Technology Solutions
Our Technology Solutions team was developed to assist our clients maximise the value in their IT investment, and concentrate on their core business.
Our team provides a comprehensive range of services including:
- Windows Server based networking
- Email collaboration
- Mobile business solutions
- Desktop installations
- Backup and redundancy
- Internet connectivity and security
- Anti-virus and spyware
- Intranet design
Windows Server based networking
We recognise the importance of a stable network environment plays in the day to day running of your business. Utilising Microsoft Windows technology we work with you to design and implement a network solution which addresses your specific IT requirements.
The Windows 2003 server family offers a large range of services to enable seamless integration through the use of a single database directory. The Windows 2003 family creates a secure, transparent and robust network for the every day running of your business offering you:
- Productivity - Easier to deploy, configure and manage
- Dependability - End-to-end security greater reliability and increased performance
- Connectivity - Quickly build and deploy connected solutions
Key benefits
- File recovery via Volume Shadow Copying Service
- Single point of management of users, computers and printers via Active Directory
- More Robust with 184% performance increase in file services & 484% increase of web services over Windows NT Server 4.0
- Enhanced security through default lock down approach
- Built-in Intranet with Sharepoint Services
Email collaboration
In today's fast paced environment email is an integral part of doing business. Utilising Microsoft Exchange 2003 we can implement electronic forms of communication designed to deliver greater security, availability and reliability.
The Exchange Server collaboration assists you with rapid and efficient information sharing. Typical collaborative scenarios include maintaining shared address lists that everyone can view and edit, scheduling meetings that include people and conference rooms by viewing associated free or busy schedules, the ability to grant other people, such as administrators, access to your mailbox on your behalf. You can also manage 'rules' for processing messages on Exchange Server providing the flexibility to create auto-responses and automatic filing of incoming messages.
Key benefits
- Mobile, remote, and desktop email access with state of the art security and privacy
- Anti-spam integration with Outlook 2003 and Outlook Web Access
- Email based collaboration via Public Folders and Calendar Sharing
- Inbound recipient filtering
- Integrated Support for Windows Mobile based devices such as Pocket PCs, and Mobile Phones
- Enhanced security and reliability over previous versions
Mobile business solutions
The ability to conduct business wherever and whenever the need arises is an important feature of many successful businesses today. Our team can assist you by providing a variety of solutions designed to complement your business, including accessing email via a web browser using Microsoft Exchange 2003 Outlook Web Access, and through Pocket PCs or Smart phones via Exchange 2003 Active Sync over the air mailbox and calendar synchronisation.
Windows Mobile smartphones are the ideal productivity solution for both voice and data for your mobile workforce. With a Windows Mobile-based smartphone your staff can email, instant message, access the Internet, run business applications and more.
Our team also assist with creating a Virtual Private Network (VPN) to enable you to remotely access your private network via the internet with the same level of security as connecting from your own physical desk in the office. We have the expertise to design and implement a VPN to suit your individual requirements.
Key benefits
- Increase productivity with access to email, calendar, contacts and tasks wherever your mobile workers are using a smartphone
- Ability to conveniently access mission-critical information from the enterprise while you're on the road, with a customer, or in a remote office location
- Low cost wireless solution deployment that leverages existing IT infrastructure and knowledge base
Desktop Installations
We understand that time is of the essence. By creating a standard operating environment ensuring that software and hardware configurations are consistent user to user the amount of time required to maintain your network is significantly reduced.
Roaming profiles can also be implemented allowing users to log on at any workstation with the settings and applications they require.
Our team can also conduct audits of your network users and work with you to systematically bring your network and all users to a common performance platform.
Key benefits
- Improved environment manageability through centralisation and automation
- Faster resolution of issues for users
- Improved security without an associated administrative overhead
- Lower Total Cost of Ownership
- Windows XP Professional is more robust and therefore able to support mission critical applications
Backup and redundancy
Data protection has become paramount in ensuring the ongoing health of systems and information as increasing numbers of businesses are conducted electronically. Our team can install and implement data protection solutions designed to protect your business by protecting critical business data. Our solutions provide a comprehensive cross-platform backup/recovery and disaster recovery options with built in redundancy.
Key benefits
- Complete backup/restore solution
- Centralised management of backup environment
- Wide platform and application support
- Virus protection and data security backup agents for email and SQL databases
- High performance and scalable backup solution
- Redundancy in the forms of RAID (Redundant Disks) and backup power
Internet Connectivity & Security
Our team will work together with you to select the most appropriate and robust permanent internet connection for your business.
With more and more businesses moving to high speed on demand broadband, the Internet has become a critical business portal. With this in mind, security is of up most importance. To ensure your business is protected from the outside world our team will select and install a firewall. This will ensure that security is in place to prevent unauthorised or malicious attacks to your network via the Internet.
Key benefits
- Broadband provides limitless applications access from the Internet
- Ability to host services such as mail or web
- Increase in efficiency and productivity with affordable high speed internet access by saving time and effort downloading and transferring large digital files.
- A correctly configured firewall will help shield your network from outside attacks and protect your valuable data
Anti-virus and Spyware
By installing state of the art virus/spyware protection software our team can enable enterprise-class protection against virtually all forms of costly virus and malware attacks from your PDA or pocket PC to your desktop, servers and on to the gateway.
We assist in managing your virus challenges through providing a single, comprehensive security management solution that eliminates virus infections, eases administration, simplifies and automates the updating process and more.
Delivering a comprehensive anti-spyware solution provides powerful protection from spyware, adware, trojan horses, denial of service attack agents, and other backdoor web-based threats that can expose confidential information and diminish PC and network performance.
Key benefits
- Complete virus coverage from the perimeter to the PDA
- Centralised administration for managing heterogeneous environments
- Flexible reporting
- Extensive platform coverage
- Efficient signature update, distribution and ease of installation
- On demand scanning, detection and removal of any threats
Intranet design
We have the experience to implement an intranet to your specifications to enable you to capture and share ideas, information to communicate with team members as well as to share access to documents.
Microsoft SharePoint services allows you to take file storage to a new level, providing communities for team collaboration and making it easier for users to work together on documents, tasks, contacts, events and other information.
Our experience has shown that having your own intranet site will facilitate team participation in discussions and shared document collaboration.
Key benefits
- Facilitates team participation in discussions, shared document collaboration and surveys
- Comprehensive storage facility for event calendars, contacts, web links, issues lists, announcements
- Users can receive alerts to notify them when existing information has been changed, or when new information has been added
- Intranet is accessible from any web browser
For more information
To discuss your technology solutions requirements please contact your local office.