WHY EQUITAS
The Equitas Advantage
Your data and, more importantly, the information it contains, is the lifeblood of your organization. From customer databases to crucial emails to accounting transactions, your business needs information in order to operate in today’s fast-paced competitive world economy. A data loss in any of these areas could cost you lost time, your competitive edge, lost sales, fines and even the business itself.
You have lots of time and money invested in your information assets. This could be wiped out in an instant if you are unprepared.
Your IT infrastructure, including the hardware, software, and most importantly, the data contained therein, needs to be safeguarded and protected.
Equitas can help insure that you are prepared BEFORE there is a problem.
Protect your data/information and other information processing assets from problems such as:
- Theft
- Disasters such as fires and floods
- Inadvertent deletion or corruption
- Intentional, malicious acts of employees and vendors
- Corruption by hardware problems, software problem, or user errors
- Inconsistent or out-of-date information caused by problems or poor design
- Threats of being subpoenaed in a lawsuit
You need to make sure that your data flow through your organization is sound and secure. Knowing where critical applications and data reside, how they affect your business’s ability to operate and ensuring that there is a plan in place to recover them in the event of a problem is what Equitas does best.
Though large businesses have known it for years, small and medium size businesses (SMBs) are just beginning to realize the importance of their information systems to their on-going survival.
The price of technology has been drastically reduced over just the last few years and its associated quick adoption by SMBs has been a double edge sword. On one hand, its use brings about productivity and efficiency gains that keep them competitive. On the other hand, it has created a dependency on that same technology that will just as easily put them out of business if key components fail.
Even the smallest of shops these days would be hard-pressed to conduct business without a computer (and its associated data) and reliable Internet access. A hiccup in just one component in this simplest of systems could prevent an SMB from receiving an order, communicating with a vendor, billing for a sale or sending a crucial email to a potential new client. In addition, new laws affect how even the smallest business needs to react if it becomes the target of a lawsuit or other legal proceedings since much of their pertinent data is encapsulated in email records, accounting files and Word and Excel documents.