The Hidden Cost of Managing Multiple IT Vendors Without a Unified Email Security Tool

A lot of companies are unaware of the amount of time and money that they waste by having multiple IT vendors. One company provides email, another cybersecurity, another backups, and another provides cloud services or compliance. 

This may seem like a flexible approach. In fact, it can lead to delays, confusion, and increased operating expenses, particularly if your email security solution isn’t seamlessly integrated with other essential systems. 

With multiple providers, it is more challenging to ensure secure communications and reliable support, as your business expands. So more companies are opting for a single technology partner who offers them everything. 

Every Vendor Has a Different Answer When Something Goes Wrong

If the technology problems are related to multiple systems, assistance may be a frustrating process. Your email provider might say it is a problem with your security vendor, and your backup vendor will say it’s a problem with another service. Your team wastes valuable time trying to coordinate vendors and repeating the same information, rather than getting answers.

This is where a common plan can make a difference in a measurable way. At BlueTie Inc., we offer you all your business communications, compliance, continuity and security needs in one place. No questions of who has the problem as businesses collaborate with one qualified team that is responsible from start to finish. 

Faster issue resolution means less downtime, lower costs to run, and increased productivity. When support is easier, companies are able to tackle another expensive hurdle: overlapping technology investments.

Multiple Vendors Often Lead to Paying for the Same Protection Twice

As businesses add vendors over time, it’s common to purchase services that overlap. Various providers may give you separate email protection, backup options, email encryption, or email monitoring, but no one is assessing the need for all of these features. This leads to increased monthly expenses but with no improved results.

Our team helps with making your business’s technology more manageable, in finding ways to merge your services into one secure platform. Organizations can use one email security solution that integrates with a secure email solution, email continuity, compliance services and cloud communications, rather than having to operate individual services. 

Reducing duplicate technology lowers recurring expenses while decreasing administrative work, creating a stronger return on every IT dollar invested. Once unnecessary expenses are eliminated, many organizations find that compliance is much easier to handle.

Compliance Becomes More Complicated When Information Is Scattered

Having documentation spread between different vendors can cause stress when preparing for an audit. Getting hold of email archives, encryption records, continuity reports and security logs may involve reaching out to multiple support teams. All of that takes really valuable time and increases the risk of losing important information.

At BlueTie Inc., we make compliance easier by providing these critical services in one place. An integrated email security solution complements secure email encryption, archiving and email continuity to help businesses be more confident in maintaining the records they need. Organizations have a single trusted source for the services that enable compliance without having to piece together information from multiple sources. Once compliance is made easier, enterprises will be able to enhance overall security.

Security Gaps Grow When Your Vendors Don’t Work Together

Security gaps often appear where different IT vendors and systems fail to work together. Having security tools in isolation can make it harder to secure the business and harder to react to threats.

• A centralized communications platform provides consistent protection by bringing email security, continuity, encryption and compliance services together. 
• A single environment enhances visibility throughout your communication systems and makes suspicious activity more noticeable.
• Faster coordination between connected services helps reduce response time and minimizes business disruptions.
• The fewer the number of vendors, the fewer the gaps in responsibility and the more there is to be held accountable when problems occur.

As a result, in an integrated approach, security will be easier to manage and simultaneously lower operational risk. Your business becomes more protected, more efficient and more confident in the effectiveness of your communication systems.

Downtime Becomes More Expensive Than Most Businesses Expect

A reliable email and business communications service for every hour that employees are on the job has an impact on their productivity, customer service, and revenue. Multiple vendors make the recovery process longer as each vendor attempts to troubleshoot their system.

BlueTie helps reduce that risk by combining email security tool capabilities with email continuity and secure communications. If an outage occurs, users will still have access to essential e-services until the problem is resolved. This helps to limit disruption, maintain customer relationships and soften the blow of downtime. 

The more your business runs without interruption, the more ROI you will get on technology investment. That is even more obvious when your organisation continues to grow.

Growth Is Easier When Technology Works Together

Growing your company does not require yet another list of vendors to take care of. When technology is integrated, new hires, new sites, and changing compliance regulations are much easier to support.

Rather than adding another standalone security product, we help businesses grow with integrated services that work together to support secure communication, compliance and business continuity. 

One provider, one support experience, and one technology strategy, making the day-to-day easier and providing leadership with visibility of their IT environment. That simplicity allows your team to focus on serving customers instead of managing vendors.

Conclusion

Having to work with five separate IT vendors can be more complicated than it’s worth. It adds to support delays, which means that the technology must be duplicated; it makes compliance more complicated, and it makes resolution more difficult. A single technology partner brings these critical services together, simplifying IT and enhancing reliability and long-term business results.

Your business gets more than just robust security when your email protection can be incorporated into a comprehensive package that reliably supports secure communications, email continuity, compliance support, and responsive human assistance. You save unnecessary expenses, increase operational efficiencies and provide your staff with the assurance that only experienced professionals are handling the technology that propels your business forward.