Businesses need a way to manage and maintain their technology, and if they don’t have internal IT departments, they might resort to outsourcing their IT outright. However, even businesses with technology professionals can benefit from working with a managed service provider. This approach, called co-managed IT, presents opportunities for considerable benefit.
The collaborative IT management model can help your internal team better manage responsibilities and expectations while also ensuring that all tasks get done (and done well). Let’s look at some of the benefits.
More Specialized Expertise
If small businesses have internal IT departments, chances are they consist of a handful of employees, at most, who have specialized knowledge of certain systems and not much else. SMBs can diversify their skill sets by working with a managed service provider to shore up any holes in their knowledge base. It sure beats conducting a search for an employee and then spending countless hours getting them up-to-speed, all while burning a hole in your budget.
More Flexibility and Scalability
A co-managed IT model gives you much control over how involved you want your managed service provider to be. They can either handle the brunt of the frustrating or repetitive tasks that your in-house team doesn’t want to do, or they can handle the innovative tasks that are too time-intensive for your team to handle on their own (or maybe they don’t have the expertise at all). Outsourced IT providers can also be contracted to handle certain projects, making them a great solution to your business' short-term and long-term issues.
More Focus on Security and Compliance
With threats growing more potent than ever, it’s time to go on the offensive and set up solutions to actively protect and hunt down threats on your network. This can be time-consuming, so managed service providers are often called in to ensure companies can get unbiased audits and powerful protections from a wide range of potential security threats. With an MSP handling your security, your in-house team can do their daily tasks unimpeded.
Implement a Co-Managed IT Model Today
Your business has so much to gain by working with a managed IT provider, co-managed solutions or not. To learn more about how you can take advantage of our expertise, contact us today at (954) 575-3992.
