My Webtek is not only a Managed Services Provider (MSP), we build other IT Providers into MSPs as well. We are Elite
N-Able Technologies Partners, thereby allowing us the ability to sell what we believe to be the number 1 managed services solution in the word, bar-known!!! As authorized resellers, we can sell direct to you, on behalf of N-Able, in a more personalized fashion, and without any middle-man costs (we are paid by N-Able on all sales, just like their own internal sales staff). As integrators, we can also configure the entire solution for you, and/or train your technical staff, executives, and sales staff, on its use, selling points, and much, much more. In fact, we will also host webinars for you and your sales staff, to make you more effective at selling managed services (for resellers), or using managed services (for internal IT departments).
The reactive approach to IT involves waiting until something breaks, and then after identifying that issue (which may take hours or even days to achieve), attempting to repair the issue or company asset that your business may very well rely on to function on a daily basis.
Note: Don’t feel ashamed if you’re company follows this approach. Believe it or not, I’ve even seen this type of approach practiced by IT Solutions Providers, whom you’d figure would realize the importance of being prepared for IT disasters.
The problem with this approach is that depending on what breaks, and how, you may run the risk of going out of business (depending on the extent of income lost, and/or the impact of the issue itself). If this is a chance you cannot, and are not, willing to take, then the obvious solution is to take a different approach. “What alternative is there?,” you ask. The answer, is to take a "Proactive Approach". Such an approach involves constant and repetitive monitoring of company assets, such as desktops, printers, servers, routers, firewalls, load balancers, etc… In addition, it involves trending, to forecast when hardware will no longer meet the demands being placed on it, so that preparations and/or purchases can be made ahead of time, thereby enabling a company to minimize down time (Note: This will also minimize cost, as your company will be less likely to make a “Panic Purchase”, and over pay for replacement software and/or hardware). Finally, it involves identifying issues (or the warning signs of emerging issues) as soon as they rear their ugly heads. After all, the faster you respond to an issue, the less likely that issue is to negatively impact your business.
If up-time is essential to your business, and if this sounds like an approach you’d like to transition to, then My Webtek has the perfect solution for you. It is called Managed Services, and it is something that we offer, and which we will tailor to your specific needs, business and/or industry. Using state-of-the-art technology, our
My Metrics offering (a fully-hosted and staffed solution, powered by N-Central) will monitor your company’s real-time system and network performance, vulnerabilities, and security threats. On a monthly basis we will also assess and analyze trends (and deliver our findings in a formal report), showing you things like the average system resource consumption (i.e.; CPU, Memory, Disk space, etc…), account activity, potential security holes and/or security violations (or attempted violations). We will also provide a means for regular software and operating system patching, remote access, and so much more.
Our solution double's as a secure form of remote access, from anywhere in the world that Internet access is available, and triples as an alerting system, so that if something breaks over night, or in the background, you can be alerted to it as fast as possible, thereby giving you the option to act on an IT-related disaster, before it starts affecting your business. We even sell this offering to company's who have their own internal IT departments, as it can be used to supplement over-utilized IT staff, and can help in times when budget restraints won't afford you the opportunity to hire another technician.
Our My Metrics program can automate nearly 100% of all preventative maintenance tasks. Things like disk defrags, checking Event Viewer logs, running Disk Cleanups, performing Temp file removals, Temporary Internet file removals, Cookie removals, checking on backups, checking on antivirus to ensure it's updating and scanning regularly (and that it doesn't find something it can't clean), watching the perimeter of your network (i.e.; whether someone's attacking your router), analyzing the amount of bandwidth sent across switch ports or thru your router, and nearly everything else you can imagine. It quite literally makes maintaining a network as simple as reading emails. The solution does all the work, unless physical remediation is needed. But at that point, all of your network assets (or customer's assets, if you're a reseller) are accessible from one central, secure location. And if that wasn't good enough, remote access includes the ability to remediate more than 85% of all IT-related issues behind the scenes, using a built-in, ingenious collection of troubleshooting tools. This means your employees (or customer's end users, if you're a reseller) can continue working while we/you work on their systems, which puts an end to you paying employee's hourly wages for NO work (or in essence, saves you from losing money for lost productivity)!!! In fact, because our offering logs everything in a readily available and accessible report that can be exported to PDF or CSV format (all of which is accessible securely from the web), and/or reports on all issues via email, you can regularly review the results of diagnostic testing that is performed round-the-clock on your systems (or customer's systems, if you're a reseller) by our My Metrics offering, thereby reducing downtime associated with more than 75% of all issues experienced (i.e.; it almost eliminates the entire diagnostic process used to find out what the cause of an issue is, what the symptoms are, and much more, thereby allowing you to get things back up and running ASAP). For the average customer without an IT department or provider, but rather one who's looking, using this solution will reduce your IT bill, because diagnostics cost money. Hence, if it takes 2-3 minutes to troubleshoot an issue, it's a heck of a lot less expensive than an hour, 2 hours, 6-8 hours, a day, or longer.
Furthermore, the toolsets available for use in the various different types of remote access offered (RDP, VNC, Remote Support Manager, RAdmin, HTTP, HTTPS, Telnet, SSH, and Intel vPro) make you not only capable as a technician, of providing support without traveling (for those of you interested in being resellers), it can also allow you to work in the background while your end users continue working (i.e.; without disrupting them nearly 90% of the time). Plus, an optional Environmental Manager functionality allows an easy interface for creating printer assignments, mapping network drives, mapping shortcuts, creating login scripts, enhancing security and/or locking down peripherals, and much more, enabling one person to literally manage hundreds of devices with very little effort. For the IT manager or concerned business owner, other features like "Monitor Host Screen" can allow you to view an employee's screen secretly, without their knowledge, to determine whether inappropriate use of your systems or data is occurring (this feature has other uses as well, for example, such as for viewing an end user's screen for errors they're calling you about, if your the IT guy, without necessarily having to take control of their systems, mouse and keyboard, and has an option to notify end users of your viewing their screens, in case they are writing a private email, or what have you.). Please note, however, that it is important to inform your employees before hand, when looking to use this particular feature to monitor employee behavior (to protect your rights), that the system they are using is company property, and that they have no expectation of privacy. This should actually be done in writing, put as something they should sign as having read and understood. We also offer policy management services, however, should you want or need any of the following documents to be created for you, or if you perhaps just don't know what to include: Disaster Recovery Policy, Acceptable Use Policy, User Account Policy, Remote Access Policy (if applicable), Password Protection Policy, Internet Use Policy, or LAN Security Policy.
For the Reseller, we have a very unique opportunity available. We can provide you with a fully-hosted managed services solution, which you simply sell, at up to 600% markup. It is an absolute zero dollar investment. You don't have to buy a single thing up front, just sell it like you would any other piece of hardware or software. As you sell it, you take a contract with us for the licenses you will use on behalf of your customers, but you only buy from us, as you sell to your own customers. And, you don't have to do a single second of work. We'll take care of it all for you. The solution includes weekly patch reports and monthly Managed Services Reports/Reviews (which we can rebrand in your name), free accounts for you and your customers, to use for remote access or checking on things. You will also have the option to receive notification emails and alerts, and to be put on notification escalation lists. And we provide the hardware and software, and maintain them as well. It's an all inclusive package, including your data being backed up regularly, and retained for 1 year (with regard to the metrics the monitoring solution collects about your customer's systems), and it also includes the fees we pay to host the entire solution in a redundant data center, while also covering bandwidth fees. It includes free training for your technicians, and free sales training for your sales staff. It also includes sales support, by us, to assist in sales calls, webinars, or what have you. That's right, we'll actually help your sales people sell your product!!! We can provide you with Data Sheets rebranded in your company name and with your company logo, and the solution itself can be rebranded in your company name and with your company logo.
But selling and configuring a managed services platform alone doesn't make us able to build other companies into MSPs. There are a few other components that a Managed Services Provider needs to deliver effective services, on behalf of their client-base. To start with, a ticketing system is also needed. Employee or Technician's time needs to be documented, along with the tasks that they performed, so that proper amounts of time are reflected in billing, and so that proper analysis of an employee or technician's utilization, can be recorded. Without proper documentation of time, a service provider effectively cheats themselves, and loses money on the time they pay their employee for, when technicians are dispatched to a site, or connect in remotely, for technical support. Likewise, without documenting internal IT staff and their utilization, a company is hindered in its ability to accurately assess the burden placed on their present internal IT staff, which thereby makes it impossible to accurately supplement staff with outside, outsourced IT support, or to accurately gauge how many additional IT staff should be hired, to tackle the current load being placed on the company's IT department(s). These functionalities and much more, are all present within the ticketing system that we implement for new MSPs, called
AutoTask. As AutoTask Resellers and Integrators, we can not only sell you the ticketing system itself, but we can also configure and/or train you and your staff on its effective use. AutoTask allows for the creation of a variety of different contracts, including Time and Materials, Contract, and Block Hours, and also allows for the creation of web-based quotes, which can be emailed to the customer in the form of a link, when pricing is requested. AutoTask also allows for a dispatch board, for department managers or directors, and allows for web-based access, anywhere that Internet access is available. AutoTask also supports integration with mobile devices like PDAs, which ensures that employee's or IT technician's time can always be documented, while the tech is working, thereby lessening the likeliness that the company will loss billable time, or the likeliness that an internal IT staff's utilization averages will be skewed. But then AutoTask does much more than that. It allows for the integration of Microsoft Exchange Calendar's, so that events noted in AutoTask will match other domain-based calendar's in use by staff or employees. It also allows for the direct export into QuickBooks, so that accounting staff can easily post and print invoices, but in batch processes, which speeds up the invoicing process 10 fold. There are many more functions supported in AutoTask, but far to many to go into detail here.
One final important component for MSPs and company's with internal Help Desk environments, is a standalone remote access platform. For customers not currently covered under a managed services platform (which by itself provides remote access capabilities), a solution is needed to allow remote access to user's systems, so that an internal technician's time can be better utilized (meaning they spend less time traveling from room to room, floor to floor, remote office to remote office, etc...), and so that end users can receive the fastest remediation possible, thereby cutting down on lost productivity, which equate to wages paid by a company, for no work. NTR, a separate product manufactured by N-Able Technologies, provides a vast number of different functionalities, and is far more cost effective than competitor's solutions on the market, including the likes of GoToMyPC, Logmein, GoToAssist, and others. For less than the cost of just two users under GoToAssist, a company can get 5 simultaneous users in NTR, not to mention more features, many of which are revolutionary. Features like "On-Line Status", which shows customers or end users when technicians are available for support. Another feature, allows end users or customers to leave messages within NTR for technical staff or outside technicians, allowing technical staff to know when end users have returned, for instances where remote assistance is needed, and allowing for updates from end users, regarding whether previous fixes or modifications during support remediated end user's issues. Yet another feature, allows for Chat between all users within NTR, thereby allowing technicians or technical staff to coordinate, ask each other questions, or even escalate. Still another feature allows remote access sessions to be handed off from one technician to another, in their entirety, without first having to disconnect and reconnect from the client (a process which could take as long as 30 minutes normally). On the subject of remote access, NTR supports remote connectivity with not only Windows, but also Linux, Mac, and even Windows Mobile devices, allowing you to check configurations or reconfigure mail settings, for example, on mobile user's phones. NTR can also be used as a webinar or training tool, and supports VOIP for both presenter and audience. There are many other aspects to NTR which make it appealing, including its ability to establish remote access in 30 seconds or less, making it perhaps the fastest solution we've ever seen, its ability to establish remote access in many different forms, including via an email link, an agent, via a hyperlink on a web site, and others, but when you roll all of these features into one single solution, you have perhaps the best standalone remote access platform ever made, which can be rebranded with your own company name and logo, and which is ideal for completing the Managed Services package.
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