11Dec
How Managed Services are Angels in Disguise?

Managed services are provided by a company or a group of trained individuals specialized in a particular area to improve the working quality of the customers.

It is more like outsourcing the work of the company or the individuals to a more professional team who can solve or maintain a particular field of work in a better way.

The company or the individual can fully depend on the provider company to offer all the services and maintain and keep the services up to date without being bothered to go through the regular check-ups. 

What are the main factors in a managed service?

The two groups involved in managed services are the customers and the managed service provider (MSP). The customers can either be an individual or a company who requests a particular service and the MSP delivers the same to the customer.

The customers can choose/ subscribe to a wide range of the services provided. Unlike the demand-deliver system where the customer demands one particular service which is provided by the MSP and gets billed for it, managed services deal with taking care of a particular field regularly till the service subscription expires.  

What types of managed services are available?

There are a lot of areas that are delivered by managed services, some of the common ones include:

  • Water services (includes, testing, delivering, storage and transfer)
  • Power 
  • Media (Broadcast managed services)
  • Marketing (planning, strategy, social media marketing) 
  • IT (Software, Data storage, cloud, etc) 
  • Travel (Daily, short and long-distance travel planning and execution)

Managed IT Services – Need of the Hour

With the advancements in technology and the use of computers in our day-to-day life, the need to have professional help in maintaining it has become necessary.

A managed IT service like Tech to Us helps in taking care of all the IT needs that are required by a customer or a company. These help the company or the individual to outsource the IT requirements or maintenance to the managed services on a contract basis.

These services are cost-friendly and can help reduce the workload, providing assistance without actually having to hire an in-house team.

MANAGED SERVICES

The services are mostly 24/7 all through the year with on-call as well as home assistance whenever required. 

Some of the advantages of managed IT service include:

  • They mostly work in contracts and provide and charge for the services required. Thus, reducing the cost of unwanted services. 
  • Helps with all/any kind of IT issues.
  • They are available 24/7 thus avoiding the need to hire a full-time employee.
  • Since they work round the clock, the chances of disruption of work during working hours is low as they can work during off-duty hours, thus helping save time. 
  • Provides professional help thus helping one understand and make correct decisions to improve the quality of services and work.

What do they do?

They can deal with a variety of IT issues like:

  • Management and monitoring of cloud services.
  • Provide IP services.
  • Provide security to the computers.
  • Test for threats, respond, and solve issues. 

Wrapping up, managed services have become the need of the hour when every organization is trying to reduce its expenditures.

Outsourcing certain functions and processes on a proactive basis direct intend to enhance the operations and reduce expenses drastically.