ramsac signs up shipleys llp - london based chartered accountants and business advisers

ramsac, a leading IT solutions consultancy, today announced that Shipleys LLP, the top 50 practice of Chartered Accountants, Registered Auditors and Professional Business Advisers, with offices in London’s West End, Surrey and Essex, has chosen the company to manage all of its IT functions.

Shipleys LLP has 150 principals and staff, helping a wide variety of individual and corporate clients in professional practices, commerce, industry, agricultural businesses, the arts, film and entertainment, and the non-profit sector.

Shipleys LLP has 150 principals and staff, helping a wide variety of individual and corporate clients in professional practices, commerce, industry, agricultural businesses, the arts, film and entertainment, and the non-profit sector.

Shipleys has deployed a Citrix solution to enable information sharing across the three offices, complemented by a disaster recovery failover to a backup server farm in Godalming, Surrey for the whole firm.

Shipleys has now contracted ramsac to provide a range of outsourced services and to advise on all strategic IT plans. Robert May, Managing Director at ramsac comments, “We attend a bi-monthly strategic meeting to assist in the development of longer term technical plans, as well as providing the services of one of our Senior Network Consultants to work alongside the internal IT team at Shipleys, giving them broader outside knowledge, skills and expertise.”

Current projects at Shipleys include an upgrade to the disaster recovery set-up with new hardware and double take technology, a migration to Exchange 2007 with failover and replication between sites, as well as a planned upgrade to the latest version of Citrix Presentation Server across its existing Citrix Farm.

Concluded Fisher, “We have been very impressed with ramsac’s work and have full confidence in their IT skills. They are also helping us with internal IT policies and IT related HR. They provide an outside view on our IT progress and strategy, ensuring that we stay competitive, efficient and at the forefront of our sector.”

Founded in 1991, ramsac offers a ‘menu’ of outsourced stress-free IT services that allows clients to match their individual needs. For some clients it may simply be support at the end of the phone, for others a part-time network manager, for many businesses its help in developing a longer term overall IT strategy. Whatever the requirement clients are guaranteed impartial, jargon-free advice.

This enables those businesses and organisations for which a dedicated in-house IT department may not be practical, to outsource all or part of their IT needs. In return they benefit from properly planned cutting edge IT solutions and support without any of the headaches often associated with managing technology. The end result is that any business can now get top level joined-up grown up IT advice for a fraction of the cost

ramsac is committed to providing excellence in customer service and is proud to maintain a 97% client retention rate. In 2007, the company was named as Surrey SME Business of the Year. ramsac is also an ISO 9001 Quality Approved firm, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, a Citrix Silver Partner and an accredited Investor in People.

For more information about ramsac please visit: www.ramsac.com

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