Housing Sector
CNS has extensive experience providing end to end solutions for Housing Associations and Social Housing organisations
Come and see us at the Community Housing Cymru Conference
20/21st May 2010, Metropole Hotel, Llandrindod Wells
How can we help?
With the increasing demand for housing, particularly in the South and South East of England, Housing Associations face a growing challenge - the need to drive down costs, improve efficiencies, whilst offering their tenants (customers) improved, as well as new services. CNS understands the key issues within this sector and has developed a range of flexible solutions and services to help housing organisations achieve their business goals by providing:
- Reliable, high speed, affordable connectivity links between offices, remote workers and key suppliers
- Secure, reliable, resiliant network infrastructure ensuring staff are able to access key resources
- Secure, remote access solutions - between offices, remote staff, properties
- Vast range of Managed Support Services - supporting existing IT staff or fully managed helpdesk
- Energy Conserving solutions - including virtualisation, energy monitoring and management, energy efficient hardware, consolidation of devices, implementation of flexible working practices inc remote access and video conferencing
- Unified Communications solutions - combine all forms of business communications into a single, unified solution enabling colloboration, improved productivity, reduced costs and increased integration
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What services do we provide
- Stock transfers - fully managed migration of infrastructure between organisations
- Connecting the community - secure, cost effective IT services within your community properties
- Business Continuity Planning and Implementation including disaster recovery
- Project Management Services
- Network Auditing, efficiency implementation and best practice recommendations
- Energy Efficient consultancy including network infrastructure, working practices and virtualisation
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Why CNS?
CNS has a broad range of experience within the social housing sector and can provide a managed, flexible end to end solution addressing all key business challenges
CNS works with industry leading partners including Cisco, Dell, Clara.Net, Barracuda, Microsoft, CRYPTOCard and Adam Continuity providing you with the reassurance that you are investing in award winning, well established solutions and technologies
CNS has a fully managed network operations centre, enabling us to remotely and pro-actively monitor and manage your key infrastructure, ensuring that your organisation can run smoothly, efficiently and without unplanned downtime
CNS is able to provide competitive hardware discounts to organisations within this sector and can provide attractive leasing offers via Cisco Capital enabling technology benefits to be realised without having to wait for budgets
CNS engineers hold a wide range of industry leading accreditations from Cisco, Microsoft and ISC2 including CCNA, CCNP, CCDA, CCDP, CCIE, CISSP and MCSE and have speciality accreditations in the areas of routing, switching, security, wireless, data centre and unified communications
Case Studies and Media
CNS has numerous clients within the Housing Association sector who would be happy to provide references.
If you would like to talk to a member of our specialist housing team, please contact us.
