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.
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The ITeam Among Canada’s Top 100 Solution Providers
/1 Comment/in News /by James WagnerCalgary, Alberta – May 4, 2020
The annual ranking is produced by Channel Daily News (CDN) with verification provided by IT business intelligence and analysis leader IDC Canada. The rankings are based on 2019 revenue submitted by Canada’s leading channel players.
“The impact of the COVID-19 shutdown has hit the channel hard, but with the cumulative 2019 revenue from the 100 highest-ranking players topping $10 billion for the first time, it shows there was strength in the sector going into the storm,” said ITWC President and ranking champion Fawn Annan.
The ITeam is committed to helping businesses in the Calgary and Alberta areas remain operational where possible. The company is dedicated to strengthening technology and cybersecurity of Alberta and Canada.
“The ITeam is honoured to again be recognized by Computer Dealer News,” says James Wagner, President of The ITeam. “Even in the midst of unpredictable crisis, our team has remained committed to supporting Alberta businesses, ensuring their security and ability to support their remote workforces. We are proud to deliver the highest levels of service to clients throughout Alberta. Being named a CDN Top 100 Solution Provider is recognition for that commitment. We congratulate the other Canadian IT companies that were recognized.”
The 2020 gala was the first-ever virtual event. Using the CDN-TV platform, attendees were able to not only watch live and prerecorded gala segments but also meet with peers and event sponsors in virtual meeting rooms. See the full list of companies here.
This year’s Top 100 gala was sponsored by Ingram Micro, Dell Technologies, HP, Jabra, Samsung, and VMware.
About The ITeam
The ITeam has been delivering quality IT results for more than 20 years. As the shift to cloud computing has enabled businesses to be nimbler and more capable of meeting customers’ needs, The ITeam has worked to provide the necessary support, security strategies, and partnership required to make the transitions easier. The ITeam delivers cost-effective, comprehensive, customized solutions to clients. Get in touch.
Coronavirus (COVID-19): An IT Guide for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
/2 Comments/in Business Continuity, Small Business IT /by James WagnerAs more people around the globe are impacted by the novel Coronavirus pandemic, The ITeam has created an IT guide for businesses.
Coronavirus (COVID-19): An IT Guide for Businesses
/1 Comment/in Business Continuity /by James WagnerAs more people around the globe are impacted by the novel Coronavirus pandemic, The ITeam has created an IT guide for businesses.
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/1 Comment/in Managed IT /by James Wagner5 Benefits of Managed IT Services
/0 Comments/in Managed IT /by James WagnerWhy 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.