IBM ThinkVantage Technologies Cut Costs

IBM (www.ibm.com) today announced four counties throughout Kansas have been equipped with an on demand infrastructure using ThinkCentre desktops and eServer iSeries systems to deliver services to constituents more efficiently and to reduce the costs of county government administration.

Nemaha, Bourbon, Geary and Jackson Counties collaborated with IBM and InfiniTec, Inc., an IBM Business Partner, on the development and deployment of the solutions.

Each county deployed a solution consisting of IBM PCs with ThinkVantage Technologies, eServer iSeries and xSeries systems, bolstered by IBM service and support. InfiniTec provides the IBM systems through its InfiniTec Total Technology Solution, ensuring the counties receive the latest technologies at affordable prices.

"Small, mid-American county governments are faced with some of the toughest challenges out there," says Sonny Sagar, director of marketing, InfiniTec.

"These include a shrinking tax base, shrinking IT budgets and a smaller support staff. Working with IBM, InfiniTec is given the flexibility to offer these county governments cost-effective, holistic IT solutions that our government customers demand."

Nemaha County, a rural county 75 miles northwest of Topeka, was recently forced to make up over $160,000 in a budget shortfall, compelling the county to choose between cutting services to its citizens or raising taxes.

The county experienced a significant increase in productivity after deploying an eServer iSeries server platform, ThinkCentre desktop PCs with ThinkVantage Technologies that include Rescue and Recovery, downloadable System Migration Assistant and Access IBM, and InfiniTec Patriot software, and service and support.