Increasing competition, compliance with industry and government
regulations, business continuity and ever-higher customer
expectations, together with the constant drive for greater
operational efficiency and cost reduction, are placing more and
more pressure on automotive dealerships. Managing and maintaining
legacy systems to meet the rapidly evolving demands and needs of
today's techno-savvy car buyers is becoming increasingly difficult.
For most dealerships, handling day-to-day computer and network
issues is more than enough to handle. Can I receive email from my
clients and vendors? Is my Computer safe from Viruses or Spyware?
Are my employees able to quickly and efficiently access the
Internet for Leads or to pull Credit Reports to close deals?
Applications such as ADP are fundamentally important to
dealerships. Employees need access to information, and they need it
quickly. However, these applications typically run very slow -
sometimes taking as much as 3 minutes to load, and remain slow for
data access. In addition to reduced application performance, branch
site backups to the data center could take between 12 and 15 hours,
often extending into the next working day and further slowing
application response time.
If dealerships continue doing business as usual with slow
application response times, they would have to hire additional
staff in their accounting department to handle the daily workload,
and be forced to consider a very costly hardware refresh.
- Slow application performance at branch locations
- Need for increased IT efficiency across data center and branch
locations
- WAN latency, bandwidth capacity limitations
Increasing Internet usage by employees across dealerships can
easily saturate the broadband connection to their Internet Service
Provider. Because of this, dealerships may need to install
expensive additional lines.
Dealerships are in business to sell and service vehicles, not be
concerned about keeping up with the latest technology, or ensuring
that their computers and network infrastructure are in good working
condition.
Choosing the Q equips a dealership with an infrastructure that
can grow and change with business requirements, and result in cost
savings of up to 50% when compared to existing IT costs.
Where distributed dealerships have separate voice and data
infrastructures, there is further opportunity to improve
communications, simplify management and reduce costs by converging
voice and data via the Q Solution by implementing a VoIP
solution.
From the sales floor to the service bay, automotive dealerships
have unique communications needs. With employees constantly on the
move, anything that helps them stay connected, collaborate more
effectively and respond rapidly to customers can directly impact a
dealership's bottom line.
- Reduce Operational Costs, Create New Revenue Opportunities
- Maintain Business Continuity and Security
- Improved Application Performance, Branch Efficiency
Auto dealerships must improve customer service levels, reach
potential customers faster and enhance the car-buying experience in
order to capture more market share. To do so, effective
communication tools are an essential key to remaining competitive
and growing a successful dealership.
By deploying the Q, dealerships will realize significantly
improved application performance, with some programs running as
much as 100 times faster. The increased branch efficiency will help
you streamline IT operations, increase database server capacity,
and reduce bandwidth.
The difference with the Q is like night and day, I
now have control of my dealerships, I don't have to go through a
costly technology refresh. Now, my user experience with the ADP is
amazing, the information is there as soon as you press the Enter
key.
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