IT Services — Value & Direction

Summex × BOSS Facility Services, Inc.
Prepared for: President & Vice President
Dedicated On-Site SysAdmin (L1–L3)
Review period: Mar 2025 – Jun 2026
2,387
Tickets documented & resolved
~150/mo
Average monthly volume
8+
Service categories covered
1
Point of contact, L1–L3
Single on-site resource handling every tier — Office & 365, hardware, mailboxes/distribution, software, remote access, onboarding, and more. Hundreds of additional earlier tickets predate a system migration and are not counted above.

Support Footprint by Category

2,387 TICKETS
Office & 365690
Hardware506
Mailbox & Dist.311
Software305
Remote Access230
On/Offboarding152
Web & Website92
Windows53
Other48

Projects That Delivered Beyond the Ticket Queue

Cost & Vendor Savings

  • Trimmed recurring spend. Cut unused VMs & subscriptions, right-sized premium licenses to basic, replaced paid tools with free alternatives, consolidated ticketing to Summex Freshdesk.
  • Built in-house. Designed & deployed company email signatures internally instead of paying an outside vendor.
  • Reliable hardware. Replaced failing PCs with Dell OptiPlex — remaining issues are software, not hardware.

Security & Continuity

  • Windows 11 on schedule. Completed before end-of-support — closed a real security & compliance exposure.
  • MFA enforced. Added a second layer protecting email and company accounts from compromise.
  • Modernized identity. 700+ distribution lists migrated to Azure groups — cleaner, more secure access control.

Efficiency & Automation

  • Onboarding automated. Manager submits a form → tasks auto-assign. No paperwork, faster starts.
  • Self-service access. Teams now create their own distribution lists — an entire ticket type eliminated.
  • Staff self-help. 100+ knowledge-base articles let users resolve common issues themselves.
  • Faster for everyone. Cleared out legacy policy bloat that was slowing every login — quicker starts across the whole company, every day.
Where This Goes Next: From Support Desk to Automation EngineProposal
Today
Dedicated IT keeps systems secure, reliable, and largely self-running.
The opportunity
That stability frees capacity to attack repetitive, time-consuming work across the business.
The payoff
IT shifts from a cost center to an engine that automates BOSS's own operating costs down.
Proof it already works: a recent branch-data task that would have taken a staff member hours–to–days was automated to run in about 5 minutes. The same approach — automation and AI — can be aimed at BOSS's repetitive operational processes, not just IT tickets.