MSPAlliance UCS Audit Program is the Global, Vendor Agnostic Certification Standard Providing Quality Assurance and Stamp of Reliability for Current, Potential Customers
Pittsburgh (FEBRUARY 25, 2014) – enkompas Technology Solutions today announced that it will undergo the MSPAlliance’s (MSPA) Unified Certification Standard for Cloud and Managed Service Providers audit (UCS).
UCS is the first program of its kind, specifically designed to provide business consumers of cloud and managed services with the assurance that the service provider they hire meets or exceeds the highest principles of quality in areas such as financial stability, facilities, managed services practices, and customer satisfaction.
“The UCS audit is a rigorous audit and certification process that benchmarks and verifies the quality of the company providing managed services,” said Charles Weaver, MSPAlliance president.
“We are very proud to have enkompas Technology Solutions undertake this important milestone for cloud and MSPs.”
UCS was created, using a wide base of criteria, to certify and audit cloud and Managed IT Solution Providers thereby ensuring that they have met and exceed well-established standards of excellence and client care. Customers who select a company that is part of the UCS can also rest assured that their IT solution provider has met and exceeded the following standards:
- Physical & Virtual Security
- Business & Financial stability
- Company has taken reasonable steps to assure that the client’s IT needs will be safely and professionally addressed
- Company is under constant external review from the MSPAlliance and the IT profession to continually maintain and improve standards of care of excellence
The UCS audit is performed by a third party accounting firm.
“We are looking forward to starting this process to assure our employees along with the existing and prospective clients that we are taking every measure to make certain the business is following consistent business processes. Our goal is to create sustainable growth through innovative technology solutions to perpetuate the ability for the company to provide a constant customer experience, said Chris Parry, CEO, enkompas Technology Solutions.”
The MSPAlliance, with over 20,000 corporate members worldwide, is committed to increasing reliability and dependability in the industry surrounding the value and benefit of using Managed Service Providers to provide a wide range of mission-critical services. In addition, the MSPAlliance collects data on the practice of managed services on behalf of its members, to help them increase the value delivery of IT to the organizations they serve.
ABOUT ENKOMPAS TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS
enkompas Technology Solutions is a privately held company with headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and satellite offices in Erie, Pennsylvania and Mysore, India. The company provides strategically aligned business and technology managed services to the small and middle market space.
Offerings include complete best practice-based approaches to:
- Full managed technology services
- Managed security services
- Complete 24 x 7 x 365 infrastructure management, monitoring and end-user support
- CIO level guidance
- Technology budget planning
- Disaster recovery planning
- Mobile Device Management (MDM)
- SSAE-16 certified hosting facility for cloud solutions
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- SharePoint development, deployment and support
For more information, visit www.enkompas.com
ABOUT MSPALLIANCE
For the past 13 years, the MSPAlliance has been the only unified voice for the Managed Services Industry, and the only organization that promotes the highest level of professionalism, reliability and integrity. As the world’s largest Professional Association and Certification Body for the Managed Services Industry, the MSPAlliance was created to meet the needs of the Managed Services Professional and to educate and protect the consumers of managed services and cloud.
For more information, visit www.mspalliance.com