ECS is proud to offer its customers excellent financing options to procure powerful new IT technologies. Our qualified consultants will work with you to understand your financial goals and technology objectives and make a recommendation that works best for your organization. ECS has extensive expertise in building financing plans that have enabled both Fortune 500 and mid-tier companies to vastly impove IT infrastructure while conserving their capital expense. Whether it's a lease, trade-up, or other option, let the experts at ECS build an acquisition solution that is right for your business.

Take advantage of a number of valuable ECS Financing Services:

Asset Disposition
ECS can assist you with asset disposition when IT equipment reaches end-of-life. The experts from ECS understand the best ways to optimize the value of old assets and get you the highest possible return when upgrading to new technology.

Option Analysis
Receive a thorough review of the various options your company can use to acquire IT infrastructure. ECS can provide a cost/benefit analysis of cash purchases, manufacturer leases, and alternative approaches that might provide substantial savings. By choosing from among the available options, ECS can recommend a plan that provides the highest Return on Investment (ROI).

Technology Refresh
ECS has an exclusive technology refresh program that enables companies suffering from outdated equipment to substantially increase productivity. If your IT assets are two years old or more, let the consultants at ECS show you how to use the existing cash flow for maintenance to fund the acquisition of significantally more productive technology. ECS has helped many companies on a budget purchase powerful new technology previously thought to be unattainable.

Refurbished Equipment
For companies looking to get refurbished equipment at deep discounts, ECS can provide authorized remarketed equipment that undergoes full refurbishment to exact standards set by the manufacturer. Refurbished equipment may come available as a result of trade-ins, disposal in favor of newer technology, product returns, stock rotations, manufacturing excess, surplus shipments, order cancellations or ex-trade show hardware.

Why consider refurbished equipment?

• Price- significant savings may be available over new equipment
• Technology- extend or upgrade your existing platform with product that is no longer available
• Availability- refurbished equipment may be more readily available than brand new (for more mature products)
• Warranty- available on HP refurbished equipment, from 12 months on obsolete products to three years for some current products.

Instant Capacity on Demand (iCOD)
With HP's iCOD solutions, HP 9000 and HP Integrity servers can be fully populated with high-performance PA-RISC and Itanium CPUs at a significantly lower cost with capacity on demand CPUs. It is no longer necessary to pay for CPUs until you need them. These additional iCOD CPUs can be activated instantly with a simple command, providing immediate increases in processing power to accommodate application traffic demands. iCOD is only available with HP-UX.

iCOD is also a High Availability feature. In the unlikely event that a CPU fails, the HP system will automatically replace the failed CPU on the cell board at no additional charge-without rebooting. In online mode, the iCOD CPU brings the system back to full performance and capacity levels, reducing downtime and ensuring no degradation in performance. This high availability feature is available on CPUs and not cell boards.

iCOD is a purchase model. Companies purchase a RTA (right-to-access) product. This is an inactive component (CPU, cell board or memory) that is installed in the system. When the company is ready to permanently activate, they purchase the RTU (right-to-use) product or "enablement" to turn the component on permanently. Contact ECS about whether an iCOD solution is right for you.

Outsourcing
ECS works with HP to offer a full custom solution that enables companies to outsource the IT resources they need. Companies benefit from the knowledge gained through a 100,000-node worldwide infrastructure, as well as networks and systems for hundreds of multinational customers in technology-driven industries. With the full expertise of our outsourcing services, companies have the flexibility to choose as much or as little help as needed. ECS will work with you to find the right solution for your business.
Outsourcing enables companies to:

• focus on core competencies rather than routine systems operations
• improve performance through rapid deployment of new software and business systems
• reduce training and permanent staffing costs
• capitalize on outside expertise to help meet strategic business needs
• achieve a balance of in-house resources, outsourcing services, and third-party contributors
• accelerate the move to new technologies while containing costs, mitigating risks, and keeping control of the IT environment

Leasing
The power of leasing enables companies to deploy the best technology throughout the organization cost-effectively. Click here for more information

Trade-ins
ECS works with our manufacturer partners to offer companies the opportunity to use the residual value of their older, limited capability systems with expensive maintenance costs for new, more powerful and highly scalable technology. Click here for more information