Systems Integration

Strategies

Huon provides complete IT solutions for small to medium-sized businesses. Our Systems Integration team works closely with you to define a plan that works sympathetically with your business. We recognise that careful project management of your IT implementation is essential to the success of the project. Throughout the system implementation process, our consultants focus on understanding the complexity of your IT environment by looking holistically at your business systems and ensuring conservative and careful change strategies are in place. We recognise the importance of your production environment and understand that new implementations must be managed carefully to protect any interruption to your business operations. In short, our consultants work in total synergy with your business needs.

Our Systems Integration team provides service from concept through to successful implementation, guiding your business through the challenges of available IT solutions and installation processes. Our strong success track record has shown the key to a successful systems integration process is to align business strategy with IT. Our consultants' focus on strategic planning ensures that businesses receive professional consulting services to develop the best solutions to meet their business objectives.

The right IT strategy embraces infrastructure that provides maximum Return on Investment for your business with consideration to performance requirements, best-practice redundancy, security, and scaleability to grow as your business grows.

Our consultants are experts in ensuring a careful and conservative approach to change management. The key to any project’s success is harmonious implementation with current systems and user requirements backed up by comprehensive training.

Project Management

In consultation with you, our consultants’ first priority is to compile an infrastructure design plan for review. This plan would be further developed into a comprehensive project plan detailing consultant resources, client requirements and timelines. Throughout the project, our Project Manager will co-ordinate regular project status reports which include updated project plans, budget reviews and current activities. These updates would usually involve a meeting with you.

A vital element of the project’s overall success is to design and deliver appropriate user training and documentation leading to the project’s completion.

IT Project Management is an essential component of Huon’s business offering. We can help ensure that your projects are completed successfully on time and on budget, and that they meet every required objective.

All projects are managed with timelines, budgets and implementation task lists. Huon provides the right project manager for every significant client project, thus facilitating one point of contact and seamless delivery and management of your project from inception to completion.

Our full system design runs from network and server through to software and workstation recommendation and our professional documentation encompasses project plans, IT systems and software licensing documents, to ensure your IT needs are implemented on time and on budget.

Huon’s project delivery goes beyond implementation services to offer tools for assisting with the ongoing management of your site. We provide and maintain detailed software licensing documentation, we can assist with compiling IT asset inventories for insurance purposes, and we help manage any third-party onsite warranty agreements.

Expert Infrastructure Design

It Infrastructure Careful infrastructure design is the foundation of your business system. Huon IT has many years experience in the design and delivery of business systems that demonstrate high levels of Return On Investment to clients. Our consultants are trained to think laterally to ensure best practice redundancy and security methodologies are embraced. We also pay careful attention to ensure your business growth is incorporated into the overall infrastructure design.

Annual IT Planning and Budgeting Process

Huon takes pride in the close partnerships we form with our clients, and part of our enduring focus is to concentrate on our clients’ businesses running at optimum levels in every respect. Our experienced staff have the capability to provide assistance to formulate annual IT plans and related budgets. For most of Huon’s clients, this service is conducted over the months May-July according to their requirements.

The IT planning process ensures that our clients’ business systems are continuously in line with their business and that IT expenditure is predicted and planned.

Hardware & Software Services

Huon offers advice based on experience and thorough technical expertise. Our product range comprises brands such as HP, Citrix, Microsoft, Toshiba, Linux, Apple, and many other vendor choices to ensure your business receives the right solutions.

Huon has a wealth of experience implementing and supporting SME clients who utilise Citrix. Citrix consolidates systems and data under the central control of IT teams to accelerate application delivery and improve the security, availability, performance, and management of enterprise resources.

Huon has extensive experience with the deployment, management and support of Windows 2003, Terminal Services, Exchange 2003, Active Directory and Domains. Our recommendations ensure that the most appropriate technology takes into account present and future requirements, level of redundancy, cohesion within your environment and budgetary considerations.

Flexibility is required when networks incorporate a variety of operating environments such as Windows, Macintosh and Linux. Huon’s network services include installation, network cabinet design, wireless solutions, network switches, routers, Internet connections, virtual private networks (VPN), firewalls and diagnostic management. We can assist with fitting out new office networks, extending an existing network or providing advice.

Our consultants have extensive experience in supporting and managing desktops and servers across a range of operating systems:

•  Windows 2000 and 2003, XP, XPP, XP Home, 95, 98, NT
•  Mac OS 7, 8, 9, & X
•  Linux

We have in-depth experience with LAN, WAN and VPN and Private Network - Management, Installations, Telco Liaison and Project Management, with proficiency in advising and assisting across multiple operating systems.

Stringent backup solutions are paramount to the successful management of any IT System. Huon has expertise in advising on and implementing backup and redundancy planning across a myriad of software and hardware systems.

Huon has a strong track record in security solutions. We have proven significant results in virus & SPAM prevention, and protection against intruders and denial of service attacks, mail relay and exchange server vulnerabilities in clients’ networks.