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Managed service provider MSP business model

• Liability insurance policies: Tips for covering MSP businesses

  With the IT landscape growing more complex, liability insurance policies may be a necessity for MSPs. But MSPs should ensure they get the right coverage for their business model. Continue Reading

• managed IT service

  A managed IT service is an information technology (IT) task provided by a third-party contractor and delivered to a customer. Continue Reading

• Managed security service provider (MSSP)

  A managed security service provider (MSSP) is an IT service provider that provides an organization with some amount of cybersecurity monitoring and management, which may include virus and spam blocking, intrusion detection, firewalls and virtual ... Continue Reading

• Managed services pricing: Tips for creating predictable revenue

  Many MSPs still rely heavily on an hourly billing rate and cost-plus pricing. Michael Backers, an MSPAlliance board member, offers advice on moving to managed services pricing. Continue Reading

• managed service provider (MSP)

  A managed service provider (MSP) is a company that remotely manages a customer's IT infrastructure and/or end-user systems, typically on a proactive basis and under a subscription model. Continue Reading

• Digital transformation of business: What's the MSP's role?

  Managed IT services firms can help clients inject technology innovation into each area of business as they digitally transform, writes Paul Parisi, president of SaviorLabs.Continue Reading

• Dataprise boosts efficiency with Kaseya automation tools

  Dataprise uses automation tools from Kaseya to make its managed services business more efficient.Continue Reading

• MSP sales: Cloud business calls for new tactics, skills

  This rise of cloud computing is transforming the MSP sales landscape, cloud solutions providers and other channel partners. Here is how to cope.Continue Reading

• MSP pricing: How to build an effective plan

  Pricing managed services? Don't become preoccupied with per-user or per-device pricing decisions and make sure to aim for a profit margin rather than markup, David Streit writes.Continue Reading

• MSP documentation: Why it's essential to scaling your business

  In the past, IT service managers might have gotten away with storing important info in their brains; today, having solid MSP documentation is essential to growing your business.Continue Reading

• Key Channel Market Trends: 2016

  As midyear approaches, there are several channel market trends-- from DRaaS to compliance -- shaping the partner landscape in 2016.Continue Reading

• Vology's transition toward an integrator business model

  Vology has used a combination of acquisitions and organic growth as it transitions from a product-oriented approach to an IT services provider business model.Continue Reading

• Sales and marketing strategy: Tips for MSP partners

  MSPs need sales and marketing in order to grow a company beyond the startup stage. Industry executives provide their views on how to build such capabilities.Continue Reading

• BitTitan offers sales and marketing tools for partners

  BitTitan's MSPComplete platform aims to help channel partners sell cloud services such as Microsoft's Azure.Continue Reading

• Five pitfalls in the merger and acquisition process

  Channel partners working through the merger and acquisition process must deal with cultural, financial and personnel issues before the ink is dry.Continue Reading