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How MSPs Are Reducing Ticket Resolution Time by 30% with Collective IQ

In today’s digitally centered workplace, the quality of an employee’s interaction with technology—the Digital Employee Experience (DEX)—is directly tied to productivity, satisfaction, and overall business performance. For Managed Service Providers (MSPs), this represents both a monumental challenge and an unparalleled opportunity. How can MSPs ensure consistent, high-quality DEX across dozens—or even hundreds—of diverse client environments?

The Total Experience Imperative: Communications as the Next Frontier

In 2025, experience has become the ultimate differentiator — not just for customers, but for employees too. Enterprises that align customer experience (CX) and employee experience (EX) into a unified Total Experience (TX) strategy are the ones redefining success. Behind every exceptional customer interaction is an empowered employee — and behind both lies one essential foundation: communication.

Linux Patch Management in N-central & N-sight | Quick Feature Demo

See how N-able’s new Linux Patch Management feature simplifies patching across both N-central and N-sight. In this short demo, you’ll learn how to: This release also introduces a dedicated failed patches workflow designed to speed up troubleshooting, with remediation guidance coming soon. Linux Patch Management is just getting started—more enhancements are already on the roadmap.

Stop the Insanity! Quit Doing These 7 Manual Network Management Tasks

Active network infrastructure management is a key element of any managed service offering. Traditionally, network management has involved a lot of tedious manual work, making it expensive and very hard to scale. And that’s why many MSPs have shied away from actively managing the network. But not managing network infrastructure at all is a risk to your business. Your clients likely expect you’re looking after the network whether you’ve promised it or not.

Managing User Access & Authentication in a Cloud-Hosted Environment

This is the third and final instalment in a series on Here’s What a Network Needs After a Cloud Migration. Part 1 looked at how to redesign the LAN. Part 2 outlined strategies for the Internet connection. One of the things that becomes more important in a cloud-based application environment is managing user access and authentication.