"Intune is a great entry point into Cloud Computing. It has such a positive impact, it's hard not to recommend it." -- Jerod Powell, CEO/Co-Founder InfinIT Consulting
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My name is Jerod Powell, I am the CEO and Co-Founder of InfinIT Consulting. We focus on providing enterprise IT consulting, IT managed services, cloud computing and custom hosting solutions to our customers.
About InfinIT
InfinIT focuses on companies of all different types, however we tend to do a lot of work in the manufacturing area. Our core customer sizes range from 25 to 500 users in size, which tends to be a real suite spot for providing manged IT services.
Our Customers' Concerns
For every company, security is a primary concern. Many companies have had long-standing issues with keeping all of their systems up to date with the latest patches (Microsoft patches - as well as other software products) and the latest anti-virus protection. When Microsoft released Intune, we saw this as a huge opportunity to alleviate these concerns from our clients. We could go to our clients and show them that they have the ability to manage and oversee all the workstations in their entire environment. In addition, providing customers an instant upgrade path to Windows 7 - which has its own set of security enhancements - makes it that much more enticing.
Cloud Computing
There are a lot of companies interested in cloud computing and Intune is definitely one of those services that is a perfect fit for the cloud. The idea of getting your infrastructure off-site and into a secured Microsoft-based data center and then having tools that directly manage your patch management and anti-virus protection - you know there is no one doing it better.
Asset Management
Another thing customers ask us is "How do I find out what I have running in my environment?" Many of our smaller customers have no inventory asset management capabilities. Intune makes it very easy for those customers to have access a view over their entire environment. You'd be surprised how impressed they are with that capability and how many people throughout their organization use it. It's not just a thing for IT - Finance uses it, a lot of different departments will go and use that report. It really brings that enterprise experience down to the smaller businesses.
Software as a Service
Intune has really helped us - number one - in giving us a great solution to offer customers. In addition, it gives our techs an easy way to manage their customers' entire environment. It has undoubtedly improved operational efficiency for us. Overall, Windows Intune has been a great entry point into cloud computing for our clients - they tend to feel very comfortable with it - it's such an easy transition.
It's hard not to recommend it - it's a great solution...
