Axsis Consultants Limited
Our Services
SME Services
Axsis recognises that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
need a different approach from that used in the public sector and larger private
organisations. Therefore we have created a range of services specifically
targeted at SMEs. These services, initially are offered in the Thames
Valley, approximately the counties of Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire,
Wiltshire and Hampshire, or postcodes RG, OX, SN and GL, including Gloucester,
Newbury, Oxford, Reading, Slough and Swindon.
Axsis recommends that an SME should start with a low
cost IT Review to set the foundations of mutual understanding for further
exploitation of IT for real business benefits.
- IT Review - provides an independent, expert
assessment of the company's use of IT. It does this quickly and at
low cost, and can provide reassurance that IT is providing value for money,
whilst highlighting any areas where it is under-performing or, worse still,
exposing the business to avoidable risk.
Depending on the needs of the SME or the results of the IT Review an appropriate
next step often one of the following:
- IT Health Check - identifies areas
where IT is not functioning efficiently or could pose a risk to the business.
- IT Audit - provides an inventory of IT assets.
It identifies all the hardware, software, licences, procedures and
staff skills that are part of the IT usage and support in the business.
Other services we offer to SMEs are as follows:
- Integrating systems and information
- Maximising efficiency and effectiveness of existing IT investments
- System and networking design and planning
- IT procurement of hardware and software - evaluation of requirements,
identifying potential solutions, advising on acquisition options, managing
the acquisition
- Project management of IT implementations and IT related change programmes
- Website design, including e-Commerce
- Security audits
- Strategic planning
- Disaster recovery planning
- Telecommunications planning
- Assessing IT support of your business strategy
- Identifying new channels to market that make use of IT
- IT implications of company decision-making
- Evaluating strategic issues facing your company that depend on IT
- Estimating what IT budget you need
- Design and implement changes to your IT infrastructure
- Evaluating new technology developments in the context of your business
objectives.
SME = Small and Medium-sized Enterprise, also increasingly
called SMB (Small to Medium-sized Business)