Second Nature Solutions Ltd.
We exist to serve by managing solutions.
The IT Challenge
 

You are trying to find a way to implement the right systems to allow your staff to do their job more effectively. It all comes down to increased efficiencies to allow you to realize more profit and stay competitive in your market. Using IT to achieve this requires you to make choices about what hardware and software to buy and who is best suited to set it up.

 

Provide a brief description of your product or service. Describe who it is for; what need it fulfills for them and why it is the best choice. Ideally, this paragraph is about 400 characters or less. Key features include:

  • What technology does your business really need?
  • Who in your company can take advantage of cutting edge gadgets and who just needs to input information for someone else to analyze?
  • When does it make sense to upgrade when does it make sense to wait?

These are just a few of the questions we help you explore in developing an IT strategy that helps you leverage your technology buying power. We become a regular at your site, we get to know your employees and how there responsibilities within your organization. We learn your business processes by participating in them. We find that most organizations are under utilizing the technology they already own. We tune it and make sure you use it bringing in the right new pieces as they make sense to your business model.

 


You most likely have already spent a fair amount on technology and you will no doubt need to spend more to remain competitive. Choosing the right person to help you make economical decisions is critical to ensure that your dollars result in solutions that make sense.

  • How can we get the right skill set to implement solutions effectively and efficiently?
  • How can we get the right skill set to do it right for a reasonable cost?

 


 

Ready to hire your
own Tech?

Smaller companies can rarely afford to hire a senior level resource and therefore looks to IT staff that is skilled but inexperienced. These people can become valuable members of the organization but they often do a lot of on-the-job learning and are often consumed by keeping up with the demands of supporting the network. They have very little senior support to rely on and training costs to enhance skill sets can be prohibitive. To further complicate the situation, just when the employee gets up to speed they either get bored with the small network or they deserve a pay scale that makes them unaffordable. The small company is faced with finding another junior level resource and starting over again. 

The service is in-house and convenient but the price is high and the process tiresome.

 

 

Why not outsource?
 

To avoid having to bear the entire burden of continual training of IT staff, an IT Service company seems very appealing. Unfortunately traditional service contracts from large IT firms frequently assign small organizations with a rotating series of junior technicians who end up learning their craft on the job often relearning the lessons that their predecessors already learned. The senior resources are allocated to large accounts with the understanding that the junior technicians will have access to these resources unfortunately these people rarely have time to get on-site and get to know the small companies to completely understand their IT needs. Due to the fact that the cost of having dedicated resources allocated is prohibitive to small companies, the management of the network becomes highly reactive. Technicians are dispatched when there is a problem or when there is something to upgrade. Time is costly and so the small company usually pays the price of rapid deployments by always being at the mercy of an on-going series of reactionary fixes. These service organizations are at their best when they can deploy a dedicated team of their staff to a company who is large enough to need them.

The resources may be there when needed, but the price is too high for a small organization to be able to buy the entire package.


Blend the best of both for a new approach!

Our methodology borrows from the proven cycle of IT service development but we eliminate the bureaucracy and political barriers that can cripple larger IT organizations. Our blend of both scenarios provides a quality personal service and on-site access to senior skill sets. Our philosophy is based on developing an ongoing relationship that leads to the same high quality of service that is theoretically possible from a full fledged in-house IT department. The SNS advantage is that we provide companies with an IT vision that leads to proactive management of IT resources combined with accurate, responsive and reactive problem solving.

As a regular client of SNS, your network is assigned to a partner who will manage your IT systems. Together you will determine how many visits per month are required to keep them operational. When upgrades are identified you have ready access to the complete knowledge pool of our staff. Your maintenance costs are minimized and predictable and the cost of deploying new systems is reduced!

We are in this for the long haul. While you are our client we only desire to work with companies who want to leverage our model. We want to be your partner. Continuity of service is fundamental to our solution. We document all aspects of your IT systems and how your business uses them and we always ensure that at least two of our staff has a fluent understanding of them. Computers dont take holidays and while our staff does, there is always someone who knows your system to cover!

 

Second Nature Solutions Ltd.
Edmonton, Alberta
Phone: 780-450-4566
Email: info@sns-it.ca
 
Copyright 2006    

Copyright 2006