Back in the early 90's, 'application service provision', 'hosted services' and 'off-premise computing' were touted as the silver bullets for meeting companies' growing and increasingly-complex technology needs.
Most folks weren’t sure. It took time for companies to see the benefits of outsourcing a core business asset, and for providers to actually deliver what they’d been promising.
Yet, over time, the industry matured. The competitive advantage of having an external IT provider became clear. The era of ‘managed services’ dawned. Many providers fell away. But a handful upped their game, and began to shape an industry. And Global Micro was there, leading the charge.
WELCOME TO OUR WORLD
Since 1994 Global Micro has been providing small to medium-sized businesses with access to enterprise-class information and communication technology.
Formed by JJ Milner and a group of highly-skilled, passionate and tech-savvy entrepreneurs, the company has evolved into one of the most experienced providers of diverse, comprehensive and business-related managed technology services in the country.
We specialise in those organisations with between 10 and 75 desktop PCs, yet our offerings scale down to the smallest of small businesses, or up to what could almost be considered an enterprise network.
What do we do? We take care of technology so you can take care of your business. No frills, no bells and whistles, no hidden agendas – we offer the latest advances in ICT from our data centre so you can push the limits of your own business success.
It could be purchasing or renting the hardware and software, deploying it, connecting to the Internet or other networks, communicating and collaborating internally or with customers and partners, managing and optimising your infrastructure, or getting tech support – frankly, it doesn’t really matter.
By spending time with your business executives and your technology specialists, Global Micro gains a crystal-clear understanding of where you are and what is causing operational, financial or service delivery pain.
We then architect the best solution, price it at a point that makes sense for your opex structure, and deliver that over a private network or the Internet from our rock solid Joburg-based data centre – along with the knowledge that everything works, and everything you care about is safe.
Also, when you engage Global Micro, you’re effectively streamlining your IT operations so they report into as fewer points as possible. No need to have separate vendors for every service. No need for your internal IT department to have skills in every discipline or product. No need for multiple invoicing from multiple suppliers.
Everything could easily come from, go to and be taken care of by us. You wouldn’t hear about it, you wouldn’t worry about it, you wouldn’t stress about it... you and your teams could just get on with what’s important: running and growing your business.
WHY SHOULD YOU TALK TO US?
On the road to business success, every small to medium-sized business faces a challenge.
It could be an issue of moving from a simple email system to one that offers shared calendars, rich collaboration and access to information servers. It could be that you have customers all around the world and are looking to save money on communication costs. Or it could be that you need an off-site backup operation, complex database development, data security policies, procedures & solutions, a software asset management audit, or a customer relationship management system.
No matter what the issue, the question will always arise: ‘can we do this ourselves, or should we hire someone to help us?’
At Global Micro, we’re very clear on how we help answer this. If you have limited in-house IT skills, we take care of everything – no pain, no issues, just a single point of contact who ensures it all works. If you do have in-house IT skills, we partner with your teams, support them, and offer the requisite skills to span the gap between challenge and solution.
Of course, don’t forget the economies of scale and competitive pricing that comes courtesy of our enormous investments in the very latest technologies. We can effectively ‘rent’ access to super-fast network services, Outlook email, internationally-recognised security solutions or core line-of-business applications from our data centre at a fraction of what it would cost to deploy them yourself. |