What we can do for your architecture

We understand that your business and the wider economic environment means you need to implement change at pace. If you're looking to evaluate your current setup, or develop a complex bespoke one for your company - or specific project - we have the expertise to help.

What we can do:

- Design & build the solution for you, using the same expertise we've used to help government & large businesses alike

- Select the right supplier, we have a range of parternship agreements allowing us better & more informed access to select the right solutions for you

- Make it secure. Whether you need a public or private cloud setup we can implement a solution that is compliant and exceeds a range of industry & government standards. 

- Collaborative working for your company. Traditionally allowing employees such free & open access to work around the world on any device they have has posed a security risk. However, our solutions keep your data secure whilst ensuring frictionless working. 

Delivering your IT strategy

In the past a company's IT team & strategy would be built around what existed before. This layering approach creates cumbersome platforms, and reduces a company's agility and ability to navigate an evolving IT landscape. Even Google, one of our partners, believes that in the future 'every company will be a data company'. 

Define & Design

- When creating your IT strategy we'll assign the same importance to your current business goals & your IT requirements. 

- This equal design process will allow your company to more confidently predict it's ability to deal with changes in the future

Implement & Operate

- We look to implement the least invasive strategy for your employees. And believe that for any IT change the most an employee should have to deal with is logging in. 

- We'll handle the future operation & delivery of the strategy so you can get on with growing your company.

Evaluate & Evolve

- Although we believe in the importance of long term - 5, 10, 15+ year - strategies to provide the broad outline. We think that changes in IT should be made when they will provide added value, rather than on a fixed arbitrary timeline. 

Digitising your analogue systems

Many companies still hold large paper record sets, it's hard to search through them and even harder to know where to look.

It can be both text & image data, or old documents that are degrading. Digitisation removes the physical storage costs, and increases the length of access.

Additionally, you can then search through this data faster and more accurately than by hand. Transforming hand written paper records into searchable typed documents - whilst still preserving an image of the original.

Penetration Testing

If you want to test the security of every aspect of your company's IT infrastructure and your employees alertness to IT security, you may want to consider penetration testing. It will allow you to:

- Test the security of recent significant changes 

- Ensure compliance with data & security regulation

- Allow you to see which employees you need to educate 

Methods of assesment

- White box pen testing evalutes and attempts to exploit the structure of a system, and will usually have some initial input from the company being tested so can be more focused and specific.  

- Black box pen testing tests the functionality of systems, and is usually done blind without any specific input except the contracting of the service. It can expose security vunerabilities that incrementally form into a serious risk. 

- Phising tests and other virtually driven tests, such as sending employees a malicious email or text, can be done reguarly like a fire drill. Metrics can then be gathered showing where you are most exposed, or how you can best respond. 

- Social engineering takes a more direct approach, and plays on an employees expectations of a scenario to gain data that otherwise shouldn't be exposed. 

Data Recovery

Damaged laptops, desktops, servers, and phones can often hold the only copy of important or sensitive data. Our data recovery services help retrieve information that may appear lost. 

Our data recovery service

- We can provide same day assessment of the device

- A fixed and upfront fee 

- Certificated data recovery

- Confidential service

Regulatory Compliance

There are a range of standards business who control or process data must comply by, we can advise on if your current setup is compliant and what you can do to improve it. 

Our solutions reduce the burden on you and your staff whilst achieving your compliance goals. 

- Data loss prevention

In an age where data is valuable you need to prevent sensitive data being transmitted outside of your network, or designated people. 

- Chain of custody monitoring

Knowing where your data is, and being able to trace its chain of custody is a key requirement in an age where data is valuable.

It is also important in other compliance standards allowing you to see who accessed the data, when, and how often. 

- GDPR

GDPR is a major series of regulations which impact almost every company. 

Compliance with it is needed to handle any data of a customer inside the EU. Failure to adhere to it has significant and deleterious consequences for a company.

- Encryption Key Management

Encrypting data should be a basic standard for any company.

However, one needs secure storage and management of the keys to decrypt the data otherwise it undermines encrypting the data. 

- Separation of Roles & Duties

No one user should be able to initiate significant changes on a system, there should be a policy of least privilege. This means each user has the minimum required access they need to perform their role. 

This keeps them and the company secure. 

AI & Machine Learning 

Although generally thought of synonyms there are subtle but real differences. However, both are vastly powerful tools and can be deployed in a variety of ways to aid your business. 

Artificial Intelligence

- It's generally an attempt to create a machine that has a human qualities. You can use them in chatbots to engage customers, or handle support queries. 

- It's also used in neural networks, which try to function like brains. It's related to machine learning, and can be used to understand patterns and notice iregularities. 

Machine Learning

- Using a variety of techniques you can design systems that incrementally improve over time to gain insights from millions of records. You can then fine tune your systems or approach to grow your business.  

- For example, Netflix uses it to show you shows it thinks you like based on your viewing history and millions of other people. Predictive targeting like this can be deployed in retail stores, marketing campagins, and a variety of other sectors. 

Data Visualisation

With the vast amount of data available and being processed, be able to present it in an instantly understandable way is important. 

- Simple bar & line charts aren't good for showing a lot of the data types we have today. For example these two graphs show the same information, yet the streamgraph allows you to see it in a more comparative & compact manner. 

- Understanding how to present data to reflect a certain point is a demanding task, as such we use a variety of tools to allow us to accurately reflect what you want. 

Predictive Analysis

Many companies have sales data, or usage data from their products and then average this out to forecast where they should be in future. In some scenarios this is useful, but it is using a fixed image and may not adequately reflect growing trends within that data. 

- Machine learning techniques allow highly scalable probabilty based predicitive analysis, and that improves over time as more data is given to it. 

- It it not only allows you to forecast future events, but indicate where you might be missing data. 

- This can be used to highlight new mini-trends within customer bases, or supply chains - allowing you to be ready for when the changes emerge.