What is the retirement stage within the device management process?
Retirement involves the effective planning and implementation of refresh or upgrade programmes for hardware devices such as mobiles, laptops, or tablets.
Why do you need device retirement?
The value that devices can deliver within a business will inevitably decrease over time. More capable devices will be launched, new operating systems (OS) and applications will require more powerful hardware, wear and tear will take its toll, and maintenance will eventually become cost ineffective.
Device retirement allows you to:
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How can we help you?
IDE Group works closely with customers to plan their device refresh programmes and can take responsibility for their implementation. We can also plan and manage upgrade programmes, extending the life of existing devices by moving to a new OS version or updating their components.
Due to these considerations, many customers decide to specify a defined interval period between buying a new device and replacing it. Often, this period is between three and five years.
Whatever the refresh or upgrade programme requires, IDE Group has all the resources and processes, as well as the experience of planning and managing countless similar programmes, to minimise disruption to employees and ensure maximum value is derived from new devices.
Device retirement supports sustainability and the circular economy
Sustainability is becoming more and more important for businesses to consider. The way that businesses used to take, make, and dispose of devices at the end of their lives has been economically and environmentally damaging. Embracing a circular economy means securely managing the redeployment of used devices to new users in order to extract their full value.
When someone leaves your organisation their devices should not be left unused and unsecured. This approach places your data at risk and wastes the investment that you made on those devices. Instead, it is always worth considering servicing these shelved devices so that they can be put back into use. We support our partners by providing a redeployment service and, if the device is no longer needed within the organisation, IDE Group can securely prepare it to be sold to an approved third party.
The device redeployment process
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