13 Nov Managed Services 2019 M&A Update
I am starting to hear a lot of "gossip" about mergers and acquisitions in the managed services community. M&A activity for MSPs has an ebb and flow, very similar to...
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08 Nov US Banks Raise Stakes for Managed Service Providers
MSPs who service banks have always enjoyed a certain competitive advantage. Vertical industry experience, deeply embedded relationships, and a decent amount of protection against competitive threats from other MSPs, all...
06 Nov Human Capital Must be Focus of MSPs in 2019
According to a poll of 107 UK CEOs, there is a massive skills gap facing organizations, and it could bode very well for managed service providers. The study found that 71%...
16 Oct MSPs Should Charge More for GDPR Clients
For some time now, MSPAlliance has argued for a risk-based approach to pricing for managed services. This model minimizes the commodity-driven approach of user and device-based pricing, and instead focuses...
25 Sep Should MSPs Hunt Cybercriminals?
I think this is the first time I'm writing about this topic, even if it isn't the first time this topic has come up in the context of managed services....
20 Sep US National Privacy Law Would Impact MSPs
If you read the news about a national United States data privacy law and wonder whether it has anything to do with managed services, it does. The intersection of data...
18 Sep MSP Sales Crisis Not Unique to Managed Services
If I had a nickel for every managed services sales discussion I've heard over 20 years...
13 Sep The MSP’s Survival Guide to Cloud Nationalism
We have written on the topic of cloud nationalism before, and as we march onward with the global integration and adoption of GDPR, we see exactly how broad of an...