How an MSP Can Help Your Business

NOC Technology is proud to be headquartered in Washington. Here, we have a fascinating vantage point to view the history of the industry. We have the Missouri river, the original highway for American commerce. We have the railroads, the shipping routes of the industrial age. While the river, rail, and the roads are still essential to our business infrastructure, most business today is conducted on digital infrastructure.

Every business is responsible for its part of this digital infrastructure. This requirement can be an advantage or disadvantage, a vulnerability or strength; it all depends on the quality, security, and reliability of the business’s IT network. Largely, businesses without dedicated IT expertise lag behind their competition, overspend on IT, and experience a lot of inefficiencies, disruption, and downtime.

A Managed IT service provider (MSP) can help small and midsized businesses overcome their disadvantages. Here are a few key ways an MSP can help improve a business.

Minimize Cost and Maximize Revenue
Minimize costs and maximize revenue. The formula for business success hasn’t changed, but the methods have. Modern businesses depend on their IT network to facilitate every aspect of their operations. A good MSP will help you take control of your IT spending. Small and midsize businesses without IT expertise often have redundancies and inefficiencies in their network. An MSP will help you design an IT infrastructure that eliminates inefficiency, optimizes output, and consolidates or cuts costs.

Enterprise-level businesses have the budget to hire entire IT departments. This is an unrealistic and unnecessary investment for small and midsize businesses. By partnering with an MSP, small and midsize businesses can get enterprise-level support from a team of experts for less than the cost of a single IT manager. With an MSP, you invest in IT support that does not take vacation days and does not require insurance, office space, yearly raises, or bonuses.

You will also save on a host of security solutions and advanced technologies you would otherwise have to purchase. A good MSP will use the best technology and equipment to support your business. As new technology becomes available, they upgrade, keeping up with the constant changes so that you don’t have to. Often, you can entirely avoid daunting capital investments and scale your equipment and data storage up or down as needed. A lasting partnership with a good MSP can save a business enormous sums of money over a few years.

Predictable Costs
A good MSP should make accounting easy. Typically, you pay a fixed monthly rate for a fixed set of services. Your monthly investment scales with your business needs in controlled and budgeted steps. As you grow and add workstations, your investment adjusts accordingly. You are not vulnerable to unplanned IT capital expenditures, fluctuating operating costs, or worst of all, debilitating ransomware payouts.

Improved Efficiency and Flexibility
Skilled MSPs can build a lean, mobile, secure, and reliable IT infrastructure. They can fix nagging disruptions to your workflow or glitches that undermine your business’s professional appearance. By moving your business to the cloud or using a VPN, an MSP can enable remote data access to meet the needs of remote staff, on-the-go executives, and traveling staff. This allows your team to access the information they need easily, when and where they need it.

Managed Security Compliance
Because of the overwhelming quantity and frequency of security breaches on businesses of all sizes, government and industry regulators have increased the requirements on security controls. Complying with complex IT regulations can be daunting for organizations just trying to keep up with technological change, evolving cyber threats, and IT staffing needs. A quality MSP can help your business meet and maintain the security requirements of your industry.

Increased Resiliency
43% of all cyber-attacks target small businesses. 60% of small businesses that suffer a data breach from these attacks go out of business within six months. These are debilitating events for a business. An MSP can design and manage a multilayered cybersecurity strategy with offsite data backup and disaster recovery planning. Even if your data is stolen or a natural disaster destroys your office, your critical data is recoverable and accessible remotely.

If you're interested in learning how NOC Technology can improve your business, contact my team at NOC Technology for a free assessment. No sales speeches, just information.

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