web design and IT support in Farnborough
Thirty-five minutes west, where the engineering is serious and the websites often are not.
About thirty-five minutes, by way of the A31 and the A331.
Farnborough is engineering and aerospace country, and the pattern there is a familiar one: companies doing genuinely technical work, with a website that reads like a brochure printed in a hurry and an internal process held together by Excel and goodwill.
The useful work is usually the second of those. Something that quotes, schedules, tracks or dispatches, that signs in with the Microsoft accounts people already have, and that replaces the spreadsheet rather than sitting next to it. The applications built for MFC IT Services are the closest example on this site: a set of internal tools behind one sign-on, built because buying them in gets expensive when a tool has one job and one business using it.
No named client in Farnborough itself yet. The distance is a comfortable one and the work would be the same.
work near here
MFC IT Services
Internal tools for an IT company
A set of applications built for a managed service provider that was either doing the work by hand or paying for third-party tools. One sign-on across all of them, against MFC's own Microsoft tenant, with access decided by the security groups they already keep.
view projectwhat Farnborough companies ask for
Custom Development
When off-the-shelf software nearly fits but not quite, a purpose-built application usually costs less than living with the workarounds.
more about thisCloud Servers & VPS
For when shared hosting has run out of room. Specified for the workload you have rather than the biggest number on a pricing page, then patched and monitored without you having to ask.
more about thisMaintenance & Support
The work nobody notices until it has not been done. Updates tested before they go live, monitoring that tells me before it tells you, and a monthly note saying what actually happened.
more about thisIT Support & Consultancy
The person who built your website also knows why the printer has stopped talking to the network. Delivered alongside MFC IT Services, who I have worked with for more than six years.
more about thisquestions people ask
Can you work alongside our existing IT provider?
Often, and it tends to work well: they keep the estate, I build the thing that does not exist yet. Most of my managed IT work is done alongside MFC IT Services for exactly that reason.
We have compliance requirements. Does that rule this out?
No, but it shapes it. Tell me early what has to be auditable, where data may and may not sit, and who must be able to prove what. Those are design decisions, not paperwork to do afterwards.
How long does a system like that take?
A first useful version in weeks rather than months, then added to. A twelve-month project that lands all at once is a twelve-month project that lands wrong.
no obligation, and no sales call
start with the problem
Tell me what you are trying to fix and I will tell you honestly whether I am the right person for it. No obligation, and no sales call.
The fact find takes about five minutes and means I can quote properly.
