February 1st 2006:
ramsac, the Southern counties’ leading IT solutions consultancy, today announced the successful implementation of a project that enables SME businesses, operating on a Citrix network, to perform low-cost document & project management. The work has been completed for Safesite, the de-facto provider of roof safety equipment.
ramsac already provides Safesite with an Outsourced network manager and an IT director to take care of the day-to-day management of its IT infrastructure and to provide board level direction. The success of this relationship led to Safesite tasking the company with finding a way to streamline its document and project management processes, used for clients such as the Royal Household, the British Embassy, GlaxoSmithKline and Volkswagen, as well as hospitals, football stadiums and theatres across the UK and Ireland.
“We were sending and receiving very large important documents, such as CAD drawing of projects and site photographs via post and email,” explains Marketing Director at Safesite, Graham Willmott. “This presented a logistical problem when the number of people involved in the project were editing files, often resulting in the production of duplicate versions of the same file.”
ramsac had recently installed a Citrix network at Safesite’s Crawley and Runcorn offices, to enable both sites to work together more closely. It soon identified an innovative way in which this network could deliver further benefits, as the Outsourced IT Director at Safesite, and Managing Director of ramsac, Robert May explains, “We were able to create ‘locked folders’ on the Safesite network for each of its clients.
Accessed via the Safesite website, authorised people were able to logon to a secure area, to view and amend documents. However we did restrict their ability to copy files by disabling the clipboard, to ensure the master document was the only one available.”
Willmott concludes, “This process has enabled us to control the movement of information much more effectively. It is a perfect example of how, by having ramsac actively involved at board level we are able to successfully identify, understand and capitalise on synergies between Safesite’s business strategy and its investment in IT.”