The field of information technology is an ever expanding and evolving discipline, and more and more businesses are deciding that outsourcing their IT management to an independent company is in their best interest. Small businesses in particular are keen to focus on other areas of their business, leaving the management of IT systems and data to a separately dedicated workforce. If your small business is in the process of expanding, and you're thinking about using a managed IT service, take a look below at just three ways that managed IT services can improve your company. 

Preventative Measures

Many small businesses only have reactionary resources. In other words, the few IT management resources they do have are almost always designed to react to a problem, rather than prevent it from occurring in the first place. But choosing to outsource your business' IT needs also means choosing to lower the risk that you face when dealing with designated events - which is to say anything that registers as a significant occurrence within an IT framework. In the end, lower risk and careful event management make for less downtime, as well as the ability to rededicate resources to other aspects of business.

Access To Data

Another huge benefit of using managed IT services is that the systems used by management companies are capable of tracking and storing all of the data passing through a given IT system. What this means for a growing business is access to a huge amount of varied data sets, including information regarding bandwidth use and performance. Analyzed carefully, this data can provide invaluable suggestions about IT management going forward, simply based on the sheer amount of detailed historical data available.  

Cost Effectiveness

One of the constant tensions in any growing business is how to negotiate necessary expenses with the desire to turn a profit. Many small business owners assume that in-house IT costs are substantially lower than they would be if management was outsourced, but this is rarely the case. Paying for IT management means paying variable costs rather than ones that are fixed, so you don't waste money paying for bandwidth use or infrastructure you don't need or use. This, combined with the costs of maintaining a team of employees to manage everything in-house, can mean huge unnecessary expenses for small business owners. So at the end of the day, choosing to outsource your IT needs can actually be a massive windfall for your company.

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