Today's Business Landscape

Today's Business Landscape

The expanding role of the IT network is having a huge effect on business success. Out-tasking network management to a managed services provider is more than a technology solution. By reducing your IT costs and freeing up resources, managed services lets you focus on your business strategy, not your IT.

Managed services allow companies access to leading network technologies and management expertise without requiring high initial capital expenditures or ongoing investments in technology updates and IT staff. Out-tasking network management to a managed services provider is more than a technology solution. Rather, by reducing costs and freeing up the IT staff to focus on the core business, managed services can play an important role in a company’s business strategy.

What Are Managed Services?
Managed services is the practice of transferring IT management responsibility as a strategic method for improved effective and efficient operations. A managed services provider (MSP) sets up, manages, maintains, and monitors the network equipment and applications required to complete business processes.

MSPs continuously monitor and manage a company’s IT environment in order to prevent problems from interfering with business operations. MSPs also assume responsibility for managing hardware, software applications, and network infrascructure to prevent downtime and increase the workability of IT investments. Managed services allow businesses and organizations to depend on the experience and know-how of their MSP. This ensures their IT environment is stable and secure so that the organization can focus on their core business.

Benefits of Adopting Managed Services
Access to the latest technology
Companies that subscribe to managed services gain access to the latest and most advanced network technologies that they would have otherwise been unable to afford. Because MSPs deal with network technology every day they are constantly researching more efficient and effective ways to manage technology.

Lower + More Predictable Investment
By taking advantage of managed services companies are able to reduce IT costs while taking advantage of innovative network technologies that can provide them with an edge on the competition. The service provider sets up, maintains and administers the network equipment and applications, greatly reducing hardware and operational costs.The managed service expense per month remains set at the cost agreed upon between the company and the MSP, allowing for an IT budget that is stable and predicable.

Lower Risk
Managed services eliminate the company’s risk of having to make large investments to accommodate unanticipated business changes, such as increases in bandwidth or
performance issues.

Access to Experts
Managed service providers maintain a staff of experts to support their clients. Solutions are implemented quickly and seamlessly, without the company having to make additions to its own IT staff. This arrangement frees the company from having to hire staff with expertise in multiple networking technologies and invest in ongoing training.

Increased Flexibility
The MSP can quickly adapt to changes in market conditions and a company’s business needs. This adaptability allows companies to avoid making huge IT investments to take advantage of new opportunities and avoid risks.Many companies spend more time reacting to IT problems rather than fully leveraging the power of their IT investments to meet their business objectives.

More Focus on Business
Managed service providers are dedicated to the network, and more importantly, the client. Managed services are an innovative and cost-effective alternative to managing the network with internal resources. They enable a company’s personnel and financial resources to focus on core business concerns.

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