Outsourcing IT services might sound contrary to saving on expenses, but Managed IT Services are designed to give you the solutions you need at the budget you want. CFOs who made the switch are seeing cost reductions while improving their competitive edge.

At Focus Technology Solutions, our team of engineers and consultants work with your firm to derive a solution that includes IT Consulting Services, Hosted Applications, Servers and/or a complete portfolio of Managed Services and support for your hardware and software. Our goal is simple, to provide a customized selection of services that meet and exceed your expectations and enable your Architectural or Engineering business to leverage technology to achieve peak performance.

I don’t think I’ve heard the term used since the last economics class I took in college. It’s oft-relegated as neigh irrelevant - one of those ethereal, difficult to measure items, that’s left out of the equation for so many business decisions, especially in IT. Not that you can really blame the operational managers in IT – they’re typically so busy fighting fires and pushing projects forward that they’re happy if they can get any kind of metrics together into a report to get upper management off their backs. Trying to put a dollar value on intangibles isn’t even on the radar.

In our first post about choosing a managed services provider (MSP), we spoke about one of the major differences between several providers and suggested that you formulate a list of questions that will guide you through the selection process.

We also discussed, briefly, two business models that dominate the MSP field: reactive and proactive services.

While these two models do accomplish a common goal in helping a company with their IT needs, there is a world of difference between the two.

It’s hard to know which managed services provider (MSP) is best for your company when the pool to choose from is really more like an ocean.

If you find yourself, say, stranded on a flimsy raft in the middle of said ocean you may feel a considerable amount of confusion and even fatigue over how these MSPs are different from each other.

Sure, no wave in an ocean is the exact same as another – but they all look alike and they all do the same thing. Right?