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We caught up with our David Allen IT Solutions Director, David Arnold, to discuss the brand new IT package benefitting small businesses.

‘Essentially, our key aim is to deliver big business IT, but to any size firm.  As such, the David Allen IT Solutions ‘Small Business Support Package’ was born, helping small businesses identify and implement solutions that are right for them, saving them time and money.

The new package enables us to take all the expertise, experience, and know-how, plus the support, licences, security and compliance – all the benefits of big business IT and provide them at an affordable fixed monthly fee.

Often, small businesses recognise their IT requires improvement or even a wider overhaul, be it upgrading systems, checking anti-virus provision, or ensuring they have a method to retrieve their data from a backup should the worst-case scenario occur.  However, businesses may struggle to find the time or money to invest into the process.  That’s where we come in, we will assist by identifying technologies that will add value to businesses, offering options that are cost efficient, that will deliver the highest return on investment.

This year has been an incredible one for us, we’ve now grown to a team of 17, which makes us one of the largest IT service providers in the area.  Our base is in Carlisle, but we provide fully managed IT support and services to businesses of all sizes across Cumbria, South West Scotland, Northumberland and further afield.

The success of your business is our ultimate goal.  Every member of the David Allen IT Solutions team aligns their efforts to help you and your growing business succeed.  We very much act as ‘Your IT department’ enabling you to focus on running your business.

Having an IT support contract with David Allen IT Solutions will bring you peace of mind, knowing that there is no stress as we maintain and improve your business’s day to day and long-term IT function.

Unless you are in the world of IT, the ins and outs of an IT solutions package can be mind blowing, we want to make it stress and jargon free.  Fundamentally the package consists of:

• A review of your current IT systems
• Development of your own business IT strategy, which supports your business goals
• Access to our award-winning IT service desk team, remotely and on-site
• Microsoft 365 – best in class productivity including email, scheduling, file sharing, instant messaging, communication, and collaboration from anywhere
• Monitoring and maintenance tools – to ensure your business systems and hardware are working at optimal performance
• Security and Protection – Antivirus security, firewall, web protection, central reporting, spam filtering
• Communication technology – calls, audio conferencing and video meetings to support your interactions with clients, suppliers, and partners
• Connectivity – Internet connections and mobile data to keep you online wherever you need to be

‘There are so many great small businesses in our region that are doing incredible things, they deserve the best IT to enable them to prosper.’

You should never underestimate the potential of a small firm.  Those companies that are small but mighty.  The unique firms with entrepreneurial drive who want to expand and leap into the next development opportunity.  It’s not always the size of a business that indicates success though, sometimes it actually makes better business sense for a small company to remain small, whether that’s a unique tourist attraction, a local estate agent or bespoke retailer – staying niche and elite.

It’s been a key focus of mine over the last six months to evaluate the services we provide smaller businesses and how we go above and beyond to offer them the IT solutions they need to succeed.  The answer is simple really.  What it ultimately boils down to, is that we want to provide exactly the same!  The same service, the same level of expertise, the same technologies, the same cost efficiencies – why should a smaller business receive any less!

There are so many great small businesses in our region that are doing incredible things, they deserve the best IT to enable them to prosper.  We want to make sure small businesses are getting the most out of their IT.  Contact us, we would love to help.’