Proactive North East accountants Harlands embrace cloud with a hosted desktop & superfast internet

Harlands Accountants works with business owners throughout Northumberland, County Durham, Tyne and Wear and Teesside. The company started working with Hosted Accountants in 2013, deploying a full Hosted desktop solution, as well as broadband (fibre) VoIP, CISCO hardware and website hosting.
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Hosted desktop, hosted telephony, cloud computing
Hosted desktop, hosted telephony, cloud computing
TAUNTON, U.K. - July 3, 2013 - PRLog -- Introduction to the firm and a virtual hosted desktop

Harlands Accountants works with business owners throughout Northumberland, County Durham, Tyne and Wear and Teesside. The company started working with Hosted Accountants in 2013, deploying a full hosted desktop solution, as well as broadband (fibre), hosted telephony VoIP, CISCO hardware and website hosting. The company is already reaping the benefits of remote working and enhanced security. Hosted Accountants provide virtual hosted desktops and IT support to accountants across the UK by virtualising hardware and software into one secure private cloud location accessible via a hosted desktop. This allows clients to access a wide range of practice software from wherever they are, flexibly and instantly, whether using laptops, iPad, or regular desktops.

Background

Harland Accountants’ main office is located in Consett, with 26 staff working across financial planning and accounts. The company also has 3 remote offices. Darren Wingfield of www.Harland.co.uk talks about their decision to virtualise their offices. “Before Hosted Accountants, we had eight servers and an exchange box. All of these were due for renewal, so we started looking at alternatives and different providers. As we have remote offices, and with diverse weather conditions sometimes making it difficult for staff to get into the office during winter, we needed access to information wherever we were. We did look at other providers, but were impressed with the HA offering and have had a very good relationship since engaging them”.

Harlands assumed that the deployment would be a difficult task, as they had 18 different accountancy products. Darren explains: “We started on document management, and with over 180,000 documents, we realised there was a lot of work of work to be done. HA worked really hard to make sure it was all done for us. The deployment went really well and HA really pulled out all the stops to ensure that it went smoothly. This included driving 350 miles from the data centre over a bank holiday weekend, working into the early hours the first night and driving back to carry out the restores. It was all running smoothly when we were back in the office after the weekend.”

Benefits

“Since the hosted desktop and hosted telephony implementation, we have identified many benefits of a hosted desktop,” explains Darren. “The primary benefits for us are the security and the speed of the solution. Everything is much easier and quicker, our staff are happy as the actual environment hasn't changed much. Dialling remotely into our office used to be really slow, but now we are able to access what we want, when and where we want it on our iPads. The solution has also helped with security by reducing the need to  carry expensive laptops around, and if there were to be an office break in, there would be no problems as all the data is safe in the cloud. We are really impressed with our new virtual solution!”

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Tags:Hosted Desktop, Superfast Broadband, Cisco Partner, Hosted Telephony, Cloud Computing, Forward Thinking Accountants, Cloud Accounting
Industry:Accounting, Computers, Technology
Location:Taunton - Somerset - England
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