What changed for our clients.
Six projects for businesses across the Gold Coast, Brisbane, Toowoomba and South East Queensland: two cloud migrations, an office relocation, a carrier bill review, a hardware refresh and a four-office network.
$1.5 million saved on carrier bills for an automotive group
A large automotive group was paying Telstra bills that one internal attempt and one with another provider had failed to reduce. We ran an Evaluation across the whole carrier footprint (mobile fleet, data links, PABX services, voice trunks) and found duplicate services, over-provisioned plans and legacy rates that had not been renegotiated in years. We then worked with the carriers to halve the group's fees and secure backdated credits, and set up a standing strategic review of new services and renewals.
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A new office for OMB Solicitors, open on day one
OMB Solicitors moved into the top two floors of a new five-level Southport building in late 2022. We ran the site survey and changed the cabling and electrical plans to double the power points and network drops at each desk, built a cloud-based environment in which staff hot-desk and new hires sign in without a setup day, and coordinated the print, ISP and legal-software vendors. When the ISP missed the install date and its wireless backup failed, two load-balanced 4G services carried the office across both floors.
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Zone Planning Group's project files moved from a NAS to SharePoint
Zone Planning Group kept its project files on an ageing NAS in Burleigh Heads, with copies at its Gladstone and Moss Vale offices. We migrated the library to Microsoft SharePoint, where it is now indexed and searchable, split it by year and by region after the first layout breached SharePoint's container limits, set up document libraries, custom lists and automated processes, and rewrote the training documentation to start from the basics once we had watched the team use it.
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One network across four offices for a regional builder
A construction company with offices in Southport, Robina and two Toowoomba locations had set each site up on its own, and files moved between them as email attachments and on USB drives. We put matching firewalls into each office, joined them with site-to-site VPNs, rolled out managed Wi-Fi with a separate visitor network at each site, and gave project managers secure remote access to the shared drives and estimating software from the office or a site cabin.
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Quarter-end back inside business hours for a strata manager
A strata manager running StrataMax across 15 workstations was losing admin time to slow quarter-end reporting, backups that had never been test-restored, and a run of printer and scanner faults. We moved StrataMax onto a cloud platform sized for the firm's current workload, added a second internet service with automatic failover, rebuilt all 15 workstations from a standard image, and set up daily backups with a test restore every month.
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90 workstations replaced in waves at Tuff Group
Tuff Group makes custom 4WD and truck accessories in Toowoomba and Brisbane. Its workstation fleet had been slowing for years, and replacing it meant swapping 90 devices on factory floors and in offices without stopping the production line. We costed the slowdown for management at roughly 13 minutes per staff member per day, recommended hardware we had already run at similar manufacturing sites, took delivery of all 90 units up front and stored them on site, and deployed them in waves set by Tuff's production schedule, with the last wave in before the Christmas slowdown.
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