Success Stories: Case Studies

MakeWay

MakeWay leans on MSP Corp to monitor, manage, and resolve IT systems so they can focus on what’s important – their business.

About the Client

MakeWay is a national charity that connects and empowers a wide range of people and initiatives across the country to take on tough social and environmental challenges, building a stronger Canada. Day-to-day IT support and maintenance activities consumed much of MakeWay’s in house IT resources who needed help to monitor and manage their IT systems.

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The Challenge

With only 2-3 IT personnel to support their three offices and 160 employees spread across Canada, MakeWay needed technical support to ensure steady service during peak periods of the workday coast to coast. They also needed a cloud-strategy and support in helping them rid their infrastructure and reduce their IT operational burden as well as help to streamline their siloed IT processes and platforms.

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The Solution

MakeWay turned to MSP Corp to consolidate and move their IT environment to the cloud while also helping them manage day-to-day support and sustainment activities that usually consumed much of their in-house IT resources.

MSP Corp’s Managed IT Services have improved MakeWay’s ability to operate its three locations in an “always available” manner and, MSP Corp’s after-hours support helps MakeWay keep its operations running at all times.

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Benefits

  • Save +$50k in support services

    With almost 90% of Tide’s previous issues stemming from their terminal servers, Outlook, and their old instance of SharePoint, moving to MSP Corp’s managed services has helped MakeWay improve efficiency and reduce their reliance on ad-hoc technical support.

  • Maximize their Microsoft 365 investment

    Initially investing in Microsoft 365 to offer their staff the ability to work from home, MakeWay has made use of the full suite of products including PowerBI for advanced analytics, and Skype for Business – to replace their legacy telephone system, saving them $108k/year.

  • Reduced Physical Server Expenses to $4.5k/year

    By moving to the cloud, MakeWay has reduced their physical server expenses from $50k to $4.5k/year. Additionally, the reduction in space has reduced MakeWay’s rent expense which was originally reserved as a space for their servers and VMs.

  • Time to Focus on Strategic Priorities

    Having MSP Corp’s transferable reactive support hours bucket gives MakeWay more time to improve their IT technologies and allocate projects to keep pace with organizational goals and demands.

"MSP Corp West has exceeded our expectations in understanding our organization inside and out to provide us with trustworthy technology solutions within our means. They have our best interests in mind, acting more like a partner than a vendor. Their transferable support bucket helps us save for future technology investments."
Elena Blaney, Director, Information Systems, MakeWay