The VAR Guy’s sister site, MSPmentor, will unveil the third-annual MSPmentor 100 results during a February 10 MSPmentor live webcast. The research identifies 100 of the most progressive, most successful MSPs across the globe. What are some key business trends among those companies? Here are three quick trends culled from the research data.
1. Top Managed Services: The top three managed services offered are pro-active help desk (93.8%), remote administration (93.1%) and disaster recovery/business continuity (91.5%). No surprises there. But there are some fast-growing opportunities… 36% of MSPmentor 100 companies now offer some form of hosted/SaaS-based SharePoint; 19% offer hosted SaaS/CRM; and 17.1% are promoting managed video as a service (VaaS).
2. Vertical Market Focus: Health care (45.5%) led the way, followed by legal (38.1%). I was surprised to see state and local government (15.5%) so low on the survey results.
3. Emerging Opportunities: 21.7% of MSPmentor 100 companies offer Google Apps to their customers. And emerging options like Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (5.5%) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (6.7%) are starting to generate interest among some MSPs.
Want to see the entire MSPmentor 100 list and selected research results? Please join MSPmentor for the February 10 MSPmentor Live webcast. Thanks to those who participated in the third-annual survey, conducted in Q4 2009.
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“The research identifies 100 of the most progressive, most successful MSPs across the globe” Your choice of words leaves something to be desired. I’m quite sure that the last thing most business owners, entrepreneurs and other capitalists would want to be labeled as, is “progressive”, any more than they would want to be labeled as a proponent of Marxist, communist, socialist, fascist, nazi or any other radical, hard left ideologies.
Just a thought….
S. Alinsky: We listen to constructive criticism very closely. I’ll keep your note in mind as we promote the MSPmentor 100 in the future.
-jp