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Cloud Services Drive Business Growth | Essential IT Cloud Experts

Cloud Technology has become an integral part of our day to day lives some businesses are still struggling to fully integrate cloud technologies.

One of the primary reasons for this is that most cloud services are offered as boxed products rather than integrated solutions.

For an IT Manager, or anybody responsible for the IT within a business, using a boxed cloud product takes away the true value of enterprise grade networks and undermines the core principles of Cloud Technologies.

Essential IT specialise in the integrated cloud, software as a service, managed hosted services and secure platforms to introduce cloud services to solve critical business needs.

We offer innovative solutions such as the Hybrid Cloud and work closely with all our customers to identify services to increase features, improve end-user experience and manage costs with scalability.

Regardless of your industry, company size or budget, Essential IT are experienced in assisting businesses with the planning and implementation of hosted services. We would be delighted to assist and consult with you on how best to adopt cloud technologies and future proof your business.

Call us now on 1300 277 477 or e-mail us at info@essentialit.com.au and see how we can help your business.

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Microsoft Office 365 – An Everyday Business Tool To Success

Is Microsoft Office 365 really the solution for your small business?
The answer is yes!

Microsoft Office 365 is the suite of Microsoft softwares such as Microsoft Word, Microsoft Outlook, OneDrive and more. It is a suite of tools tailored to businesses who are seeking to streamline their operations and increase overall business productivity.

Microsoft Office 365 can help your employees work together and collaborate in new and more efficient ways. Outlined below are a few core reasons why business owners should implement Office 365.

Stay up and running, no matter what happens

Let’s face it. If your in-house system crashes or your office building is destroyed by a fire or flood, you’re stuck. You have no data, servers or website. If you send your data to the cloud, all your business documents and applications, such as email, will always available. You’ll be up and running, no matter what happens.

Data security

Data security in the cloud isn’t an issue with Office 365. Office 365 has built-in security so small businesses can focus on the right things. You always know where your data is and who has access to it. You can also remotely wipe all data should you lose your mobile device.

So, go ahead and store your data safely in the cloud. Storing your data online also keeps it safe in case something unfortunate happens. Imagine losing your laptop or breaking it? Thanks to 1TB of OneDrive online storage, your data is safer than ever before.

You and your employees can work anywhere at anytime

Working remotely used to mean you needed help from an IT friend or cousin to set up a Virtual Private Network (VPN) so you could access your files from the office. With Office 365, this isn’t necessary. You don’t need any special configuration or IT skills. An internet connection is all you need and then you can start working. It’s that simple!

Organisation has never been so easy

Meetings, email and contact management are a big part of everyday life in a small business. When you use Office 365, email, calendar and contacts are all synchronised. Update a contact on your mobile phone and it will be automatically updated across all your devices. This is a really cool feature to help small businesses get the most from Office 365. You can also access the same data from any device. Save a document on your PC and continue working on it on your mobile or tablet.

Call us now on 1300 277 477 or e-mail us at info@essentialit.com.au and see how we can help your business.

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Why Choose Essential IT

At Essential IT we are IT experts! Information Technology can get complicated. That is why it’s so important to pick and IT company that cares about your business.

“Simplifying IT”

We work with small and medium size businesses throughout Sydney. We help integrate information technologies into your business so that you can save time, cut costs and spend more time focused on your business!

The 3 main services running at the core of Essential IT include advanced support solutions, hosted services and project management.

Why Choose Essential IT?

Fast Response

At Essential IT, we take care of our clients! With 24/7 support you can rely on Essential IT to resolve your computing issues quick smart. With the availability of onsite and remote support, no matter your IT issue we can help resolve the problem fast.

Contact us today if you would like to discuss tailoring a Service Agreement to suit your business.

Multiple Services

Essential IT are at the forefront of technological advancements. As technology advances, we know how to best tailor and implement these technologies to improve the performance of your business.

The areas in which we are poised to implement these newly developed technologies are:

Highly Trained Team

Essential IT only employees highly accredited IT professionals. We’ve got years of IT industry experience and have team members that specialise in various IT fields.

This is what allows us to tailor a solution based approach to our businesses objectives. The depth of skills and experience our team posses set us apart from other IT companies.

Call us now on 1300 277 477 or e-mail us at info@essentialit.com.au and see how we can help your business.

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IT Support and Our IT Support Services

At Essential IT we pride ourselves on delivering the best IT Support advice to help your business grow and succeed.

“Simplifying IT”

We work with small and medium size businesses throughout Sydney. We help integrate information technologies into your business so that you can save time, cut costs and spend more time on your business!

Do you want spend your time growing your business? Or would you rather spend your days crawling under desks trying to find the magic button that will make your computer work, your IT bugs disappear and your printer just start, full stop?

Essential IT offers all the IT support that you’ll ever need. No matter what area your business is in, you need cost-effective, reliable and trusted IT provider to keep the show on the road. And you need the infrastructure, software and scalable capability that means that you’ll be in the same great shape down the line. As your business evolves.

Want to upgrade your systems, move offices, increase productivity or migrate to new software? We’ll make it happen. We take security very seriously and we’ll help you keep track of how data is moving around your organisation. That means everything from keeping tabs on your teams productivity, through to safeguarding highly sensitive information.

We’ll listen to what you need, customise a package that’s right for you, find the best price out there, set it all up and then keep it running like clockwork.

Call us now on 1300 277 477 or e-mail us at info@essentialit.com.au and see how we can help your business.

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Managed IT Services | IT Services Sydney

At Essential IT we pride ourselves on delivering the best IT Support advice to help your business grow and succeed.

“Simplifying IT”

We work with small and medium size businesses throughout Sydney. We help integrate information technologies into your business so that you can save time, cut costs and spend more time on your business!

Our fixed monthly Managed IT Service packages are the most cost effective way to shift the responsibility of managing your company’s day to day IT support needs to our team of highly specialised technicians. Essential IT will design, build, secure and maintain your network, monitoring it around the clock for abnormalities and pre-failure indicators. Essential IT will head off issues before they can become problems, which if left unattended could lead to your business to experiencing costly downturns.

Staying ahead of IT problems: Essential IT is able to provide comprehensive IT support. With our Managed IT Service plans we actually managed ALL of your technology at one low, all-inclusive, flat monthly rate which is commonly based on the amount of workforce users and/or devices that your business has. With our Managed IT Services you will get reliable performance, predictable IT spends, normalised IT infrastructure and IT controls which translate into more value from your existing technology while reducing your total IT costs and reduced lost revenue, expenses and interruptions in business continuity.

Have our team of highly skilled network engineers, computer technicians, application support professionals convert your IT Support to our managed services support model. With a full team of professionals providing IT services for your business’s network of computers and other technology at a fraction of a cost of a full-time employee or even the current IT contract you have what do you have to lose.

Call us now on 1300 277 477 or e-mail us at info@essentialit.com.au and see how we can help your business.

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Cloud Computing – The Future of Business IT Operations

We are hearing more and more about cloud computing these days – but what is cloud storage, and how can it benefit your business?

To learn more about cloud computing and what it means please click here.

The fact is that you’re probably already using the cloud without even realising it.

If you use a web-based email provider such as Gmail or Hotmail, you are using the cloud. If you’ve ever used Skype video calling or video interfaces like Vimeo or YouTube, you’ve used the cloud. If you’ve ever backed up data on the Internet rather than an external device, you’ve used the cloud.

Cloud computing has a great number of benefits — here are our top three

  1. Cost Savings

One of the most appealing reasons to switch to the cloud is the cost savings. With cloud computing, the need to pay for large amounts of disk and storage space is instantly removed as well as the need for buying, installing and upgrading pricey software. With the cloud, you’ll pay for applications only when needed and many applications are included free of charge. Usage can easily be scaled to fit your needs and adjusted for peaks or troughs in demand.

This “a la carte,” incremental way of paying can save your business a lot of money. Pay-per-use reduces (or in some cases eliminates) the cost of maintaining in-house servers. The savings applies to your desktop, too — with SaaS (software as a service), desktop software need not be installed, which saves your business both time and money.

  1. Ease of Use

Quite simply, cloud computing is easy to get up and running. Instead of having to download and/or install software yourself, in the cloud it is all done for you. The cloud also offers virtually unlimited storage capacity relative to typical hard drive and server limits. The cloud is also adaptable. If you need more storage, it’s instantly available for a slightly larger fee per month. Since your business data is stored in the cloud, your employees will be able to access software and data anywhere from nearly any device that has Internet connection.

  1. Flexibility and Scalability.

Cloud computing also offers far more flexibility compared to past computing methods. Staff will no longer be tethered to their desk. Those days are gone. Staff will be able to access files and data from wherever they are, 24 hours a day. Scaling your cloud storage can be done with ease on an as-needed basis and you only pay for what you are actually using. In the past, making changes to your service could take months. Now, with the cloud, this can be done in minutes.

With the cloud, your staff will be able to access information from home, from clients’ offices, on the road, or even from their smartphone. Your staff members can also work collaboratively on documents and files, even when they are not physically in the same room. Also, documents can be viewed as well as edited simultaneously from multiple user locations.

The cloud could very well be exactly what your company needs.

Call us now on 1300 277 477  or e-mail us at info@essentialit.com.au and see how we can help your business.

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Backup Your Data | Cloud Backup Solutions

At Essential IT we pride ourselves on delivering the best Backup advice to help your businesses data stay safe so that you can grow and succeed.

“Simplifying IT”

We work with small and medium size businesses throughout Sydney. We help integrate information technologies into your business so that you can save time, cut costs and spend more time on your business!

Protect what matters most. Would your business survive a theft, fire or flood? Then why leave your most important asset unprotected? The risk of losing your data is one of the biggest threats to your business.

With IT Backup Solutions from Essential IT, your data is protected by the safest, state-of-the-art continuous backup method available on the market today. Continuous backup combined with standby server technology gives you the peace of mind to focus on what’s really important – your business. And since we own the hardware, you’re protected from obsolescence.

With IT Backup Solutions from Essential IT gives you continuous protection of your company’s critical data with no effort on your part, so your business will remain protected even if your main server were to crash.

Our partnerships with leaders in the technology industry allow us to provide businesses like yours with offsite backup that delivers the security and reliability of enterprise-level designs, featuring triple offsite redundancy without the sacrifice of local storage. Best of all, our multi-platform offsite backups are all-inclusive, so you don’t have to worry about surprises to your business or your budget.

Don’t risk everything you’ve worked for.

Call us now on 1300 277 477 or e-mail us at info@essentialit.com.au and see how we can help your business.

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IT Procurement and IT Procurement Services

At Essential IT we pride ourselves on delivering the best IT Procurement advice to help your business grow and succeed.

“Simplifying IT”

We work with small and medium size businesses throughout Sydney. We help integrate information technologies into your business so that you can save time, cut costs and spend more time on your business!

Bringing the world to your door. Essential IT have laid down a solid foundation and experience in anticipating a range of IT procurement needs across a variety of industries.

Your needs can be met with Essential IT’s proven track record of effective pricing, quality products and customer service. Why taken on the burden of in-house procurement when you can join our satisfied customers from around the country? The IT Procurement process can be arduous. Choosing the right procurement technology and then comparing prices can be convoluted. Trust our experienced IT Procurement managers to handle all of your information technology acquirement.

Our experienced procurement team will help identify the IT resources that are letting your business down. Whether a simple update is required or a major overhaul, Essential IT will guide you every step of the way.

Knowing what your business needs now and into the future is just one element of the process. Knowing you have got what you need at the best possible price is the other. Essential IT will use our strong relationships with key suppliers to ensure the right decisions are made and cost saving are passed on to you.

Get in touch with us to see how our IT procurement experts can help your business grow.

Call us now on 1300 277 477 or e-mail us at info@essentialit.com.au and see how we can help your business.

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PXB Phones & Cloud PXB Phones

At Essential IT we pride ourselves on delivering cost-effective IT products like Cloud PXB Phones to help your business reduce costs.

“Simplifying IT”

We work with small and medium size businesses throughout Sydney. We help integrate information technologies into your business so that you can save time, cut costs and spend more time on your business!

Replacing your ageing phone system.  VoIP, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) was originally designed to imitate the architecture of copper wire legacy telephone networks. Today, customers are celebrating the benefits of this technology and exploring all of what a VoIP solution is capable of providing.

Why VoIP ?

VoIP runs both voice and data over the same circuit — this efficient set up is favoured by businesses of all sizes for reducing monthly costs. VoIP also has more capabilities than legacy phone systems and can provide advanced features with simple add-on charges. VoIP’s flexibility allows for feature changes with the click of a mouse instead of manual labour.

Because VoIP uses software instead of hardware, changes and network maintenance can be implemented in a fraction of the time it would take legacy voice systems, and at a fraction of the cost. VoIP is praised as being superior to traditional voice technology in cost and architecture, but the true benefit of VoIP has been proven in the last year with the dawning of Unified Communications (UC).

Unified Communications at the Forefront

The basic features of legacy telephone networks are included in VoIP (call forwarding, Direct Inward Dial (DID), hold, 3-way-call, caller ID, etc.). What is remarkable is that adding in a UC platform that revolutionizes how a company communicates is as simple as an add-on request or, in some cases, is already included. What is expected in an out of the box UC solution includes video conferencing, voicemail to email, fax to email, chat, mobility, and presence.

An increasing number of businesses are deploying multi-channel communication with their customers and within their organizations. This can be implemented easily over an existing VoIP setup.

As Business VoIP keeps gaining momentum are finding that they are spending more on IT resources to maintain their new VoIP systems. This is why ESSENTIAL IT Cloud PBX solutions provide the logical answer to controlling these costs. Our Cloud PBX solutions reside in secure Telco Data centers where they are maintained by our watchful engineers 24x7x365 to ensure our customers are always up and running.

Cloud PBX solutions and VoIP solutions enable companies to derive the cost savings of Business VoIP together with the benefits of advanced features that maximize efficiency and company productivity – all without the hassles of housing and maintaining a highly expensive phone system on site.

Key Benefits of Cloud PBX Phone Systems

Cost Savings

  • Fixed monthly pricing on long-distance and local US calling with low international rates.
  • Connect to geographically dispersed offices with internal office extensions all on the same system!
  • Managed Quality of Service (QoS) reduces IT costs.

Save Time and Boost Productivity

Stay connected with unified communications, which eliminates the limitations typically encountered while out of the office or not being next to your phone to check the availability of people within your company.

Easily Monitor Employee Productivity

Especially in industries such as sales, where serious phone time is logged, productivity means everything. For example, being able to monitor how long a particular salesperson spends on a call is an excellent way to monitor your staff’s productivity.

Failover Redundancy

If your phone’s connection ever goes off-line temporarily, ESSENTIAL IT is automatically alerted to your lost connection and automatically forwards all inbound calls to pre-defined back-up numbers that each phone has the ability to pre-set. Your customers will never know that your Internet connection is down.

Call us now on 1300 277 477 or e-mail us at info@essentialit.com.au and see how we can help your business.

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IT Project Management Services

Essential IT instil confidence in our clients. We ensure that their IT systems will be fully maintained by an experienced IT Support team 24/7, 365 days a year.

“Simplifying IT”

We work with small and medium size businesses throughout Sydney. Being based in the Sutherland Shire allows us easy access into the city or down the coast towards Wollongong.

Information Technology is critical to operations for most companies and has the power to catapult growth when utilised effectively. Conversely, if things aren’t going well with IT, powerful business tools can quickly become frustrating and expensive roadblocks to achieving business objectives. To succeed in the dynamic business environment that is becoming heavily entwined with technology, businesses must understand the role IT Consultants play as they handle a suite of managed IT services and provide detrimental IT support.

Time and experience has helped Essential IT develop best practices and workflow procedures around a proactive philosophy designed to keep your focus on your business, not your technology.
No matter what your company’s technology issues are, they will all be made worse without skilled and reliable IT Supportpersonnel either in house or from a trusted provider. When you have a proven and capable IT Support provider as a partner, your company can work closely with them to plan your IT needs and overcome the problems described above.

Our team of qualified professionals, ranging from Help Desk technicians, Senior Engineers and Project managers covering all facets of your business. Technology doesn’t have to be difficult – Essential IT is right there every step of the way. What’s more, our IT engineers are on call 24 hours a day to support you and make sure that your business stays up and running.

Imagine if your entire IT environment was monitored 24 hours, 7 days a week, 365 days a year with problems pro actively detected and fixed before they caused any downtime for your business? And now imagine unlimited IT support in Sydney that is only a phone call away.

Call us now on 1300 277 477 or e-mail us at info@essentialit.com.au and see how we can help your business.

At Essential IT, we like to make IT easy for you. So why wait? Call or click right now.

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