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)