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Consulting Why do you need an IT Partner?

Whether you have a small business or a company with many employees, information technology plays a critical role in helping your business succeed. The question is, do you need IT consultants or staff to make the most of the technology? The answer depends on many factors, including type of business, budget, business and technology challenges and what you need in the way of a solution.

Consider a Plains Technology consulting partnership - we address all major IT issues such as compliance, data integrity, Microsoft products, Exchange upgrades or migrations, Active Directory, Windows and SQL and much more.

A specialist's focus

If you have IT specialists, we can complement their efforts, taking over routine, time-intensive duties (like software patches), so your staff can focus on the daily operation. If you don't have IT specialists, we can offer a cost-effective alternative to hiring full-time staff.

Applying best practices

If network security updates and data backups end up on your company's "to-do" list, you could be putting your business at risk in the event of a disaster. The same can be true if the documentation on your IT procedures is unclear and confusing, making it difficult to reproduce the procedures or to troubleshoot.

Keeping up to date on technology

Most IT specialists have little time to explore technology and related applications beyond what is installed in their organization. At Plains Technology, we keep current on:

What's available in the market (especially new Microsoft technology)
What thetechnology can and can't do for a variety of applications
What works for our customers and what doesn't.

We can provide the big and little picture on solutions and possibilities as your business evolves.

Finding the best solution

Our goal is to provide our customers with a tailored solution for the long term. We couldn't do this if we could only offer one particular vendor or solution. We partner with the world's leading technology suppliers, so there's always a resource for creating what each customer needs.

How we work

We have 15+ years of IT experience and knowledge gained through working with a vast array of technology, as well as Fargo-Moorhead area businesses of all sizes. From our expertise and industry research, we have developed standard practices which we use for every project.

These practices are based on an understanding that the most effective IT solutions are those that help customers enhance their business, not restrict it. The latest and greatest IT solution may not be the best choice for a business that is unprepared for the changes that come with it. We make sure the cure is not worse that the disease, by designing an IT strategy that takes into account where a business is and where it can go realistically.

By the same token, there are times when a customer needs to modernize, to take advantage of technology that's become a requirement in today's market. Whether we recommend a "spring cleaning," or a step-by-step approach to modernization, we do so with awareness of the challenges each business faces.

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