Saint IT Blogs

The live and Let Live Colchester Come to the Live and Let Live Colchester. they are one of our valued customers. Geraldine and the team are cooking up a storm in the kitchen complemented by your tipple of choice. If real ale is your thing then this is the place for you. Fancy a Tipple? Saint IT provides IT solutions for businesses in the hospitality sector. We have unique customer marketing skills which means we create and re-launch websites that attract customers and help your business succeed. Pubs have had a tough year during 2020 and 2021 so come to the Live And Let Live Colchester?  We recommend paying them a visit: Saint IT offers the SME's across the UK services for: Managed IT Services IT Consultancy Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Microsoft 365 solutions and support Web design and hosting Multi and hybrid cloud computing Hardware provisioning Network and telephony systems and support Remote w...

Are you considering information technology outsourcing? Originally published in  March 2020 for Cloud100.co Call us now for more information 5 Things to consider when information technology outsourcing Every growing business will get to a stage where they either need to recruit more IT staff. Or they need to buy more services to help them develop, grow and support the technology to provide valuable outcomes for the business. Another option is to partner with a 3 rd  party and outsource your IT. Deciding which route to take can be tricky. First we need to understand what is meant by “IT outsourcing” Gartner’s definition of Information Technology Outsourcing is as follows: “Information Technology outsourcing  is the use of external service providers to effectively deliver IT-enabled business process, application service and infrastructure solutions for business outcomes. Outsourcing, which also includes utility services, soft...

Shadow IT - All you need to know. Have you ever heard about Shadow IT? Do you know the risks and issues associated with Shadow IT? read this article to find out more. This article was written for Cloud100 https://cloud100.co/news/shadow-it-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly/ for more information contact us here: Follow Us on Linkedin https://www.saint-it.co.uk/shadow-it-all-you-need-to-know/?feed_id=3770&_unique_id=66793ba2c3ec7&utm_source=&utm_medium=JMaartenW

The Last 2 years has seen a record number of new small business start ups. In fact 770,000 new businesses appeared in 2020 in the UK. Whilst large enterprises struggled to stay afloat during the pandemic, many people decided this was the time to turn their ideas into reality and start their own businesses. The female workforce was hit particularly hard with a reported 1.8 times more women losing their jobs compared to men. Etsy has seen a huge increase in new online businesses buying and selling goods A reported 81% of sellers identify as females on the platform. Turn Your Ideas Into Reality with Saint IT Saint IT has been around a bit longer then that but we are still passionate about helping small businesses achieve their goals. We literally want to help you turn your ideas into reality! Maybe your dream is big or maybe your dream is just to make a comfortable living, doing what you enjoy. We are here for you. and we LOVE what we do too. Just listen to one of our...

Saint IT pleased to support local initiatives Colchester Highwoods Book Hunt initiative Saint IT is pleased to support local initiatives. So we recently sponsored a local book hunt initiated by one of our local residents.  "Reading is such an important skill for our young people to learn, so it wasn't exactly a tough decision to make" says Maarten Westera the Business Owner of Saint IT Ltd.  Book Hunt starts on Saturday September 30th The Book Hunt is due to start on September 30th and a number of local businesses are donating books for families to find. People can then read and keep the book they find. Or they can hide it again for someone else to find and continue the book hunt for longer. Hopefully, those children who participate will be able to find and read multiple books before hiding them again. We'd love to see how long this book hunt can maintain it's momentum. These books were kindly dona...

The End of Landline Telephone Network - The BT landline switch off 2025 Are you ready for what has been dubbed the Great British Landline Switch Off? The good old days of BT landlines phones is coming to an end.  For many years PSTN ( Public Switched Telephone Network ) was the way telephone calls were delivered to our homes and businesses. BT OpenReach announced a few years ago that PSTN was going to finish be the end of 2025. This change will affects every household and business which still has a traditional landline telephone or ISDN telephone line.  What's the history of Landline Telephones The PSTN  network is the analogue copper cable telephone network that has been in use for many decades, owned and managed by BT Openreach. But it's not just telephone lines that will disappear. As well as landline services, the PSTN also delivers traditional ADSL and fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC) broadband services via fibre optic cables.  S...

5 things you need for a great website Here I try to give a brief explanation of the 5 things you need for a great website. A great website is comprised of a combination of back-end and front-end functionality which ties in together to create the masterpiece that your potential clients and existing customers will be drawn to and see the beauty of the work you have to offer. In order to make a website work to the desired level of functionality and also to provide the unique experience intended for the target audience, it is worth defining your needs and requirements prior to requesting a web development service. If we want quality to be delivered to us, first we must define what we class as quality and create a brief of the  various elements in our website that will serve to create the desired impact you need. Whilst we can not define everything that you might require, we can definitely help you and prompt you to think about how to present your business in ways that that will app...