Running a Modern Business with IT.
As the owner or manager of a company that employs say 5 to 10 or even 50 people, profitability is tied to your ability to keep the operations running at a high level of efficiency.
With a heavy dependence upon modern IT technology. The problem can be that a somewhat tech-savvy employee has to take time out of an already busy day to do regular IT maintenance and upgrades, not always correctly or timely. Time spent doing your IT support means that there are other things that this key employee isn’t getting done or the job is only half done. Then important business jobs that produce income are not being attended to.
benefit 1
Business Continuity
benefit 2
Peace of Mind
benefit 3
Security of Company Data
benefit 4
Financial Security
Worries?
You may have other worries, dealing with Cyber Security and the concern that employees might fall for phishing scams, allowing cybercriminals access to the company’s IT systems.
What’s the answer to these time-consuming IT maintenance and security woes?
Managed IT Services.
What is Managed IT Services?
Managed IT Services is an efficient, outsourced IT support model that encompasses services such as IT maintenance, monitoring, security, and overall management. In a Managed IT Services agreement, an outsourced team of IT professionals’ contract to take on the technology management role within a client organization. A team leveraging the Managed IT Services model of IT support delivers continuous care for your IT environment in return for a monthly subscription payment.
Proactive IT Support
One of the key things that attract business leaders to Managed IT Services offering is the proactive, built-in nature of the service. Instead of waiting for your systems to break down and for you to call, we use the power of remote IT maintenance and monitoring tools to sustain the overall health and efficiency of your IT environment. This strategy lowers the prospect of expensive IT and workflow downtime within your organization.
Knowledge of Your Business.
An IT company that you deal with regularly knows you and your systems so when you need that professional support the issues can be dealt with in a timely and efficient manner. This equates to less downtime and increases your profitability. Without a Managed IT deal it makes it that much harder to provide that timely support.
What’s typically included in a Managed IT Services agreement?
Each Managed IT Services package is unique and tailored to your business needs. However, here are some of the services commonly made available to Managed IT Services clients.
• End User IT Support
• Network management
• Cybersecurity management
• Device management
• Data protection
• Data backup and recovery
• Consulting
What does Managed IT Services cost?
Managed IT Services is a customized way of giving your organization the exact services and service level you require. Because of this level of customization, there is no way to outline a cost structure. However, it is important for you to know how various MSPs approach pricing their services.
• The “per seat” model ― Some MSPs take the number of employees using computers for their job and calculate their pricing based on all the services needed to keep each employee’s technology functioning at optimal levels.
• The “per device” model ― Because employees are often interacting with both computers and mobile devices throughout the day, some MSPs price according to the devices at play within a client’s IT environment.
How Price Managed IT Services
If we take the per-seat model of pricing for IT services as the commonest approach. That it is the fairest and most transparent of all the pricing models available. Each client receives a detailed breakdown of the services and service levels they can expect to receive within their monthly payments.
How does Managed IT Services improve your cybersecurity readiness?
Often, cybercriminals find their way into a company’s IT systems through operating systems or applications that have not been updated. This provides a hacker an avenue of entry. However, due to the proactive nature of Managed IT Services, an MSP keeps your operating systems and applications updated and patched to help prevent this from happening. In addition to security updates and patches, the topic of your data is key to this discussion. Without someone regularly backing up your data, verifying those backups, and demonstrating the recoverability of those backups, your data is at risk. Managed IT Services teams put a high priority on making sure that you have always-on access to your data. Quickly following updates and data security in importance are email security and employee cybersecurity awareness training. A Managed IT Services team puts a lot of effort into protecting your inboxes to help avoid the pain and costs associated with phishing and ransomware. way of giving your organization the exact services and service level you require. Because of this level of customization, there is no way to outline a cost structure. However, it is important for you to know how various MSPs approach pricing their services.
• The “per seat” model ― Some MSPs take the number of employees using computers for their job and calculate their pricing based on all the services needed to keep each employee’s technology functioning at optimal levels.
• The “per device” model ― Because employees are often interacting with both computers and mobile devices throughout the day, some MSPs price according to the devices at play within a client’s IT environment.
How Price Managed IT Services
If we take the per-seat model of pricing for IT services as the commonest approach. That it is the fairest and most transparent of all the pricing models available. Each client receives a detailed breakdown of the services and service levels they can expect to receive within their monthly payments.
In conclusion:
Managed IT Services is a cost-effective, outsourced method of proactively managing, maintaining, and securing the IT resources, and in turn, your data and workflow. This IT support model is beneficial because it provides robust protocols against unplanned downtime and cyber threats coupled with a predictable and easily budgeted monthly IT support expense.
Want to know how this all works and help implementing an IT Managed System for your business.
Get in touch for a free consultation and evaluations of your needs and costings.
Thanks
David