
How John R. Waters & Company Achieved a Greater Peace of Mind After Switching MSPs
Learn how John R. Waters & Company was able to navigate from a very hands-off firm to a Managed IT Provider that proactively approaches issues with a personal touch.
Call and a service coordinator picks up. Urgent issues go to the next available technician. If a user or a system is down, support starts in a few minutes.
You know the pattern. You report a problem, then you spend the rest of the day following up on it. The work you were actually paid to do that morning now sits behind a printer.
Here is what a badly run help desk feels like:
Most providers answer "how fast do you respond?" by putting more people on a bigger pile of tickets. ITS spent the last seven years shrinking the pile instead. That is the reason the phone gets answered.
The help desk is one part of ITS managed IT services. The monitoring that stops tickets being raised in the first place belongs to the network operations center.
Source for the process count and the noise reduction: ITS Proven Process, itsasap.com/about/process. [CURRENCY CHECK: the published table is dated 2017 (70 processes, 30 to 50% noise reduction) and 2024 (400 processes). The conservative published pairing is used here.]
Call 888-969-3636, submit the support form, or let a technician connect to your device with a join code. A service coordinator receives the request and logs it, so nothing depends on somebody remembering to write it down.
The coordinator sizes it up fast: what is on screen, who is affected, when it started, whether you can still work. Urgent issues go to the next available technician. If a user or a system is down, you can expect support in a few minutes.
Desktop Support handles the day-to-day. Anything deeper moves to Centralized Services for infrastructure work or Professional Services for projects, and the ticket keeps its owner until somebody tells you it is done.
A help desk is one part of a larger arrangement: who watches the network, who patches it, who plans the next three years. Our Managed IT guide walks through how those pieces fit together, and what to ask a provider before you sign anything.
When you call, a service coordinator receives your request instead of a voicemail box. If the issue is urgent, we connect you with the next available technician. If a user or a system is down, you can expect support in a few minutes. We would rather tell you how the process works than quote you a number you cannot check, so ask us what our current answer times look like.
[TO CONFIRM BEFORE PUBLISH: the answer-time and first-response figures ITS is willing to publish and stand behind. If a real measured number exists, it replaces the last sentence and it belongs in the hero.]
Yes. ITS offers 24/7 IT support to all clients, and the client support line is 888-969-3636. A 2am outage runs through the same process as a Tuesday afternoon: the request is received, triaged, and owned by somebody until it closes. Every ITS plan includes unlimited 24/7 help desk support, remote and onsite.
[TO CONFIRM BEFORE PUBLISH: whether after-hours coverage or response targets differ by plan tier.]
Both, and remote first because it is faster. Most issues get solved by a technician connecting to your device while you are still on the phone. When the problem is physical, a switch, a server, a cable, a new hire's desk, we come to you. ITS has local teams in twelve metros, so onsite is not a two-day wait for a flight.
You reach ITS staff, not an answering service. Day-to-day issues, password resets, printer faults, software errors, sit with our Desktop Support team, which is the group our own process documentation calls the helpdesk. Work that goes deeper moves to Centralized Services, who own patching, backups and firewalls, or to Professional Services, who run migrations and deployments. The service coordinator keeps hold of your ticket across those hand-offs.
[TO CONFIRM BEFORE PUBLISH: whether clients are assigned a named pod of technicians and how many people are in it. The mega-menu currently promises a 4-person pod and no ITS material verifies that. If pods are real, this answer becomes far stronger and should say so plainly.]
It scales with how many users you have and how much of the stack you want covered, so an honest figure needs a short conversation. What we can tell you now: help desk is not a bolt-on at ITS. Every plan includes unlimited 24/7 help desk support, remote and onsite, in one monthly per-user figure. Our pricing page shows how the tiers are built, and the calculator gives you a range in about a minute.
ITS supports businesses across the United States, with local teams you can meet in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Oakland, Olympia, Phoenix, Portland, Reno, Sacramento, San Francisco and Seattle. Remote support does not care where you are. Onsite support does, which is why we keep people in the markets we serve.
Response time is the thing clients raise first, unprompted, when nobody asked about it. These are their words, not ours.
I highly recommend ITS. The team is very responsive. I feel the process is really easy when it comes to submitting the tickets and the response time is always very quick. If a person is having an issue, they reach out the same day and they're able to resolve those issues very quickly. It's always been very impressive how responsive they are, how helpful they are, and how friendly they are in the process. Everyone that I've interacted with has always been very friendly on top of being very knowledgeable. They have that personal touch that you honestly wouldn't expect from a big IT company.
We always get a technician or an engineer that can solve the problem remotely and we have very little downtime. We've had a couple of times where we have had an employee that is prevented from working, and when we call in and we escalate quickly, we always have someone readily available to solve the problem.
One thing that has improved for us is more immediate service, which is wonderful. Financially, it helps us because I don't have to hire a whole team of people. You cannot have one person in in any agency.
We were pleasantly surprised that we feel very valued… Everybody from the top down has been very accessible, communicative, and willing to share their knowledge and educate us, which has been huge.
ITS has been working with McQuarrie Associates for over 25 years. In that time, ITS has managed all of our IT needs. It is so easy to work them. With any kind of IT concern, ITS has been there with us. They provide a holistic service that is hugely valuable to us and we would not be able to function without it.
Working with them is phenomenal - always bringing top-notch technology to the table, always bringing solutions, and making sure that you're aware of happenings in the industry so that your company is always ahead the competition. I would absolutely recommend them. It would be worth your time and you won't regret it.
We'll be celebrating our 30th year and ITS has certainly helped us get to this point. With the knowledge that we've gained through ITS, I am confident that they are going to help us get through 30+ years, and as far as I'm concerned, hopefully, a lifelong relationship.
ITS led significant, transformational changes at Eastern Plumas Health Care to ensure we weren’t susceptible to attacks. Looking back, prior to that partnership, we had a lot of risks on campus. I’m glad nothing happened, but I’m even more proud that after implementing those systems, we’ve avoided data breaches and HIPAA violations throughout our five-year partnership.
Two clients who arrived tired of chasing their own IT problems, and what changed once somebody else owned the ticket.

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