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Looking to Reduce Your IT Expenditure? Here's How...

Energy costs have increased, reliable staff have become harder to find and hardware is more expensive, because of this, budgeting has become a top priority for businesses this year. Whilst saving money is a priority, any serious business understands the importance of technology in their organisation. Finding the perfect balance between costs and technological effectiveness is an intimidating task. Using our 16+ years of IT management experience we've put together these ways your business can reduce its IT expenditure without sacrificing effectiveness.

In-House VS Outsourced IT, Which is Better For You

These days it's unlikely that any business can survive and succeed without technology. When companies look to expand technologically, they will have two choices, do they take on the burden of implementing, heavily investing and managing their IT in-house, or do they choose to outsource this task to a trusted Managed Service Provider? Whilst both can be viable options the needs and size of your business will play a big part in which option would be best for you.

Local IT Support On A National Level

After starting entrust IT, Jeff & Matthew Dodd, the founders, quickly learned that when dealing with IT support providers, companies value that ‘local feel’ of a close-by organisation. Whilst we have grown significantly since the companies start in 2006, we have strived to keep that feeling on a national level and always treat our customers as if they're ‘just down the road’. Whilst being ‘down the road’ can’t always be the case, we pride ourselves on consistently delivering a bespoke support service that takes the time to understand your company and looks after it proactively, not reactively.

8 Steps to Starting an IT Project

Technology continues to ingrain itself as an essential part of how businesses efficiently run their operations, and therefore the need to plan and execute IT projects is inevitable. Unfortunately throughout our 15 years of experience working with a variety of businesses, we’ve noticed that many have trouble knowing where to start; or, how to effectively plan for the expansion of their IT infrastructre in corralation to the growth, and success of their business long term. This is understandable, technology is so expansive and knowing where/how to start can be a daunting task; and with a study by BCG finding that 70% of all IT projects fail, it seems without the right project plan in place things can quickly fall apart.

Talent Sure Recruitment choose the entrust IT Group!

The entrust IT Group are thrilled to announce that Talent Sure Recruitment, a specialist recruitment company based on the South Coast of England, have chosen us as their new IT support partner.

New Year, New Support

It has been almost two years since the first lockdown in early 2020, at the start of the pandemic remote work became mandatory to allow companies to continue running through lockdowns whilst keeping distance between colleagues, now that businesses have had time to adapt to this change it seems remote work is becoming common place with almost 84% of UK businesses planning on having a hybrid/remote workforce, according to a study done by tech firm Owl Labs.

6 crucial things to look for when choosing an IT provider

You know having IT infrastructure that just ‘works’ is crucial to the success of your business, but the cost of developing an in-house IT department with the right expertise would also be prohibiting.

Why a return to the office needs careful consideration

“What’s next?” In the American TV series the West Wing, President Jed Bartlet often signalled the resolution of an insurmountable or intractable problem with the phrase “What’s next?” The situation wasn’t necessarily resolved, but, a solution was in play and other problems could now be focused on.

The top 10 benefits of outsourcing IT support in 2021.

These days, business is reliant on IT like never before. Whether you’re a legal firm, manufacturing company, architect or hair salon, you will rely on technology in some way – and if you didn’t before the pandemic, you almost certainly will now. Indeed, throughout 2020, many companies have been forced implement a great deal of change when it comes to their technology, including continually adapting to the effect the pandemic has had on their use of technology, and therefore, how they support it.

A round up of our top blogs from 2020.

Can you believe its nearly 2021? What a year it has been! I’m sure we can all agree it has been one like no other. Throughout this time, we still been able to cover a host of topics in the entrust IT Group blog – from cyber security insights to tips for working remotely amid the pandemic and much more.