We Offer Cloud-Based IT Solutions for Manufacturing & Engineering Companies
- Does your plant manager require easy access to their desktop wherever they are in the factory?
- Do you worry that technology downtime could affect your productivity and profitability?
- Are you concerned that insecure IT could compromise your intellectual property and manufacturing secrets?
Through a managed IT services model, we help to answer the main technology concerns that manufacturers have. We take an end-to-end, proactive approach to provide IT solutions for manufacturing & engineering companies to identify and stop potential issues before they cause costly downtime. We also a cloud-based virtual desktop known as IT Fortress to ensure that your team works more efficiently by providing access to user desktops on any internet-connected device.
Benefits of IT Fortress for Manufacturing & Engineering Companies
IT Fortress is now on dozens of factory floors because of the convenience it provides. A user can now enjoy a full MS Windows desktop environment with nothing more than a display, mouse, and keyboard plugged into a compact interface. With our solution, you get the benefits below:
- Maintaining uptime and improving the dependability of your IT systems
- Easier data management
- Faster adoption of new applications and technologies
- Increased agility to keep pace with technological change
- A higher level of cybersecurity
What Can We Do For Your Manufacturing & Engineering Company?
We understand that you want technology to work for your manufacturing and engineering company, and not the other way round. We provide the following services to ensure that your team is working efficiently and you get a return on your IT spending:
 |
 IT Fortress |
 IT Fortress365 |
 IT Fortress compliance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Secure VDI | Managed Full Featured Platform | Compliance Services for IT Fortress | |
| Minimum number of users | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| Agreement Term | 2 years | 3 years | 2 years |
| Cost per user | $150/user/mo. | $250/user/mo. | $500/mo. for a 10 user 1 site organization. Additional $100/mo. for every 10 users over base of 10, and for every additional site. |
| Platform Backup | 3 Months of backup. Additional retention optional | 1 year of rolling backups | Upgraded to Perpetual Backup Retention |
| Onboarding Fees | None | None | None |
| Cost of Loading and Configuring Software | Hourly Cost at prevailing rate | Included | Compliance software and monitoring included |
| Monthly review | Included | Included | Included |
| Private Cloud environment | Included | Included | |
| Helpdesk 24/7/365 | Optional Addon | Included | |
| Intrusion Detection, Data Loss Prevention, and Manage Threat Response system on Platform | Included | Included | |
| Dedicated Firewall | Optional Addon | Optional Addon | |
| Virtual Desktop | Server 2016 | Choice of WIn10Pro or Server 2016 | |
| Cost for Storage over base Virtual Desktops | $1/GB/mo. | Included up to 200GB/user | |
| Additional Servers/App Servers | T&M to build plus $1/GB/mth for storage | Included | |
| SQL licensing | Billable. SQL Licensing cost plus $1/GB/mo. for storage | 1 SQL server included including SQL licensing | |
| Managed Company or WFH Desktop including Advanced A/V, patch management and support | Optional at $50/desktop/mo. | Optional at $35/desktop/mo. | |
| Not included | M365 Professional included | ||
| Email backup | Not included | 1 year of backup | |
| Email Anti-Spam and Compliance Encryption | Not included | Optional at $15/user/mo. | |
| Office Software | Not included | M365 Professional included | |
| Compliance Reviews of practice operations | Optional Addon | Optional Addon | Monthly Review and Meeting of Security Compliance posture both for IT and Operations |
| Compliance Monitoring software and reports | Optional Addon | Optional Addon | Included |
| Adds/Moves/Changes | Billable as T&M at prevailing rate | Included with limitations | 1 hour IT Engineer time time included per month for first 25 users, and 1 additional for every additional 25 users. |
| Virtual CIO | Optional Addon | Optional Addon | 1 hour CIO time included per month for first 25 users, and 1 additional for every additional 25 users. |
| Edge Security with Website filtering, Intrusion prevention, country blocking, and standard Security Set | Included | Included | |
| Managed Threat Response | Optional Addon | Included |
Mathe Helps Gallant & Wein Stay Connected And Productive No Matter Where They’re Working From
Gallant & Wein is a family-run, wholesale electrical distributor. They service electrical, datacom, and security contractors across the tri-state area, as well as nationwide through e-commerce.
Their multi-branch business is active every day, working with their customers, and maintaining their productivity, all of which depends on the availability of their IT systems. In order to stay connected to their data and productive during business hours, Gallant & Wein relies on Mathe.
Before working with Mathe, however, Gallant & Wein struggled with an unreliable IT environment, due in large part to their outdated approach to IT management.
““I love Mathe, there’s never a time where they’ve been unreachable, I communicate with them 24/7 when needed. I’ve had several opportunities over the years to switch Mathe out, and I’ve never felt comfortable doing so.””
Features of IT Fortress
For a manufacturer, technology must become a tool that enables efficiency, higher output, and a positive impact on the bottom line. Higher industrial production is only possible if end users can take advantage of available IT resources to enhance production without worrying about their maintenance or reliability. IT Fortress is a virtual desktop solution that helps you achieve these goals by having the following features as standard:
- No onboarding fees
- Windows Server 2016 desktop
- Three months of data backup (additional retention is an optional extra)
- Setup and configuration of apps at a low hourly cost
- Intrusion detection and prevention
- Data loss prevention
- Managed threat response on the platform
- Edge security with included website filtering
- Optional virtual CIO
Boost Manufacturing Productivity with a Secure Virtual Desktop
IT Fortress virtual desktop is the flagship of the IT Solutions for Manufacturing & Engineering Companies that MATHE provides. For only $150 per user, per month, you get dependable and scalable virtualization and a range of associated managed services that relieve your team of day-to-day maintenance tasks so you can concentrate on production. If you need to find out how IT can work for your manufacturing or engineering company, talk to us.
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