Support Services

Nestor 24x7 Live Monitoring
We understand the importance of identifying and resolving problems before they happen. Our 24x7 Live Monitoring service – NESTOR, provides a central view of all your devices and proactively monitors the critical devices. NESTOR notifies our technical professionals and key stakeholders alike by e-mail or SMS text in the event of a critical failure to a device, network or service or a breached threshold indicating an impending failure.

  

NESTOR’s reporting functions help you understand usage patterns and long term trends and provides your business with important management information. By regularly monitoring your systems performance and functionality we are able to provide you with an accurate and clear assessment of how your IT is performing in line with what your business needs to achieve – for today and tomorrow as your business continues to evolve.

Features and benefits:

24x7 Performance Monitoring ensures all of the critical network devices that comprise your business network are healthy and functioning reliably and optimally

Network Health Assessment determines the overall stability of your network

Service and Business Continuity ensures disasters won't impact on your access to critical data and applications. We implement multiple layers of data backup, protection and redundancy

Printer Monitoring Services greatly improves printer support. We monitor printers for power, toner and drum levels, page counts, paper levels and error messages

Monthly Network Health Review dedicates time to review reports and issues that are important to the ongoing performance of your network. We translate technology into business terms for you

Annual Strategy and Planning Meeting allows us to help you build and manage a long-term technology plan to support your business. This enables you to make the best business decisions possible

Hardware Support
There is an increased reliance on technology and users depend on working system so they can do their jobs as normal. Hardware is increasingly placed under a lot of pressure, and as such IT departments need to ensure that if failures do occur, the repair turnarounds are limited in order to continue with business as usual.

  

European Electronique – one of the UK’s leading providers in hardware support has two decades of experience in providing hardware support services to many vertical markets. Our portfolio encompasses the support of all IT hardware products either on an ad-hoc, workshop repair or contracted basis. European Electronique is ‘manufacturer neutral’, allowing us to provide multi-vendor hardware support.

European Electronique’s nationally based field service engineers trained to a high standard coupled with a sophisticated call management system allows us to provide cover to the UK. Our extensive service options allow you to align the service to meet individual requirements; this is achieved by choosing the required SLA which is totally dependent on the criticality of the hardware.

Features and benefits:

  • Dedicated Service Desk for a single point of contact (SPOC)
  • All calls technically vetted to allow for quick fault resolutions and high first time fix rates, circa 89%
  • Warranty calls logged and managed with most vendors
  • Support provided during Monday to Friday, 9-5; 24x7x365, etc
  • Service levels aligned to the way your business operates
  • Extensive service options with guaranteed fix times or the provision of a loan facility
  • Cost effective, quality service inline with ‘Information Technology Infrastructure Library’ (ITIL) Best Practices
  • Dedicated onsite engineers for larger contracts
  • Lead and secondary engineers assigned to each site for continuity purposes
  • Support on multi-vendor hardware products such as servers, UPS’s, storage devices, networking and communications equipment desktop PCs, laptops, printers and scanners
  • Free up your IT department to concentrate strategically on IT

Software Support
European Electronique offers a portfolio of software support services which enable customers to access the experience of highly skilled technical professionals across a mix of technology environments.

  

Our professionals have extensive experience in resolving complex software problems that can undoubtedly cause downtime and thus lead to lack of user productivity.

We offer comprehensive services for organisations of all sizes and environments of all types: desktops, client/server, and data centre, home-based and mobile. Our professionals are skilled to support a wide range of software packages including Microsoft and Novell products, so you can obtain the precise level of assistance you need, when you need it.

We provide a single point of contact (SPOC) for your queries. The service is delivered by telephone or desktop streaming ‘remote access’ allowing problems to be resolved quickly and efficiently.

Features and benefits:

  • Dedicated Service Desk for a single point of contact (SPOC)
  • Service Desk staffed with 1st, 2nd and 3rd line support engineers
  • Direct line to Service Desk, no automated service or switchboard
  • Quick SLA’s from thirty-minutes, one-hour, etc
  • Support provided by telephone or desktop streaming ‘remote access’
  • Support provided during Monday to Friday, 9-5; 24x7x365, etc
  • Unlimited number of calls or per incident support contracts available
  • Technical professionals from a diverse range of technology environments
  • Microsoft Windows 2000 Server onwards covered and most Microsoft business applications covered such as Exchange
  • Novell 6 Server onwards covered and most Novell business applications covered such as GroupWise
  • Reduce costs and achieve greater productivity

User Helpdesk
European Electronique’s helpdesk service assists you in meeting the challenge of user support. We achieve this by providing quick-responses and a single point of contact (SPOC) for end-user queries. The service is delivered by telephone, e-mail or desktop streaming ‘remote access’ allowing problems to be resolved efficiently.

  

We recognise the importance of aiding users in resolving problems quickly which in turn provides you with a productive workforce and frees-up key IT staff to concentrate on core business activities.

With the implementation of ‘Information Technology Infrastructure Library’ (ITIL) Best Practices, our helpdesk specialists provide a high-quality level of service with quick resolutions and always ensure they are professional, friendly, relevant and flexible.

A direct line in to the helpdesk ensures users can access the helpdesk specialists without making contact via an automated service, switchboard and high-rate telephone number.

Features and benefits:

  • Dedicated Helpdesk for Single point of contact (SPOC)
  • Unlimited number of calls
  • General queries answered at once
  • Direct line to Helpdesk, no automated service or switchboard
  • Microsoft Windows 2000 and onwards covered
  • Microsoft Office 97 and onwards covered, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Project, Publisher, Visio and Outlook
  • Increase productivity by reducing the time spent working out how to do this or that
  • Increase efficiency by formulating better solutions and releasing time spent by your own hard pressed IT staff
  • Increase the confidence and job satisfaction of your users by increasing knowledge
  • Improve the effectiveness of your own ICT investment
  • Time saving service
  • Professional approach, yet friendly
  • No jargon; clear, concise explanations given
  • Documents can be e-mailed for analysis and problem solving
  • Monthly reports of all calls made, great for assessing future training requirements

Onsite Engineers
Many companies are increasingly reaping the benefits of having full or part time onsite engineers. This may entail the provision of a full-time network manager employed by European Electronique with associated IT support staff or simply a single part time technician to undertake basic IT requirements.

  

The key measure of service levels and working practices defined within such an agreement are designed to provide the organisation with the highest level of service and support, consistent with the objective of ensuring that the ICT network enables users to achieve the maximum potential from the investment in ICT resources.

In accordance with The Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations (TUPE), European Electronique can also manage the successful transition of existing onsite engineers whether employed directly by your organisation or by an alternative service provider.

All onsite engineers go through a rigorous induction and training program to ensure a consistent level of service performance.

Features and benefits:

  • Ability to leverage collective expertise of European Electronique engineering resources
  • Eliminates restriction on skill set of company employees
  • Infrastructure audit and recommendations
  • Strategic planning and reviews
  • Service desk and call logging
  • Organic service reflecting the needs of the organisation
  • Fully auditable competitive pricing for supply ensuring best value
  • Integration into and full understanding of organisation’s culture
  • Access to additional resources to cover seasonal variations
  • Identification of staff support and training needs
  • Sickness and holiday cover through the provision of continuous cover
  • HR benefits through reduced overheads
  • Assurance that the ICT network will enable users to gain maximum potential from the ICT investment
  • Implementation of BECTA Framework for ICT Technical Support (FITS)

Virtual IT Days
Due to the increasing complexity of IT environments as well as pressure on organisations to try and keep pace with the latest technologies, companies are often looking for assistance in key areas. European Electronique’s Virtual IT Days service provides organisations with access to a variety of highly skilled engineers (MCP’s, MCSE’s, CNE’s, CCNA’s, CCDP, and many more), whenever they are required, during office hours or out of office hours. By pre-purchasing Virtual IT Days, you can take advantage of reduced rates with preferential access to engineers.

  

Virtual IT Days are broken down in two distinct areas – desktop engineers and server/network engineers.

Desktop Engineers – IMAC Lifecycle Management

Install: Installation and verification of new IT systems; deliverables may include site preparation, software loading, configuration of network parameters, user familiarisation and much more

Move: Movement of existing equipment to new locations

Add: Addition of new accessories, memory, or processor upgrades

Change: Change of existing configurations due to events such as new users, data transfers, or migration to a new operating system Server & Network Engineers – Professional Services

Consultancy: We recognise the long term benefits of engagement with all stakeholders and end users from the point of conception of any project.

Design: Our Solutions Architects, design solutions to meet the unique needs of your business.

Configuration: In-house configuration eliminates issues arising on site as vigorous testing is undertaken prior to shipment of the solution.

Implementations: We base all implementations on industry standard methodology from end to end. Our processes ensure minimal disruption to the business environment.

European Electronique’s Virtual IT Days service provides you with a single point of contact and accountability for diverse services that enables you to:

  • Enhance ROI with shortened time-to-productivity
  • Cut implementation time and cost
  • Minimise disruptions during installation processes
  • Enhance the support of your IT solutions
  • Streamline knowledge transfer to your technical team or end-users
  • Enjoy the peace of mind that comes with installation and configuration by highly skilled professionals

Remote Backup
We all like to think that we can cope with the unexpected, but how many of us are truly prepared for a disaster that affects our company IT? We know that we should be making regular backups of our most important data, but how many of us think the process through and keep those backups off site in a secure location?

  

European Electronique’s Remote Backup Services enables your company to have a secure remote backup of your company data at a very cost effective price.

The Remote Backup Services work by compressing and encrypting your important data and storing it off site using your internet connection. The service uses geographically separate and technically independent data centres to ensure seamless availability.

Remote Backup offers users the ability to sleep easy at night knowing that the data that keeps their business going is being safely backed up and transferred over the internet to a highly secure Remote Backup Site, AND then replicated to another highly secure site. Remote Backup Service from European Electronique ensures that your data is safe and that you can recover it quickly and easily should a disaster happen.

Two core solutions – Iron Mountain’s LiveVault and Attix 5 are used to meet a range of requirements:

LiveVault – a premium solution for those seeking simplicity combined with the sophistication of real-time backups, long retention histories and built-in database protection.

Attix 5 – For those looking to replace an older tape solution with an automated, secure and off-site service

Iron Mountain’s LiveVault, some highlights include:

  • Real-time Backup – data is sent off-site as it changes reducing the risk of data loss to a minimum
  • 30-day, 1-year, 7-year Retention – choose to roll-back data to a point-in-time that best meets your industry and data requirements
  • Anywhere Control – web-based control panel allows you manage backups and restores whenever and wherever you like
  • Exchange, SQL, SAGE – in-built support for key business databases ensures fast setup and minimal support
  • Turbo Restore Appliance – very fast restores of volume data using a custom on-site disk cache
  • Alerting – automatic alerting of key events allows you to react when required
  • Security – data is encrypted on server and then sent, stored and restored encrypted
  • Iron Mountain – the comfort from knowing that data is secured in dual Iron Mountain data centres

Attix 5, some highlights include:

  • Automatic Scheduled Backups – simply set the time of day and the system will backup new and changed data automatically
  • 30-day (plus one month) – roll-back data to any of the previous 30 days or the previous month end
  • Database Protection – plug-ins to allow backups of Exchange, SQL, Oracle and most common databases
  • Alerting – automatic alerting of events including backups, restores and issues
  • Security – data is encrypted and stored in two IBM data centres for guaranteed availability
 
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