Advania UK

“I couldn’t believe how simple it was. I literally followed the instructions in the box and had the array fully operational in less than half a day.”

““Advania have been a constant throughout my 20 years here, and it’s a partnership that goes back even further. My experience is that they’ve worked as a true extension of our IT team - combining responsive day-to-day support with the strategic insight needed to guide us through major organisational changes. With their help, we’ve been able to modernise with confidence, knowing we have the right partner alongside us.””

“Whilst we didn’t know Advania ahead of the project, they were introduced to us by Aruba as one of their preferred partners. I was glad of their involvement too. All the way through they have been on the ball, very supportive and always willing to own a problem.”

““I've worked in IT in the public sector for 30 years, but I’ve never done a migration on this scale before and I don’t expect to ever do it again. But our 7,000-user account project pales into insignificance in comparison to the migrations that Advania and Quest have performed, which can involve 100,000 users or more. Having experienced experts we could count on was essential to our success.””

“Microsoft Azure was the clear winner for us because of the investment that’s been put into it. The scalability, the ability to manage and maintain it and the licensing model all formed part of why we wanted to go in that direction.”

“If you are looking for an IT project services partner that can deliver a truly bespoke solution regardless of environment look no further than Advania.”

“Working with Advania has been a great experience. The team are very skilled and knowledgeable in many areas, including Azure, VMware and Cisco, which has ensured a successful delivery for MMU's hybrid hosting solutions. It absolutely feels like a partnership - very flexible and continuously adjusting to the needs of the project - which has ensured a smooth transition in a period of significant infrastructural change for the university.”

“Advania acted as an invaluable partner and intermediary between ourselves and Cisco, helping us to achieve excellent commercials and refining the technical details to ensure the solution was spot on.”

“"Raghbir picked up The AA’s security policies and standards quickly and was invaluable during this period; his broad and deep knowledge of security was evident. It was the right person and the right time, and the result has been the successful launch of the MVP app with little engagement needed from the core information security team."”

“We have an advanced and future proof IT environment that is scalable and meets the demands of a progressive academy.”

“The process was very collaborative,” said the academy. “Advania really took the time to understand our needs and the issues we were facing. They are a lot more than simple suppliers. This kind of working relationship is invaluable.”

“Managing our wireless networks was really difficult. The mixed bag of solutions in place meant we had poor visibility over what we had and how it was functioning. We wanted to standardise on a common solution across all our stores that would live up to the demands of today but also offer us a platform to build on into the future. It was important to take the time to deliberate between products and find one that would fit our business and that met our performance requirements. With Advania’s help we found that Cisco Meraki could give us what we needed.””

“Advania were instrumental at every stage of the project. As well as building and configuring the Nutanix solution ready for deployment, they project-managed the swift migration of all our critical data from the German site to Plymouth, including from one server we thought we’d already lost. They also assumed control of the supply of HP client devices to our UK site, taking this responsibility back from Germany to ensure our access wasn’t restricted by the acquisition.”

“They’ve improved our security and ways of working. Our security is tightened massively. Everything is locked down, and you’ve got that ease and peace of mind now that no matter where we are, we can connect back to the office.”

“Operationally, you can’t do this job and that job. You have to relinquish some of that to somebody else. Yes, that does come with a cost, but that cost outweighs your downtime. If Advania can fix it within 10 minutes, the cost saving is huge.”

“When a problem becomes more complex, you know that you’re supported by a much wider team. I would strongly recommend Advania to other local companies and have done many times over.”

“The team that look after Sight and Sound do so in a manner that you believe they’re dedicated just to us, but in truth they’re looking at many different customers. Our tickets are answered quickly and sometimes resolved as quickly as they were raised!”

“The move to Business Central has transformed our financial reporting. We now have timely and more accurate financial insights, reduced maintenance costs and a much-improved user experience. This has empowered us to focus more on our core mission of improving the public's health.”

“Our outdated finance system was a significant hurdle, causing inefficiencies and data management issues. Transitioning to Microsoft Business Central has been a game-changer, allowing us to streamline our processes and improve data accuracy.”

“The digital transformation project was one of the larger technical undertakings Ribby Hall has faced. The benefits of the project were significant; safeguarding us from the upcoming ISDN switch off through the migration to Teams telephony, migration to a more manageable OpEx billing model with Azure and other associated Microsoft 365 licensing.”

“Advania guided us through the whole process and went above and beyond to get the project over the line. The benefits of the project were significant.”

“At Ei Group, we launched our updated IT strategy in 2018 with a view to becoming cloud-first in our approach. The vision we set was ‘we want our colleagues to work anywhere, any time and on any device with up-to-date and relevant content’. We have not looked back since. User adoption has been fantastic and everyone has been hugely complimentary of the new hardware, systems and services now available to them.”

“What really impressed us was the in-depth, bona fide knowledge of Azure demonstrated at our first encounter and which we soon realised permeated the entire team. Coupled with its extensive understanding of public sector requirements and its impressive Microsoft Partner accreditations, we emerged from our rigorous tender process with the utmost confidence that this was the right partner for us.”

“We are already working together on the next phase of our project to implement PaaS services such as Azure DevOps, Azure Web Apps and Azure SQL and, with a recently announced facelift to our e-Learning platform, we know we can depend on them to help us deliver this with success.”

““Gompute has given us unparalleled control over how we run our simulations and build our pipelines. We’re now able to move faster, scale more efficiently, and continue to develop new processes that help us focus on our engineering work.””