Digital Transformation

What is Digital Transformation

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[ dij-i-tl ] + [ trans-fer-mey-shuhn ] : critical process of integrating technology into your business with the goal of achieving measurable outcomes.

At IMS, we get it: making significant changes within your business can feel daunting. But, as a savvy business looking to grow and gain competitive advantages, you recognize IT contributes heavily towards those goals. That’s precisely why our team is dedicated to simplifying the process of transformation into something painless.

We do this by aligning the transformation with clear, acknowledged business goals.

We focus on understanding our partners’ overall objectives to help define the technology and services to better achieve the desired outcomes, reduce friction, and provide a smooth transition.

A clear pathway to transform

With a leading staff of engineers with expertise in cloud, hybrid, and traditional infrastructure, we help businesses determine what the right services are that provide the solution they need. To accomplish this, we evaluate existing performance, analyze pathways to improvement, collaborate with our partners on determining and measuring future-state performance, and then navigate the transformation with efficiency and attention to detail.

In a collaborative effort, IMS:

  • interviews your key stakeholders.
  • identifies your overall business goals and workflows.
  • inventories all your existing technology.
  • identifies restrictions and constraints.
  • assesses and prioritizes workloads and workflows.
  • consults and implements readiness and migration strategies.

We do a deep dive into your organization, assess your operations and workflows, and use this knowledge to identify a viable path to the cloud for the right services and solutions. For on-site technology, we can protect and manage those through complementary services; and if part of your journey involves developing a remote workforce, we can deploy, navigate, and support your end users, too.

Not all digital transformations result in cloud-based services; IMS helps you find the right value and function for your business goals.

Cloud enablement done right

The cloud offers greater availability, scalability, and reliability. There is less reliance on physical appliances that break, less investment in capital expenditures, and less hands-on efforts to maintain. The result is an easier pathway to growth and success.

Through the IMS assessment and discovery process, we identify where your business can gain the most by moving pieces of your IT into cloud solutions. We look at the interactions and dependencies between software, hardware, process, and people; then we share expected outcomes in operations and performance to help you decide what pieces of your IT go where (cloud, hybrid, on-premise). By the end, we evaluate all your business applications (ERP, CRM, finance, email, etc.) for their best future home – whether it’s the cloud, SaaS, hybrid, or on-premises.

Microsoft 365

As a Microsoft Solutions Partner for Modern Work, IMS accomplishes many partner goals for collaboration, consolidation, and simplification by leveraging Microsoft 365 and Azure-based solutions. Microsoft continues to build upon their comprehensive suite of services for SMBs by bundling and packing critical functionality into elegant cloud-based solutions: identity access and management; team communications and collaboration; and device deployment, security, and management.

IMS’ services for Microsoft 365 include:

  • manage your Microsoft 365 subscriptions,
  • deploy and teach Microsoft 365 best practices, and
  • help understand the licenses and packages.

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Microsoft Azure

Azure makes it easy for an SMB to replace physical hardware (that ages and breaks) with resilient, flexible, and secure cloud-based infrastructure. Let IMS help your business digitally transform your technology and operations by leveraging Azure cloud services.

These IMS migration projects converted:

  • SMB to server-less environment in Azure reducing overall annual IT spend by just over 20%.
  • Law firm’s local RDS environment to Azure Virtual Desktop removing network bottlenecks from remote sites and promoting greater overall up-time.
  • SME local Exchange Server to Microsoft 365 saving business over $10,000 annually and eliminating Capital Expenses for Exchange Server environment.
  • Regional manufacturer local virtualization into Azure reducing IT management costs by $15,000 a year and providing higher up-time and capacity to produce $18,000 more in product per month.
  • Call Center from local RDS to Windows 365 creating seamless cloud-based desktop environments accessible by employees anywhere and at anytime.

We retain and develop Azure certified professionals (over 30 certifications on staff) and use that expertise to solve your business problems. Reach on out and see if and how we can help you.

 

Azure
Microsoft Azure
cloud services
device protection
Azure cloud services
Managed service provider
Security training
cybersecurity threats
top cybersecurity threats
cyber network security

Windows 365 virtual desktop for anytime/anywhere access

This fully managed virtual desktop service provides customers with a Windows desktop experience in the Azure cloud bundled with IMS’s service desk, security, and infrastructure management services. Customers take advantage of simplified pricing while providing employees a familiar Windows experience accessible from any device/location. Customers can leverage the virtual desktop experience alone or integrated into other platforms.

As mentioned in the section above, IMS has expertise in deploying Windows 365 environment. Our capabilities have risen to the occasion of a mention at Microsoft Inspire! It’s an honor to be recognized and thank you Satya for the shout out!

For the geekier folks reading through this, Windows 365 allows you to specify each virtual desktops available resources; you can create organizational units and align staff by groups/types to properly powered virtual desktops. This latest and greatest from Microsoft creates unique desktops per user, whereas Azure Virtual Desktop (and RDS) still used back-end servers to host multiple users. In the past, if one of those back-end servers had an issue, it was likely all users had that issue. Windows 365 solves this problem and minimizes impacts across your organization.

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