Managed IT providers offer a necessary partnership to organizations that need to minimize risk, optimize efficiency, and overcome obstacles, such as talent shortages. The benefits of managed IT services include improved compliance, strengthened security, and superior backup-and-recovery solutions.

Why Do We Need Managed Services?

Managed services provide peace of mind for your business. In addition to obtaining access to an entire team of IT experts, you get a partner who makes sure your technology is sufficient enough to meet your business goals. If your organization has been thinking about employing managed IT, consider these benefits of managed IT services.

Fixed IT Costs

The cost of managing and maintaining servers is more than just about money – it’s about downtime, too. Partnering with a managed IT firm allows you to convert the costs of your IT to a fixed monthly cost, such as a utility, making it easier to plan and develop a long-term strategy for your organization and ensuring that you’re up and running without fail.

Improved Tech Expertise

Not only is there a severe labour shortage in the IT industry but the cost of hiring your own in-house IT team is exorbitant. Partnering with a managed IT firm lets you have access to the best talent without having to pay for salaries and benefits.

Levelled Playing Field

For smaller organizations, one of the biggest benefits of managed IT services is that you gain access to the same level of technology, support, security, and monitoring that larger companies can afford – at a fraction of the cost. Partnering with a managed IT firm can help you grow faster, plan more effectively, and compete with larger companies.

Competitive Advantage

Outsourcing your managed IT allows you to remain focused on your core business. You can avoid shifting your attention away from fundamental tasks, making you more agile; you can save time and money, as well. Get products to market more quickly; focus on marketing instead of IT; always have expertise at hand when you need it.

Risk Management

Being in business is inherently risky, and the global environment has made risk an even larger part of the business equation. One of the benefits of managed IT is the ability to mitigate a large portion of your risk by putting your compliance, IT security, and data security in the hands of experts. By partnering with an outsourced service, you shift the risk away from your business.

What Is Included in Managed Services?

There are a variety of solutions included in managed IT services. The ITeam provides Alberta businesses with award-winning service and access to the best IT experts in the industry.

Email security: Email security protocol is customized for your business, using the latest security technology.

Disaster recovery: We work to understand your needs, to develop customized backup and recovery solutions.

Asset management and preventative maintenance: We keep your team working efficiently and ensure updated licensing and software patching, firmware updates, application updates, and more.

Backup management: We help manage the unique compliance requirements in healthcare, oil and gas, accounting, legal, and more.

Unlimited support: We provide remote and onsite support and maintenance services for identified devices, regular business hour and emergency 24×7 support, and 24×7 monitoring.

Virtual CIO: As your strategic partner, we help you align your technology with your business strategy and successfully plan the future.

Comprehensive reporting

How Much Do Managed IT Services Cost?

Managed IT services are customized to meet the needs of your organization. Because the service is a fixed-rate cost, you can better plan growth, talent investment, and marketing, as well as other business costs, knowing that your managed IT service is covered.

Can Managed Services Reduce Total IT Cost?

The capital costs of owning your own servers, paying for the utilities to keep servers cool, and replacing infrastructure when a server breaks can be unpredictable and costly. Add to that the necessity of employing IT staff to manage your onsite infrastructure, and the burden it places on your organization to be compliant and secure, it becomes easy to see that one of the big benefits of managed IT services is the cost savings.

Shifting to managed IT services often makes sense, from both a cost perspective and a customer experience perspective. But having a managed IT services provider to partner with you and navigate all of the complexities securely and efficiently can ensure that your IT strategy is aligned with your business.

Whether you are a healthcare firm, an oil and gas company, a legal firm, or a part of the many other industries The ITeam supports, such as construction and accounting, organizations can benefit from managed cloud hosting services. The ITeam is committed to helping Calgary- and Alberta-based businesses develop proactive, cost-effective IT strategies that minimize risk and maximize efficiency. Contact us to learn more.