Yes, you can run IT yourself - but the effort, security and costs remain with you. Our team of over 700 system engineers ensures reliable IT, whether cloud or on-premises. This gives you time, peace of mind and focus for your business and your ideas. Discover six reasons for IT as a Service.
UMB IT as a Service
A ski weekend at our customer Arosa usually only lasts 48 hours - unfortunately. What should be much quicker is the backup process in your company. If the backup takes days, this is a clear sign that outdated systems are jeopardising operations.
A typical full backup in an SME with around 250 GB of data (an average amount for many small businesses) takes several hours. Local backups often take two to six hours; cloud backups take longer, depending on the upload speed.
Well-functioning backups are part of the security concept; compromises can be expensive. Delays not only tie up resources, but also reduce competitiveness. In the worst case, they can ruin a company. Smaller companies are particularly at risk: According to a new cybersecurity study by the WEF, 35 per cent of SMEs surveyed report insufficient cyber resilience.
UMB's IT as a Service model addresses this risk with automated, cloud-based backups that are completed in the shortest possible time and offer a success rate of almost 100 per cent. Based on proven standards, such as Swiss data protection guidelines, UMB ensures redundant storage and fast recovery to minimise downtime. This keeps your IT scalable and cost-efficient without backups disrupting your rhythm.
A sudden drop-out of your IT partner can paralyse your ascent - similar to a defective chair lift. Even in Switzerland, where precision is highly valued, a lack of reliability leads to considerable losses: An analysis of software and system failures by Statista and Uptime Institute shows that unreliable IT support structures cause up to 23 per cent of failures and can significantly reduce availability - with high subsequent costs.
Although global IT spending is set to grow by almost ten per cent this year, as a recent study by Deloitte predicts, without a stable partner, companies risk their data quality problems remaining unresolved - often due to a lack of maintenance. This has a direct impact on turnover as downtime reduces productivity and competitors with more efficient systems catch up.
UMB's IT as a Service offers a partnership with 24/7 monitoring and proactive maintenance that is aligned with Swiss standards. This increases the availability of your systems to over 99.9 per cent, allowing your company to focus on core tasks. No more interruptions - instead, continuous support that promotes your growth.
Contact us to find out how UMB can make your IT partner transition a smooth one.
While "lafern" is Swiss German for idle chatter, in the IT world it is inefficient processes that extend delivery times and cause customers to drop out. Companies with optimised IT gain advantages; digital transformation increases operational efficiency by 40 percent, as a recent study by Market.us shows. In contrast, companies with weak IT systems lose productivity, which is reflected in market share.
While 45 per cent of IT budgets are currently being invested in cloud solutions, outdated infrastructure is lagging behind - and causing millions in losses every year due to unnecessary delays.
UMB's IT as a Service transforms your IT with efficient workflows and AI-supported optimisations that shorten delivery cycles by up to 25 percent. Based on real case studies in Switzerland, our solutions ensure smooth data flows and real-time monitoring. This is how "lafern" becomes precise performance that brings you to the top.
Spending time on IT problems instead of with the family is a reality for many IT managers: According to an Electric AI study, employees waste an average of three hours per week on tech glitches, which amounts to around 36 minutes per working day. A McKinsey study from 2012, which is still relevant today, adds that 1.8 hours per day are spent searching for information - often IT-related - which costs 450 hours of productivity per year.
This leads to burnout risks and reduced commitment. Overall, IT problems can reduce daily productivity to just a few hours of effective work.
With IT as a Service from UMB AG, support becomes proactive: intelligent tools recognise problems in advance and reduce interventions by 50 percent. This frees up time for private life and improves satisfaction, as internal surveys show. UMB integrates smoothly functioning IT seamlessly into your everyday life, focussing on Swiss data security.
A server crash can turn "Silent Night" into a real nightmare: According to last year's ITIC Hourly Cost of Downtime Report, 90 per cent of companies surveyed estimate the cost of a single hour of server downtime at over $300,000. For SMEs, the average is $8,000 to $25,000 per hour, according to a recent analysis by Queue-it - an amount that can escalate further, especially during the Christmas period.
Such catastrophic events, often caused by inadequate redundancy, happen in minutes but can cost months to get systems back up and running.
UMB's IT as a Service minimises these types of outages with redundant cloud systems and real-time monitoring that reduce downtime to less than 0.1 percent. Developed for Swiss resilience standards, we guarantee solutions for continuous availability - even at peak times.
If things are not going so well for you, but business is booming for your competitors, this may well be due to IT. Long-term studies have shown that companies that are considered IT leaders often achieve better results than their peers. No wonder: outdated IT systems can slow down your processes, causing you to lose sales and market share.
According to a study by the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, digitally leading SMEs in Switzerland shorten their time-to-market by 20 per cent or more, which makes the difference between growth and stagnation in highly competitive industries. This is precisely where UMB IT as a Service comes in: Developed for Swiss precision and data sovereignty, we modernise your infrastructure with cloud platforms, AI-supported automation and predictive maintenance. Bottlenecks disappear, your IT becomes the engine for performance and growth, and your company becomes an IT leader.
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