Technology Consulting

With all the new technologies, acronyms and buzzwords flying around the computing world, it is sometimes difficult to determine your company's needs. Whether you are considering a major network upgrade, an overhead saving teleworker program, or taking the plunge into e-commerce, Tech Connections can help guide you through determining your software, hardware and staffing needs.

Personalized Service

Unlike most professional service providers who employ a couple of technicians who are responsible for several customers at once, our project manager will be able to give you his/her undivided attention until the job is done.

Planning

The project manager will come to your location and investigate your current setup by testing your existing equipment and applications and speaking with you or your staff members about any problems you are having or improvements you wish to incorporate. Research will be completed to determine the most appropriate and cost-effective solutions and a proposal will be submitted to you with estimated costs and turnaround times for your approval.

Purchasing

Because we are not a retailer, any equipment purchases that are necessary will be made by you with our project manager's assistance. We will help you find the best prices available and your purchases will be shipped directly to you. Eliminating the middleman on equipment purchases can save you substantial amounts of money and give you total control over component quality.

Subject Experts and Work Crews

Our project manager will have access to additional experts from our database, if necessary, for technical support and assistance with larger or more complex projects. Unlike most professional service providers, we have hundreds of technicians on file providing a huge variety of expertise. A crew can be easily compiled to include the project manager, who will supervise the group, and an expert in each specific type of work that needs to be done. This setup will also save you money because each worker is billed at an hourly rate appropriate to the work each accomplished. So, for example, you would be charged a much lower rate for the cable puller who installs the wiring than the network analyst who does the configuration; or we would charge much less per hour for the data entry operator that enters all the information than the database designer who set it up. Again, most professional service providers have only a handful of technicians available and a set hourly rate for whatever aspect of the work they are doing.

Lower Costs

The reason why we have access to so many technicians and can bill for their time at a lower rate than most professional service providers is because we also operate a staffing service. We maintain a database of hundreds of screened applicants who are seeking work in Appalachian Ohio. Many are unemployed, others have jobs but are looking to make some extra money on the side, and still others are underemployed and looking for something better. It is for that reason that our pool of technicians, i.e., applicants, is very fluid and we can not guarantee that anybody assigned to work for you will be available the next time you require assistance. We can guarantee, however, to work hard to ensure that whatever expert is assigned to handle your future needs is qualified to do so.

Types of Services Provided

The types of projects we can handle is limited only by the types of applicants in our database. If, however, we do not have the expertise available to handle the project you have in mind, we will recruit for additional applicants at our expense.

Some of the more common projects in which we have been involved include:

• Computer/network installs/upgrades
• Database design and data migration
• Web site and application development