Picture this: Your long-standing IT pro decides it’s finally time to move on and live his dream life as a surfer somewhere off the grid. His dream has become your nightmare because he handled EVERYTHING. What do you do when you’re faced with this dilemma? Do you replace the person, find an IT management partner, or something in between?
Keeping your technology up-to-date, maintaining your IT regularly and securely and giving your staff professional development opportunities and benefits is expensive. Do you realize that there’s greater value in hiring an outsourced IT department than hiring just one in-house IT staff? Outsourcing an IT department is a reliable, cost-effective way to provide 24/7/365 service to monitor and maintain your IT infrastructure morning, noon, and night with a skilled team of professionals that offer certifications and disciplines no small internal group could offer.
Below are some of the key things to consider when making a move from an in-house IT solution to outsourced IT:
Safety and Security
Remember Buffalo? Remember our Etobicoke floods? You never know when and where unexpected disasters are emergencies are going to happen. You need to continuously monitor and maintain your business technology and at CDN Technologies we have certified technical engineers who are available 24/7 to act as your IT gatekeepers. Installation of updates, assistance with desktop issues, providing data backs recovery and backups are some of the things we do to make you’re the IT at your office safe and secure.
Save Money
Hiring an outsourced IT department can save you a good amount of money. According to the study by FDIC, Deloitte Consulting, LLP estimates that institutions that choose to work with an outsourced IT partner can achieve average cost savings of 39 percent, with one-in-four institutions surveyed achieving savings of more that 50 percent! How? Because your business won’t have to worry about providing benefits such as health insurance, CPP/EI, vacation pay, RRSPs, and salary that will go to your in-house staff.
Staying Up-to-Date
Whether you have a limited in-house staff or not, it’s very difficult for them to watch over your system 24/7. However, a qualified IT partner has the resources and tools to make that happen. Your IT service provider can implement the up-to-date technologies your business needs on a regular basis, such as detecting vulnerabilities in your system, updating software/hardware, and backups. When your business decides to start a new project, your outsourced IT provider will be able to move faster and more efficiently since they offer the scale no one small team could handle.
Since 1989, CDN Technologies has helped more than 100 SMB (Small-to-Medium Sized Businesses) identify and implement scalable IT solutions that save both money and time. CDN Technologies is a one-stop-IT-shop running 24/7 services that allows you to focus on your core business – not the technology behind it. It can be painful to lose your IT pro. So, why not consider moving from 1 to a full IT staff that are ready and available anytime?
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