Understand what IaaS and PaaS change for your application, your team and the work needed to keep the service running.
Proxar · UK expertise
Modern workplace solutions
A modern workplace should make ordinary tasks easier: finding a file, joining a meeting or getting a new starter ready. We help you bring devices, applications and support together around the way your people work.
That might mean improving what you already have, not replacing everything with a new set of tools.
Technology partnerships
Technology partners you know
We help you choose and look after the technology your team uses every day.
Start with a working day, not a feature list
Where do people lose time? It might be unclear file locations, inconsistent device setup or sharing arrangements that nobody quite understands. Choose the affected teams and the outcome you want before discussing a platform.
A new starter is a useful test. They need a prepared device, the right accounts and someone to ask when a task does not work. Treat that as one experience, while keeping an owner for each step. A licence alone does not make the first day run smoothly.
Make the different pieces work together
The plan needs to connect collaboration, device ownership, sign-in and permissions. Staff communication and support belong in it too. A technically successful change can still be frustrating when people cannot find information or do not understand a new prompt.
Check your existing licences and application dependencies before choosing more tools. Then try the proposed approach with representative users. Include the people with unusual working patterns or specialist software, not only the easiest devices to configure.
Colleagues using laptops in a modern workplace · Illustrative image
Choose the help you need next
A defined review or rollout plan fits modern workplace consultancy. Questions about controls belong with modern workplace security, while helpdesk services covers ongoing user assistance.
You can take the work in stages. Fixing access and device preparation may be more useful than introducing every collaboration feature at once. What matters is that each stage has a purpose, a way to check it works and someone ready to help staff after the change.
Client experience
What our clients say
“The team are responsive, efficient and very friendly – no query too small and yet also able to handle more complex issues and provide appropriate solutions.”
Before you decide
Your questions, answered
Does everyone have to change the way they work at once?
No. A pilot can test the approach with a representative group before a wider rollout. Sequence the work around application dependencies and the help staff will need. Give people clear information about what changes for them rather than treating a successful technical deployment as the end of the job.
Do we need to buy all new licences?
Not necessarily. Review your existing entitlements against the features and management work you need. Some requirements may already be covered, while others need an additional subscription or different plan. Confirm the current terms and product capabilities during the proposal rather than assuming a package name answers everything.
Can office-based and remote staff use the same approach?
The plan can cover both, but their connections, devices and working patterns may differ. Include those differences in testing. A task that works on a managed office device needs checking for the remote users and access methods you intend to support as well.
Is ongoing support part of the rollout?
It needs to be agreed. Designing and deploying the workplace is different from handling later user requests, device changes and access administration. We can discuss both, with a clear handover so staff know where to get help once the project team has finished.
Your next step
Which everyday tasks frustrate your team?
Tell us where work gets awkward—files, devices, sign-in or collaboration. We will help you look at the experience as a whole and choose a sensible place to start.