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optimising processes
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Bring your business into the future with automation using and to streamline and future-proof your organisation

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Financial Management

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Our team is an extension of yours, delivering business outcomes using Microsoft technologies

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Professional Services

Your cloud journey managed end to end with Professional IT Services delivered by highly certified Microsoft experts.

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Let us take care of your IT needs with our extensive range of Managed IT Services covering all Microsoft services.

IT Strategy

Full lifetime strategic partnerships that help to keep your organisation on track with future trends and developments.

Case Studies

With a focus on business outcomes, we help clients discover the art of the possible

Our case studies show how our team brings a rare and unique mix of Microsoft skills across their full cloud portfolio. We provide all our customers with enterprise-level Microsoft Solutions, resulting in real, tangible business outcomes.
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Case Studies

Jones Harris Invest in the Perfect Blend of Microsoft Hybrid Cloud Technologies to Deliver Exceptional Client Service

Case Studies

Jones Harris Invest in the Perfect Blend of Microsoft Hybrid Cloud Technologies to Deliver Exceptional Client Service

Guides

10 Things You Didn't Know About Microsoft's Cyber Security

Blog

Here's to the crazy ones!

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The entire history of 'IT' and why it's over.

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Understanding and implementing the Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF)

A leading
Microsoft Solutions Partner

Since 1997, we've been dedicated business technologists and a leading Microsoft Solutions Partner. Our commitment to excellence remains unwavering, delivering tailored Microsoft technology solutions that drive success for your business.
The Sporting House – Microsoft 365 Cloud

Microsoft 365 Cloud Technologies Help Drive Olympian Levels of Success

Challenge

Whilst Sporting House had enjoyed rapid growth, their strategy was to significantly accelerate this. They were also acutely aware that their then IT service model was inadequate to support their ambitious plans for a number of reasons.

Solution

String worked with Sporting House to develop a new Microsoft cloud-centric IT strategy, that would leverage Microsoft 365 to support their wider business strategy.
“ We selected String because of their clear understanding of our strategic requirements, and were able to articulate how they, and Microsoft technologies could help us to achieve these. Our relationship with String has proven an extremely rewarding one, and we look forward to continuing to work closely with them moving forwards.”
Lee Cunliffe
Finance Director, The Sporting House
Jones Harris Chartered Accountants - Hybrid Cloud

Microsoft Hybrid Cloud Technologies Drive Paperless, Secure & Remote Office

Challenge

Jones Harris wanted to move to a fully paperless operation, without any interruption to the business. The company had a major dependency on a local Microsoft SQL Server database for their line-of-business applications, which limited their choices in terms of a potential cloud-only solution.

Solution

String worked with Jones Harris to help them adopt a hybrid-cloud solution, providing the optimal blend of Microsoft 365 cloud services, with the high performance computing power required by their LoB. Jones Harris now make full use of Microsoft's Power Platform, utilising Power BI for business intelligence, and Power Automate for business process automation.
“ String worked very closely with our internal guys, planning it out, mapping it out. There was absolutely no break in service, we were expecting there to be a few bugs, but it was a really smooth and impressive operation to get everything across and migrated. Absolutely top notch work, the String team!”
Martin Wigley
Director, Jones Harris Chartered Accountants
Ludlow Wealth Management - Azure Virtual Desktop

Access to Key Line of Business Applications Hosted on Microsoft Azure

Challenge

The increasing demand for online meetings meant that the Remote Desktop Solution was unable to provide an acceptable user experience. When the time came to refresh their IT infrastructure, we worked with the Ludlow team to ensure that the next upgrade cycle would address their changing end-user requirements, while further enhancing their cyber security and providing a high degree of scalability to cope with their ongoing growth.

Solution

Working with Ludlow, we produced a business case that showed that moving to Microsoft's Azure Virtual Desktop solution, and hosting their LoB application on Microsoft Azure would provide a more secure, cost-effective alternative to purchasing a physical server cluster. Their LoB application was migrated to Azure, and presented to end-users as a Published Application, removing the need for them to connect to a separate virtual desktop.
“ String has consistently provided us with innovative IT solutions, without compromising our cyber security. The whole team are a pleasure to work with, and we consider them a trusted extension to our own team.”
Rob Brown
Chief Operating Officer, Ludlow Wealth Management Group
One Fylde - Microsoft Modern Workplace

Identifying Microsoft Modern Workplace as the Best Choice for the Client

Challenge

Following a merger between two organisations, our client found themselves with a disjointed IT service that comprised two large on-premise data centres, various security technologies, and a variety of remote access solutions. The result was a costly, difficult to manage IT infrastructure, with a poor user experience due to a lack of standardisation in the way IT was used. Of concern was that, as a large care provider, the client was responsible for the safe-keeping of a large amount of personal medical and financial data.

Solution

We discussed the opportunity for them to move away from their large, unwieldy on-premises infrastructure and instead to move to a wholly Microsoft cloud-based IT service. From our early discussions it was clear that such a move would allow us to radically re-imagine their approach to document and information management, business processes, and information security. The move to Microsoft Modern Workplace has allowed One Fylde to ensure data is more secure and improve workplace processes.
“ One Fylde started to work with String at a time where our IT infrastructure was causing problems almost on a daily basis. The problems were meaning staff couldn't do their job to support people with learning disabilities in the way we wanted. String became involved with us and worked as a 'real' partner, feeling like part of the team to solve the immediate problem and with an eye to a longer-term more sustainable solution. We are now in a position where I can sleep at night and our staff are seeing the benefit of the huge amount of work that has gone on. And on a separate note the whole team at String are really friendly, personable and supportive, working with us and continuing to support us to look at the future. ”
Tracey Bush
CEO, One Fylde

Numbers that speak for themselves

Customer satisfaction
98.9% of our customers rated our Managed IT Services good or excellent
98.9%
Our Net Promoter Score
Our latest Net Promoter Score highlights how happy we make our customers
92
A reliable partner
97.5% of our Managed IT Support cases were completed within Service Level Agreements
97.5%
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