Thursday, February 17, 2011

Benefit of IT Technology Financing From a Laptop To Your Server Farm !


The greatest obstacle you have in realizing IT technology financing benefits its balancing your largest obstacles to innovation - cost and obsolescence.

From one laptop to your server farm and cloud computing its a constant risk and challenge to balance the investments you make in technology and computer against your cash outflows and the need to constantly upgrade to stay completive .

Many traditional financing options are available to meet your tech finance needs, but where we think you really attain maximum benefits with lowest risk is in highly specialized areas such as off balance sheet financing and residual risk partnering and sharing.

Should you be financing your technology or buying it. The age old adage in equipment financing, whether it be technology IT financing or plant equipment leases is that if it appreciates, buy it, if it depreciates, lease it!

We can categorically assure you that the largest, smartest, most cash rich, and successful companies utilize the benefits of lease finance, whether it’s one laptop, a fleet of laptops, or a server farm upgrade. (A server farm is simply a group of computers in a data center that run your business data - for reasons of balance usage, scale and security).

The most sophisticated approach to technology IT financing in the past has been the use of off balance sheet leases - these still are a very cost effective way of running your tech finance programs. The challenge is working with the right partner that allows you fairly, and seamlessly, to invoke your three rights as a lessee under this lease. Those rights are the ability to purchase when you want, upgrade, or return. Extending also plays into those rights - for example - you enter into a 36 mo fmv lease with the option of returning, but you need to use the equipment 5 more months, perhaps for a special project, or to run a new system in parallel, etc .

Fortunately, or unfortunately, depending on what side of the fence you are on a lot of the pure tax and accounting treatment historically recognized by FMV type finance are going away with new internationally accepted accountant standards changes . However, let’s be clear on this - your ability to secure lower payments, plus invoke your 3 rights under the benefits of IT operating lease financing still favor you, the lessee.

Speak to a trusted, credible, and experienced Canadian business financing advisor in the area of IT financing - whether it’s your server farm, 1 laptop, or 2000 laptops your financial decisions make save or impact you by thousands of dollars.



--

Stan Prokop is founder 7 Park Avenue Financial ; Originating financing for Canadian companies,specializing: working capital, cash flow, and asset based financing , the 6 year old firm has completed in excess of 45 Million $ of financing for companies . For info / free consultation on Canadian business financing / contact details see:

http://www.7parkavenuefinancial.com/technology_it_financing_benefit_laptop_server_farm.html

No comments:

Post a Comment

Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.