{"id":580994,"date":"2022-04-28T15:09:36","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T13:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=580994"},"modified":"2022-04-28T15:09:36","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T13:09:36","slug":"business-talk-chris-buchanan-on-dell-technologies-prosupport-warranty-brought-to-you-by-intel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/580994\/business-talk-chris-buchanan-on-dell-technologies-prosupport-warranty-brought-to-you-by-intel\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Talk \u2013 Chris Buchanan on Dell Technologies&#8217; ProSupport warranty, brought to you by Intel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Buchanan is the Dell Technologies Client Solutions Director for Southern Africa and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>He is dedicated to using technology to empower and improve communities through superior end-user experiences.<\/p>\n<p>Buchanan and his team achieve this by leveraging the optimal combinations of the technology available to produce tangible results for medium businesses, enterprises, home users, and high-performance enthusiasts.<\/p>\n<p>He has earned a Degree in Business Economics and an Honours Degree in Business Economics from Stellenbosch University, as well as a Marketing Diploma from the Institute of Marketing Management.<\/p>\n<p>In this episode of Business Talk, Buchanan discusses the importance of employees having access to comprehensive support should they require assistance with the digital devices they use for work.<\/p>\n<p>He highlights that most standard support contracts still don\u2019t cater to remote working, and are instead limited to employees who are working from the organisation\u2019s head office.<\/p>\n<p>Buchanan explains why this is a problem, emphasizing that, if anything, remote workers are expected to be more self-sufficient when managing their systems, which means these employees definitely need to have access to support for their devices.<\/p>\n<p>He then details what Dell Technologies\u2019 ProSupport warranty entails &#8211; including how it leverages Intel innovation &#8211; before talking about what ProSupport does better than its competitors.<\/p>\n<p>Buchanan also discusses the differences between ProSupport and ProSupport Plus, which also offers built-in Intel innovation.<\/p>\n<p>He then expands on Dell Technologies\u2019 recent announcement that it will be helping local businesses retire their IT equipment sustainably.<\/p>\n<p>Buchanan concludes with valuable advice for businesses looking to prioritise security during the purchasing process.<\/p>\n<p>The full Business Talk interview with Chris Buchanan can be watched below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o2L9I7z1ARg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dell Technologies\u2019 Chris Buchanan discusses the importance of employees having access to comprehensive support should they require assistance with the digital devices they use for work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":581340,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[14565],"class_list":["post-580994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-dell-technologies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580994"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":581504,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580994\/revisions\/581504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}