Industry experts and analysts almost unanimously predict a coming change in the managed IT-services market, in which the traditionally disparate disciplines of Managed Print Services (MPS) and Managed Network Services (MNS) will converge. In this new services landscape, MPS, MNS and VARs (value added resellers) wishing to maintain a competitive advantage will need to advance their managed services offerings to include an all-inclusive solution for customers.
Photizo Group, MPS Mentor, The Week in Imaging, and MSP News are all buzzing about Agiliant, Inc., and the Agiliant Affiliate Network’s™ emergence in the marketplace and how we’ve not only redefined what it means to be a managed service provider, but have also pioneered the way into this new IT-services landscape.
Scott Cullen, Publisher of The Week in Imaging explains,
“The bottom line is this [Agiliant] makes it easier for dealers to incorporate managed services into their business model and it allows them to do it a whole lot faster.”
MITOS™ - The Most Innovative IT-Services Solution of its Time
Agiliant’s MITOS™ (Managed Information Technology and Output Services) solution incorporates a comprehensive set of network services with OKI Data America’s Total Managed Print™ to provide a fully integrated IT management and maintenance solution. MITOS provides customers with complete system wide IT infrastructure and assets management, uniform service levels, pricing and solutions offerings resulting in optimized system performance, cost savings, improved visibility, risk mitigation, and the efficiencies of a single vendor relationship.
“Most vendors are dancing around the issue of how to deal with this convergence. Most of the major players (Xerox, HP, Ricoh and Canon) are offering these capabilities through their direct organizations. Konica Minolta has been purchasing firms to build this capability. But this [Agiliant and OKI Data’s partnership] is the first program I have seen which actually targets bundling the services together for the BTA channel.”
- Edward Crowley, CEO of Photizo Group
The Agiliant Affiliate Network™ - The Value of Affiliation, the Power of Team
MITOS is available exclusively through the Agiliant Affiliate Network™ (AAN), a highly synchronized network of managed services providers that have each been carefully evaluated and selected as best of breed in their respective markets nationwide. Members of the AAN are distinguished from their competition because of their unique ability to provide their customers with a complete IT management and maintenance solution.
Agiliant is the centralized management engine of the AAN and provides Affiliates with invaluable services, support and tools necessary to fully understand, promote, sell and implement the MITOS solution. Members of the AAN also enjoy the economies of network buying power on products and services; collaboration and coordinated sharing of best practices with other elite providers; and customized services that enable them to optimize and efficiently scale their financial, operational, service and sales functions to grow their MITOS business within both new and existing accounts.
Aric Manion, CEO of Kelley Imaging Systems in Seattle, WA, shares his feelings about being an Affiliate in the AAN:
“I initially saw the AAN primarily as an opportunity to broaden my value proposition and differentiate my services from competitors, which I’ve been able to do by successfully entering a new space [MNS] with the MITOS offering that I would’ve had no way of doing before, other than buying another company and shouldering all the risk in doing so. What I didn’t foresee was the incredible and immediate impact this would have on the bottom line of the business. The operations, services and sales plans developed by Agiliant will net hundreds of thousands of dollars to my operating income in the first year. We’re poised for an extremely successful 2012 and membership in the AAN is paramount to our strategy.”
BTA dealers, existing MPS providers and others interested in gaining a deeper understanding of the Agiliant Affiliate Network™, the innovative MITOS™ combined MPS and MNS solution, Agiliant’s role as the core services engine and most importantly, the unparalleled value and benefits that membership in the Agiliant Affiliate Network™ (AAN) provides are encouraged to contact us using this form and we’ll follow up with you directly.
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