, speed and alignment matter. When different teams use disconnected systems that do not integrate, collaboration becomes harder and decision-making slows down.

Silos make it hard for senior leadership to ensure that everyone in the organisation is pulling in the same direction. A single, shared platform helps remove these barriers. When everyone works from the same set of tools, insights flow more easily, and teamwork becomes part of the process rather than a technical challenge.

3. Strengthen your security posture

Every additional application you use is another potential vulnerability. If your business relies on twenty different tools, your security team must monitor, update, and defend twenty different access points.

Consolidation reduces this risk by shrinking your attack surface. With one unified security framework and a central monitoring system, your IT team can concentrate on securing a single, well-managed environment instead of constantly reacting to threats across multiple platforms.

4. Boost productivity

How much time is lost switching between systems? Constantly moving between tabs, remembering multiple logins, and searching across different storage locations disrupts focus and slows work down.

When everything lives in one place, employees can stay in their flow and concentrate on what matters. Although migrating to a unified platform requires upfront effort, the long-term gains in efficiency and reduced friction are significant.

5. Avoid compatibility headaches

One of the biggest frustrations of a fragmented IT setup is when different tools simply do not work well together. Teams can waste weeks trying to build integrations or find workarounds just to move data from one system to another.

An all-in-one platform removes this pain point. Built-in compatibility means you do not have to worry about updates breaking connections or systems failing to sync. Everything is designed to function together from the start.

How Faronics can support consolidation

If you want to move from complexity to simplicity, Faronics Cloud Deep Freeze can help. Our platform includes preconfigured applications, covering everyday tools such as Slack, Chrome, and Evernote, which can all be deployed, removed, or updated across your entire network with a single action.

Deploy is designed for speed and ease of use. From one intuitive cloud console, you can manage your full device estate, keeping every machine secure, up to date, and ready for use.