NEWS
three6five reshapes managed
services with toolkit
N etwork specialists, three6five has announced details of a
managed services toolkit that it believes will reshape the
managed services market. backed by a big master service agreement that only covers
monitoring, break and replacement and other fixed type services,”
said Nick Treasure, three6five CIO.
“What we have seen from other large IT networking and security
players is a very reactive managed services offering, invariably Treasure believes that this reactive approach, which is locked into
long term contracts of three years or more, is not only outdated,
but does not provide the kind of transformative approach that
businesses need.
The three6five Managed Services Toolkit has been designed to
provide businesses with a customisable solution that matches what it
actually needs, versus what service providers think it wants.
“It is a far more consultative approach to managed services,” said
Treasure. “We want to make sure our customers can see the bigger
picture, and know what’s coming down the road in the next three
years, without the lock-in.”
Nick Treasure, CIO
at three6five
The company works alongside its customers to create a technology
roadmap that spans three years but signs a one-year service contract.
It believes that the managed service contract should be renegotiated
annually to make provision for a rapidly changing technology and
security landscape and decreasing costs.
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