Sum Greater Than The Parts
Sum Greater Than The Parts
On one level, Intel is just a component manufacturer. It makes chips. It makes motherboards. You can purchase any of these individually, find compatible third-party components, and life will be fine.
However, many people and businesses recognize that there is additional value in single-sourcing. IT people like to joke (sort of) about having only one neck to wring. The truth is that there are many advantages in having a single-vendor system platform. Time saved on the research, configuration, and procurement sides tend to outweigh any incremental cost incurred by not shopping around for cheaper alternatives. Factors such as ESAA recipes can go a long way in saving additional time that might be otherwise wasted in needless experimentation. This, plus Intel’s other considerable work in component validation and quality assurance, pays dividends long after the purchase in terms of reduced maintenance and IT support time. If the maintenance of 100 systems could be lifted from even one IT manager and placed in the hands of remote oversight (by way of vPro) so that IT person could focus on more strategic, lucrative tasks, what would it mean to the company’s bottom line?
Intel rose to the top of the motherboard world almost two decades ago, and that was at a time when it had little more than solid design and customer commitment behind to make a persuasive value argument. As we’ve seen, the Intel of today has this and very much more. When time is money and dependability is paramount, Intel remains the industry’s top choice for productivity and total satisfaction.
