Posts Tagged ‘hosted desktop’

Jan
07
2010

Will your profits slip on the ice?

Tunbridge Wells, 18 December 2009 – Commuters have been hit hard by transport delays caused by snow overnight. Ivan Zidek, director of AWIC Technical Advisory, says, “Large, global corporations have the technology to allow their staff to work from home. It’s the UK small businesses, which are hardest hit by weather-related travel chaos.”
Small companies, especially ones without dedicated IT staff are the most vulnerable to loss of productivity due to weather-related staff shortages.  According to the Federation of Small Businesses, this could translate to an estimated 1.2 billion pounds lost in a day because of the disruption, with one-fifth of the UK workforce unable to make it into work. What if that 20% of the workforce were able to login to their computers from home?
“One of our newest clients travels to work from Essex to Kent every day.  A week ago, he would have battled to get into the office in all this snow. Now that he has AWIC Desktop, he can stay under the duvet and login to the office from bed,” says Mr. Zidek.
It’s on days like today, when the office is empty due to travel chaos, that cloud computing really comes into it’s own. With subscription-based IT services like AWIC Desktop, small businesses get a complete IT solution, which is held in a secure data centre and accessed via the internet. This means staff can access it from anywhere with an internet connection, giving companies an edge against the competition who’s still stuck on a train.
About AWIC Desktop
AWIC Desktop is a reliable, accessible subscription-based computing service that saves you money. It is one of a suite of products offered by Tunbridge Wells-based AWIC Technical Advisory — dedicated to clear, practical advice on IT for small and medium businesses.

Commuters have been hit hard by transport delays caused by snow overnight. Ivan Zidek, director of AWIC Technical Advisory, says, “Large, global corporations have the technology to allow their staff to work from home. It’s the UK small businesses, which are hardest hit by weather-related travel chaos.”

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Dec
07
2009

IT that grows with you

Small businesses and startups know that capital is hard to come buy, which is why many companies just get by with IT that doesn’t really meet their needs. Traditionally, to get all the big company functionality you’d like (such as Microsoft Exchange with Blackberry, high availability or regular backups), companies have had to invest a significant amount of working capital into server hardware. The AWIC Desktop service changes all that. With no hardware costs and no expensive software licenses to purchase, small businesses can use the service from Day 1, and have a fully-functioning Enterprise IT infrastructure. And because it’s so easy to add new users, the service can grow with your company, for when you move into that 1,000-employee Central London HQ that we all know you’ll be in soon.

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About AWIC Desktop

AWIC Desktop is a reliable, accessible subscription-based computing service that saves you money. It is one of a suite of products offered by Tunbridge Wells-based AWIC Technical Advisory — dedicated to clear, practical advice on IT for small and medium businesses.

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Dec
07
2009

Affordable IT for charity and small business

Enterprise-quality IT that fits your budget

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Dec
02
2009

Recruiters: keep your valuable data safe

A quality recruiting database

For resourcing companies, a quality database can be the key to helping business really grow, even in these tough economic times. It can mean the edge over the competition, and just one day without that data could mean significant losses for many companies.

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Oct
18
2009

IT challenges for the film/tv industry: a mobile workforce

by Amanda Dahl, Director at AWIC

The film and television industry has one of the most mobile workforces in the country.

There are around 400 ‘permanent’ (i.e. registered) companies in the UK film industry. This figure varies depending on the number of productions being worked on at any one time. Of the companies existing today, we can say approximately 43% are production, 13% are distribution and the remaining 44% are exhibition companies. (Source: Skillset)

In a survey of workers in the film/tv industry by Skillset, almost all (91%) of the sample were freelance; just under half (48%) of the survey sample had been employed on a fixed-term contract i.e. for a fixed number of hours, days or weeks, over one in five (22%) had an open-ended weekly contract and a further 9% had been employed as dailies. The remaining 9% were permanent employees. (Source: http://publications.skillset.org/index.php?id=9&page=10)

The transient and mobile nature of the work force in film and television means that production companies have challenges when it comes to providing IT for staff that’s only around for a few weeks or months at a time.

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