When small companies come to RedBit Growth, they’re on the lookout for assist. They’re attempting to determine one of the best expertise to assist them cut back prices, enhance income and develop their missions, which in a single latest award-winning instance concerned redirecting completely good meals onto hungry individuals’s plates as an alternative of going right into a landfill.
RedBit – a small enterprise itself with solely 17 workers based mostly in Ontario, Canada – responds with large options that embrace customized software program, pushed by Microsoft expertise.
Mark Arteaga, who based RedBit in 2003 and serves as its president, says that an issue he sees with a lot of his prospects is a “mishmash” of the way to share paperwork, conduct crew conferences and deal with a large number of points as they scale up. Oftentimes, the prices of coping with that mishmash add as much as far more than utilizing a unified ecosystem corresponding to Microsoft Azure, the Microsoft 365 Energy Platform and Home windows 11 Professional.
“We assist organizations – whether or not they’re small companies, startups or giant enterprises, nonprofits or for-profits – leverage expertise to assist them attain their objectives,” says Arteaga, whose enterprise works principally with firms based mostly in North America. RedBit can tailor options to particular conditions and desires, with the purpose of consolidating and standardizing processes to make them extra environment friendly, together with automation.
The three principal providers RedBit focuses on are: constructing customized purposes, modernization (including cell providers) and cloud adoption.
“Quite a lot of organizations we meet are nonetheless working servers. Typically it is advisable to run a server inside your group, however plenty of firms don’t want that server. We migrate them to Microsoft Azure, put them within the cloud, safe and lock them down, so solely the crew members or the workers can entry them,” Arteaga says. “Then they’ll be capable to proceed to do their work.”
Hazel Van der Werken, head of operations and buyer success at RedBit since 2016, says every thing the corporate does occurs in Microsoft Azure. They’re working tasks utilizing Azure DevOps, automating pipelines and utilizing a number of the Azure Cognitive providers.
Having labored at different software program improvement firms, in addition to within the telecommunications and prescription drugs industries, Van der Werken has expertise with a wide range of companies.
“At RedBit we encourage early adoption of expertise if the match is correct for them. If the group has a drive to undertake expertise and to be on the forefront, then we completely work with them to implement and undertake these new applied sciences. We’ve got to be cognizant of the tradition and what they’ve,” she says. “In the event that they’re slightly bit extra threat antagonistic and are usually a bit extra cautious about attempting one thing new, we will educate and make them conscious of these advantages.”
Arteaga has labored with Microsoft instruments for greater than 24 years, participates within the Home windows Insider program and was a Microsoft MVP for 15 years. (This final designation acknowledges software program builders like Arteaga for mentoring others on tips on how to use expertise.) RedBit can be a Microsoft Gold Companion. For RedBit, your entire Microsoft ecosystem is one thing they are saying helps them be extra productive and environment friendly as a rising firm – particularly one which works principally remotely, as do a lot of their prospects.
“After getting that Microsoft 365 account, then you might couple that with Home windows as a result of that turns into your organizational ID. You could possibly signal into Home windows after which your OneDrive has all of your paperwork, your Groups is there too, and you might join instantly. So simply having that deployment from a technical perspective is pretty simple,” he says. “After which from an finish consumer perspective, it’s simply there as soon as they signal into Home windows.”
For extra non-technical shoppers, RedBit makes use of Autopilot, a zero-touch deployment that makes it simple for IT to get Home windows gadgets into the palms of customers to allow them to rise up and working shortly and securely.
A setup like this, Arteaga says, makes collaborating in real-time that a lot simpler, as one particular person might open a PowerPoint deck and one other particular person within the group might edit it concurrently on their PC, or of their browser. As one other instance, one factor in its Professional model that he finds indispensable is BitLocker, as a safety measure that organizations can handle from a centralized location utilizing Azure.
