Managed Service Providers (MSPs) are often recommended as a cost effective IT solution for small and mid-sized businesses. For a minimal monthly fee, MSPs provide a reasonably priced solution to the complex technology pains needs of businesses. Here’s a look at the various benefits an MSP can offer your business:
- Freed-Up Resources and a Renewed Emphasis on Core Business – Both business owners and internal IT staff would much rather focus on revenue enhancing tasks like product development or the creation of cutting-edge applications/services. This is one reason routine monitoring and maintenance tasks are often neglected by an internal IT person or team, which always proves to be detrimental much later. Often perceived as a “threat” to an internal IT person or staff, MSPs can instead relieve internal staff of mundane network operations maintenance, repetitious monitoring of server and storage infrastructure, day-to-day operations, and held desk duties.
- A True Partner Sharing Risks And Responsibilities –The goal of an MSP is to deliver on contracted services, measure, report, analyze, and optimize information technology service operations, to truly become an irreplaceable catalyst for business growth. Managed Service Providers not only assume leadership roles, they enable risk reduction, enhance efficiency ,and change the culture by introducing internal IT operations to new technologies and processes.
- Access to Expertise, Best Practices and World-Class Tools and Technologies – MSPs have experience with a variety of businesses and organizations. Managed Service Providers can keep your business relevant and on track with continually evolving technology, support, and productivity demands. Let’s face it, no small or medium sized business can afford to fall behind with technology trends in today’s business world. For example, at Rent-A-Nerd, INc., we send our technicians to seminars and require them to complete various training, so that they are familiar with the latest in best practices and technology in general.
- The Benefit of a Full-Time Fully Staffed IT Department at a Fraction of the Cost – Most small business owners live and die by proactive management. They just haven’t had the budget, resources or access to on-demand expertise to be proactive with information technology management. A Managed Service Provider gives business owners and overwhelmed internal IT staff affordable computer and server support, remote monitoring of critical network components like servers and firewalls, data backup and disaster recovery, network security, custom software solutions, and technology evaluation and planning.
Managed Service Providers can decrease the overall IT support costs by as much as 30% to 50%. In fact, a CompTIA survey of over 400 businesses that utilize MSPs reported that: 46% have reduced their budget by 25% or more, 13% of the above cut IT spending by more than 50%, and 50% said they have cut annual costs by anywhere from 1% to 24%. That is very real savings! So, rather than being stressed about technology, business owners can instead get back to focusing on growing their business, all while enjoying the benefits of highly-trained IT experts boosting their network’s reliability and performance. Call Rent-A-Nerd, Inc. today to discuss how we can partner with your business to bring you state-of-the-art information technology services.
