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Rex Marchant, Vice President of Service at Helion TechnologiesRex Marchant

Rex Marchant is Vice President of Service at Helion Technologies, where he leads the service desk, field service, systems engineering, proactive managed services and VoIP. He has more than 25 years leading managed services teams and holds ITIL Foundation and COBIT 5 certifications.

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Co-Managed SOC for Dealer Groups: Sharing Security Monitoring With Your Internal IT Team

October 20, 2026 by Rex Marchant
Car dealership showroom at dusk as the store closes and overnight security monitoring begins

A co-managed SOC lets your dealer group’s IT team keep running IT while analysts watch alerts overnight. Who isolates a PC, who decides, and who stays informed.

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How to Connect Generative AI to Your DMS Without Exposing Customer Data

October 19, 2026 by Rex Marchant
Modern car dealership showroom glowing at dusk with new vehicles parked out front

To connect generative AI to your DMS without exposing customer data, keep the data in one private, access-controlled store, give the AI read-only access to only the fields it needs, and keep exports off PCs and personal AI accounts. A sales manager wants to know which leads from last quarter never got a second call. … Read more

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Onsite vs Remote IT Support at the Dealership: When You Need a Technician in the Building

October 18, 2026 by Rex Marchant
IT field technician on a phone call with the help desk while standing in a dealership service bay doorway with his tool bag

Remote IT support fixes a dealership problem over the phone or a shared screen, and onsite IT support sends a technician into the building. Most tickets close remotely. A dead switch, bad cabling, a down circuit, or a broken printer needs hands on site. It’s 7:20 on a Saturday morning and the service drive is … Read more

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Fixing the Cause, Not the Ticket: Root Cause Analysis for Dealership IT Problems

October 17, 2026 by Rex Marchant
IT field technician following a single network cable with a flashlight to find the root cause of a recurring dealership IT problem

Root cause analysis in IT means finding out why a problem keeps happening instead of only getting the user working again. At a dealership, it’s the difference between resetting the same locked DMS login every Monday and finding what keeps locking it. Every service desk has a few tickets that come back like regulars. The … Read more

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AI Doesn’t Need All Your Data: Least-Privilege Access for AI Tools at the Dealership

October 16, 2026 by Rex Marchant
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Least privilege for AI means an AI tool gets only the data and permissions its one job needs, the same rule your staff already work under. At most dealerships, AI tools get far more, because connecting one usually takes a single click. Think about a new salesperson’s first day. They get a CRM login and … Read more

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