Organizations can adopt a number of best practices, business frameworks and technology to help address these issues. Working in conjunction with the top IT managers, the CFO and other business executives can put these practices and technologies to use within their organizations.

In addition to ensuring that proper business continuity and regulatory compliance strategies are in place, organizations can realize significant savings in the overall cost of ownership for PC devices, in terms of both support and pure operational considerations such as power consumption, travel and shipping expenses and other factors.

This article describes some of the key challenges facing finance executives, as well as the best practices and technology that can help organizations meet these challenges. Organizations can put in place best practices and business frameworks, and use technology to help address the major issues. By doing this, they can help ensure that business continuity and regulatory compliance strategies are in place, and they can see significant savings in overall IT costs.