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November 30, 2016 | by OnPage Corporation
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OnPage: The perfect companion for managed service provider software

Cygnus Systems, Inc. is a leader in IT business support for Southeastern Michigan. The company specializes in providing its clients with support services to maintain their IT solutions, phone systems and cloud services. Before Cygnus switched to OnPage they used an answering service to handle critical alerts. Business Problem When critical alerts occurred, Cygnus Systems … Continued

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November 29, 2016 | by OnPage Corporation
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OnPage secure messaging

OnPage is known for its alerting capabilities. A majority of our customers who are MSPs (managed service providers) for example, use OnPage to shoot out distinct alerts. They do this by setting up monitoring tools at their client’s end and this picks up abnormalities. OnPage, in this case, offers alert automation, but that’s not all … Continued

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November 29, 2016 | by OnPage Corporation
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Differentiate your MSP from the Competition

The habit of highly effective MSPs At OnPage, we spend a lot of time speaking to MSPs and learning about the growth in IT services. There is an increasing realization by businesses that having the right firewall, endpoint security and monitoring tools is not a job that small businesses can or should attempt to accomplish … Continued

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November 28, 2016 | by OnPage Corporation
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7 steps to creating an actionable IT on-call schedule

How to make sure IT on-call works for you I spent a bit of time on Reddit the other day and thought it interesting just how many posts were focused on IT on-call and on-call scheduling. Some posts were rants on horrible customers – who hasn’t had some of those? Some actually wrote about positive … Continued

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November 21, 2016 | by OnPage Corporation
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OnPage Shows Off its ConnectWise integration at IT Nation 2016

How does OnPage connect wisely with ConnectWise? A question many asked us at IT Nation 2016 in Orlando last week was ‘How do you connect with ConnectWise?’ The simple answer is, through a direct API. ConnectWise’s robust ticketing system sends a message when a ticket is created. OnPage turns that message into a loud and … Continued

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November 19, 2016 | by OnPage Corporation
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Cygnus Systems Decreases Costs and Improves Response Time

OnPage facilitates Cygnus Systems’ growth of 25% per year through efficiency, cost reduction and improved response to critical alerts By using OnPage’s cloud-based, virtual paging app in conjunction with ConnectWise, Michigan-based MSP Cygnus Systems Inc. has grown faster than Plasticman. Through OnPage integration, Cygnus has been able improve its response time to critical IT alerts , grow … Continued

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November 18, 2016 | by OnPage Corporation
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OnPage Ensures Advanced Network Products’ Alerts Are Heard

Incident Management Gets a Voice By using OnPage’s cloud-based, virtual paging app in conjunction with ConnectWise, Pennsylvania-based MSP Advanced Network Products (ANP) has been able to dramatically improve its response time to critical IT alerts and better manage SLAs. ANP’s biggest pain point prior to OnPage was hand-offs of after-hours alerting by the NOC team. … Continued

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November 16, 2016 | by OnPage Corporation
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A Tale of HIPAA Compliance

How a physician’s request violated HIPAA Compliance Earlier this week we received an interesting request from one of our customers. The customer is a physician who faced the following issue in the OR: I am a physician who finds it inconvenient to constantly have to give the room circulator my pin number to see a … Continued

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November 15, 2016 | by OnPage Corporation
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Critical Alerting Is the New Black

WHY CRITICAL ALERTING IS A MUST HAVE FOR INCIDENT RESPONSE TO BE EFFECTIVE At OnPage, we spend lots of time thinking about how to apprise people about the importance of critical IT alerting. So when our CEO Judit Sharon emailed me about an upcoming webinar from HIMSS entitled: Incident Response is the New Black – … Continued

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November 7, 2016 | by OnPage Corporation
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Why you need to fail to be great at DevOps

Seven steps to failure and greatness The more I read and learn about how to succeed in DevOps the more I realize how important failure is to the process. You need to fail to be great at DevOps. Netflix, for example, even takes it a step further by introducing failure into their testing process. In … Continued

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