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The Business
Mission Travel Group was established to provide value priced airfares and holistic professional travel services for missionaries, mission agencies, aid and development organisations and churches undertaking short-term mission trips.
As a highly energised business, Mission Travel is extremely entrepreneurial and constantly developing new concepts and ingenious ways to increase their footprint.
The Task
Mission Travel’s IT systems had fallen into disrepair due to lack of maintenance and focus on business-building priorities.
Ad-hoc support had been provided by a number of providers and these were found to either not have the necessary expertise to manage these systems or to not be able to respond quickly enough.
The Solution
The initial phase of our engagement with Mission Travel was to go through an “SMB IT Health Report”. This entails half a day reviewing equipment and key systems configuration and half a day reporting back on our findings.
The approach highlights “low hanging fruit” – issues that stick out as obvious to IT experts but are confusing or hidden to business owners or IT end users.
Mission Travel was very fast to respond to our recommendations and engaged on a number of them immediately including:
- All Updates applied to SBS 2003 server and desktops
- Correction of capacity issues on the server
- Backup strategy designed an implemented with minimal cost and complexity
- Upgrade of disparate antivirus solution to Trend Worry-Free Business Security (Advanced) including hosted mail security
- Consolidated email address schema for multiple domains
- Installation of UPS for data protection and graceful shutdown
- Network Boundary Hardening
Mission Travel is now under a support agreement with Intuitive IT which delivers highly proactive and responsive services for their critical systems.
Testimonial
"With our focus on running a growing and expansive business we were delighted to come across an IT provider who would not only take our business seriously but would also be responsive when we really needed them. Our IT systems are now more secure, stable and scalable and we are allowed the freedom to relax and run our business"
- Frank Scerri, CEO