How a UK school reduced print costs but kept performance

The challenge:

Helsby High School wanted to reduce the 100 printers on-site to reduce costs whilst maintaining quality and efficiency to print in volume.

The solution:

The school standardised with Brother printers, choosing a selection of high-speed mono and colour lasers, A3 inkjets, and installed b-guard to help manage print costs.

Products: Brother HL-4570CDW and HL-6180DW.

The benefit:

By reducing the printer suite from 100 to just 52, Helsby High School has halved overall running costs and at the same time increased efficiency. As part of a complete printing review, Helsby High School introduced highspeed workgroup mono lasers (HL-6180DW), efficient colour laser printers (HL-4570CDW) and A3 inkjets to satisfy the requirements of the art department. Brother installed b-guard, its print management solution, to provide the IT department with complete visibility and control of their new printer suite. b-guard allows administrators to control costs by setting print quotas for students or departments, enforcing duplex printing and locking functions of a machine to certain users.

What the customer said:

“We need printers in school that can cope with high volume printing, reliably, efficiently and cost effectively. We print about 4 million copies in a year so speed and duplex printing is important, but so is quality.

The main driver for this project was to reduce our spiralling printer costs. By standardising to Brother printers, we’ve been able to halve the number of printers on site, considerably reducing our total cost of ownership with fewer printers to run and fewer consumables to purchase. Now using b-guard we can measure our print usage and adjust where printers are placed for maximum performance going forward. Brother have delivered the cost savings we wanted without losing performance. In fact, Brother’s machines are proving so efficient, reliable and good print quality, we’re achieving far more with less.”

Steve Ford, Strategic ICT Manager, Helsby High School.

Complete IT Systems and Brother

See how Complete IT Systems and Brother can help your business here.

 

 

6 ways to make video security smart, scalable, and simple to use

With hybrid cloud technology, there are no trade-offs in reliability and flexibility. Verkada offers the best in
enterprise protection by delivering a solution that scales limitlessly and is effortless to use.

The new standard for enterprise security

Verkada is fundamentally different because physical safety is approached with a software-first mindset. By
building adaptive protection technology on a modern software stack, the system delivers new capabilities
such as People Analytics and Vehicle Analytics.

Verkada offers a wide range of enterprise security cameras, including durable indoor and outdoor domes,
discreet minis, and panoramic fisheyes. All cameras include powerful onboard processing to analyse
footage at the edge, streamlining the process to provide users with near-instant results when filtering
through footage for meaningful activity.

6 reasons to consider Verkada for your onsite security:

Monitor Anywhere

Access footage from any computer or mobile device – no downloads required

Automatic Updates

Automatic firmware updates keep camera up-to- date and cyber-secure

Camera Health & Status

Always know the health and status of your cameras, including offline alerts

Smart, Instant Alerts

Receive a notification when a camera detects meaningful motion or tampering

Simple to Set Up

No NVRs/DVRs, thick clients or added configurations – just a PoE connection

Share Feeds Instantly

In an emergency situation, easily share links of live footage via SMS or email

Want to find out more?

As official Verkada Authorised Resellers, Complete IT Systems can offer you expert advice on how the devices and solutions and could be effectively deployed in your business.

To find out more please call us on 01274 396 213 or use our contact form and we’ll arrange a good time to call you back.

 

Business mobile – optimised for your organisation

Voice and data requirements vary significantly between businesses. We carry out an initial in-depth assessment of your usage that will enable us to create a package tailored specifically to your business needs, whether that means prioritising minutes and texts or data.

Our assessment will take into account any requirements or activities relevant to your business’s ongoing success such as travel, expected call volume, international call requirements and so on to make sure that your plan covers all aspects of usage.

Your plan will be matched to your needs in terms of both cost and coverage, with a focus on the best service levels possible and on keeping spend to the absolute minimum and avoiding any unexpected charges.

Business Mobile from Complete Voice & Data
  • Options across all major UK networks
  • Impartial to ensure best value
  • Leading relationships with networks
  • Focus on long-term partnership
  • Named, personal account management
  • Access to leading hardware
  • Continued customer and technical support throughout contract tenure
Business Benefits

Independent review and proposal
Complete Voice & Data is an independent business mob ile provider. This ensures that we match you to the
best network for both your coverage and cost needs.

Personal account management
Your business will be assigned a personal account mana ger who will remain your point of contact throughout
your contract tenure.

Key network relationships
Complete holds leading relationships with the UK’s top networks. This gives us access to the most competitive
tariffs on the market and we can pass these savings on t o you.

Access to leading hardware & equipment
As part of your business mobile package, you may have access to a hardware fund through which you may
replenish your mobile and/or any I.T Hardware or Software needs. We can provide you with leading
Hardware/Software at our keenest trade buy prices.

Ongoing customer and technical support
Complete Voice & Data will not lose contact with you as soo n as you have signed y our contract. We are here as
a source of advice, help and technical support to ensure that your service is running at its optimum.

Handset repair
Should your handset need repairing, we can sort this for yo u and ensure that you are back up and running as
soon as possible.

Regular account reviews
As with account management, it is impossible for networks to undertake regular reviews of your account and you may not receive any reviews during your contract tenure. Complete undertakes quarterly reviews to ensure
that your solution remains fit for purpose.

Unified communications
As a business communications provider, Complete can advise you on the full spectrum of your business
communications, linking your mobiles, landlines, and IT equipment to ensure that you work smarter and therefore experience cost and time savings. Once again, our independence ensures that we propose the right solutions.

Want to find out more?

Complete IT Systems can offer you expert advice on how the mobile solutions can be optimised for your business.

To find out more please call us on 01274 396 213 or use our contact form and we’ll arrange a good time to call you back.

One Cloud Communications Platform with 8×8

Complete IT in partnership with 8×8, the leader in cloud communications, provides a scalable, globally available solution that consolidates and unifes a wide array of communications and collaboration services onto a single, scalable platform.

This cloud-based platform greatly simplifies administration and management, and strengthens conformance with security and compliance standards. As a result, IT staff are freed up to focus on more strategic initiatives.

Designed with your business in mind

Get more from your communications solution:

  • A complete suite of telephony, unified communications and collaboration solutions
  • Integrate and consolidate disparate communications systems
  • Unite remote locations and employees with one powerful platform
  • Reduce and control communications costs
  • Scale quickly as needs change
  • Business analytics to manage trends, productivity and the user experience
  • Improve customer experience and employee collaboration
  • Mobile solutions that allow you to do business everywhere
  • Security and compliance built in, not bolted on
The experience is everything

Virtual office unified communications features:

  • Unified national/international communications and collaboration solution
  • Business analytics to boost productivity and accelerate strategic decisions
  • Optional HD voice and video conferencing
  • Mobility—Apple and Android apps for worker productivity
  • Presence management and chat
  • Conformance to security and compliance requirements
  • Integration with Salesforce, Zendesk, NetSuite and many others
  • Supports remote workers
  • Reduces demands on IT resources

Want to find out more?

Complete IT Systems can offer you expert advice on how the One Cloud Communications Platform can be effectively deployed in your business.

To find out more please call us on 01274 396 213 or use our contact form and we’ll arrange a good time to call you back.

Video security for the modern world

Keeping tabs on physical office premises is a challenge for many organisations both during coronavirus restrictions and the shift towards remote work more generally.

Verkada’s mission is to modernise the world of physical security. The security specialist vendor’s hybrid cloud solution combines intelligent, plug-and-play security cameras with powerful cloud-based software that is easy to use from any device. Verkada eliminates the need for legacy infrastructure—such as NVRs, DVRs, and servers and requires no configuration to work securely in any environment.

Modern, secure architecture

Enterprise cloud solutions typically open up cybersecurity vulnerabilities and lead to bandwidth issues. Legacy systems, on the other hand, run the risk of being hacked, require constant manual firmware updates, and lack the support for remote monitoring or advanced machine learning.

Verkada’s hybrid cloud solution utilises both local storage and processing on the camera and in the cloud. This approach eliminates local servers and NVRs, resulting in a system architecture that is simple, more secure, and
easier to operate and manage. Built with security in mind, each camera communicates only via encrypted, outbound connections, removing the need for open ports which introduce security vulnerabilities in traditional camera systems.

Always up-to-date, always ahead

Without time-consuming, manual updates, legacy systems are left vulnerable and out-of-date, increasing the risk of poor performance and even system-wide hacking. Verkada cameras automatically receive software updates, ensuring your security system is always running at its best with the latest features and security enhancements. Verkada’s secure, automated approach is available for all Verkada license holders and ensures seamless delivery of updates without interrupting camera operability.

About Verkada – in 3 minutes

Verkada builds enterprise video surveillance systems for the Internet of Things (IoT) era. The platform combines intelligent, plug-and-play security cameras with cloud-based software that’s easy to use on any device.

Verkada eliminates legacy infrastructure — such as NVRs, DVRs and servers — and requires no configuration to work securely in any network environment. Thousands of organizations use Verkada to protect people, secure facilities and assets, and gain analytics that improve the efficiency of their operations.

Check out this short video to find out more.

Want to find out more?

As official Verkada Authorised Resellers, Complete IT Systems can offer you expert advice on how the devices and solutions and could be effectively deployed in your business.

To find out more please call us on 01274 396 213 or use our contact form and we’ll arrange a good time to call you back.

Live Demo Session: Barracuda CloudGen Firewall | Recording

In these times when remote working and the safety of office networks are no longer the default for many companies and organisations, a rethink of perimeter security is required.

Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is a family of hardware, virtual, and cloud-based appliances that protect and enhance dispersed network infrastructures. The solution also combines highly resilient VPN technology with intelligent traffic management and WAN optimisation capabilities.

Complete IT Systems and Barracuda hosted an exclusive live demo session on Thursday 15 April 2021. Watch the recording to learn about how the solution helps to:

  • Protect your data, users, and workloads wherever they reside
  • Mitigate cyber-risks with Barracuda’s multi-layered security approach
  • Stop zero-hour attacks with Barracuda Advanced Threat Protection
  • Stay ahead of new threats with Barracuda’s global threat intelligence network
  • Simplify your security deployment in the cloud
  • Connect multiple locations and clouds with our built-in SD-WAN
Watch our 50 minute live demo session here:
Want to learn more?

Complete IT Systems have a team of Barracuda specialists on hand to demo the solution, discuss business benefits and help you understand how the technology works for your organisation.

To get in touch or request a demo please contact us.