is the smart way for small businesses to build and maintain a reliable and secure information system and to have fast access to the skilled support ordinarily available only to businesses who can afford a large internal IT organization.
Working with Small Business Plus allows your small business to:
Avoid Dependence on Do-it-yourself IT
For IT support small businesses often rely heavily on do-it-yourself IT. Although doing it yourself carries less overhead you may not be able to afford the time and effort it takes to be proficient and also run your business. The lack of backup personnel or training may force your business to wait for help during an emergency. As your small business grows, network downtime or problems with critical applications become more costly. The money you thought you were saving on Ding you yourself can be eaten up quickly by lost productivity.
Have Access to Expertise in Complex IT Solutions
Many small businesses may excel at providing "connect-the-dots" solutions but lack the experience to deal cost-effectively with complex IT infrastructures with features such as multi-office connectivity, VPNs, mobile workforces, telecommuter support, integrated financial and operational applications, eCommerce, and custom software. Small Business Plus's enterprise experience can be valuable to your small business because enterprise environments are inherently complex, integration issues require in-depth knowledge in many IT disciplines, and achieving a high level of stability, reliability and security requires enterprise-proven best practices.
Build a Solid Foundation for Seamless Growth
Small businesses often start with an IT system implemented on a shoestring budget. Lacking a proper foundation, a series of band-aid fixes often get piled on top of a weak foundation. As a business grows, stability and scalability issues can hinder the success of the organization. Such environments need proper assessment, intelligent strategic planning, and broad-based expertise to upgrade to an IT infrastructure that will provide the solid foundation to meet critical business needs and ease future growth.
Work with Solution Providers, Not Product Resellers
Small businesses require guidance and education to navigate through an increasingly complex maze of technology options available for accelerating business growth and improving efficiency. They do not need an IT consultant who is trying to sell them a product. Small Business Plus avoids conflicts of interest by not selling any products. This allows Small Business Plus to align technical expertise with the best interests of clients. IT consulting and product selling can lead to a situation where the proposed solution is built around a predetermined technology rather than the genuine needs of a small business.
..:: Unique Advantages of Working with Small Business Plus
As a Microsoft Partner and a Microsoft Small Business Specialist, Small Business Plus is an acknowledged expert at the core system software and office productivity applications used by most small businesses. Small Business Plus also offers expertise for an increasingly complex array of infrastructure technologies including hardware, software, firewalls, switches, routers, voice-over-IP solutions and wireless connectivity. In addition, Small Business Plus offers a company-wide perspective on network security.
Best Practices
Small Business Plus’ staff of consultants average more than ten years of real-world industry experience, in the trenches of IT support, performing a wide variety of technical projects for a broad range of clients. Each consultant brings a set of personal best practices from this extensive industry experience, and these are further refined by the company-wide best practices training that Small Business Plus instills in its consulting staff. This means you get not just expert technical skills, but a consultant with proven methods for how to apply those skills to solving real-world business problems successfully and in a repeatable fashion. Find out more about Small Business Plus.
Key features and benefits of Small Business Plus's best practices include:
Individual Experts
Small Business Plus’ staff of IT consultants is made up of one of the most experienced teams of experts in North Texas. Averaging more than 10 years of professional experience per consultant, Small Business Plus' experts bring a proven set of methods for solving technical problems, planning projects, and providing consulting services. The technical depth and breadth of Small Business Plus' support staff allows Small Business Plus to provide your business with a consulting expert who has task-relevant skills and an effective approach for delivering fast and affordable IT solutions.
Ongoing Training
Small Business Plus makes sure that staff consultants undergo ongoing technical and best-practices training that contains valuable lessons and methods for technology adoption that have been gleaned from the experience of hundreds of thousands of expert technical personnel worldwide. This results in more efficient delivery of services to Small Business Plus clients.
Low Overhead Through Leveraged Technology
Small Business Plus delivers services in the most efficient way possible in order to provide fast, low-cost solutions. By leveraging technology, Small Business Plus streamlines service delivery and minimizes administrative overhead. Small Business Plus' remote support and proactive monitoring drive support costs down dramatically by resolving problems quickly and avoiding catastrophic failures. Small Business Plus' sophisticated virtual office environment allows Small Business Plus' consultants to spend more time on fixing IT problems and less time on logistics. Small Business Plus' consultants analyze and resolve problems quickly and to collaborate with colleagues to find best-of-breed solutions.
