Leveraging Automation to Upscale Your MSP
BY IT GLUE | October 08, 2021
We are currently in the midst of a major digital transition where businesses are relying on new technological solutions to gain a competitive advantage. Among the many digital transitions accelerated by the pandemic, automation is a key one. Automation allows your MSP to free up resources from mundane tasks and enables you to focus on core tasks that matter. This enables businesses to scale properly without adding any additional resources.
In this blog, we’ll discuss the importance of automation in today’s digital transition and how you can leverage it to upscale your MSP business.
Need for Automation in Scaling Your Business
Scaling your MSP is different from growing it. You need to understand this key difference if you want to compete effectively in a crowded MSP market. While you can certainly grow your MSP simply by acquiring more customers and gaining more revenue, if you simultaneously add extra resources and increase your operational costs, it doesn’t exactly count as scaling.
Effective scaling requires lowering or maintaining operational costs while growing your business. To make this happen, your operations need to become efficient. This is where automation can help you. By automating a range of routine tasks, you can free up multiple hours of your technicians’ time that can be spent on core tasks that can boost your revenue.
When your MSP becomes more efficient, you can handle more work without the need to invest in additional resources. Besides, you can also complete many tasks parallelly with the help of automation. This helps you save time and money in the long run.
How to Start Automation in Your MSP
Successful automation starts by identifying processes where you spend more energy than you should. For instance, manually discovering all devices and adding them to your network can be extremely difficult. This is especially true if you have a growing IT environment where new devices are added periodically. By replacing this process with a tool that automates device discovery, you can prevent technicians from wasting their valuable time and streamline this workflow.
Similarly, you need to find the right tools that can automate all the redundant processes in your MSP. If you manage to do this, you can easily serve more clients without increasing operational costs. Most importantly, you don’t even have to say no to a client due to inadequate capacity.
Significance of Documentation Automation
If you are worried about how to get started with automation in your MSP, you need to get your documentation in order first. Manual documentation can be quite exhausting and cumbersome. However, it doesn’t have to be that way. By automating your documentation, you can collect valuable information about your critical processes.
When your information is up to date and readily available, your technicians can perform their tasks much more efficiently. With a robust documentation automation tool, you can even integrate your IT tools, such as RMM and PSA, to get key inputs about various IT tasks. This provides a great deal of value to your MSP and changes your perspective on how to get things done in a timely manner.
How IT Glue Can Help You
IT Glue is a leading cloud-based documentation platform that can help you automate the entire documentation process with integrations and open API. With this robust tool, all your mission-critical information can be easily accessed at any time.
IT Glue’s SOC 2-compliant documentation platform features an immutable audit trail, multifactor authentication and next-generation password management engine, all of which are fully integrated and linked with all your documentation.
To know more about how IT Glue can help scale your MSP, request a demo!
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