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Restructuring MSP Contracts for Recurring Revenue
A Blueprint for Value Creation
Over the years, Managed Service Providers (MSPs) have understood the critical role that recurring revenue plays in their enterprise value growth. Traditionally, hardware sales and projects offered short-term financial boosts but added little......
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Why MSPs Need Dynamic Contract Updates
Introducing Monjur's Contracts-as-Service with Vendor Risk Mitigation
The digital landscape is constantly evolving, and businesses need to keep pace. Nowhere is this truer than in the world of Managed Service Providers (MSPs). Not only do MSPs need to stay abreast of tech......
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CAAS Solution Ensures Comprehensive Legal Protections for MSPs
In today's ever-evolving cybersecurity landscape, managed service providers (MSPs) are continually navigating a sea of new challenges. Clients depend on MSPs not just for the latest technologies but also for their expertise in implementing sound security measures. Howeve......
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Insurance Obligations and Limitation of Liability in MSAs
Master Services Agreements (MSAs) serve as the cornerstone of operational clarity between Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and their clients. This comprehensive guide is intended for MSP owners. We'll clarify the strategic role of insurance and the limitation of liabilit......
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The Importance of Data Processing Terms in Managed Services Provider Contracts: A Lawyer’s Perspective
In the digital age, businesses rely heavily on managed services providers (MSPs) to handle their data processing needs efficiently and securely. However, the evolving landscape of data privacy laws, both at the federal and international levels, necessitates careful consi......
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Mitigating Vendor Risks as an MSP with Contracts-as-Service Solution
As a Managed Service Provider (MSP), your clients entrust you with a crucial responsibility: ensuring the security and smooth operation of their IT systems. This responsibility extends to the vendors that provide the software, hardware, and services vital to these system......
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The Importance of Vendor Risk Management
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Vendor risk management has become an increasingly important aspect of IT management, especially for MSPs who are trusted by their clients to ensure the safety and security of their systems. This task includes carefully scrutinizing and managing the ......
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How MSPs Benefit from Using Browser Wrap Agreements
As an MSP, you may be familiar with the challenges of getting clients to sign contracts and other legal agreements. One of the key strategies for streamlining customer contracting is the use of browser wrap agreements. Once your client signs the initial agreement, it a......
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How MSPs Can Manage Vendor Risk
As a Managed Service Provider (MSP), managing vendor risks is a critical aspect of your job. Your clients rely on you to ensure that their IT systems are secure and running smoothly, which means you must carefully vet and manage the vendors that provide the software, har......
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How MSPs can Collapse Sales and Contracting Processes into One Online Step
As MSPs strive to streamline their sales and contracting processes, many are turning to online contract management solutions that allow them to quickly and efficiently generate contracts, obtain electronic signatures, and manage the entire contract lifecycle.
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How MSPs Can Avoid Uncovered Claims
Why MSP’s Should Align the Indemnity Section of the MSA with the Wrongful Act Definition in the Insurance Policy
When entering into an IT services contract, it's important to make sure that the indemnity provision in the contract aligns with the definition of a wron......
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Six Reasons MSPs Should Move Their Customer Contracts to the Cloud
I have been representing IT managed services providers (MSPS) for almost 20 years. Years ago, I counseled my MSPS that it was necessary for managed services providers to present contracts to their clients for signature. Now we counsel our clients to collapse the sales ......
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Top Five Legal Issues Facing IT Managed Services Providers in 2023
IT managed service providers (MSPs) are companies that provide a variety of IT services to their clients, including network management, data backup and recovery, and security. MSPs are often tasked with managing sensitive data, such as personal and financial information, and......
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Why MSP’s Should Consider Contracts-as-a-Service
This article is for Managed Services Providers (MSPs) interested in learning about Scott & Scott's Contracts-as-a-Service solution. The cloud-based platform provides continuously updated legal protection to MSPs as new risks emerge. Scott & Scott's master templat......
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Is It Time to Tear Up Your MSP Agreement?
You offer your clients managed services that help them run and grow their business empires, but is it time for you to tear up your MSP agreement? In this moment in time when everything about business – and our lives – seems to be in flux, this is an important questio......
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How to Recover Early Termination Fees For Managed Services
IT service providers that include early termination fees in their contracts must decide if they want to seek reimbursement when a customer terminates a contract early. MSPs find themselves asking: Is anything owed? Can I collect? What is the cost? Here are key points to cons......
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Termination Clauses in IT Managed Services Contracts
Monthly recurring revenue and multi-year contracts have been the driving force behind managed services for years. They have been the basis for the tremendous growth in managed services over the years.
The length of the term of a service agreement is very important as ......
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Risk Balancing Provisions in in Managed Services Contracts
The risks for Managed Service Providers are constantly evolving. New cyber threats and regulatory compliance requirements present significant challenges for MSPs. The most important way to mitigate privacy and security risks for Managed Service Providers is by including ......