IT Consultancy in Scotland

We understand that small and medium sized businesses often don’t understand the IT landscape nor how to apply IT effectively to their business model. We know that small businesses often need to be educated on why certain IT models, processes and physical equipment can be very beneficial to their business and can be used effectively in a way that drives additional profit. So we use plain language and are experts in IT Consultancy.  

We can help you to:

  • Research and define new business models.

  • Research and strategize new products that optimize your business model

  • Develop new policies and procedures

  • Make recommendations on the best software and organic computing kit to buy

  • Identify line of business applications, specific to your business model

  • Optimize your physical infrastructure

  • Help with the mundane, e.g. office relocations or office reconfigurations

  • Migrate and optimize your data, e.g. dedupe

  • Help you to prepare tenders including process definition and document collation

  • Help you achieve business certifications

Cloud is the future

10 years ago when a software development project was announced, a part of the budget would be inevitably used to buy new infrastructure in the form of new kit, servers and so on, to run the new software. If it was a very large project, that percentage would be between 5% and 7%. If it was a very small project, the percentage could be as high as 20% of the projected cost. Now hosting your software in the cloud offers a number of immediate benefits that includes the removal of that step and the concomitant cost savings. Cloud services are paid for using a pay as you go or subscription model, i.e. moving from capex to opex, thereby enabling the customer to spend that initial outlay in other areas. The cloud service model has many other benefits but these are the most important:

  • Removes on-going maintenance

  • Automatic updates are also done in the cloud

  • Offers increased scaling of your solution at the touch of a button

  • Provides a more effective security model

  • Offers the capability to virtualize legacy applications

For Opere Facto, the only choice in cloud is Microsoft Azure. Azure is a next generation industrial software architecture that offers 600 separate functions. In 2019 Gartner put Microsoft Azure as the leader in the Magic Quadrant ahead of Amazon. Azure is flexible as users can add new services, up their storage capabilities, and create new applications as they go, without having to worry about whether they have the infrastructure to support any changes.

Business Cloud

Office 365

Microsoft Office 365 will maximize your productivity and is the definitive messaging application for teams who are working and need to collaborate. Office 365 utilizes the best of desktop technology combined with cloud technology to bring together the best of both worlds. Continuous investment in the product ensures that the latest innovations are implemented.

Hosted Services for Business

For SMB businesses, a cloud host can replace your need for IT staffing. 

Many small businesses don’t have the capability to employ IT personnel on staff or to support an IT department. In particular business up to 50 people often find that even when an IT person is employed and on hand, they find that the person is often underemployed. It may result in reduced capital being available to pay for needed IT infrastructure upgrades, e.g. servers.

In that situation when the organisation is not sure about having to employ a full-time IT person, then cloud hosting begins to make sense.  Cloud hosting, or its technical name, infrastructure as a service, provides virtualized computing resources over the internet.  It avoids the expense and complexity of buying and managing your own physical servers.

Your software components and applications that are hosted in the cloud and managed by us.

Hosted Telephony for Business

Hosted telephony use cloud based private branch exchange that are easy to configure. Both desktop phones and mobiles can be used. Initial setup and configuration are straightforward if a broadband connection is available. Hosted telephone are delivered by a partner.