NetSys vs. Integris
Integris grew the way much of the industry now grows: capital merges good regional MSPs into a national brand. That model has real advantages. It also changes what you are buying, and a mid sized business should understand the difference before signing.
The short answer
Integris is a national MSP formed by merging regional firms under private equity. NetSys is one firm under the same name since 1998. The service surface is comparable; the differences are continuity, what the base agreement includes, and month to month terms.
What Integris is
Integris launched in 2021 when four regional MSPs merged under private equity backing, then added further acquisitions, and was sold to OMERS Private Equity in late 2024. Today it runs from Cranbury, New Jersey with roughly six hundred employees, markets itself on local teams backed by national expertise, and rates highly on review platforms. It is a serious, fast-built national player.
Built by acquisition versus built by retention
Those are simply two different companies to be a client of. Integris assembled its client base by combining firms; NetSys assembled ours one engagement at a time since 1998 and keeps 98 percent of it each year. Neither path is wrong. But when ownership or platform decisions change above a rolled-up MSP, clients feel it, so it is fair to ask any acquired provider what has stayed constant for its longest customers.
Who owns your outcome
At NetSys the people accountable for your network are the owners of the practice, not managers reporting into a fund's operating plan. Your account manager hands you a cell number. The engineers who set up your environment are the ones who answer for it later. That continuity is the product.
The agreement itself
One month to month agreement carries cybersecurity, an engineer-answered helpdesk, privileged access and privileged identity management, disaster recovery planning with restores performed and timed, and an in-house AI practice for automation and custom builds. The industry standard remains a multi-year term with auto renewal. We think the pressure belongs on the provider.
What each of us publishes
Their column is quoted from pages on their site and links to each one. Ours states what we commit to elsewhere on this site. Nothing below is our opinion of their work.
| The NetSys Group | Integris | |
|---|---|---|
| Agreement | Month to month. Leave any time, no early-exit penalty. | Their managed IT page states that the service model and support tiers are defined in the customer's service agreement. (integrisit.com) |
| What the monthly fee covers | One agreement: AI services, cybersecurity, managed IT with help desk, PAM, PIM and disaster recovery planning. | Their managed IT services page publishes a bulleted list of what fully managed IT includes. (integrisit.com) |
| Privileged access and credentials | PAM and PIM in the base agreement, each with a published service page describing the work. | We could not find privileged access, privileged identity management or managed credentials named on their site. |
| AI and automation | In-house practice led by Jamie Baum: readiness assessments, Copilot rollouts, custom agents and workflow automation. | Their managed IT page states they built and validated their AI operations framework internally before deploying it to clients. (integrisit.com) |
| Disaster recovery | A written plan plus restores that are performed and timed. More than 30 ransomware incidents handled in three years, every one recovered. | Their managed infrastructure page publishes a BCDR offering that includes hourly recoverable snapshots, documented recovery procedures, annually tested restores, and SLA-backed RTO/RPO targets. (integrisit.com) |
| Who answers | A NetSys engineer, plus a named account manager who gives you a real cell number. | Their support page publishes contact channels by priority level, a portal and email address for standard priority and a phone number for high or emergency priority, with separate contact details listed for TechMD clients and for Integris FID clients. (integrisit.com) |
| Response commitments | Written into the agreement rather than implied on the website. | Their managed IT page states that response expectations and support tiers are set in the customer's service agreement. (integrisit.com) |
| Proof before you commit | The free assessment is a remote external penetration test, limited to the information available to NetSys and the external scope we agree with you. | Their managed IT page offers a no-obligation 30-minute discovery session covering gaps, risks and cost savings. (integrisit.com) |
| Where they are | One office, in Brooklyn. On-site across New York City, Long Island, Westchester, the Hudson Valley, North Jersey and Fairfield County, CT, with remote managed IT nationwide. | Their locations page lists 16 US offices (Atlanta GA; Cranbury NJ; Dallas TX; Cedar Park TX; Duluth MN; Endicott NY; Hampstead NH; Houston TX; Wichita KS; Ocean City MD; Orange County CA; Owings Mills MD; Raynham MA; San Angelo TX; Syracuse NY; Worcester MA) and presents the model as local offices within a national network. (integrisit.com) |
Integris appears here because it came up in the search results for managed IT services when we checked in September 2026. Everything in their column is drawn from pages published on https://integrisit.com/ and links to the source. Where we could not find something published we say so, which means we did not find it, not that it does not exist. We make no claim about the quality of their service. All trademarks belong to their owners and no affiliation or endorsement is implied.
Four more things worth knowing about Integris
Size and history
- Their about page publishes a founding year of 2021 and states the company was formed through a merger of prior IT providers. (integrisit.com)
NetSys: Independent since 1998. One office, in Brooklyn, and no private equity owner behind the name.
Industries they name
- Their industries page names the sectors they serve. (integrisit.com)
NetSys: Twenty six industries with a page each, from healthcare and legal to hedge funds, auto dealers and government contractors.
Compliance work published
- Their cybersecurity page names the compliance frameworks their GRC services support. (integrisit.com)
NetSys: Nine frameworks with a service page each: HIPAA, CMMC 2.0, SOC 2, NIST CSF 2.0, NYDFS 23 NYCRR 500, NY SHIELD, FTC Safeguards, PCI DSS and GLBA.
Rates on the website
- They publish a pricing page that directs visitors to request a free estimate and to use a cost calculator. (integrisit.com)
NetSys: We do not publish rates. We price per user per month and quote each business after a call, because a thirty person firm with two servers and a thirty person firm with a regulator are not the same job.
What we looked for on their site and could not find
privileged access, privileged identity management or managed credentials.
That means we did not find it published, not that it does not exist. Ask them directly, and ask us the same questions. If Integris publishes any of this and we missed it, write to info@netsysgroup.com and we will add it.
The honest fit: is NetSys the right Integris alternative?
When Integris is the better choice
Choose Integris if you want a fast-growing national platform with many local offices, formal enterprise processes, and the resources that come with institutional ownership.
When NetSys is the better choice
Choose NetSys if you want the firm itself to be the constant: same name since 1998, same accountability, a complete security-first stack in the base agreement, and no term holding you if we ever stop performing.
NetSys and Integris: FAQs
Is NetSys an alternative to Integris for a mid sized business?
Yes. The daily service surface is comparable: managed IT, helpdesk, cybersecurity, cloud and compliance support delivered remotely with on-site work where needed. The structural differences are the ones on this page: ownership and continuity, what the base agreement includes, and month to month terms against the industry's multi-year norm.
Why does provider ownership matter to a client?
Because service models follow owners. When a provider changes hands, toolstacks, account teams and pricing structures often change with it, and the client experiences that as churn they never asked for. The fair question for any provider, us included, is what has stayed the same for your ten longest-standing clients. Our answer: the owners, the phone number, and the month to month terms.
Can NetSys take over from a national MSP cleanly?
Yes, and we do it as a documented process: credential and documentation handover, backup verification before cutover, then parallel monitoring so nothing goes dark between providers. Larger providers usually offboard professionally; the risks live in undocumented corners, which is exactly what the transition checklist exists to find.
Every provider we have compared
Facts about Integris on this page come from their published materials and press coverage, checked September 2026. Integris is a trademark of its owner; no affiliation or endorsement is implied. If anything here is out of date, tell us at info@netsysgroup.com and we will correct it.
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