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Avoiding Pitfalls When Moving Your Enterprise Application to SaaS

There’s a rapid shift underway; infrastructure is moving into the cloud and applications are moving from on-premise to Software as a Service (SAAS). Software vendors, MSPs and enterprises are embracing the change as a means to cut costs, … Continue reading

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Working with External IT Service Providers: Why and When it Makes Sense

IT departments deliver a variety of services to their organizations. While some of these services make sense to outsource to an MSP, others should stay in house. Some of the services IT delivers, like email, collaboration tools, and so on, are critical to the organization’s ongoing operations, but they’re not a competitive differentiator. Continue reading

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5 Keys to Building a Successful Relationship with Your Managed Services Provider

Introduction: Best Practices for IT Outsourcing Success

When businesses turn to managed services providers (MSP), they are handing over the reigns of a host of ongoing efforts—efforts that often had been managed through an internal IT group in … Continue reading

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VAR to MSP? Don’t Do This!

Here are five common, but critical Go-to-Market errors made by early stage MSPs leaders that absolutely crater any chance of long term success…

  • Foster a belief that the move from VAR to MSP is just a tweak to the edge … Continue reading
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    Batting 700%!

    Spent a few days in Latin America calling on the big gun Managed Service Providers, mostly running legacy monitoring tools.  Are they happy with what they have?  Well, 10 executive visits yielded 7 technical demos. We have rolled into a … Continue reading

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    46.5 Lbs

    = Weight of my black roller bag.  Never been accused of being a light packer – made worse with a 50 degree delta between Sydney and Delhi.

    16 days swinging through Australia, Singapore and India.  Very excited about meeting with … Continue reading

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    Nimsoft on Demand Launches

    Testament to the skills of our global engineering team and product development folks. Nimsoft on Demand launches today. No hassle monitoring is now available for managed service providers (MSPs) and Enterprises alike. Don’t believe me. Try it for yourself! Continue reading

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    Reseller Beware

    There is an entire ecosystem of channel enablers set up to help VARs transform themselves into the managed service provider (MSP) operational and financial model – the quest for MRR and sticky customer nirvana. Ingram Micro’s Seismic program does great … Continue reading

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    CA and Nimsoft

    Now we can service more managed service providers (MSPs) in more places while taking even better care of our existing customers. Its simple but very elegant math. Moreover we are reporting into the new Cloud and Products and Solutions biz … Continue reading

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    Great Expectations

    With all due respect to the Nimsoft  marketing department, more and more Managed Service Providers are finding us first. It’s fantastic to enjoy the type of market position that drive prospects to find you. But with those great expectations, comes … Continue reading

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