Offering

Managed Support

We stay on after launch — a support team, a client portal, and a standing backlog that keeps your solution improving instead of aging.

Managed Support is the engagement that begins where the project ends. Once v1 of your solution is live, the same team that built it stays on to fix what breaks, ship the enhancements your users ask for, and watch ahead for the problems worth mitigating before they land. It runs through a client portal built for the purpose — ticketing, change history, and everything related to your solution in one place — and it works whether Kumo built the solution or inherited it.

Support that starts at go-live

The riskiest moment in a solution’s life is the week after launch. The project team rolls off, real users show up with real requests, and the solution either enters a period of steady improvement or begins a slow decline that nobody notices until the workarounds outnumber the features.

Managed Support exists to make the first outcome the default. It is a continuation of the delivery relationship rather than a handoff to a queue — same team, same context, picking up the day v1 goes live and carrying the solution forward from there.

One place for everything about your solution

The engagement runs through a client portal we built for it. Your team submits tickets there and watches them move. Every change we make to your solution is logged there, so a year later the question “when did this behavior change, and why” has an answer that does not depend on anyone’s memory. And the current state of what we have built for you lives there too — one stop for the whole picture rather than a folder of status decks and an email thread.

The reason to care is accountability in both directions. You can see what you are getting. We can see what we promised. Neither side has to reconstruct it.

Reactive and proactive

Break-fix is the obvious half. Something stops working, it comes in through the portal, we fix it. Enhancements sit alongside it on a standing backlog you help prioritize, which is what keeps the solution moving with the business instead of freezing at launch state.

The half that earns the engagement is the proactive work. Platforms move underneath you — Microsoft ships release waves twice a year, connectors get deprecated, and a design that fit last year’s volume starts straining against this year’s. We watch for that: where usage has outgrown the original model, what is scheduled for deprecation, which workaround is quietly accumulating cost. Then we bring recommendations with a fix attached, early enough that the fix is a backlog item rather than an emergency.

For teams without a platform bench

Most organizations that come to us for managed support are not short on ambition, they are short on capacity. The solution runs a core part of the business, and there is no internal team that owns the platform it sits on. That is the gap this fills: a support team that already knows your environment, and a portal that keeps you informed without requiring someone on your side to manage the work.

Solutions we built, and solutions we did not

We support what we deliver, and we take over what others delivered — including pre-built and third-party solutions running on the Microsoft platform. Takeovers start with a stabilization review rather than a rebuild pitch: documentation, environment health, and the risk points, followed by several weeks aimed squarely at whatever made you go looking for a new partner.

The compounding part

Our longest client relationships run through managed support. It is where the small requests surface, where the next real opportunity gets spotted early, and where a solution built once keeps earning its place for years — a very different outcome from a project that shipped and then aged.

Value

Why it matters

The team that built it is the team that keeps it

No re-discovery tax. The people who made the architecture decisions are the ones answering when something needs attention a year later.

One portal for everything about your solution

Submit a ticket, see what changed and when, and find the current state of your solution in one place — instead of reconstructing history from an email thread.

Proactive, not just reactive

Fixing what broke is the floor. We also make recommendations, flag what is heading toward a problem, and mitigate it while it is still small.

Built for teams with limited IT capacity

Most of our support clients have no platform team of their own. Managed Support is that bench — available when something breaks, when you hire, and when the business changes shape.

Not only the solutions we built

We take over solutions another partner delivered, and support pre-built platform solutions too. Takeover starts with a stabilization review rather than a rebuild pitch.

The solution keeps moving

A standing backlog and a regular cadence mean the solution grows with the business instead of freezing at whatever launch day happened to require.

Approach

How it works

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Transition at launch — or take over what exists

For solutions we built, support picks up directly from the delivery team at go-live. For inherited ones, we start with a stabilization review — documentation, environment health, and the risk points — and spend the first weeks on whatever made you go looking for help.

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Onboard to the client portal

Your team gets access to the portal that runs the engagement — ticket intake, the record of every change we make, and the shared view of what is open, what shipped, and what is next.

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Run the support cadence

Issues come in through the portal and get worked. Enhancements come off a backlog you help prioritize, so improvements ship on a rhythm instead of waiting for a new project to be approved.

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Look ahead on purpose

Regular review of the solution and the platform underneath it — where usage has outgrown the original design, what Microsoft is deprecating, what is worth doing before it becomes urgent.

FAQ

Questions we hear a lot

What does Kumo's managed support include?

Break-fix on the solutions under support, enhancements drawn from a standing backlog, monitoring of the platform underneath, and proactive review — recommendations and forward-looking risks we identify and mitigate before they become incidents. It runs through a client portal that carries ticket intake, the change history for your solution, and the shared view of what is open and what shipped.

How is this different from Managed Licensing & Support?

Different problem. Managed Licensing & Support covers your Microsoft 365 tenant — licensing administration and a hardened security baseline for organizations without an IT department. Managed Support covers the solution itself: the app, the portal, the Dynamics implementation, or the SharePoint environment your business runs on. One keeps the tenant safe and right-sized; the other keeps the thing you built working and improving. Organizations often have both, and they are scoped separately.

What is the client portal, and what do we use it for?

It is the one-stop shop for your engagement. Your team submits and tracks tickets there, sees the log of every change we make to your solution, and finds the current picture of what we have built and what is in flight. The point is that the history of your solution lives somewhere durable and visible to you, rather than in whichever inbox happened to receive the request.

When does managed support usually start?

Most engagements begin the moment v1 goes live. The delivery project ends, the solution is in production, and support picks it up from there — which is also when the most valuable enhancement requests start arriving, because people are finally using the thing. Support can also start cold, on a solution that has been running for years without anyone tending it.

Can you support a solution another partner built, or one we bought?

Yes, and it is one of the most common ways clients start with us. Takeover begins with a stabilization review — documentation, environment health, and the risks worth knowing about — and the first weeks focus on the issues that made you look for a new partner. We support pre-built and third-party solutions running on the Microsoft platform on the same terms as the ones we built ourselves.

What does proactive support actually mean in practice?

Watching the solution instead of waiting on it. Usage that has outgrown the original design, a connector or feature Microsoft has scheduled for deprecation, a workaround that is accumulating cost, an integration that will not survive the next release wave. We raise these as recommendations with a suggested fix, and mitigate them from the backlog before they turn into an outage or an emergency project.

We do not have an internal IT team. Is that a problem?

It is usually the reason the engagement exists. Managed Support is designed for organizations with limited IT capacity — the solution runs the business, but nobody internally owns the platform it sits on. We are that owner, and the portal keeps you in the loop without requiring someone on your side to manage the work.

How is the engagement structured?

As a recurring retainer sized to the solutions under support, with a standing backlog and a regular cadence rather than a per-incident arrangement. Larger enhancements get scoped from that same backlog, so the roadmap and the support live in one place instead of requiring a separate project every time the solution needs to grow.

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