The Benefits of RMM

How much time does your organization spend every day on issuing patches and security updates? How about basic maintenance and management practices? Thanks to automation, these lowly tasks that take a significant amount of time and resources can be simplified and offer a great return on investment.

Remote monitoring and management (RMM) can help your organization with numerous benefits that would be difficult to achieve otherwise. Listed below are a few of them:

Updates and Patching
In order to keep your organization’s applications up to date at all times, you’ll have to continuously look out for new patches that shore up any vulnerabilities in your network infrastructure. This can be a time-consuming process, and the amount of time it takes to do this for your business is commensurate with the number of workstations, server units, networking devices, and mobile devices that your business has to keep track of. Remote monitoring and management can be utilized to administer updates to all of your company’s devices as needed, even if the provider isn’t on-site to apply the edits. Since you don’t have to manually install updates on each and every one of your devices, you can invest this time elsewhere.

Network Security Management
When it comes to network security, you want to be proactive and reactive to threats. You can be more reactive to threats by actively monitoring your organization’s infrastructure for breaches of security. Imagine being able to detect an attack and deflect it automatically or be notified in real time if your network is accessed by someone who is unauthorized. Monitoring and maintenance technology allows for this too, and it can be a great way to ensure that your business can effectively react to a data breach.

Saving Time and Resources
Ponder how much time your organization could save if the majority of maintenance could be done without an on-site visit. Not only would you save a lot of money, but you would also save a lot of time. Since you don’t have to wait for technicians to arrive on-site for most problems, you’re saving a significant amount of time on problem resolution. Additionally, you won’t be paying them for the time that they spend on the road to your office. It’s a win-win scenario for both you and the provider.

Does your organization want to implement remote monitoring and management? Macro Systems can help. To learn more, reach out to us at 703-359-9211.