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About Ballard Chalmers
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Ballard Chalmers provides Microsoft expertise, offering a complete
end-to-end service so that clients can maximise the business, financial
and collaboration benefits to their organisations.
- Consultancy
We provide consultancy
at the highest level including systems and architecture review,
best practice, emergency resolution and system design and specification.
The scope of our delivery ranges from single day consultancy through
to ongoing support. Whether you require a review of an existing
SharePoint
Server or BizTalk
Server installation, or need to resolve system failures, we
provide advice rapidly and help your teams to build and implement
an effective solution.
- Development
We specify and create
complex custom .NET
software , tailored to specific business process systems. We
have developed bespoke systems for specialists in energy management,
incentive programmes, education and HR, to name just a few. Ballard
Chalmers utilises the sequential 'waterfall model' of software development
incorporating requirements analysis, design, implementation, testing,
integration and support. This ensures we work to precise specifications,
whilst maintaining budgets, project milestones and deadlines and
defined functional requirements for your system.
- Implementation
We are experienced
in implementing advanced .NET Microsoft solutions and current and
latest versions of SQL
Server , SharePoint
Server and BizTalk
Server. Our flexible approach enables us to either provide a
full implementation project, or support your internal teams with
our specialist skills. We also deliver customised components for
Microsoft applications as part of our implementations e.g. SharePoint
extensions or custom BizTalk integration adaptors.
- Training and Mentoring
As part of our services we
offer training and mentoring in our key applications and bespoke
systems. Training can be delivered on your premises at your convenience
or at our own offices. Eur Ing Geoff Ballard BA(Hons) MSc, MBCS,
FIAP, CEng is a 20-year veteran consultant, trainer and author in
Microsoft technologies. Geoff authored and delivers SQL
Server 2008 Programming training courses and SharePoint
2007 Administrator courses for Learning Tree International.
- Support
We provide full, ongoing system
maintenance services tailored to meet your requirements, with telephone,
email and on-site support available. Using our online support management
system we deliver to a pre-defined SLA, wherever the system is hosted.
Support and maintenance is provided for our system implementations,
or we support existing systems.
- Hosting
In partnership with Rackspace
Hosting, Ballard Chalmers can provide a fully managed Windows hosting
service, offering zero capital investment, pay-as-you-go scalability
and award-winning SLA and uptime guaranteed. Hosting can be on a
shared or dedicated server basis to suit budget and performance
requirements.
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