SCS * IT Solutions for Business

Broadly speaking, our consultancy work falls into the following areas:

Project Management

For many companies they want someone to manage the IT side of a project, or in some cases the whole project. We have worked on many projects with our clients, both large and small, in a variety of different roles. We are often required to work with other contractors where each has their own area of responsibility and expertise.

Although we usually work on the IT side of projects, we can often manage entire projects (for example an office move), taking the pressure off out client's staff.

Take a look at our Case Studies for examples of some projects we have worked on and managed.

Research and Planning

A lot of consultancy-based work is about research and planning. In many cases a company has defined a need but doesn't know if an IT solution exists or how to implement it. We can often help by advising on possible options and solutions.

Auditing

It is often the case that the first task to be done is to make a complete record of a company's existing IT systems. How comprehensive the audit is will depend on requirements but at the least it will give an overview of the existing systems as they stand.

Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity; something that all businesses, no matter what their size or nature of business, need to take seriously.

We're not just talking about catastrophes such as fire or flood (although these are important) but some far more frequent occurrences.  Consider the following:

• Equipment failure (such as a hard drive failing)
• Accidental deletion of data
• Malicious deletion of data
• Loss of Internet Connectivity
• Loss of email
• Loss of Telephone services
• Catastrophic damage to equipment and/or office (e.g. fire, flood, vandalism etc.)

Fixed line

Being the most common form of telephony SCS excel in this area having provided and serviced a range of fixed line 'in house' systems in the past and have current installations at multiple customer sites. We can provide the lines, call rates and even the phone system to make this a complete package which can be managed by the customer after training and installation or SCS can manage and support companies providing an easy method for customers to not need to worry if a trained member of staff is available when changes are required.

Hosted

This is relatively new territory for most businesses as it is for SCS but after partnering and being a reseller for the UK's "best value for money" provider of hosted phone services we are so confident of this new product we can provide that we even switched to it ourselves. We can offer a range of solutions with amazing features far beyond what any standard phone system can and has ever been able to. This system also provides our customers who have IT support contracts with an extra benefit of being able to get direct access to our support engineers in a much more user friendly way by being able to direct message them to resolve issues through the desktop software provided with this system.

Mobile

Our mobile tariffs are a good way to drive down costs and admin overheads of dealing with yet another 3rd party for your mobile requirements. You will enjoy the same superior service we offer as all requests and support calls for the mobiles will come through to us. As mobile devices are so popular as a way to communicate via email, instant messenger and of course voice and SMS we feel this is an invaluable service to add when considering SCS.

Flexible finance options from SCS

To make it easier for you to acquire our products and services, we’ve partnered with Syscap, the UK’s leading independent provider of IT finance.

By paying for our products and services over time, you can benefit from:

Tax savings
Your regular, monthly payments can qualify as a trading expense and are therefore tax deductible.

Increased flexibility for future upgrades
By leasing or financing IT, you can expand or upgrade your systems as the need arises, often without an increase in monthly payments.

More available budget
Instead of spending lump sums on rapidly depreciating assets, you can allocate resources to where they’re needed most.

Unaffected bank lines
Syscap finance solutions have no effect on your other borrowing options.

A straightforward solution
IT finance with Syscap is easy. Once a proposal is submitted, you can expect a response within 24 hours.

Note that SCS introduces clients to Syscap purely as an aid for clients so they can see what finance options might be available.  There is no obligation to use Syscap's services.  If a client opts for a finance package with Syscap the relationship is directly between the client and Syscap and not with SCS.