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Support for the people
using the estate

Help desk, desktop management and mobile device management, so employees can reach the infrastructure and applications they need without an issue standing in the way.

Joiners, movers and leavers run to a documented process with an audit trail, because that is where access risk actually lives.

Cover24×7×365

Follow-the-sun, so an overnight shift is a working shift rather than an answering service.

ChannelsPortal, phone, mail, chat

People reach support the way they prefer, into one queue with one record.

DevicesDesktop and mobile

Windows, macOS, iOS and Android under one management and patching regime.

MeasureResolution, not volume

Ticket count is a symptom. Recurring causes are treated as problems to remove.

What is included

The whole user experience of IT

End user support is where a managed service is judged, because it is the only part of it that most of your organisation ever sees. Everything else is invisible when it works.

Service desk

First and second line across portal, phone, email and chat, with triage against documented run books rather than tribal knowledge.

Every ticket carries the affected service, so volume can be traced to causes rather than counted.

One queue, one record, and a response you can hold us to.

Desktop and laptop management

Imaging, provisioning, patching, software deployment, encryption compliance and hardware lifecycle across Windows and macOS.

Builds are standardised and version-controlled, so a replacement machine matches the one it replaced.

A rebuild that takes an hour, not an afternoon.

Mobile device management

Enrolment, policy, application deployment, conditional access and remote wipe for corporate and bring-your-own devices.

The separation between corporate and personal data is designed, documented and explainable to an employee.

A lost phone that is a policy action rather than an incident.

Identity and access

Joiner, mover and leaver processes, group and licence assignment, privileged access requests, and access reviews that produce evidence.

Leavers are the risk nobody audits until they have to. The process is timed and logged.

Access that can be evidenced on the day it is questioned.

Collaboration and productivity

Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace administration: mail flow, licensing, shared resources, meeting rooms and the recurring problems around them.

Licence assignment is reviewed quarterly, including the seats you are paying for and nobody is using.

Licence spend that reflects the people actually working here.

Self-service and knowledge

A knowledge base written from resolved tickets, plus self-service password reset and request catalogue for the routine work.

Articles are created from real resolutions, which is the only way a knowledge base stays true.

Fewer tickets, because the common ones no longer need us.

Standing up a service desk

StepOneBaseline

Twelve months of ticket history analysed for volume, category, recurrence and the ten issues that consume most of the day.

Most desks are carrying four or five causes that generate a third of the volume. Naming them is the first win.

You receive:

A demand profile

Volume by category and hour, the top recurring causes, and the current resolution performance as a baseline to be measured against.

The baseline is your incumbent's last quarter, not our first.

StepTwoTransition

Run books written during handover, channels pointed at the new queue, and the previous team shadowed rather than switched off.

Users notice a transition on day one. That is why the desk moves before anything technical does.

You receive:

A live queue and run books

Documented procedures for the recurring work, escalation matrix with names, and a communications pack for your staff.

Nothing goes live until its run book has been executed once under supervision.

StepThreeReduce

The top recurring causes fixed at source, self-service published for the routine requests, and knowledge articles written from real resolutions.

A fixed monthly fee means every ticket we eliminate improves our own margin, which keeps the incentive pointing the right way.

You receive:

A falling ticket count

Volume reported against the baseline, with reductions attributed to the specific fix that produced them.

Automation and self-service adoption tracked, not just deployed.

StepFourOperate

Steady state: tickets to target, joiner and leaver processes on schedule, patch and device compliance reported, satisfaction sampled.

Improvement is part of the service. A recurring issue that survives a quarter becomes a problem record with a named owner.

You receive:

A monthly service review

Volumes and targets, top causes, device and patch compliance, licence position, and the plan for whatever slipped.

Written for your leadership, not for our scorecard.

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Coverage

What the desk handles

Response targets are for acknowledgement and first action. Resolution targets are agreed per category during transition.

End User Support coverage
CategoryScopeFirst actionResponse target
Access Password, lockout, permissions, licence requestsVerified and actioned, or routed to the approver on record15 min, P2
Device Laptop, desktop, peripherals, encryption, replacementRemote diagnosis, spare arranged where the device is down30 min, P2
Mobile Enrolment, policy, application, lost or stolenPolicy applied or device wiped per your documented rule15 min, P1
Applications Office suite, line-of-business clients, browser and pluginsReproduced, worked around, escalated to the owning team30 min, P3
Onboarding Joiner build, accounts, licences, day-one readinessRun to the documented checklist against the start dateBy agreed date
Offboarding Account disable, device return, licence reclaim, evidenceExecuted on the leave date with an audit record producedSame day
Incentives

Priced so that fewer tickets is a win for both of us

A desk priced per ticket rewards a provider for a noisy estate. Ours is a fixed monthly fee per user against the scope agreed at baseline, so every recurring cause we remove improves our margin and your working day at the same time.

That is the only arrangement where documenting a fix, publishing a self-service option and pushing a root cause back to the owning team are in our interest as well as yours.

Ask for a demand profile
  • In the monthly feeAll channels, device and mobile management, joiner and leaver processing, patch compliance, knowledge base and the service review.
  • Quoted separatelyFleet refreshes, office moves, migrations, and any project that changes the shape of the estate.
  • Never chargedTicket volume, out-of-hours contacts inside the covered categories, and the knowledge base you take with you at exit.

Indicative structure. Final scope and per-user rate follow the demand profile.

Questions we get asked

Before outsourcing the desk

Will our people be talking to someone who knows us?

Named analysts assigned to your account, not an anonymous pool. That matters more than any target in the contract, because familiarity is what turns a five-minute ticket into a two-minute one. Where volume needs a wider team, the named analysts remain the escalation point.

What happens to our internal IT staff?

In most engagements they stop doing password resets and start doing the work they were hired for. We are explicit about this at scoping because it decides whether the engagement is welcomed internally or resisted, and resistance is the main reason desk transitions fail.

Can you cover only out-of-hours?

Yes. Out-of-hours and weekend cover on top of an internal daytime team is a common arrangement. It works as long as run books and the queue are shared rather than parallel, with a documented handover point at each end of the shift.

How do you handle a major incident affecting everyone?

It stops being a ticket queue and becomes an incident bridge: one owner, a status page or mail cadence your staff actually receive, and a written post-incident review with cause and remediation. Users forgive an outage. They do not forgive silence during one.

Do you support staff in other countries and languages?

English support runs 24×7 from our delivery centres. Additional languages are arranged where volume justifies it, and we will tell you honestly when volume does not.

A desk thatreduces itself.

Start with a demand profile from your existing ticket history. It is short, it produces a ranked list of your recurring causes, and it is yours to keep.

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