Microsoft 365 support for small business
Need help setting up and managing your small business on Microsoft 365?
We can provide on demand advice and assistance including configuration, setup, optimisation, data migration and training.
Flexible, Microsoft 365 support
Your business is unique and your support requirements are too
We provide tailored Microsoft 365 support for small business. We can help you with ad-hoc or contracted support. Get more done, work together better and build your business.
The Microsoft 365 opportunity for small business
The cost effective nature and comprehensive toolset provided by Microsoft 365 makes it an attractive and potentially transformative solution for small business. The advantages and opportunities for small business to compete on a equal footing with the largest of organisations in terms of enterprise class applications, IT infrastructure and remote working are enormous.
A personal message from our Managing Director
Hi. Thanks for stopping by our website. I hope you will find our range of services interesting and will consider contacting us to discuss your next project.
We are a small team of web designers, software developers and digital marketers based on the border between England and Wales in the historic market town of Monmouth. I founded aento in 2007 after many years of running other technology consultancy businesses providing software development services to companies worldwide. My goal in founding aento was, alongside continuing to support or larger clients, to bring the same high quality of web design, software development and digital services expected and enjoyed by the largest of companies to even the smallest of local businesses.
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Being based outside of a major city, but in a thriving rural town with unrivalled communication links, enables us to keep our costs down and pass those cost savings onto our clients without sacrificing the range or quality of services we offer.
In our time we have been privileged to work with both small, local, family businesses and multi-national corporations. For all clients, we offer a personal, bespoke, affordable, high quality service that focuses on individual business requirements and goals. We are passionate about web design and software development and obsessed with providing websites, software solutions and digital services that help our clients' businesses grow and transform business efficiency. Our normal is to go above and beyond in working with our clients.
Although we are a small team, we have a big skillset and extensive experience of working across multiple sectors. Our expertise extends beyond web design and software development and into business process design, quality systems and regulatory compliance. This all means that we can quickly gain an in-depth understanding of our client's business and requirements and offer the very best tailored solutions that provide a rapid return on investment.
We invest heavily in the latest technology and tools and keep up with latest industry trends and requirements. We ensure that the websites and software solutions we build for clients are maintained and kept up to date.
I'd like to emphasize that no client or project is too small for us. As a small business ourselves, we recognise that smaller businesses have limited budgets and need to work with suppliers who make every single penny of investment count. Our greatest satisfaction is helping even the smallest businesses develop and grow. You may be small now but your ambitions may be big and we'd like to help make those ambitions be realised.
Of course, we love our larger clients too. For larger projects, we have a network of highly trusted designers, developers, marketers and other professionals that we can call upon to augment our core team. The key here being to augment. Projects are always designed, run and controlled through our core team.
To re-state an old cliché, we are large enough to cope but small enough to care.
So, if you're a small business looking for an outstanding website to drive business growth or an organisation looking for a highly functional company intranet or line of business software application, please get in touch. I'd love to discuss your project with you.
All the best.
Nick Evans
Managing Director
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We'd love to have the opportunity to help you with your project.
Why not take advantage of our FREE, no obligation, initial consultation. Just send us a few details on what you're working on and we'll let you know if we can help.
Microsoft 365 provides you with:
- Desktop and online versions of popular Microsoft Office apps with built-in AI tools.
- Online file storage and sharing.
- Business class email and scheduling.
- Online and remote working collaboration and communication tools.
- Access to documents and data from any device.
- Built in privacy and compliance tools.
- IT infrastructure backed by Microsoft with 99.9% uptime guaranteed.
An independent partner providing Microsoft 365 support for small business
aento is a Microsoft Partner but we don’t resell Microsoft 365 and don’t make money from your Microsoft 365 licenses.
We don’t compete with traditional IT support companies. Rather we complement the services provided by your current IT support team.
We focus on providing the best independent advice and support to our clients. Our objective is to allow you to start using the Microsoft 365 platform as quickly as possible with a Microsoft 365 configuration and toolset that maximises your return on investment.
Why aento?
At aento we have been working with Microsoft 365 since its first release. Our technical capabilities cover every aspect of design, configuration and development of Microsoft 365 business solutions.
Additionally, we have extensive experience of various industry quality systems and regulatory compliance regimes. Whatever the compliance requirements applicable to your industry, we can help you develop solutions that enable you to apply the control and maintain the records needed.
The Microsoft 365 challenge for small business
Although the financial and operational decision for a small business to move to Microsoft 365 can be easy, implementing an overall solution in Microsoft 365 appropriate for your business and migrating in legacy data and documents can be a daunting prospect.
Small businesses face particular challenges when migrating to Microsoft 365:
- Existing document storage, data management, email systems, etc may have developed organically with information now being stored in disparate locations including individual users’ personal devices. This makes it difficult to plan and implement a migration of legacy data to Microsoft 365.
- Businesses are usually working under constant resource and financial constraints meaning little time is available to properly plan or implement a migration to Microsoft 365.
- Due to lack of time and resource, it can be tempting for small business to try to “stick with what they know” when moving documents and data into Microsoft 365. For example, file server folder structures simply being replicated in SharePoint or OneDrive with no consideration for better organisation or optimisation of that data.
- IT sub-contractors who sell Microsoft 365 licenses to small businesses usually focus on managing the infrastructure aspects of Microsoft 365. They often have limited experience of selecting and configuring the myriad of tools with Microsoft 365 to provide an overall optimised business solution for a particular business.
aento’s Microsoft 365 support for small businesses is intended to “plug the gaps”, to help you plan and move your business to the Microsoft 365 cloud and to maximise your return on investment.
aento Microsoft 365 support for small business
aento’s skill set and experience complements that of your own internal or contracted IT support team. Our focus is on “business application” development and migration of legacy documents and data into Microsoft 365.
Leaving your IT support team to focus on infrastructure issues we can help you plan and configure the tools in Microsoft 365 to provide you with applications and solutions focussed on transforming your business efficiency and productivity. We can integrate applications such as Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive and Planner to give you a comprehensive, flexible cloud application to drive your business forward. We can help you plan, organise and migrate your legacy data and documents into Microsoft 365. Where appropriate we can integrate any 3rd party legacy applications you are using into Microsoft 365. We can help your users with training on how to use your new cloud infrastructure.
We offer a range of commercial options for Microsoft 365 support for small business. From ad-hoc, as needed support to ongoing contracted support. We can work alongside any existing IT support resources you have in place.
