Contractors
Are you getting good value from your existing IT contractors?
Many of our clients have the classic problem of maintaining the interest of their operational IT staff. This combined with the need to increase staffing capacity for short term projects has meant that many have turned to short term contractors to fill these resource constraints. However, this presents our clients new issues:
- Increased cost of paying high contractor day rates – typically £400 - £800 per day
- No long term business value:
- Lack of documentation, it’s not in the contractor’s interest to document..!
- No formal service is delivered to the client’s business; contractors provide no guaranteed service level
- No escalation/ vendor support when required
- No investment in the big picture – there is no service improvement plan
- No holiday or sickness cover for when the contractor is not onsite
- Increased management overhead
Advanced 365 have successfully implemented a number of operational IT managed services that replace the need for contractors:
- Advanced 365 will reduce you monthly support costs by 30%
- Advanced 365 will provide a 24/7/365 service (not a 9-5pm with no holiday or sickness cover)
- Advanced 365 will define and align IT services to meet the business requirements
- Advanced 365 provide a guaranteed service levels, we will only get paid if we deliver
- Advanced 365 will integrate our clients into ITIL based processes underpinned with detailed documentation
- Advanced 365 will remove the need for any management overhead
Clients include:
- Ansbacher: The specialist private bank saved 30% a month on contractor fees within two weeks of engaging Advanced 365. Advanced 365 now provide a scalable service level driven managed network service for their business.
- Charles Stanley Stockbrokers: Advanced 365 support their core trading system far more cost effectively than Charles Stanley building and retaining an in house contract support team.
- Morgan Sindall: The FTSE 250 Construction Company. Advanced 365 support their core IT systems for their executive board, reducing their contract operational running costs by over 30% on a monthly basis.
Advanced 365 Managed Services support dynamic organisations align their IT services with their business requirements. As Advanced 365 managed services are underpinned by detailed SLAs, optimal service delivery is guaranteed. Ultimately, when it’s working, you pay us; when it’s not, we pay you.
