Philips LCD Monitors manual Significant TCO saving with Philips monitors

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Related to Philips SmartManage and smart TCO LCD monitors:

•Deployment time saving: 25%

•Energy saving: 80%

•Reduced theft rate: 80%

7.Significant TCO saving with Philips monitors

As described earlier, awareness in user organizations of the importance of monitors in the Total Cost of Ownership picture is often limited. In many cases administrators cannot even be sure of the locations of their monitor assets, and these devices – despite their important cost contribu- tion – are often treated more like ‘consumable’ accessories. As this white paper shows, Total Cost of Ownership is complex and involves many individual elements extending through all the life- cycle phases of an asset. It is much more than simply a question of low initial cost. The initial cost contribution of monitors may be relatively low, but like other assets with multiyear useful lives the initial investment is often relatively insignifi cant compared with all the other costs arising through the life cycle. This is why it is important to consider the total life-cycle costs when considering the purchase of new monitors.

Philips aims to address all cost-relevant factors in its LCD monitors, providing enterprise users with effective, process-based solutions to control and reduce their life-cycle costs on a structural basis. As calculated in section 6, Philips LCD monitors together with Philips SmartManage provides a saving of more than 12,5% on annual basis compared with industry average monitors. This saving is illustrated in figure 11. The latter also shows that the relatively modest initial investment required to purchase and deploy SmartManage is quickly recovered in practice.

C350,000.00

Industry average

C 300,000.00

Acquisition

Deployment

Philips

C250,000.00

Operation Retirement

C200,000.00

C150,000.00

C100,000.00

C50,000.00

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Figure 11: TCO cost savings with a Philips monitor solution

Philips is constantly working with suppliers, customers and regulatory authorities on a continuous improvement basis to ensure that its monitors provide optimum-cost solutions to the needs of both end-users and the enterprises in which they work.

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Contents When LCD Monitors can reduce Total Cost of Ownership Content Introduction Monitors vital part of the desktop configurationDefining Total Cost of Ownership Acquisition Deployment OperationAcquisition phase TCO of an LCD monitorWarranty and service Deployment phaseOperation phase QualitySecurity to prevent hardware theft Retirement phasePower consumption Asset managementReducing TCO during the Deployment phase Philips solution for reducing TCO costsReducing TCO during the Acquisition phase Reducing TCO during the Operation phaseReducing TCO during Retirement phase Making further TCO savings with Philips SmartManageIncludes anti-theft measures Maximizing power savingAdjustment without using physical monitor controls Addresses essential corporate IT management needsCentralized management and control SmartManage confi guration set-upCalculating TCO costs of LCD monitors Specifications overviewRelated to Gartner TCO breakdownGeneral Significant TCO saving with Philips monitors Related to Philips SmartManage and smart TCO LCD monitors
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