Thursday 23 August 2012

See How Your Current IT Provider Stacks Up

 

How can you tell if you are receiving poor or substandard service?







How do you know if your computer supplier is doing everything possible to secure your network from downtime, viruses, data loss, or other frustrating (and expensive) disasters? Could your current IT Support actually be jeopardising your network? 
If your IT Company does not score a “Yes” on every point, you could be paying for substandard support.

1) Do they respond to emergencies in 1 hour or less?
2) Are they easy to reach and responsive when you need them for non-emergencies?
3) Do they offer an on-going maintenance program to keep critical security settings and patches up-to-date?
4) Do they offer a monitoring system to watch over your network 24/7 for developing problems?
5) Do they proactively offer new ways to improve your network’s performance, or wait until you have a problem to make recommendations?
6) Do they provide detailed invoices that clearly show what you are paying for?
7) Do they explain what they are doing and answer your questions in terms that you can understand?
8) Do they complete projects on time?
9) Do they follow up on your requests quickly?
10) Do they offer any guarantees on their services?
11) Do they arrive on time and dress professionally?
12) Do they have other engineers available that are familiar with your network in case your regular engineer goes on vacation or gets sick?
13) Do their engineers maintain current vendor certifications and participate in on-going training?
14) Do you feel as though they are learning on your time?
15) Do they constantly seem rushed?
16) Do they take calls from other clients while working on your network and on your dime?
17) Do they listen to you?
18) Are they adamant about backing up your network and having a disaster recovery plan in place?
19) Do they offer to meet with you regularly to review your business plans, your network status, and their own performance in supporting your company?
20) Do you have to manage their progress on projects or do they provide frequent updates, status reports, and frequent follow up calls and e-mails?
21) Do their projects always end up costing more and/or  take longer than you expected?
22) Do they offer flat-rate or fixed-fee project quotes, or do they give themselves a wide open playing field with “time and materials”?


That will do for starters!


At soVision - Complete IT Services Provider we wish you all the success you desrve in your business!
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soVision is growing!

  Since our last newsletter, soVision has added 4 more staff, including 2 people to the engineering team, to cope with our ramping business.  We've also added some excellent web apps to enhance customer productivity and collaboration, such as SharePoint and Office WebApps, as well as a ‘cloud’ remote data backup service. If you’re not ready to go fully to the cloud, we can offer 'Hosted Exchange' services so just your employees’ email is stored and managed centrally, so they can access it securely from anywhere, and it’s fully backed up.