Managed Services

Does your organization need support?
KiZAN Provides a TEAM of experienced IT professionals:

A team of IT professionals with various levels of expertise lets us assign the call to the appropriate resources.

A team of specialists in their respective areas of expertise collaborating to help your organization implement business solution faster. Helping you realize the ROI faster and helping your employees be more productive, thus making them happier – quicker time to value.
That same collaboration from this team of experts will develop an organizational-wide technology strategy. The goal of a managed services partner is to manage your organization’s technology needs the most efficient way possible thus making your organization more efficient. The more automated your organization is the more easily it can be supported.
A managed services partner is taking care of multiple clients which can provide economies of scale to your organization. Your organization will be more open to the latest and greatest technologies which can be implemented more cost effectively
Utilizing the reporting and inventory services provided by WatchTower can reduce the amount of time required to deploy new IT solutions focused on increasing the new services or products provided by the client. This reduction of time to implement provides you with a quicker launch date resulting in benefits being realized quicker.

Aligns technology to business objectives:

It is very difficult for most organizations to truly align technology to their business goals and objectives, mainly due to lack of expertise and knowledge. Managed services provides this expertise, by leveraging a team of experts in various technology disciplines. The result of this knowledge and expertise are:

Better utilized systems that are designed to improve productivity
Leads to employee satisfaction and your ability to retain quality resources.
That combined with the creation of automated or simplify processes now gives you the ability to consolidate roles/responsibilities.
In essence you now can truly do more with less and maximize the profitability of your organization for the long term.

Establishes fixed budget for support and management:

Fixed fee for support and maintenance provides simplified budgeting and the ability to focus more on planning.
Cost of recruiting, retaining and training IT employee(s) are minimized or eliminated.
Organizations tend to be training ground for IT professionals to learn and acquire the skill to move on to bigger and better positions.
Technology professionals like to be involved in the latest technology and don’t like the supporting, documenting, and day to day tasks involving with managing an existing environment.
Managed Services enables you to break this cycle of recruiting, training and replacing existing staff.
Knowledge = optimization + consolidation = leverage existing technology investments.

Enables you to focus on your business:

IT is primarily a tactical part of business. Managed services will let you focus on the more important strategic aspects of your business.
By letting a team of technology professionals support and maintain your environment you will realize fewer disruptions, they are accountable and measured on this.
By taking a business perspective view of technology you should be able to purchase products that suit the long term needs of your business. Many times organizations look to solve pin point issues that they did not think of or understand at the time and as a result and buy product on that basis. This goes back to leveraging that team of experts who have seen and implemented like solutions many times, thus minimizing any product that is not required and getting it right the first time.
Reporting and trending analysis will be another service you would receive from WatchTower. This gives you a proactive view of your technology and lets you plan ahead as opposed to reacting to issues.

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The Circuit’s Scholarship Golf Outing Overcomes The Elements

8/2/2011 1:31:25 PM

Robert Steele, co-chair and managing partner of KiZAN, added, “We fully support this event and realize how important the scholarships are for the students. It’s very rewarding to be a part of the outing’s success and a way to give back to the community.”

CINCINNATI – August 1, 2011 – Despite two rain-related postponements and oppressive heat, 120 golfers

gathered July 18, 2011 at The Circuit’s annual Scholarship Golf Outing presented by ISOCNET – e-Solutions

Provider, to help raise scholarship funds for local students. The golfers and sponsors helped to raise $5,000 in

scholarships, which will be announced in early 2012 and will be awarded to recent high school graduates or

current college students who are pursuing IT-related degrees at area universities. The golf outing, which took

place at The Heritage in Mason, Ohio, had been scheduled May 23 and then again on June 20, but rain and

lightning forced the postponements.

“We want to once again thank our generous sponsors and resilient golfers, who year-after-year step up to help us

raise scholarship funds for well deserving students,” said Jim Cunningham, president of The Circuit. “Although

we wondered at times if we were ever going to get the event in this year, the golfers were finally able to enjoy 18

holes at one of the area’s most prestigious golf courses. The golf outing is an annual fixture of the IT community,

and we are fortunate that so many continue to contribute and participate to make the event such a success.”

The funds from the 2010 event went to five local college and university students, including two attending

Northern Kentucky University, one from Miami University, one from Cincinnati State Technical and Community

College and one from University of Cincinnati. To be eligible to receive the scholarship funds, students must

submit an application located at www.thecircuit.net and be a student who is going to attend or attending a local

college or university in the fall of 2012 and pursuing a degree in information technology.

“Our relationship with The Circuit’s Scholarship Golf Outing has been great for our company, The Circuit and the

35-plus students that we have helped since serving as the Diamond Sponsor for the 8th year,” stated Rick

Cummins, president of ISOCNET. “The past few years have not been easy economically for many companies in

this area, yet despite these circumstances, the community has always been generous and continue to see the value

in the event’s networking and philanthropy. We look forward to continuing our relationship with this event in the

future, and encourage others to get involved so that we can help even more students.”

“We were extremely happy to have another outstanding turn out for our annual IT golf outing,” said Al Early, vice president, professional services for CBTS and chair of The Circuit Golf Committee. “In a very challenging

economic (and weather-impacted) environment, we were able to raise $5,000 in scholarship money for worthy students. It’s great to see the community rally around a cause that helps give back to an industry that we have all

benefited from in one way or another.”

Robert Steele, co-chair and managing partner of KiZAN, added, “We fully support this event and realize how

important the scholarships are for the students. It’s very rewarding to be a part of the outing’s success and a way

to give back to the community.”

For more information or questions regarding applications for the 2012-2013 Circuit IT Scholarship, visit The

Circuit’s website (www.thecircuit.net) Golf Tab, or contact Connie at 513.563.3524 or connie@thecircuit.net.

The 2012 Scholarship Golf Outing is scheduled for June 18 at The Heritage in Mason.

About The Circuit

Since 1994, The Circuit is the information technology association for the Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky

region. The Circuit is dedicated to raising awareness for the region’s growing IT community by providing support

and services for local technology professionals, companies and institutions. The non-profit member-based trade

association continues to grow and consists of a variety of professionals and organizations representing all areas of

information technology. IT professionals or organizations interested in supporting Cincinnati’s IT community can

join The Circuit at www.thecircuit.net.