We can provide consultancy, specification, supply, installation, support and maintenance, WEEE disposal, data destruction, GDPR assistance for the following and much more.
ON PREMISES IT
ON PREMISES IT
Why on premises IT?
IT infrastructure is essential for most businesses whether it be for working with an industry specific application or database, accessing the Internet, sending and receiving emails and a lot more. Nowadays there are several ways in which that infrastructure can be provided and the conventional method of housing your own servers, computers, switches, routers etc. on your own premises is still popular. Many people have privacy concerns about storing their data on infrastructure that they do not own or like to own the infrastructure on which the rely so heavily.
Keeping on premises IT running
Should you wish to keep your IT infrastructure on site then it is essential that you take steps to ensure that it can carry on running regardless of hardware failures, power failures, software bugs, cyber threats (viruses, hacking, ransomware and other malware) and other disasters. It is vital that the system is reviewed to ensure that potential vulnerabilities and points of failure are discovered. Good quality hardware and software can go some way to ensure that failures do not occur but even the best hardware can fail and the most reliable software has bugs and so it becomes necessary to implement fail-over to see you through the unexpected. This can include components that can take over from failed components, such as RAID arrays (disk systems that keep data safe and systems running despite a hard drive failure), redundant power supplies (two power supplies in a server), UPS (battery backup systems to see you through a power outage), backup Internet connections, onsite and offsite backup (a last resort to recover in the event of complete failure or major disasters) and many other fail-over solutions. It is also important to maintain all aspects of a system with regular updates and reboots and ensure that issues are anticipated and resolved before they cause major problems by reviewing logs and responding to monitoring alerts.
How can we help?
D8A have been providing consultancy, installation, support and maintenance to on premises infrastructure for nearly 20 years with Microsoft certified engineers on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd line. We have assisted many different firms in many different sectors with many growing to become strong, profitable businesses. We can help any school or business implement reliable, effective on premises solutions with rapid experienced support when you need it.
What do we do?
We can provide consultancy, specification, supply, installation, support and maintenance, WEEE disposal, data destruction, GDPR assistance for the following and much more:
Servers
Computers
Wireless
Network cabling and containment
Acronis Backup and disaster recovery
Internet connections and telephone lines
Internet hardware
Printing and scanning
Projection, TVs and whiteboards
Antivirus and Cybersecurity
Ransomware recovery and prevention
TALK TO US
For general information, questions and comments about our company, our IT services, please call us or drop us an email to arrange a FREE NO OBLIGATION consultation with one of our experts.
D8A have been providing consultancy, installation, support and maintenance to cloud and hosted infrastructure since it emerged with Microsoft certified engineers on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd line.
HOSTED & CLOUD IT
HOSTED & CLOUD IT
Why Cloud IT?
Most schools and businesses cannot operate without effective IT infrastructure whether it be for working with an industry specific application or database, accessing the Internet, sending and receiving emails and much more. Nowadays there are several ways in which that infrastructure can be provided and many people are opting to move the responsibility away from infrastructure that they own and instead store their data and run their applications on hosted or cloud infrastructure.
Keeping Cloud IT running
If you choose to move to cloud infrastructure it is important to choose someone that you can trust to store your data, keeping it safe from other people in the same data centre and away from Internet threats. It is important that the provider will take the same precautions that would be necessary on an onsite infrastructure. Good quality hardware and software can go some way to ensure that failures do not occur but even the best hardware can fail and the most reliable software has bugs and so it becomes necessary to implement failover to see you through the unexpected. This can include components that can take over from failed components, such as RAID arrays (disk systems that keep data safe and systems running despite a hard drive failure), redundant power supplies (two power supplies in a server), UPS (battery backup systems to see you through a power outage), backup Internet connections, onsite and offsite backup (a last resort to recover in the event of complete failure or major disasters) and many other fail-over solutions.
How can we help?
The benefit of a cloud environment is that certain costs can be shared between all of those companies hosted in the environment. This means that a good hosting provider can ensure services and data can be stored across multiple geographic locations and secure and reliable data centres can be used, ensuring that generators kick in when power outages occur or backup Internet lines take over when lines are cut or outages occur. Many other fail-over technologies can be implemented in a cloud environment that could not be affordable in your own on premises infrastructure. Even the cost of hardware, software and implementation is significantly reduced and instead spread over monthly payments.
What do we do?
D8A have been providing consultancy, installation, support and maintenance to cloud and hosted infrastructure since it emerged with Microsoft certified engineers on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd line. We have assisted many different firms in many different sectors with many growing to become strong, profitable businesses. We can help any school or business implement reliable, effective cloud and hosted solutions with rapid experienced support when you need it.
We can provide consultancy, specification, supply, installation, support and maintenance, WEEE disposal, data destruction, GDPR assistance for the following and much more:
Cloud desktops
Cloud email
Office 365
Acronis Cloud Backup
Microsoft Teams
Microsoft phone system
Domains, DNS and SMTP
Ransomware recovery and prevention
Web hosting
TALK TO US
For general information, questions and comments about our company, our IT services, please call us or drop us an email to arrange a FREE NO OBLIGATION consultation with one of our experts.
We provide extremely responsive support and proactive, professional and effective maintenance and consultancy to ensure that support from our helpdesk is required as little as possible.
MANAGED IT
MANAGED IT
Why managed IT?
Good quality hardware and software can go some way to ensure that failures do not occur but even the best hardware can fail and the most reliable software has bugs and so it becomes necessary to implement fail-over (redundant disk and other components and backups)
to see you through the unexpected. When hardware fails, updates do not install properly, malware infects systems and users make mistakes you can still need support. We provide extremely responsive support and proactive maintenance to ensure that support is required as little as possible.
How can we help?
D8A have been providing consultancy, installation, support and maintenance to on premises, hosted and cloud infrastructure for nearly 20 years with Microsoft certified engineers on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd line. We have assisted many different firms in many different sectors with many growing to become strong, profitable businesses. We can help any school or business implement reliable, effective on premises solutions with rapid experienced support when you need it.
What do we do?
We can provide consultancy, specification, supply, installation, support and maintenance, WEEE disposal, data destruction, GDPR assistance for the following and much more:
Servers
Computers
Wireless
Network cabling and containment
Acronis Backup and disaster recovery
Internet connections and telephone lines
Internet hardware
Printing and scanning
Projection, TVs and whiteboards
Antivirus and Cybersecurity
Ransomware recovery and prevention
Cloud desktops
Cloud email
Office 365
Acronis Cloud Backup
Microsoft Teams
Microsoft phone system
Domains, DNS and SMTP
Ransomware recovery and prevention
Web hosting
TALK TO US
For general information, questions and comments about our company, our IT services, please call us or drop us an email to arrange a FREE NO OBLIGATION consultation with one of our experts.
If hardware fails, updates do not install or malware infects systems you may still need support. We provide responsive and proactive support to ensure that support is required as little as possible.
SUPPORT & MAINTENANCE
SUPPORT & MAINTENANCE
Why do you need a help-desk?
Good quality hardware and software can go some way to ensure that failures do not occur
but even the best hardware can fail and the most reliable software has bugs and so it becomes necessary to implement fail-over (redundant disk and other components and backups) to see you through the unexpected. When hardware fails, updates do not install properly, malware infects systems and users make mistakes you can still need support. We provide extremely responsive support and proactive maintenance to ensure that support is required as little as possible.
How can we help?
D8A have been providing consultancy, installation, support and maintenance to on premises, hosted and cloud infrastructure for nearly 20 years with Microsoft certified engineers on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd line. We have assisted many different firms in many different sectors with many growing to become strong, profitable businesses. We can help any school or business implement reliable, effective on premises solutions with rapid experienced support when you need it.
What do we do?
We can provide consultancy, specification, supply, installation, support and maintenance, WEEE disposal, data destruction, GDPR assistance for the following and much more:
Servers
Computers
Wireless
Network cabling and containment
Acronis Backup and disaster recovery
Internet connections and telephone lines
Internet hardware
Printing and scanning
Projection, TVs and whiteboards
Antivirus and Cybersecurity
Ransomware recovery and prevention
Cloud desktops
Cloud email
Office 365
Acronis Cloud Backup
Microsoft Teams
Microsoft phone system
Domains, DNS and SMTP
Ransomware recovery and prevention
Web hosting
TALK TO US
For general information, questions and comments about our company, our IT services, please call us or drop us an email to arrange a FREE NO OBLIGATION consultation with one of our experts.
Well articulated copy – get straight to the point and help clients understand what you do, while conveying a sense of who you are and what’s important to you.
COPYWRITING
Clear, Concise & Compelling
We write copy for all brand content; websites, brochures, adverts, sales letters, presentations, direct mail, case studies, articles, press releases, news stories, even social media posts… and just about anything you’re struggling to find the words for!
And, owing to the depth of understanding we seek to achieve, along with our strategic focus, our copy often feeds into business plans, bid documents, tenders, proposals, funding applications – forming tight integration between your business development and your marketing activities.
Naturally, your company will have its own personality – the subtleties of which should attract the right type of like-minded people. We’ll provide structure to your corporate personality – articulating your preferred style, developing a tone-of-voice that fits and defining how it should adapt to certain situations or circumstances. We’ll ensure every written word contributes to the overall sense of who you are – engaging prospective clients and remaining on-brand.
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For general information, questions and comments about our company, our web services, please call us or drop us an email to arrange a FREE NO OBLIGATION consultation with one of our experts.
Beyond website design, development and content provision, we also specialise in web and cloud based software development tools, web apps and mobile apps.
WEB SOLUTIONS
UNDERSTANDING YOUR BUSINESS
Based in South East London, Frootes Media, a complete new media solution provider, understand the importance of creating a strong brand. In an ever-growing, fast moving, technology driven world, your website becomes the global portal into your business; therefore, your message must be clear, precise and well delivered. Now partnered with D8A, we offer a full and tailor-made “turn-key” solution for our clients whatever the industry, whatever the size.
Frootes Media are experts in building the right solution for you with over 20 years experience in graphic design, web design and multimedia presentations. Our methods are simple. We build what you need. How do we do this? Simple, we talk to you. Understanding your businesses goals and objectives allows us to deliver the most powerful and effective solution for you. We become part of your team.
OUR VISION
At Frootes Media, our vision is simple. To provide our clients with the perfect solution that matches their business needs, within budget and timescale. We make it our business to keep up-to-date with new developments in our industry so that you can benefit from cutting-edge design and technology.
Helping you to achieve your vision is our ultimate aim – whether you require a new website, a complete re-branding, an annual report, a multimedia presentation, advertising concepts or promotional literature, we can provide you with a solution that will deliver the right message to the people that matter the most; your clients.
WEB DESIGN
We design websites that are user-friendly, attractive and effective, strengthening your brand and optimising your online business performance. We understand that the creative design of a website is the link between the audience and the underlying technology and so we ensure that the level of creativity matches the innovative technology behind it. Designers work closely with programmers to ensure that our websites are not only at the cutting-edge of technology but also easy and enjoyable to use.
CONTENT MANAGEMENT
We know that it is vital for your business that information held on your website is kept up-to-date. With our easy-to-use content management system you can add, update and delete information quickly and easily. Our CMS package gives you complete control over editing the content on your website as and when required, removing out-of-date information and adding new or topical material.
You can edit your web pages through a secure, password-protected administration area over the web. No specialist knowledge of web publishing is required. Pages are edited simply by typing the desired content into the template.
E-COMMERCE SOLUTIONS
If you need to offer your customers the means to buy products or pay for services on your website, we can help you. Our powerful e-commerce product lets you generate revenue from your web site 24-hours a day.
In-depth knowledge of Internet technology means that we understand the challenges and opportunities associated with electronic transactions, security and management of sensitive information. Working closely with a payment-processing partner, we can provide secure on-line payment solutions that you can trust. For more information about e-commerce solutions please contact us and we’ll be happy to talk to you about it.
SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMISATION
We can help your website appear in the top search engine rankings through a process called Search Engine Optimisation. It attracts visitors by securing top rankings for the most relevant search terms and phrases. It can be deployed on most websites and is a powerful and affordable online marketing solution.
We will optimise and build your website right from the conception phase with high search engine rankings in mind.
PAY PER CLICK
Pay Per Click advertising is one way of guaranteeing rankings on a number of major search engines and directories. It works by bidding for a position for a particular search term. When you bid for a term you only pay the money if someone clicks on your listing so you will only pay for traffic that you actually receive. We will pick the best value-for-money positions and alter bids where necessary within your pre-set campaign parameters (which are agreed during regular progress meetings). We would recommend that a Pay Per Click campaign runs alongside a search engine optimisation campaign to ensure the most comprehensive coverage for a website and guarantees high rankings while your website’s main rankings are improving.
TALK TO US
For general information, questions and comments about our company, our web services, please call us or drop us an email to arrange a FREE NO OBLIGATION consultation with one of our experts.
From web and logo design to a complete corporate identity solution, our design team makes sure to incorporate a customer-focused design solution.
GRAPHIC DESIGN
DESIGN
Our creative team has a wealth of experience, skills and ideas to create inspiring and individual marketing material.
Whether you need an advertising or direct mail campaign, a corporate brand, marketing/publicity material or exhibition design, you can rely on us to present you with a series of ideas that will both appeal to your audience and promote your corporate identity.
BRANDING
Creating and maintaining a strong brand identity is crucial to a business. A company’s identity reflects its personality and future ambitions. We will examine where you would like your company to be positioned within the mind of your customer and then produce an identity that will reflect and reinforce this.
New brand development is aimed at start-up companies requiring the development of a professional corporate/brand identity. Re-branding is aimed at established companies who are looking to develop a new brand identity and re-position themselves within the marketplace.
We can maximise the value of your corporate identity by helping you to maintain a consistent visual identity throughout your marketing communications.
EXHIBITION SUPPORT
We design all exhibition marketing material to suit your budget and timescale ensuring your key messages are delivered within your corporate identity. We will deliver everything you need to make the event a success: pre-event promotion, design, multi-media presentations, marketing materials and display graphics that provide you with all the tools to present your company.
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For further information, questions and comments about our our Graphic Design services, please call us or drop us an email to arrange a FREE NO OBLIGATION consultation with one of our experts.
We can help you with Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), keyword & phrase provision, paid advertising such as pay per click (PPC) & email marketing design.
DIGITAL MARKETING
DIGITAL MARKETING: THE EYE TO THE WORLD
Digital marketing is advertising delivered through digital channels. Channels such as social media, mobile applications, email, web applications, search engines, websites, or any new digital channel. The typical channels that make up the key digital marketing platforms are Search engines, social media, blogs, online ads, affiliate marketing, emails, and mobile apps.
Google and Facebook generate more revenue than any traditional media company because they control more eyeballs. That’s why digital marketing matters, it is where the attention is. Digital marketing is the future and it wont stop at a PC or mobile device. The offline and online world are colliding. Traditional devices such as fridges, ovens and even billboards will all be modernized to leverage digital media.
By working together, D8A and FROOTES Media can offer a future proof digital marketing solution for your business that will ensure that your digital imprint is firmly planted within the cyber markets.
SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMISATION
We can help your website appear in the top search engine rankings through a process called Search Engine Optimisation. It attracts visitors by securing top rankings for the most relevant search terms and phrases. It can be deployed on most websites and is a powerful and affordable online marketing solution. We will optimise and build your website right from the conception phase with high search engine rankings in mind.
PAY PER CLICK
Pay Per Click advertising is one way of guaranteeing rankings on a number of major search engines and directories. It works by bidding for a position for a particular search term. When you bid for a term you only pay the money if someone clicks on your listing so you will only pay for traffic that you actually receive.
We will pick the best value-for-money positions and alter bids where necessary within your pre-set campaign parameters (which are agreed during regular progress meetings). We would recommend that a Pay Per Click campaign runs alongside a search engine optimisation campaign to ensure the most comprehensive coverage for a website and guarantees high rankings while your website’s main rankings are improving.
E-MARKETING
E-mail campaigns are a quick and effective way of keeping your clients informed of your activities, products or services. We can brand them to reflect the rest of your marketing material to strengthen your company’s brand identity and reach your audience. These can be used in conjunction with data captured from your website or as a stand alone campaign.
TALK TO US
For general information, questions and comments about our company, our web services, please call us or drop us an email to arrange a FREE NO OBLIGATION consultation with one of our experts.
D8A and FROOTES Media have been providing IT and web solutions across London and the home counties (Kent, Essex, Middlesex, Surrey and Sussex) and the South East of England since 2001.
For nearly two decades we have been providing personal and friendly IT and web consultancy and help-desk services to schools, blue chips, estate agents, solicitors, accountants, charities, construction firms and other small and medium sized businesses, with 5 to 500 people.
We have a team of experienced, UK based, engineers and designers, that have stayed working with us for a great number of years, that know exactly how to keep systems up and running and customers flowing to your website.
Customers have sought IT support, IT consultancy, Web design, Managed IT, Outsourced IT from right across London including businesses and schools in Kensington and Chelsea, The City of London, Islington, Lambeth, Southwark, Westminster, Barking and Dagenham, Bexley, Greenwich, Hackney, Havering, Lewisham, Newham, Redbridge, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest, Bromley, Croydon, Kingston upon Thames, Sutton and Wandsworth.
WE FOCUS ON YOU
Whilst we recognise the importance of speedy support our primary focus is to be pro-active about ensuring that problems do not occur in the first place. We work with our customers to fully understand their business and then ensure that the correct solutions are in place to meet their needs and ensure fault tolerance is in place whilst meeting tight budgets.
We monitor our customers’ servers, computers, routers and all other key IT equipment 24/7 and qualified, certified and experienced engineers perform on site maintenance at least once a month.
If you should need reactive support then an engineer can be remotely connected within minutes and if we should need to attend site then an engineer can be dispatched immediately.
Our agreements are the most straight forward in the industry. At some of the lowest hourly rates available we have our maintenance and help-desk services agreement which includes all the pro-active managed IT you will need, including monitoring, regular software and firmware updates to all servers, computers and other devices, regular backup checks, regular meetings with your technical account manager and an annual IT road map.
Why should checking your backups, monitoring or applying updates be an optional extra?
QUALITY SUPPORT SOLUTIONS
Once our support software is installed, if you do need us to respond to an incident then you can easily request remote support at the press of your F11 key, email us at helpdesk@businessnetworks.co.uk or give us a call on 020 8315 5820.
We have 1st, 2nd and 3rd line engineers available for remote support and on-site visits. We operate an ITIL compliant helpdesk that ensures that we prioritise cases effectively meaning those issues that need attention quickly, get attention quickly.