Staying competitive in today’s market is challenging. In an attempt to do more with less, many businesses look for new ways to cut costs while simultaneously increasing efficiency. More and more businesses are discov-ering that IT departments hold the most potential for improvement. Regardless of the size of your IT staff, it is of-ten financially beneficial to hire a Managed Service Provider. By hiring a MSP to monitor or manage infrastructure, server, or network issues, your IT staff can focus on directing the overall strategy for IT – and the result is greater effectiveness at a fraction of the cost.

Businesses today choose Managed IT Services because they want excel-lent IT solutions without breaking the bank. In the past, businesses had no choice but to depend on overworked IT staff to take care of infrastructure, server, network, mobile device, or desktop management. Fortunately, ad-vances in technology have provided such businesses with the ability to out-source some (or all) of their IT needs to excellent MSPs. Managed Services is a solution that can free up your IT staff to focus on strategic endeavors, save time and money, and reduce the amount of worry and stress about managing your data and security.

If you want to use a cellphone you don’t have to purchase cell towers and create your own network – you just find a provider that meets your needs (text, data, as much as you need or want to pay) and trust that they will keep your service up and running. In the same way, many businesses choose to do business with a trusted MSP because it reduces their overall costs, increases their security visibility, increases their network uptime – all while the Managed Services enables them to focus on their core business.

Customer Case study: AtlAs CopCo

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WHY MANAGED SERVICES:● Fewer System Failures● Less Wasted Resources● More Efficient Processes

● Finding Patterns● Mitigating Risks● Proactive Monitoring

● Less Time Wasted ● Less Time Fighting Fires● More Time Spent Strategically

● Frequency of Alerts● 24/7 Global Operations Center● Firewall Monitoring

TRANSFORMATIONAL BENEFITS

REDUCED COSTS

LESS DOWNTIME

INCREASED PRODUCTIVITY

MORE SECURITY

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Why Companies Turn to Managed Service Providers (MSPs)

In Summary, despite the competition that businesses face today, there are solutions out there for increasing the competitiveness of your business. Managed Services is one such solution that can free up your IT staff to focus on strategic endeavors, save time and money, and reduce the amount of worry and stress about managing your data and security.

Need for Expert Personnel Resources: Hiring and keeping skilled IT staff can be difficult, especially since the best talent is drawn towards jobs involving strategy – not just performing monotonous help-desk tasks and maintaining infrastructure, server, and software systems. A MSP has the ability to relieve your talented IT staff of these requirements, so that they can focus on busi-ness initiatives. Additionally, a MSP will have their own expert staff to monitor or manage your services, relieving you of the need to have on-hand expertise.

Need to Save Money: A MSP is equipped with all of the resources they need to effectively monitor or manage all of your infrastructure, server, and software needs. Of course, if you chose, you could equip yourself with all of those re-sources – but not nearly at the rate a MSP will be able to provide. Additionally, a MSP will have the visibility (depending on the package you choose) to manage your systems. This level of visibility will enable you (or the MSP, depending on the package you choose) to respond to system problems faster and to be more proactive in avoiding problems in the future – saving you time and money.

Need for Increased Efficiency and Effectiveness: The IT processes that MSP’s provide can bring a level of efficiency that many companies cannot real-ize on their own. MSPs are experts in their area, and they come equipped with all the knowledge and tools they will need to ensure that you benefit the most from the services you choose. This increased efficiency leads to overall busi-ness effectiveness.

Need for Excellent & Reliable Service: Your IT staff spends a large amount of time fixing problems as they arise, which is a very reactive strategy that re-sults in wasted time and resources. MSP’s have the ability to provide excellent & reliable service which can help you avoid problems in the future. Addition-ally, your MSP can look for patterns in your system failures, so that they can be more proactive in helping you fix problems before they materialize, or avoid them altogether.

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