Managed IT
We’ve Taken IT Off The Hands Of More than 150 Small Businesses…
Our Managed IT Services give you the technology support you need—no headaches, no hassles, no hidden costs.
At Foresight, we've designed our managed services offerings to give businesses like yours everything it needs to mount its own in-house IT department—all at a fraction of the cost and with absolutely none of the headaches that normally come with it. Everything you require to leverage modern technology to your advantage—from help desk support, to vendor management, to backups —is all provided with a fixed, predictable monthly cost.
Likewise, you also have to consider that we're better than an in-house department in a lot of ways. It's a luxury we have that they don't. We don't take sick days. We never give our two weeks notice, telling you we're leaving for someone else. You'll never scramble to replace us, you won't get hit with hidden fees—truly, you'd be hard-pressed to find a better everyday support solution for your business.
What Makes Foresight Different?
At Foresight, we are challenging the traditional break/fix model (where IT support is only engaged when something breaks) and partnering with clients to design and implement business-centric and scalable technology roadmaps.
By focusing on creating, perfecting, and implementing robust technology solutions, our client relationships are measured in decades, not invoices. Our guided solutions offers a range of unique benefits when compared to standard managed services plans and break/fix models:
● Proactive in nature
● Based on preventing problems
● Predictable and scalable expense structure
● Long term business focused relationship with IT
● Intentional plan for business growth
● Comprehensive third-party vendor management
We Are Committed To Continual Improvement
Assessment
We evaluate the current state of your IT.
Relationship
We partner with you to create a roadmap to improve IT infrastructure and process maturity enabling you to connect IT to the future of your business.
Review
We regularly assess roadmap progress and evaluate its effectiveness against business needs.
Repeat
We assess IT maturity and incorporate additional business needs into an updated roadmap.
How Can We Help?
It’s our job to help your business work faster and more profitably by taking all routine IT tasks off your plate.
Schedule a 15-minute call to see if we are a good fit to help your organization.
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“Foresight is a great organization to partner with for all IT needs. They are knowledgeable, reliable, and efficient in handling the IT duties to keep us running smoothly for our day to day operations. Our system is more secure and stable with Foresight at the helm. I have been working with them for a few years and I highly recommend them.”
Feline Rescue, Inc.
St. Paul, MN
“We have been working with Foresight for many many years, which should say a lot in and of itself. Their flexibility and service response has made our job so much easier here at Sacred Heart, especially when many of us are not experts in the field of IT.”
Church of the Sacred Heart
Robbinsdale, MN
Here's a quick overview of what's included in our
Managed Services Program:
The Foresight IT Help Desk
Cybersecurity Basics
Network Monitoring and Management
Backup and Disaster Recovery Planning
Vendor Management
CISO and Strategic IT Consulting
Work-from-Home Support
The Foresight IT Help Desk
24/7/365 coverage and support that you can depend on.
One minute, you’re working hard on that big project you’re trying to get out the door for your most important client. The next minute, you’re locked out of your system and you don’t have time for a password reset. Or maybe you’re trying to get clarification on deliverables from a customer, but email issues are getting in the way. You’re trying to check on your team’s progress, but you’re suddenly going through software issues that you just can’t get to the bottom of.
These are the types of issues that our IT Help Desk can solve—allowing you to stop focusing on what is holding you back and start focusing on what can push you forward.
You’ll get access to a dedicated, passionate team of experts who are available for issues both large and small.
Whether you need help via email, chat, phone or in-person doesn’t matter—if you need us, we’ll be there. End of story.
Cybersecurity
Stop worrying about risks and start focusing on your business.
One of the most important things to understand about IT security is that this isn’t something you “do once and forget about.” The threat landscape is constantly evolving, which means you need to make every effort to stay ahead of the people who want to do you and your people harm.
At Foresight, we ARE that opportunity to stay ahead. Instead of forcing your own people to engage in these important (but time consuming) administrative tasks, you can let us handle things like:
Filtering Web content, reviewing rules and performing updates on your firewall.
Patching vulnerabilities quickly after they're discovered.
Updating software to the latest versions instantly.
Techniques like deep user access controls and two-factor authentication.
Employee security training and best practices.
Cybersecurity policy development.
Cyber Liability insurance assistance.
Network Monitoring and Management
Constant monitoring generates constant insight...and opportunities for improvement.
Whether you have a physical network, a cloud-based or virtual network or a hybrid of the two, your organization is made up of countless desktop and laptop computers, smartphones, tablets, servers and more. For your IT infrastructure to work in all the ways you need it, it must be as streamlined and as simplified as possible. This, in essence, is why Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) software is so critical—it’s always capturing device performance data and is scanning processes, applications and event logs, even when everyone else has gone home for the day.
It’s also feeding real-time, actionable data back to our own system so that it can trigger automated alerts for more than 2,400 types of potential issues. If a problem rears its ugly head, we’ll be able to put a stop to it now—before it has a chance to negatively impact your business down the road.
We'll have a real-time view of your network and all connected devices, so we always know exactly what is going on.
Performance reports generate full visibility and accountability at all times.
Potential problems are flagged and addressed BEFORE they impact your network.
Automated backups are critical for restoring systems in the event of an outage.
Even if we need to reset a switch or even a surge protector, we can do so remotely—allowing our Help Desk staff to step in and take care of a problem before you even realize that something is going on.
Backup and Disaster Recovery Services
No matter what life happens to throw at you, you’ll be ready.
Disasters come in all shapes and sizes...but that doesn’t mean you can afford to be any less prepared. We’re not just talking about cyber attacks and other IT-related disasters, either. A fire in your office can be just as devastating as a computer virus. We’re in Minnesota, which means that hurricanes and other types of weather-related natural disasters always need to be in the back of your mind. Even your own employees might accidentally cause a problem—don’t forget
that 58% of lost data comes from human error. Any one of these events could bring your business to its knees...which is why you need to be ready for anything.
With our comprehensive backup, disaster recovery and business continuity services, your business will be able to survive anything—allowing you to pick right back up as quickly as possible like nothing ever happened. We can offer you long-lasting protection from a wide range of different types of events, like:
Natural disasters (like extreme weather).
Hardware failures.
File corruption and software failures.
Cyber attacks (like ransomware or malware).
Vendor Management
Better management for a better return on investment.
Working with technology vendors on a daily basis can quickly become a full-time job—which is a problem, because you’ve already got one of those (rightfully) monopolizing most of your time. At Foresight, we have long-term relationships with a lot of the top vendors in the area—allowing us to not only step in and act as your single point of contact for all vendor relations, but also putting us in an excellent position to negotiate better deals and better pricing whenever we can.
Whether you’re interested in exploring better options for your Internet provider, phones, fax services, security cameras, access control, alarms, network wiring, audio/visual systems or all of the above, we’re eager to become the partner you need when you need it the most.
Have a single point of contact for anything IT related.
Allow our team to help negotiate better rates for your services.
Ensure you have the right technology stack to help you reach your business goals.
CISO and Strategic IT Consulting
Create a better future for your business through better planning today.
IT should always be a revenue generator for your business—but without the right strategy at the heart of your infrastructure, it’s difficult (some might say impossible) to get to that point. This is why our outsourced CISO services are so important—we can help drive your IT strategy, IT security and recommend better ways to use technology to preserve your competitive advantage.
Your business is always evolving and your IT needs to evolve right along with it. Foresight offers both the short and long-term initiatives that can help make that happen, unlocking incredible efficiency and productivity gains along the way.
Strategic consulting is a core part of our offering that ensures you get the best results from our service—not an added bonus.
Work directly with our experienced IT strategists who can align business goals with IT development to keep you functional, secure and growing.
Work-from-Home Support
Work anywhere, at any time, without the hassles that come with it.
Your employees need to work anywhere, from any location, at any time. Along with their laptops, mobile devices like smartphones and tablets are how they do it—but that absolutely shouldn’t come at the expense of security.
Foresight will equip your remote team members with the hardware, software and security solutions needed to develop productive and secure home offices. We’ll ensure your staff can securely access company data no matter where they’re working.
Monitor employee productivity no matter where they are working from.
Comprehensive collaboration tools to bring your team together.
Increased peace-of-mind that only comes with knowing the security of your entire business is accounted for by a holistic approach to asset management, policy enforcement, security monitoring and management and more.
Let's Take Your Minneapolis Business to the Next Level
At Foresight MSP, we believe in transparent, trustworthy partnerships. You'll never see hidden fees or pushed sales pitches from us.
We're not here to sell you on the flashiest tech for its own sake. Our passion is delivering good, old-fashioned IT support tailored to your unique needs.
We empower your technology to work smarter for your business goals in ways an internal team may struggle to achieve alone.
Foresight promises to be a dedicated, long-term partner focused on maximizing your IT productivity, reliability, and security. We steer clear of hype and instead provide strategic, customized solutions to help you "see IT differently."
So are managed services right for your business? It's very possible—and we want to find out.