Thursday, 14 March 2013

soVision Awarded Rise Service Delivery Partner Of The Year Award

soVision Awarded Rise Service Delivery Partner Of The Year Award!
 
Rise Service Delivery Partner Of The Year
 
soVision have today accepted the award for Service Delivery Partner Of The Year from Rise, in recognition of our innovative work in the Cloud Arena and our 360 Cloud Solution.

Rise is an Infrastructure-as-a-Service business, focused on providing its channel partners with the platform, infrastructure and support they need to sell cloud to their customers as part of their portfolio. One of Fasthosts Internet Groups' key brands (and part of United Internet), Rise is part of an established, growing business that has provided hosted services to the SMB marketplace for over 12 years.

soVision was selected out of a total of 150 Rise Partners to receive this award.

Chris Thompson, IT Services Director for soVision commented 'Rise has been a key relationship for us to deliver the sophisticated solutions we now offer'

Joe Marsden, Technical Director for soVision added 'Rise has enabled us to offer 24x7x365 support to our Cloud Customers, and deliver a service that is available 99.99% of the time'


Chris Thompson (IT Services Director) and Joe Marsden (Technical Director) accepting the award a the Rise Partner Awards 2012, Mansion House, Wokefield Park, Reading.

Thursday, 23 August 2012

See How Your Current IT Provider Stacks Up

 

How can you tell if you are receiving poor or substandard service?







How do you know if your computer supplier is doing everything possible to secure your network from downtime, viruses, data loss, or other frustrating (and expensive) disasters? Could your current IT Support actually be jeopardising your network? 
If your IT Company does not score a “Yes” on every point, you could be paying for substandard support.

1) Do they respond to emergencies in 1 hour or less?
2) Are they easy to reach and responsive when you need them for non-emergencies?
3) Do they offer an on-going maintenance program to keep critical security settings and patches up-to-date?
4) Do they offer a monitoring system to watch over your network 24/7 for developing problems?
5) Do they proactively offer new ways to improve your network’s performance, or wait until you have a problem to make recommendations?
6) Do they provide detailed invoices that clearly show what you are paying for?
7) Do they explain what they are doing and answer your questions in terms that you can understand?
8) Do they complete projects on time?
9) Do they follow up on your requests quickly?
10) Do they offer any guarantees on their services?
11) Do they arrive on time and dress professionally?
12) Do they have other engineers available that are familiar with your network in case your regular engineer goes on vacation or gets sick?
13) Do their engineers maintain current vendor certifications and participate in on-going training?
14) Do you feel as though they are learning on your time?
15) Do they constantly seem rushed?
16) Do they take calls from other clients while working on your network and on your dime?
17) Do they listen to you?
18) Are they adamant about backing up your network and having a disaster recovery plan in place?
19) Do they offer to meet with you regularly to review your business plans, your network status, and their own performance in supporting your company?
20) Do you have to manage their progress on projects or do they provide frequent updates, status reports, and frequent follow up calls and e-mails?
21) Do their projects always end up costing more and/or  take longer than you expected?
22) Do they offer flat-rate or fixed-fee project quotes, or do they give themselves a wide open playing field with “time and materials”?


That will do for starters!


At soVision - Complete IT Services Provider we wish you all the success you desrve in your business!
For some professional and friendly IT Support Services to businesses across Bristol, Bath and throughout the South West responding quickly to fix all your IT problems feel free to give us a ring.
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soVision is growing!

  Since our last newsletter, soVision has added 4 more staff, including 2 people to the engineering team, to cope with our ramping business.  We've also added some excellent web apps to enhance customer productivity and collaboration, such as SharePoint and Office WebApps, as well as a ‘cloud’ remote data backup service. If you’re not ready to go fully to the cloud, we can offer 'Hosted Exchange' services so just your employees’ email is stored and managed centrally, so they can access it securely from anywhere, and it’s fully backed up. 

Saturday, 1 October 2011

You're already using cloud computing without even knowing it...


If you use online banking, access to an email service like Hotmail or Gmail or SaaS "software as a service" applications like Salesforce, etc. Then you are already using Cloud services.

Many businesses are moving to the Cloud computing because it frees them from having to install, maintain and upgrade expensive, overblown PCs that cost a LOT to maintain. It also makes added and removing users (or employees) quick and easy since you simply pay for what you use each month and nothing more.

Other advantages include unlimited storage, automatic backups, higher-level of security and the ability to access your business systems from any device anywhere. Plus, cloud-based networks don’t require the on-going maintenance that traditional server-workstation networks require.

However not every application or situation is suited for the Cloud. While many LOB (line-of-business) applications still can’t be hosted in the cloud and require a commercial grade Internet connection with a backup such as a DSL or cable, there’s no doubt that cloud computing is here to stay.

Advances are being made rapidly to make it the better solution for most businesses. Of course were here to help you understand your options and the pros and cons.


If you want to know if cloud computing is right for you, call us for a free, no-pressure, no-obligation cloud readiness assessment. We’ll evaluate your current situation and provide insights and options for moving to the cloud.

We’ll also answer any questions you have and tell you the unvarnished pros and cons of choosing this option.

Call us at 0845 450 3669 (option 2) or Click here>> Cloud Computing Bristol Bath & UK to have one of our friendly experts contact you to discuss further.

Happy Cloud Computing!


soVision - Complete IT Services Provider

Professional and friendly IT Support Services to businesses across Bristol, Bath and throughout the UK responding quickly to fix all your IT problems.

IT SERVICES | BUSINESS IT SUPPORT | BESPOKE WEBSITE DESIGN | CLOUD COMPUTING

Friday, 23 September 2011

What exactly is the Cloud?

That is the infamous question these days.

Well thanks to our friends at StartupTV Magazine we are able to explain this in more details for you.

Watch the video below to get answers to these common queries:

1) What exactly is the Cloud

2) How Can the Cloud Help SMEs

3) How as an SME do I migrate to the Cloud

4) Why SMEs should be moving to the Cloud



To find out more on the Cloud Computing or if your business could take advantage of the many benefits please contact soVision the Bristol Based Cloud Services experts for your Cloud Readiness assessment.

Or just call to speak with one of our friendly experts at 0845 450 3669



soVision - Complete IT Services Provider

Professional and friendly IT Support Services to businesses across Bristol, Bath and throughout the South West responding quickly to fix all your IT problems.

IT SERVICES | BUSINESS IT SUPPORT | BESPOKE WEBSITE DESIGN | CLOUD COMPUTING

Thursday, 22 September 2011

soVision at the FSB Best of Bristol Exhibition, September 27th, Ashton Gate

Are YOU excited about the "Best of Bristol" exhibition at Ashton Gate on September 27th ?

soVision most definitely are ! Come see us on stands 108 & 109, and also don't miss our "Cloud Computing" seminar, which will take place from 11.00 - 12.00 on the day !

See you there !




soVision - Complete IT Services Provider

Professional and friendly IT Support Services to businesses across Bristol, Bath and throughout the UK responding quickly to fix all your IT problems.

IT SERVICES | BUSINESS IT SUPPORT | BESPOKE WEBSITE DESIGN | CLOUD COMPUTING