IT upgrade keeps employees connected
McAuliffe has taken a huge step forward making improvements to its IT infrastructure with a full scale upgrade from S2 Networks Ltd.
McAuliffe has invested almost £9,000 to bring advanced technological changes to its national operation to ensure ongoing improvements to daily operations and efficiency savings.
John McAuliffe, managing director at McAuliffe said,
"By upgrading the IT infrastructure at our head office facility we can now provide instant access to all contractual information from any location in the UK with an internet connection.
"With this kind of technology at our finger tips, we can ensure improved communication with our construction sites, providing Site Manager's instant access to the latest project information and relevant drawings, without having to send a hard copy of information in the post."
This is a further advancement of McAuliffe Client Upload Facility which was recently lauched with the new look website. The upload facility allows large documents and multiple files to be instantly sent to any member of the McAuliffe team, removing the barrier of email size limits and the need to send hard copy drawings by CD or post.
As part of the wider improvement programme, McAuliffe has employed S2 Networks to handle both the initial upgrade and on-going out-sourcing of the IT maintenance. S2 handle a multitude of SME contracts for companies based in the West Midlands and surrounding areas from their offices in Brierley Hill.
Chris Sargent of S2 was pleased with the progress made in such a short period of time, "McAuliffe has made a huge step in the right direction in streamlining their IT processes. Delivering the latest technologies, including windows 7 and Small Business Server 2008 on advanced Dell hardware; we can proactively monitor and maintain the McAuliffe systems remotely.
"This enables us to provide McAuliffe's with an efficient IT support service that reduces fix times and often means system problems are resolved before employees are even aware that they existed."
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