Sandy Springs, Georgia

IT Services in Sandy Springs,
Built for Tenants inSomebody Else’s Building.

Managed IT, cabling and security for Perimeter office tower tenants, the medical practices around Pill Hill and the businesses near City Springs.

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Sandy Springs, Georgia

What Business Looks Like in Sandy Springs.

We would rather show you we know the market than claim it.

Sandy Springs sits at the center of the largest suburban office market in metro Atlanta. The Perimeter area, taken together with neighboring Dunwoody and Brookhaven, holds roughly 29 million square feet of office space, about 21 million of it Class A, clustered where GA 400 meets I-285.

The corporate presence is substantial. UPS and Mercedes-Benz USA both run headquarters operations here, and IBM and Cisco hold significant offices in the area. But the businesses we work with are mostly the other tenants in those towers: the twelve-person law firm on the fourteenth floor, the consultancy, the staffing agency, the regional sales office.

That tenancy is the defining technology fact about Sandy Springs. In a multi-tenant tower you do not control the building. Cabling has to follow building standards. Getting from your suite to a carrier means going through a riser that a management company controls and charges for. Work has to be scheduled with building engineering. The demarcation point is shared and often in a room you need an escort to enter.

Then there is Pill Hill, the healthcare concentration around Northside Hospital, Emory Saint Joseph’s and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Scottish Rite, which supports a dense ring of independent practices and medical office buildings. And City Springs, the civic center built around the 1,096-seat Byers Theatre, has pulled newer commercial space into the middle of the city.

Services

What We Do for Sandy Springs Businesses

Chosen for how this market actually operates.

Cabling to Building Standard

Multi-tenant towers have rules about cable type, pathways, firestopping and who is allowed to do the work. We work to the building standard and coordinate with engineering rather than discovering the rules halfway through. See structured cabling.

Getting a Carrier Into Your Suite

Carrier access in a managed building runs through the riser, the building’s preferred vendors and sometimes a license agreement and a fee. We handle that process, which is usually the slowest part. See internet and phone.

Managed IT for Tower Tenants

Flat-rate support for professional firms of roughly five to a hundred people. Help desk, monitoring, patching and a named contact. Pricing is published.

IT for Practices Around Pill Hill

Independent practices and medical office buildings in the Northside and Emory Saint Joseph’s orbit, with the access control, encryption and logging that patient data requires.

Suite-Level Access Control

Your own door, your own credentials and your own log, working alongside the building’s access system rather than fighting it. See access control.

Suite Build-Outs and Floor Moves

Moving up a floor or across the park is a full project on the building’s schedule. Cabling, network, circuits and phones against one date. See office relocation.

Tenant Reality

In a Tower, the Building Is Your First Dependency.

Most of the delay in a Perimeter suite project has nothing to do with technology.

Point 1

The
Riser Controls Your Timeline

Getting a circuit from the building entrance to your suite means going through a riser controlled by the building or a riser management company, often with its own approved vendor list, paperwork and fees. We start that process early because it routinely takes longer than the carrier’s own installation.

Point 2

Read
the Lease Before the Floor Plan

Your lease says what you may install, who may install it, what has to be removed when you leave and what the building provides. Those terms shape the design. We would rather read them first than design something the building will not permit.

Sandy Springs Questions

What businesses here ask us first.

We lease a suite in a Perimeter tower. Can you work in our building?

Yes, and it is a large part of our Sandy Springs work. The practical requirements are a certificate of insurance, coordination with building engineering, working to the building cabling standard and scheduling disruptive work when the building allows it. We handle that rather than leaving it with you.

How do we get better internet in a managed building?

It depends on what is already in the building and which carriers have riser access. Sometimes the answer is quick because the carrier is already present. Sometimes it means a license agreement with the building and a longer timeline. We find out which before you are committed to a date.

Is a high-rise suite more expensive to cable?

Often somewhat, because building standards, firestopping requirements, after-hours access and approved vendor rules all add cost relative to a single-tenant building. It is predictable once we have walked it and read the building requirements, which is why we do both before quoting.

Do you work with the medical practices around Northside and Emory Saint Joseph’s?

Yes. Practices in medical office buildings in that cluster combine the tenancy constraints of a managed building with patient data obligations, so both sides of the problem have to be designed together.

Want to Talk About Your Sandy Springs Business?

Tell us what you are running and what keeps breaking. We will give you a straight assessment of where you stand and what it would cost to fix. No charge, and no obligation to hire us.

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IT Services in Sandy Springs,Built for Tenants inSomebody Else’s Building.