Future Planning

Auditing

This service is designed to help businesses ensure that they are fully compliant with regulatory or security policies.  Our auditing services include the following:

Software        Does your business meet compliance needs of software licensing?  This can be a minefield and if you’re not careful you can end up with a hefty fine.  Full report of all our findings will be presented upon completion.

Hardware       Hardware costs spiralling out of control and no longer know what hardware assetts your business owns?  Then we can help your business find out what hardware it currently owns and if it is still of any use to a business process.  Full report of all our findings will be presented upon completion.

Security         Worried about the security of your business and the potential hazards that the internet brings?  Then let us look beyond the physical security of your office and at the electronic security of your business.  Full report of all our findings will be provided upon completion.

Business Continuity

We are able to work with our clients or potential clients to formulate a business continuity plan to help recover their business in the event of a major disaster like a server crash or natural disaster.  This could be either by the use of a secondary site replicating all of their in house systems or as simple as a good paper based plan in the eventuality that this should occur.

Outsourcing

Ardent IT Ltd specialises in helping small to medium enterprises (SME's) achieve the best results using their IT infrastructure to streamline business processes and performance. We are currently helping a number of SME's relieve the burden of having full time and costly internal IT employees, while obtaining the best advice and expertise in today's technology market. Some of our clients outsource a small portion or all of their IT support to us but they all benefit from having:

  • Corporate Grade IT Support
  • Guaranteed Response Times
  • Expert Technology Advice
  • Centralised Documentation
  • Broad Business Knowledge
  • Friendly Customer Service
  • Hardware Procurement
  • Auditing – Hardware, Software or Security
  • Professional Trackable System

How do you know when your company is ready to outsource? Please consider the following factors when deciding to outsource:

  • Financially it is cheaper to have the IT function outsourced than have full time employee/s.
  • IT has become a function that wastes valuable time of non IT staff within your business.
  • The skills required are so specialised that it is impractical to have a regular non IT employee responsible for this role.
  • Some IT staff are falling behind new technology advances and are not able to advise and deliver appropriately.
  • Business is spending large sums of money on consultancy advice to cover internal IT department skill shortages.
  • You have a project and you need regular IT support.
  • IT is not a business function that internal people enjoy performing.
  • Company's core business is suffering due to unreliable and underperforming IT systems.