If you have grown your business from the very beginning, it is understandable that you are accustomed to handling everything. From billing your customers to creating your marketing, this company has been your baby.
Now your hard work has paid off and the company has grown – and it’s time to start thinking about more streamlined ways to operate.
If you are like most business owners, your IT department has grown incrementally, starting with a single PC. But now you have a network of employees, and a host of clients. How do you know if your organization would benefit from outsourcing to a managed IT services firm?
Signs You Are Ready for Managed IT Services
- You Understand the Risk: The online world has become a dangerous place. While small-to-medium sized business may not consider themselves a target of malware or cyber attacks, nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, a 2018 risk study showed that nearly 60% of cyber security incidents were against small business. No matter the size of your business, your client’s personal data and financial information – as well as your own company data – must be protected. Hackers know that smaller business is less likely to have proper controls and protections in place, making you an easy target.
- Your Time is Valuable: Your business, be it real estate, construction, or medical, is your field of expertise. It is likely that keeping up with the latest malware, virus and cyber threats is not. Even if cyber security were not an issue, simply making sure that each employee is backing up their files and safeguarding data on their personal devices is a daunting task. A managed IT services firm makes it their business to stay ahead of the hackers, and to help with automation of important processes. Therefore, your time is freed up to do what you do best, without worry.
- Your Data Walks Out the Door: Today’s technology allows for extreme convenience. It also opens the door for extreme risk. If your employees utilize laptops, tablets or cellphones to access company data and resources, your risk is compounded. Personal devices are powerful tools, but protocol must be in place to ensure that your data is not accessible once it travels outside your secure facility.
From two step authentication to Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), a managed IT services company can make sure that your data is protected no matter where your employee is located. We can also help to set up secure password protocols, rather than allowing each employee to login with personal information.
- You’ve Grown Piece by Piece: As you’ve added employees and grown your business, you’ve added a PC here, and a printer there. But it has been a long time since you have taken a hard look at your inventory, or the age and compatibility of your equipment. You don’t know if your hardware and software is still operating at optimum efficiency.
A managed IT services firm with help you take stock of your current situation, get you on a logical obsolescence schedule so you can budget for hardware and software upgrades, and help you to assess if you need to upgrade in order to be more efficient, and thus more profitable.
- You Want a Team of IT Professionals: Let’s face it, there is a lot to keeping up with your IT, and most of it is out of your wheelhouse. Rather than trying to keep up on your own, or hiring a single IT professional, you realize that a team of experts is more beneficial.
From keeping your software up to date to protecting you from the latest malware, an IT firm is specialized and focused only on keeping your IT systems at peak performance. You can take all of that off your plate and not worry. We’ve got you covered.
If you are ready to talk about how a managed IT services firm can help you, call the team at Alliance IT. Our company is built not only on a powerful suite of IT services which every business needs to thrive, but on a values system which stresses genuine concern and care for every client.
