Any good business owner realises how important it is in business, to focus on your strengths and outsource the areas you know aren’t your strongpoints. Managed services sees companies outsourcing instead of running IT related processes in-house.
Managed services assist business in lowering their overall costs and help them to understand the areas where they stand to improve. Most importantly, they give businesses access to resources that realistically speaking, are unlikely to be available otherwise.
Our team has put together our top 10 reasons why you should consider utilising managed services:
1. Reduced operating costs
Anyone involved in business knows how important it is to keep costs down. In our experience, when companies try to do everything themselves, their research, development and operation expenses are through the rough. This just isn’t the most efficient or effective way of working.
2. Flexible service
Depending on who you choose to work with, most managed services providers can offer extreme flexibility. A pay as you go payment plan allows you to pay for whatever you need to accelerate your growth, while being able to take a step back and dedicate resources elsewhere when necessary.
3. Gain access to valuable resources
Don’t have internal IT resources in-house? No problem! With managed services, you can gain access to all the technology you need to support your business’ growth.
4. Reduced financial risks
As you know, we love our technology but it is incredibly difficult to keep up with the latest technology. Doing so often requires a significant investment that doesn’t always pay off in the long-term. When you work with a third party, you’re reducing the risk to your own company greatly.
5. Increased efficiency
Most companies deal with bottlenecks and organisational roadblocks on a daily basis. Using manage services helps you to identify and resolve these issues before they become a real problem for your business.
6. Benefit from external expertise
When using a third party service, your company benefits from having access to staff with a specialist skill-set. It’s pretty impossible to train your team to be able to handle everything you’ll ever need in business and chances are, a lot of the skills we’re talking about here will only be required once. Why spend time and money training staff in areas they won’t be using in the long-term? It makes much more sense to outsource.
7. Centralisation
It’s incredibly beneficial to centralise all of your applications and servers within managed data centres. Not only does this take care of any storage and back-up needs, it also helps your staff to perform better, regardless of where they are based.
8. You’ll be helping our planet
What kind of world do you want to leave your kids with? When you opt to centralise all of your critical business systems within data centres, you’re saving huge amounts of power. Not only is this great for your hip pocket - you’re also lowering your carbon footprint and helping our planet.
9. Obtain the best of the best for your business
In order to compete, leading manage service providers must constantly upgrade and use the best technologies and equipment out there. When you engage with one of these third parties, you’re benefiting from having the best of the best for your business without taking on any financial risk. It’s the best of both worlds!
10. Give you Business Goals a boost
If you’re a regular reader, you’ll know that we’re always saying that all of your business activities, should ultimately contribute to your bigger Business Goals. It can help to work with a third party to take stock of where your business is at and make sure the services you’re engaging in are helping you to get to where you want to be. Sometimes, this is really hard to do when living and breathing your business day-in, day-out.
As you’ve read, managed services really can help your business to thrive in 2017. If you’re keen to discuss how they can help you to meet your business’ specific requirements, contact us today and we’ll get back to you shortly.
