In the last year over 20 000 businesses in the Sussex/ Surrey area have moved out of expensive offices with their inflated overheads and are taking to the road using a Virtual Desktop and Phone System. The result is dynamic, money saving and efficient and your customer knows you will always be in…even when you’re out!

If you could work anytime and from anywhere, where would you go?

We thought as much. Which is why the first Arcom IT seminar is going to take place at the footie!

Arcom IT are hosting their very first breakfast seminar with partners Citrix on Virtual Desktop at Woking Football Club on Tuesday 24th November. 

For more info go to seminars.

ROC: SOLID FOUNDATIONS

Based in Totnes, Devon, the charity Roc provides fantastic, forward thinking services and support to adults with learning difficulties. From serviced housing to educational training and qualifications, Roc’s mission statement is to equip each person with the skills, knowledge and attitudes that enable them to lead a full, purposeful and satisfying life and contribute to the quality of life of others.

With an estimated annual turn over by April 2010 of £5.4 million the financial and operational management of the business is a serious undertaking and a challenge which has been met equally by Arcom IT as Lead Consultant for Visma Business.

Starting immediately, Arcom will be rolling out Visma Business to be the main financial and managerial system for Roc providing automated accounts across multiple cost centres and linking in to the revolutionary Visma Vision – a full rostering and resource management tool.

“Visma is part of the Arcom portfolio that most of our clients don’t realise we offer because we’ve never promoted it” says Keith Thomson, Arcom IT’s Business Systems Manager “It’s a solution that could be applicable to all sorts of businesses and anywhere you need to match skills, resources and customer requirements; that’s what Visma does!”

To find out how Visma could improve the infrastructure of your business email us at sales@arcomit.co.uk

ON YER BIKE!

This month Arcom IT was invited by Gill Edinburgh, Director of Sussex Enterprise, to attend this years ‘The Really Useful Business Show’ at the Brighton Centre.

Over 1200 businesses were represented at the conference and many of Arcom IT’s own customers were present including Carpenter Box Chartered Accountants from Worthing.

The highlight of the day was the arrival of former Government Minister Lord Digby Jones as the keynote speaker. Lord Digby gave a very rousing speech to the delegates exclaiming “I congratulate you all because without business in this nation, this nation isn’t going to trade its way out of anything.”

A great sport – as you can see from this photograph!

PETROPLAN ENGINEERS A SUPPORT CONTRACT.

We are proud to announce Arcom IT as the official IT Support Provider for the prestigious, international engineering recruitment firm Petroplan.

With their UK Head Office in Guildford they are practically neighbours but with over 600 skilled personnel in 30 different locations around the world including Kazakhstan, Norway and Chile, Petroplan represents the kind of exciting challenge that the Arcom IT Support Team are used to:-

“For the last 15 years we have been looking after clients who have a global presence and need 24/7 access to professional IT technicians. It’s critical for companies who operate on this scale to know that their infrastructure is well supported and Petroplan are in safe hands with our experienced team.”
Steve Tritton, Arcom IT Technical Director.

Tim Jenkins, ICT Manager of Petroplan has similar sentiments:-

“We needed extended support hours and Bank Holiday cover to deal with issues raised by our international offices. We are delighted to discover Arcom IT provides extended IT support services at a competitive price. We look forward to establishing a great relationship”

But you don’t have to be a global giant to have access to our team of professionals.

Support contracts with Arcom IT can cost as little as £1.92 per day and entitle you to daily server monitoring, one free day of emergency onsite cover and 10 hours of support, both remote and on-site assistance. A support contract also entitles you to reduced rates for planned work as well as giving you that all important piece of mind that your business is well looked after.

For more information on how you can engineer yourself professional IT support just email us at sales@arcomit.co.uk.

WORK ANYWHERE: A VIRTUAL REALITY.

We’ve all seen the pictures: smug individuals lying on beaches next to their laptops and grinning execs checking their emails in the garden. It just doesn’t ring true when most people battle for hours in commuter hell everyday only to spend the majority of their working day in the box they know as their office.

What makes our offices even more cumbersome is the enormous costs, rental plus rates, all come from your bottom line.

However, the need to have a physical, consistent presence is enormous and room for storage/equipment is unavoidable but how can save as much space as possible and, more importantly, how can we save as much money as possible?

For years now we have been able to access our emails on the move from our mobile phones so we know we can at least keep in contact with our office and our clients via phone and email. But these are the basics, not the business. Many people need access to specific software packages, shared files and folders to be able to really get on with their work and that’s just not been possible. Until now.

Arcom IT are holding their first quarterly seminar on Virtual Desktop, a solution that enables end users to access their own personal desktop from any pc, anywhere in the world with broadband connection. Simple to use and simple to support, Gartner has predicted that 40% of all business desktops will be delivered by this hosted model by 2013.

“Companies will turn to the internet to deliver core computing services, thereby cutting out the cost, man-hours and productivity being sacrificed to the management of employee desktops.” – vnunet.com

And it doesn’t just make your bank manager happy; it makes your workforce happy too. In a recent DTI Work Life Balance Survey, 75% of companies introducing these work practices said they had a more committed and motivated staff. This means reduced absences, reduced staff turnover and a greater social responsibility.

To find out how Virtual Desktop can work for your business why not join us on Tuesday 24th November at Woking FC over breakfast.

To book your place and save your bacon sandwich go to seminars It will be a great opportunity to network, literally as well as virtually!

We hope to see you there.

Heather Abela
Arcom IT Marketing Manager
 

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