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Collaboration and working from anywhere done right

Work from anywhere with our remote working solutions. Ensure your business has the technology it needs to allow your team to work as they would in the office outside the office. From the right devices to collaboration and document management, we’ve got the solution to give you the business outcome you need.

Collaborate Better

Moving your business to the cloud enables you, your employees, and your teams to collaborate better than ever before, using String’s Remote Working products and services.

Certified Specialists

Get support from our highly experienced team of “Stringians”. We’ve got experts who can support you to find the exact collaboration and remote working solutions you need so that your employees can access the files they need from anywhere on any device.

Remote Working Services

Here at String, we focus on business outcomes, that’s why we offer a range of remote working solutions. Whether it’s fully managed services, through to strategy or devices, we deliver to suit the needs of your business.

Bespoke

We understand that every business is different, that’s why it’s not a one-size-fits-all approach here at String. We create bespoke remote working solutions that are tailored to the exact needs of our clients.

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Enable your team to collaborate and communicate wherever they are. Whether they are on the road, at home, or in the office. You can be sure that your team have the infrastructure they need to get the job done.
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Remote Working to Suit You

We support you from start to finish and work with you to understand your organisation to find the right remote working solutions to suit your business needs. From planning to delivery and implementation, we’ll be there every step of the way ensuring a smooth transition that works for your business with minimal disruption. Plus, we’ll support you from completion and into the future, ensuring you get the most out of your remote working services with the help of our certified experts.

Microsoft 365 and Teams

At the core of any remote working solution is Microsoft 365 and Teams. Microsoft 365 provides a suite of services that make remote working easy. From Word, Excel and PowerPoint to Teams, file sharing and more. Teams enables your workforce to chat, video and audio call and work collaboratively wherever they all are, on one easy platform.

Business Voice and SharePoint

Turn Microsoft Teams into your very own business phone system. Make internal and external calls with added call features in and out of the office, from any device. Plus, with SharePoint you can create your own intranet and give your team access to data, files, and documents wherever there is an internet connection.

Virtual Desktops and Remote Devices

Enable a secure, remote desktop experience that allows your team to access business-critical data virtually anywhere. Plus, your employees need the right devices to enable them to work wherever they are. Here at String, we can source the devices you need, from computers to laptops, tablets and more.

Cyber Security and Cloud Hosting

When staff work from home or remotely there is an increased risk of falling victim to cyber-attacks. Our Cyber Security services ensure that your business is protected, no matter where you are. Plus, we’ll help you to host your systems and data in the cloud so that your team can continue as normal, whether they’re in or out of the office.

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The Sporting House – Microsoft 365 Cloud

Microsoft 365 Cloud Technologies Help Drive Olympian Levels of Success

Challenge

Whilst Sporting House had enjoyed rapid growth, their strategy was to significantly accelerate this. They were also acutely aware that their then IT service model was inadequate to support their ambitious plans for a number of reasons.

Solution

String worked with Sporting House to develop a new Microsoft cloud-centric IT strategy, that would leverage Microsoft 365 to support their wider business strategy.
“ We selected String because of their clear understanding of our strategic requirements, and were able to articulate how they, and Microsoft technologies could help us to achieve these. Our relationship with String has proven an extremely rewarding one, and we look forward to continuing to work closely with them moving forwards.”
Lee Cunliffe
Finance Director, The Sporting House
Jones Harris Chartered Accountants

Microsoft Hybrid Cloud Technologies Drive Paperless, Secure & Remote Office

Challenge

Jones Harris wanted to move to a fully paperless operation, without any interruption to the business. The company had a major dependency on a local Microsoft SQL Server database for their line-of-business applications, which limited their choices in terms of a potential cloud-only solution.

Solution

String worked with Jones Harris to help them adopt a hybrid-cloud solution, providing the optimal blend of Microsoft 365 cloud services, with the high performance computing power required by their LoB. Jones Harris now make full use of Microsoft's Power Platform, utilising Power BI for business intelligence, and Power Automate for business process automation.
“ String worked very closely with our internal guys, planning it out, mapping it out. There was absolutely no break in service, we were expecting there to be a few bugs, but it was a really smooth and impressive operation to get everything across and migrated. Absolutely top notch work, the String team!”
Martin Wigley
Director, Jones Harris Chartered Accountants
Ludlow Wealth Management - Azure Virtual Desktop

Access to Key Line of Business Applications Hosted on Microsoft Azure

Challenge

The increasing demand for online meetings, driven by the Covid crisis, meant that the Remote Desktop Solution was unable to provide an acceptable user experience. When the time came to refresh their IT infrastructure, we worked with the Ludlow team to ensure that the next upgrade cycle would address the changing end-user requirements, while further enhancing their cyber security and providing a high degree of scalability to cope with their ongoing growth.

Solution

Working with Ludlow, we produced a business case that showed that moving to Microsoft's Azure Virtual Desktop solution, and hosting their LoB application on Microsoft Azure would provide a more secure, cost-effective alternative to purchasing a physical server cluster. Their LoB application was migrated to Azure, and presented to end-users as a Published Application, removing the need for them to connect to a separate virtual desktop to access the app. Azure Backup was used to provide backup and business continuity and to further enhance Microsoft's already robust resilience measures.
“ String has consistently provided us with innovative IT solutions, without compromising our cyber security. The whole team are a pleasure to work with, and we consider them a trusted extension to our own team.”
Rob Brown
Chief Operating Officer, Ludlow Wealth Management Group
One Fylde - Microsoft Modern Workplace

Identifying Microsoft Modern Workplace as the Best Choice for the Client

Challenge

Following a merger between two organisations, our client found themselves with a disjointed IT service that comprised two large on-premise data centres, various security technologies, and a variety of remote access solutions. The result was a costly, difficult to manage IT infrastructure, with a poor user experience due to a lack of standardisation in the way IT was used. Of concern was that, as a large care provider, the client was responsible for the safe-keeping of a large amount of personal medical and financial data. Plus, users had become used to creating work-arounds to allow them to access and share sensitive information. The complexity of the IT infrastructure also meant they were suffering frequent service outages.

Solution

We discussed the opportunity for them to move away from their large, unwieldy on-premises infrastructure and instead to move to a wholly Microsoft cloud-based IT service. From our early discussions it was clear that such a move would allow us to radically re-imagine their approach to document and information management, business processes, and information security. The concept was embraced enthusiastically by the client, and it was agreed to move on to an initial business case analysis exercise. Firstly, however, we were engaged to stabilise the existing infrastructure, and to address the inadequate business continuity provision. The move to Microsoft Modern Workplace has allowed One Fylde to ensure data is more secure and improve workplace processes. All 400 users were able to access all relevant documents securely from any location. And the client can now enjoy the very latest in innovations from Microsoft on almost a weekly cycle.
“ One Fylde started to work with String at a time where our IT infrastructure was causing problems almost on a daily basis. The problems were meaning staff couldn't do their job to support people with learning disabilities in the way we wanted. String became involved with us and worked as a 'real' partner, feeling like part of the team to solve the immediate problem and with an eye to a longer-term more sustainable solution. We are now in a position where I can sleep at night and our staff are seeing the benefit of the huge amount of work that has gone on. And on a seperate note the whole team at String are really friendly, personable and supportive, working with us and continuing to support us to look at the future. ”
Tracey Bush
CEO, One Fylde
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