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Mid-market managed services and outsource growth

By Hank Albertze

Johannesburg, 11 May 2014

Over the past 12 months B-Managed has seen a growth in its core market and the company expects this to continue.

The development of this market over the past few years has been connected to the emergence of the heavily marketed term "cloud", which has prompted many companies to think differently about traditional in-house IT, and led them to the concept of IT as a service.

This concept sees an increasing number of companies hand over the responsibility of their IT to a service provider, either as a managed service or complete outsource, where any number of cloud technologies and delivery models can be used.

Outsourcing in the mid-market sector will continue to be an increasingly desirable prospect for businesses over the next few years as companies want agility and flexibility from their IT, while at the same time keeping costs to a minimum.

The increasing complexity of IT also continues to make it difficult for mid-market businesses to retain skills in house, making IT outsourcing a sustainable solution to having access to a diverse range of expertise.

This is particularly true of companies that are not able to justify full time IT staff, IT managers, CIOs or CTOs. We are seeing an increasing number of rapidly growing companies turning to IT outsourcing as a way of freeing up in-house time to focus on core business strategy.

More and more companies are questioning the cost and time implications of managing their own IT estate, particularly as they become increasingly reliant on the performance and capability of their IT infrastructure.

B-Managed has developed a flexible service offering and its innovative approach gives the the ability to select cloud services based on a best fit scenario. Multiple services or cloud services can be combined in its outsource agreement or managed services agreement.

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Hank Albertze
B-Logic
hank@b-logic.co.za