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What are the Top Five IT Challenges Facing Small Businesses in Saskatoon

Our Saskatoon IT Tips are from Gareth, owner of Burnt Orange Solutions.  We promise to have a one-hour response time for all your Saskatoon IT support needs. Honesty and respect are important to us. In our latest  IT Expert tip Article, we discuss the top five IT challenges facing small businesses in Saskatoon

Burnt Orange Solutions Small Business Top 5 IT Challenges.

Those who own or manage a small or medium-sized business in Saskatoon might be tempted to think that the number of IT challenges should be in ratio with the size of their business. But those in the know will be quick to correct that assumption. In fact, as the list of challenges shifts and changes as technology evolves, it becomes clear that tackling IT for the small business owner in Saskatoon and elsewhere is not a job for the meek!

 

At Burnt Orange Solutions we have long-term experience with a myriad of small and medium-sized businesses,  in Europe and Canada. This expexperiences helped us identify the most common and time-consuming IT challenges facing these organizations. There are numerous IT challenges facing today’s small businesses, but we’ve boiled them down to the top 5 in our latest IT article.

 

  1. So Many Options Available for your IT Needs.

    IT options are getting offered to you all the time,  and the number of IT options are growing. This means it is becoming increasingly more difficult to have the range and depth of expertise needed to select, maintain and optimize the right IT solutions in-house. With a large and growing range of options available, you need the right tools and guidance to make the best IT decisions for your organization. It’s becoming more and more difficult to stay ahead of the innovation curve and make informed decisions about your IT. And managing infrastructure complexity is becoming more and more difficult. This is especially true for smaller organizations that don’t have an IT persona, never mind and IT team!

 

  1. Hardware and Software end of life

    ‘End of life’ is when a product is no longer supported by its manufacturer. This is a cold hard fact of life for all IT systems. If your organization or small business has not planned for this eventuality effectively, it can put a significant strain on budgets, time and effort. In addition, end of life can put an entire organization at serious risk. With 2015 end of support for Windows Server 2003, for example, organizations that had not migrated away from the platform by the deadline were exposed to security threats and regulatory mandates that were no longer addressed with patches and updates.

 

  1. IT Budgets Can’t Be Increased,  but the IT Workload Is Growing.

    Information technology is resource-dependent in terms of requiring time, people, equipment and funding. It takes all of these resources to effectively and efficiently manage systems, maintain compliance, respond to problems, providing end-user support and complete IT-related projects. For any given organization, the range of business applications continues to grow not to shrink. And this puts more and more pressure on IT people and systems to deliver the latest and greatest. But if an organization is working with older IT equipment, it may not have the flexibility or horsepower to deliver new capabilities— which means delivering new functionality may require an IT upgrade. Moreover, managing this range of tasks effectively requires a team of IT professionals that are often outside the financial means of smaller local businesses and organizations.

  1. Lacking the Right Amount of Scalability and Flexibility in Small Business

    An IT system that is size-appropriate now may not be in the future, especially if your Saskatoon organization is on a fast growth path or is data-intensive. This means you need to be able to choose the right IT system that delivers the capacity you need today but can meet tomorrow’s expansion needs. At the same time, you need to ensure you’re not over-specifying and paying for more capacity than you need. It is a balancing act that must be carefully considered by an IT expert.

  1. Integration is complicated and time-consuming

    As you add more and more applications and provide more and more services, integration with existing systems and infrastructure becomes more complex. The challenge is ensuring that applications work together (or at the very least, don’t conflict), and ensuring adequate security across the board—at a level that meets your obligations and protects your business.

 

If you are a small business owner in Saskatoon and you are feeling overwhelmed just reading these top 5 IT challenges, don’t despair. Overcoming these and other IT challenges to support the long-term success of your Saskatoon business is not entirely out of your reach. The best advice is to be prepared to meet the challenges head-on. Anticipate the need for flexibility and scalability in your infrastructure; then look to a Burnt Orange Solutions, we are a Saskatoon Managed IT Services partner and we can fill the gaps in expertise as well as shoulder some of the burden of day-to-day system management, maintenance and security.

 

To explore how your organization can reap the benefits from Managed IT Services partnership, contact the experts at BUrnt Orange Solutions.

We hope this article gave you some insight. If you want to ensure your business’s IT security, contact the Trusted Saskatoon IT professionals at Burnt Orange Solutions and we can take IT worries off your plate.

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