Case Studies
Growth partner
Your IT partner can support your business to grow by managing the day to day IT frustrations that many business owners waste valuable time on. In addition, your staff are unproductive when ICT doesn’t work. Waiting days for problems to be solved means that staff can’t deliver what they need for your own clients.
Since inception, we have worked with what is now the East Midlands largest provider of independent and alternative education, R.E.A.L. Education. Power Up IT have enabled R.E.A.L. to grow by harnessing cloud technologies that scale, bringing innovative solutions such as cloud based filtering and being ultra responsive when staff encounter IT issues. It all adds up to a dependable, valuable partner who support growth by solving key problems.
“Since our business inception the team at Power Up IT have worked in synergy with our organisation, complementing what we do whilst bringing their expertise to support our IT and infrastructure. The innovation and experience Power UP IT has brought has enabled us to develop and grow our business, whilst ensuring that our IT systems and processes are capable of meeting the demands.
A solution focused and customer focused business who are a pleasure working with.”
Richard Smith, Director and owner of R.E.A.L. Education
Cloud technology at Oxfordshire Hospital School
Organisations are increasingly dependent on cloud technologies. In a long term partnership with Power Up IT, OHS have migrated core technologies and applications to the cloud. Using Google Workspace has opened up new possibilities with remote device management, Chromebooks, cloud web filtering and interactive software being rolled out across the organisation. Power UP IT worked to design the solution with OHS – designing shared digital spaces and clever information architecture that allowed staff to easily migrate to and navigate new technologies in the cloud.
Use cloud-led hardware such as Chromebooks means that OHS has the advantage of speed, new devices can be configured rapidly, secured and delivered to users in a fraction of the time it would take using traditional methods. It means that the organisation is capable of rapid scaling of the solution.
Cloud technologies are delivering cost savings and scalability advantages to our customer today. If your organisation is struggling with costs or looking to scale, we can support you to navigate the technology ologies that are already saving our clients time and money.
“Their solution-focused approach has been a game-changer, providing tailored and responsive services that ensure our technology runs smoothly. Power Up’s team consistently delivers prompt and effective solutions, anticipating our needs and addressing challenges with professionalism and expertise. They have been instrumental in helping us create a seamless digital environment, and we greatly appreciate their commitment to supporting our school’s mission with their innovative and reliable IT services.”
Steve Lowe, Headteacher of Oxfordshire Hospital School
Reliable managed IT services at William White Meats
Technology is critical at WWM. Providing quality food, daily for tends of thousands of people in schools and hospitals means that technology needs to work seamlessly, ensuring that automation and processes work. The team at WWW use Power Up IT support desk and this means that their problems are quickly resolved by our friendly team. No one wants to wait for IT to be fixed whilst their workload piles up – so technicians at Power Up IT use remote support and access to quickly resolve issues.
Our monthly IT operations meetings with Director and owner Thomas White, ensure that Power Up IT staff are always pro-active, planning for future improvements and refresh programs well ahead of time. It allows for WWW to budget and financially plan for IT investments. Power UP IT feels like part of the WWM team – it’s a positive and proactive partnership that looks nothing like a break-fix service.
WWM staff know the Power Up technicians by name – this is about building relationships and fully understanding our customers needs. If you only feel that you speak to your IT support when things go wrong, we can show you how to benefit from genuine partnership and collaborative future planning with an IT partner who wants to build a relationship with you.
Innovation at Multimodal
In a long term partnership with the Multimodal Literacy programme, Power Up IT provides a service desk for over two hundred users, young people and families who need their technology to keep them active in their learning by reading and writing. Working with vulnerable young people requires technology to be safe and secure, our technical experts have delivered systems that maintains and support users remotely, as well as providing a safe online space.
“Due to the knowledge and skills of the Powerup IT team, we were able to provide our students with an immersive and interactive learning experience which took chosen texts to another level through VR.”
Multimodal Literacy programme lead – Dr Petula Bhojwani MA, PhD
Innovation is at the heart of this partnership, Power Up IT have developed and supported augmented reality experiences and virtual reality environments to improve academic progress and motivation. Our clever team have designed and supported virtual worlds; from jagged mountain landscapes to moon bases deep in space. Our technicians don’t just talk about innovation, but can work with your organisation to design and implement technologies that will keep you ahead of the pack.
Your competitors are already innovating, let Power Up partner with you to take full advantage of the future.
Security at Raedwald Trust
IT used to be about fixing printers and installing new applications. Now everyone appreciates how dependent we all are on technology. When updates fail or viruses attack – an organisation can be brought to its knees. For every minute that IT isn’t working as you need it, your entire organisation becomes un-productive. The costs can spiral in hours.
We take a proactive approach to security, we’ll use ISO27001 and Cyber Essentials standards to provide a benchmark for you and work with you to enhance security and improve processes.
We worked with Raedwald Trust, representing 7 schools, to implement improvements and changes to achieve Cyber Essentials, a nationwide, Government endorsed quality mark for cyber security. This provided confidence for the leadership team, reducing risk of disruption to core services across the schools.
In addition, Power Up IT provide back up and emergency support to the ICT team at Raedwald Trust, this provides further educes the risk of critical IT service disruption impacted by staff sickness or leave.
“The team provide such an invaluable service and resource for our Trust, their knowledge and experience enabled us to secure strong progress during our Cyber Security audit, going the extra mile and leading and supporting the Trust to achieve Cyber Accreditation. We know that we will continue to strive for, and achieve, continuous improvement with PowerUp IT.”
Natalie Quinton CFO, Raedwald Trust
Your public image matters. Security incidents can dent customer confidence and impact on your brand image. We can support your organisation to audit and improve IT security. Let Power Up IT work with you to keep your organisation, staff and customers safe.
Installation experts
Improving internet availability across St Peter’s Church
Power Up provide a managed ICT service at St Peter’s church in Harold Wood. One of the first tasks was to review and improve Wifi coverage within the buildings. Working closely with the church leadership and technology team, Power Up IT designed and installed new switches, and a Wifi solution that radically improved connectivity and speed for the users.
“PowerUp IT are brilliant – they always work so hard to find the best solutions for us, they’re incredibly friendly, super-knowledgeable and they always make it easy for us to understand what they’re recommending and how they can help.”
Emily Agnew, Church Centre Manager, St Peter’s Church
If your internal infrastructure doesn’t support your users, your team’s efficiency is degraded substantially. Power Up IT can bring solutions to your business to keep people connected.
