We can help you thrive in the Modern Workplace, not by investing in every last piece of technology, but by focusing on what you really need to work securely and productively from anywhere.
As you move beyond the office firewall and into a world of remote and hybrid working, it’s vital to harness the opportunities presented by this new landscape without putting your people, your data, or your business at risk.
At Doherty Associates, we can help you flourish in this new territory. As a Tier 1 Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider with four Solutions Partner designations, we’re adept in enabling our clients to realise the full value of the Microsoft 365 cloud platform and all that it offers. Factor in our proactive endpoint security measures and you could find we’re the perfect partner for building, managing, and securing your move to the Modern Workplace.
In the past 10 years, we have successfully migrated over 50,000 users to Microsoft 365, giving them the best possible environment in which to do business.
We’re highly experienced in the setup, migration, adoption, and management of Microsoft 365 and we have in-house specialists for SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams (for collaboration on files), Microsoft Teams (for chat and voice) and Exchange Online (for email). We can also support you in adopting the plethora of rich tools that the platform offers, such as Microsoft Planner, Lists, Forms, Yammer, Power Automate and PowerApps.
Once set up, we can help you operate your cloud environments appropriately, with platform management available as a fully managed service if that’s what you’d like.
We’re proactive in our approach and always endeavour to think ahead. For example, while empowering users to create their own solutions in Microsoft 365 can be a great productivity enhancer, it can also result in a sprawling environment where it’s difficult for people to find what they want. Putting processes in place to prevent this sprawl can make all the difference between a mediocre user experience and a great one.
We can also help you to make smart use of the data available within the platform. This doesn’t just mean keeping your data safe by monitoring for unusual events and investigating any suspicious activity. It also includes gathering and sharing valuable information about user behaviour and platform health and leveraging our experience in your own and other related sectors to help you realise the full value and potential of your data.
As a Tier 1 Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider, we can also leverage our direct relationship with Microsoft to offer advanced support when responding to any issues – whether these are generic to the platform or the result of actions you have taken. And this is complemented by our own unique tooling, run alongside Microsoft’s by our dedicated 24/7 support team.
In short, we bring the weight of over 30 years’ experience to the table, yet we’re still as determined and conscientious as we were on day one.
We can set up and run your systems in Azure Virtual Desktop, creating a secure bubble for your applications and data, accessible from anywhere.
Microsoft’s cloud hosted desktop can be a great solution for businesses that want to allow access to their systems from unknown and untrusted devices.
We can also scale these systems up and down during idle periods and those of high demand. This saves you money while still ensuring a good user experience.
We put the right policies in place to ensure that your people have access to the information you want them to have – and nothing more. And we monitor usage to detect and investigate unusual behaviour with the aim of preventing any hostile action before it can occur.
With security applied at user level, it’s incredibly important to know that the people accessing privileged data are who they say they are.
We use Microsoft tools to monitor user behaviour and ensure it matches ‘normal’ usage. For example, if someone who typically logs in from the UK attempts to login from another continent this will raise a red flag.
And as it’s not enough to simply detect these potential breaches; we will immediately investigate to help prevent any potential issues growing into costly problems.
We have the skills and experience to help you secure your desktops, laptops, tablets, and other mobile devices, so you can capitalise on the opportunities that come with hybrid working without putting your people, your data or your business at risk.
With more staff members working remotely and using ‘bring your own devices’ such as tablets and mobile phones, it’s more important than ever to secure all end-user devices and points of access from risky activity and malicious attack.
At Doherty Associates, we have multiple Microsoft Solutions Partner designations in this area, as well as glowing testimonials from clients who we successfully supported through the sudden changes caused by lockdown.
Our tried and tested endpoint management service is designed to bring all of your devices in line with best practice security policies and software standards, to keep them secure and up to date and to ensure they deliver a great user experience
We use best in class management tools and security software to proactively monitor endpoints and to guard you against sophisticated and ever-evolving cyber threats. And we provide automated patching of Windows updates as well as third-party applications, such as web browsers and other system software.
When a device is not yet compliant, we can bring it to the desired state, for example, by ensuring that all the right software is installed and that the antivirus definitions are up to date. We also respond swiftly to events such as viruses to contain any problem before it can spread.
We also have a straightforward method for quickly onboarding any new devices to the cloud. So, whatever your starting point, we can make sure that all of your endpoints are made safe in the most efficient way possible.
‘The recent pandemic has put immense pressure on the IT team with the organisation facing the challenge of adapting to remote working with virtually no notice. It has been immensely reassuring to have the partnership of Doherty Associates on that journey.’
Adam Jenkins
Head of IT Services University and College Union (UCU)
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If you want to build, maintain, or secure your Modern Workplace, we can help.
