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Recently, articles have popped up in the mainstream press suggesting that "IT doesn't matter anymore". In saying that, analysts and commentators are implying that IT has become just another back-end business service. It's simply a cost of doing business, and therefore needs to be driven down as much as possible.

Well, they're wrong.

IT shouldn't matter, but somehow it still does. And the reason is because technology is still too complicated, unreliable, and obtuse for the typical business. Standards are dictated to the business by MIS departments that don't really have a solid grasp on the fundamentals of that business. Users are given tools that they don't like or can't understand. The business is forced to fit into a technology box, rather than the technology made to fit the business. We've seen it time and time again.

JH Turiel represents a better way of doing business. Our approach is to get the fundamentals right, then use whatever technology solution fits your company's real needs - not the needs some vendor or pundit says you have. We make technology simple, and we fit it to your business. How much easier can it get?

We won't discard your infrastructure just because some magazine says to. We believe there's no reason why different operating systems can't coexist. We will provide networks that give you the best return on your IT investment, leveraging your existing systems wherever possible. In our world, Windows talks to Macintosh. Unix talks to mainframes. Novell talks to Microsoft. And people use the technology that makes them most productive. Our services will help you save money off the MIS bottom line, though. There's no reason providing the best possible services has to be expensive. In fact, by optimizing your technology and following best practices, spending less money can get you better results. We can save you money and improve results, too.

When all is said and done, IT still matters. It's just that your business matters more.

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