Planning is essential to your business, especially if you want to avoid overspending. IT is certainly not the exception to this rule.

Some IT costs spring up for companies as a total surprise, like equipment breakdowns. But, these expenses can be minimized or mitigated with proper planning.

You might recall a few years ago that there was a seemingly sudden cost of having to update all your operating systems when Microsoft announced it would no longer support Windows XP. That might seem like an unpredictable technology cost but it wasn’t.

This upgrade, like many other IT costs that seem to spring up on you, can (and should) be better accounted for.