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AMA Networks, based in San Diego, has been helping small and medium
sized businesses to manage their IT since 2008. The goal of our Managed
IT Services is to continually monitor your system performance, capacity and
usage. We manage your IT with industry best practices. Proactive support
allows us to minimize the threats of failure long before they occur. With
Professional Services, we can assist you with your IT moves, upgrades, and
projects to meet your goals and budget. AMA Networks Professional and
Managed services will work with you to make the best technology choices.
We will analyze your technology and show you how to capitalize on IT and
deliver those cost savings to you. We are here to help you manage your IT!
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San Diego’spremier IT solutions provider
AMA NETWORKS | 10 Reasons for Managed IT Services | www.amanetworks.com
AMA Networks, based in San Diego, has been helping
small and medium sized businesses to manage their IT
since 2008. Our IT Support and IT Service platform can
help align your Information Technology (IT) needs with
your business goals and objectives. In addition to our
Professional IT Support and Services, we offer Managed
Services, Cloud Services, IT Consulting, daily system
maintenance all the way to more complex engineering
projects.
Our goal is to allow you to focus on your core business
and leave the “it stuff” to your trusted team of experts.
Our experienced team of IT Engineers will work with you
to set the goals to help you change, understand, and
clearly define your IT needs to work for your environment
and deliver the top services and quality.
Whether you employ full
time IT staff yourself, or
you outsource your IT
needs to our professionals,
AMA Networks will work
with you to develop a plan
that solves immediate
problems, offers you a
map towards the future,
and fits into your budget.
Discover today why we are San Diego’s premier choice for IT services!
Table of ContentsCEO StatementWhat are Managed IT Services?Making the SwitchReason #1 - Lower Operating CostsReason #2 - Increase Importance Reason #3 - Cost PredictabilityReason #4 - Recapture Company FocusReason #5 - Increased EfficiencyReason #6 - Reduced Downtime & RiskReason #7 - Capacity Planning InformationReason #8 - SecurityReason #9 - Up-to-Date Patch Management:Reason #10 - A Better Understanding
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CEO’S STATEMENTSan Diego’s premier IT services provider.
It brings me great pleasure to welcome you to AMA
Networks! To our existing clients and all of you, out future
clients, I’d like to say Thank You for your confidence
and support. The opportunity all of you have given me
and AMA Networks to bring you the best and latest in IT,
to help with all of your IT needs, no matter how small or
large, has been fantastic. I have had the honor and pleasure
of working with some of the great and innovative people,
be part of the San Diego IT community, and with all of
us working together we can empower our most valuable
asset, our customers, with innovative IT Solutions,
IT Service and IT Support. Here at AMA Networks my
personal goal is to really focus on understanding our
client needs and addressing those needs and problems.
By increasing our client insight, we will be able to develop
new products that solve these needs and problems.
While AMA Networks and other companies
in our ever evolving industry adapt to
essential shifts in the today’s IT market,
our culture, our people and our hunger to
bring you the latest and greatest, cutting edge, in IT will
remain solid. We care deeply about our people and our
clients. Earlier this year we began to implement our three
year plan. This plan will show our intent to stay current and
on cutting edge of IT, on course of sustainable growth,
and we intend to keep creating value in a positive way.
This approach is not just a moral imperative for AMA
Networks. It is what makes AMA Networks a Premier San
Diego IT Service and Support company and a key business
differentiator. We know that how we run our business is
just as important to you, our valued customers, as the
innovative products we deliver to you.
All of us at AMA Networks are motivated and
personally inspired to help you understand
what an IT Service provider can do for you, not
what you can do for us. We remain committed
to ethical business practice and cultivating a supportive,
productive work environment. We will continue to be
good neighbors in our community, engage with you in
your ideas, we shall remain open and honest and we shall
ensure that all of us, and our vendors and suppliers, meet
and attain the same high level of expectations we hold
ourselves accountable to.
One of our most important
company assets is our Core
Values. It is what makes us
different and it is what we strive
to bring to you, to every job,
and out day to day duties.
Amir HadziosmanovicCEO STATEMENT
San Diego’s premier IT services provider.
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AMA NETWORKSFocused on creating managed service excellence.
Managed IT Services by definition is a
professional implementation and execution of
your day-to-day operations and responsibilities
of IT Service as a calculated method for
improving Managed IT Service operations. When
businesses turn to Managed IT Service providers,
they are characteristically looking to resolve
considerable and important pain points within
their IT organizations. Initially Managed IT Services
were provided to large corporations while small
to medium size business struggled to preserve
an IT budget that was often more expensive then
beneficial.
The Managed IT Services platform continues
to grow as many businesses look for ways to
reduce costs in this tough economy. By offering
technological services that might otherwise be
beyond the reach of a small business budget,
Managed Services make it possible for smaller
businesses to remain competitive with others in
their industry. Small business owners must take
the time to carefully review and research each
provider before signing on the bottom line. A
good Managed IT Services provider can change
the way you do business- in a positive direction,
whereas the wrong choice could be a costly
mistake that does more harm than good to your
business.
The explosion of Managed IT Services is shifting
how small and medium business, as well as
enterprises consume IT resources. Organizations
are no longer required to maintain expensive
equipment on-site. The business that owns or has
direct oversight of the business or system being
managed is referred to as the customer. The
business that accepts and provides the managed
it service is regarded as the Managed IT Service
Provider. Typically, the service provider remains
responsible for the functionality and performance
of Managed IT Services.
What are Managed IT Services and why should you or your business care.
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A good number of business owners have or are
beginning to become conscious of Managed
IT Services. There is copiousness of benefits
that can be realized by bringing on a Managed
IT Services provider to address the company IT
needs.
In order to get the most from your Managed IT
Services agreement you have got to watchfully
evaluate all the potential providers to make
certain they are prepared and capable of
providing the IT services you need to keep your
business moving forward in the future. If your
Managed IT Services provider cannot deliver the
following Services (at minimum) keep looking
until you find a Managed IT Services provider that
addresses these issues.
At the same time, these solutions should
considerably reduce IT management complexity
and cut cost without compromising your
business’ capability to leverage mission-critical
technologies needed to contend with competitor
businesses. In a Managed IT Service environment,
technology is generally consumed per user
or device per month. Executives who choose
to work with the Managed IT Service experts
can often predict costs, without jeopardizing
efficiency, work-flow, or impacting employees.
There are diverse advantages to this IT service
delivery model, both for the Managed IT Service
provider as well as the client. From the company
point of view, they can automate a large amount
of the routine tasks that are connected and/
or associated with maintaining a computer
environment. There are numerous IT Tools that
have automated processes, as well as remote
management tools, that can be turned on,
consequently saving the IT Company, and the
client, time and money.
Making the switch to Managed IT Services within your organization.
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So let us take a look at some of those reasons why your business should switch to Managed IT Services:
There are companies that try to do everything themselves. This approach may cause the company to acquire and maintain higher service, equipment, development and operating expenses, which in turn may be passed onto customer.
A fixed monthly Managed IT Services fee can reduce your organization’s operating cost and increase its competitive advantage
Lower OperatingOverhead
Reason#1
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So let us take a look at some of those reasons why your business should switch to Managed IT Services:
Managed IT Services can save your organization money and create a great value within your company.
Managed IT Services will help drive improvements in reliability, efficiency and productivity, which sequentially will permit your company to accomplish multiple business goals.
Increase Importance within your Company
Reason#2
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Managed IT Services providers charge a monthly fee, making it possible for smaller businesses to reap the benefits offered at a much lower price than in-house IT staff or outsourcing on an as needed basis.
Cost PredictabilityReason#3
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Managed IT Service providers will allow your company to
concentrate on its core business functions. It can relieve you so
that your business can concentrate and focus on your customer
needs.
Recapture your Company Focus
Reason#411
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Many of the companies that turn to a managed services provider for management and remediation have become accustomed to the “firefighting method” of tracking and responding to events.
With the more mature toolsets available to Managed IT Services providers, events causing user problems are instantly and automatically reported, allowing remediation to start immediately. Many times, the efficiency gains through Managed IT Services are so great that businesses are surprised by the extent of the inefficiency of their prior system.
Increased EfficiencyReason#5
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Not only can a Managed IT Services provider track and begin remediation of a known event more quickly and efficiently than the business could in the past, but through the robust tools available to managed services providers, many events can be headed off at the pass.
Managed IT Services organizations are able to determine that a failure is imminent in many cases, thereby allowing remediation efforts that will actually prevent the failure from occurring in the first place, which clearly reduces downtime and risk for the client company.
Reduced Downtime and Risk
Reason#613
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Managed IT Services clients are able to realize an added benefit that they may not even have considered: Because the Managed IT Services provider’s tools are constantly monitoring the performance and capacity of the client’s file system space, database size, network bandwidth and more, all of that information is captured and held as historical data.
The client has access to this data and can use it to analyze trends in performance or capacity associated with a specific device or database and to make educated, informed decisions about future IT capacity and performance needs as a result.
Capacity Planning Information
Reason#7
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The Managed IT Services provider that you choose should work with vendors that guarantee security. This is imperative when trusting an outside party to handle and maintain private and confidential data that is crucial to the running of your business.
Service providers should provide detailed proof of security procedures as well as how they intend to keep abreast of changes in the industry.
SecurityReason#8
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W h e n
client companies’ IT staffs are too busy
with firefighting responsibilities, patch management is
one of the things that tend to fall to the back burner.
This can leave your organization at risk for downtime,
security vulnerabilities and incidents that a vendor may
not support when patches are too far behind.
Managed IT Services providers can not only manage
patches so that they remain up to date continuously,
but they typically can provide a user with a patch
management SLA spelling out the details of this
little-known, but valuable service.
Up-to-Date Patch Management
Reason#9
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There are a lot of little things that make a
big difference in the efficient management
of a company’s IT infrastructure, but
unfortunately, many of these fall through
the cracks in most organizations due to
a lack of time and resources.
When a client company engages a qualified
Managed IT Services provider, another
surprise benefit comes in the form of
periodic reviews. Managed IT Services
providers will constantly be on the lookout
for anything that might put the client’s IT
environment at risk, and mitigating that risk
is their job. Devices that are nearing end
of life, OS upgrades that need to be done –
these can be discussed in periodic reviews
and determinations made about how to
resolve them before they become an issue.
Additionally, Managed IT Services providers
can help clients create a well-defined list
of which technology products – hardware
and software – are tied to business-critical
functions so that different service priority
levels can be assigned on a true needs
basis.
Better Understanding of the Infrastructure
Reason#10
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