Small Business IT

The primary goal of any small business is to grow and thrive in its marketplace. To do this, modern businesses rely on information technology, including email, computers, servers, phones, portable devices, and other technologies. While large enterprise can afford a dedicated, full-time IT department to support these technologies, for the SMB it's simply too expensive, time consuming and inefficient to make sense.

How can an SMB compete? By partnering with a Professional Technology Solutions Provider. These providers can offer on-demand talent, depth of experience, deep resources and the benefits of economies of scale.

Here are some of the benefits gained by engaging an outsourced IT solutions provider, and how they can help you concentrate on growing your business rather than struggling through the ever-changing technological landscape:

• Depth of experience: Because a Professional IT Solutions Provider services many clients (likely facing the same challenges as your business), they are keenly aware of the problems you face on a daily basis, and have proven solutions that work. On top of that, a Solutions Provider's business is built around knowing all things IT, so they can spend the time and money to keep at the leading edge of technology that a small business couldn't normally afford.
• Economies of scale: The extra buying power and business relationships provided by a Solutions Provider means they can acquire equipment for you at the lowest possible cost - usually providing significant savings. This give the SMB a one-stop shop for equipment, software, installation, and design, all maintained by experts in that equipment.
• Solutions on-demand: Rather than keeping a full-time staff of IT professionals, engaging a Solutions Provider gives you expert help when you need it. The cost of maintenance contracts and support is likely significantly less expensive than carrying extra full-time or part-time staff, and is never subject to support outages for vacations, sickness, or other events that may leave your company exposed without the IT expertise it needs.
• Efficiency and Green Computing: An IT Solutions Provider can help a business run smoother by suggesting technology-related business process optimizations. This not only results in a more efficiently-run business, but can have positive effects on the environment. For instance, implementing remote desktop and server management, highly energy-efficient servers, virtual private networks, server virtualization, and other tools allows for less commuting and service calls, and less pollutants entering the atmosphere.

As a well-established Puget Sound area Professional Technology Solutions Provider, Digital Seattle can help your business stay on the cutting edge of technology in the most cost-effective and efficient way.

For more information about the ways Digital Seattle can help you concentrate on growing your business, please contact us at 206.709.9556 or email info@digitalseattle.com.

Digital Seattle is an IT support and managed information technology provider serving Western Washington's small to medium-sized businesses throughout the greater Puget Sound area, including Seattle, Bellevue, Tukwila, Burien and surrounding areas.