Over 1.3 million businesses in the USA utilize managed service providers. These firms outsource tasks related to human resources, payroll, contract administration/compliance/procurement as well as procurement – allowing these businesses to focus their energy on core activities of their business instead.
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Private equity firms are taking full advantage of the rapidly expanding MSP industry and capitalizing on this opportunity by purchasing some of its larger providers, but it's important to remember that large MSP firms don't necessarily represent superior performance.
North America
MSPs offer IT support services for businesses that lack the internal resources or budget to maintain an in-house IT team, helping improve business processes while decreasing expenses and overhead costs. MSPs may perform various services such as infrastructure management and cybersecurity management.
Staying up-to-date with a company's IT environment can be challenging for any organization, so having access to managed service provider (MSP) expertise may be beneficial in terms of network monitoring and help desk support services as well as cloud hosting or business continuity planning solutions.
MSPs can increase efficiency by taking on tasks your employees aren't trained to manage, freeing them up for other duties. Furthermore, MSPs ensure your business has maximum uptime – downtime can cost millions as evidenced by Amazon losing $100 Million due to just an hour of downtime on Prime Day 2018. MSPs help prevent downtime by monitoring IT systems 24/7/365 to keep everything working efficiently.
Europe
MSP is a collaborative process used to design and implement sustainable marine spatial planning (SMP). Its main components include organizing the process, engaging stakeholders in its development and implementation, conducting stocktakes of existing conditions, analysing them thoroughly before developing solutions, as well as an implementation evaluation and adaptation process. MSP also incorporates measures for monitoring its effectiveness as well as compliance with European legislation.
European MSPs are increasingly security-focused as they attempt to meet rising customer demand for managed cybersecurity services. These providers can help organizations enhance their security infrastructure while simultaneously increasing efficiency, productivity, scalability and cutting costs.
Channel Futures recently recognized 42 managed service providers (MSPs) from EMEA who made the 2022 MSP 501 list, demonstrating their excellence as providers of innovative technology services such as networking, cloud-based unified collaboration and hybrid cloud.
Asia Pacific
MSPs that specialize in managed security services (MSSPs) protect clients' networks and devices from cyberattacks, known as managed security services providers (MSSPs). Cloud productivity services enable their clients to run their businesses using popular cloud platforms such as Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace – for which subscription fees apply – while technical support fix services provide assistance either remotely by fixing problems remotely or sending technicians directly to client locations to solve them.
MSPs offer managed workforce solutions to assist companies with managing their contingent labour procurement processes. This trend in business has become more commonplace as more and more organizations choose to outsource these critical tasks to third party experts, freeing resources up for more strategic activities while eliminating direct costs of managing these programs themselves and keeping control of overall managerial oversight – an essential feature of MSP services for business owners.
South America
As more businesses move toward remote work and collaboration, managed service providers (MSPs) stand to capitalize on a changing industry. This shift has been further reinforced by coronavirus-caused businesses to switch away from traditional office spaces toward more flexible ones – and is expected to continue as offices consolidate and processes become more digitalized.
MSPs help their clients with planning (by understanding current expenditure and long-term IT needs to create solutions that scale) and implementation (by quickly delivering new tech solutions). In addition, MSPs offer 24×7 monitoring, help desk support, remote infrastructure management, network security management, IT asset management services as well as project management to complete the package of support they offer their clients.
Channel Futures joined with Clarity Channel Advisors to conduct the 12th annual MSP 501 global ranking to identify leading managed service providers. Applicants, interviews and historical data were used to rank managed service providers on key criteria like growth rates, total and recurring revenues, pricing structures and more.